Hugh d'Avranches | ... astle, to dominate the town and the nearby Welsh border. In 1071 he created | , the 1st Earl of Chester |
John Cameron Mitchell | ... Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby", which opens the film Shortbus (2006) by | |
Vanessa Redgrave | ... peech and Drama. She applied and was accepted, where she was a classmate of | , graduating with a first class degree in drama and four acting prizes, on ... |
Bobby Baker | Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when | , the Senate Majority Secretary and a protege of Johnson's, came under inv ... |
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, ... |
Sepp Herberger | ... for Kaiserslautern, leading them to German championships in 1951 and 1953. | recalled him to the national team in 1951, and he was named captain |
Adam W. Snyder | ... g to the west. In the First Battle of Kellogg's Grove, militia commanded by | pursued a British Band raiding party of about thirty warriors. Three Illin ... |
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 ... |
Alejo Bay | ... scent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, Edmundo O'Gorman, Anthony Quinn, | (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conductor Felix Carrasco, Guiller ... |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the prime minister. He met | on several occasions when asked for updates on incoming calls and once was ... |
María Meléndez Altieri | ... mayor. Its first mayor was Don Pedro Sánchez de Matos. The 2008 election of | , brought Ponce the first woman to be elected to the mayoral office in the ... |
John-Henry | ... ctive ruler of Tyrol from the Meinhardiner Dynasty. 1330 she was married to | (later became the margrave of Moravia), who she repudiated with the help o ... |
Woodrow Wilson | In 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president | on national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ... |
Sir Peter Ustinov | ... s and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, | , Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet |
Karl Liebknecht | ... claimed, away, at the Berliner Stadtschloss. The proclamation was issued by | , co-leader (with Rosa Luxemburg) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartaci ... |
Abraham | ... ning with the creation, as passed down through Jewish historical tradition. | taught science to the Egyptians , who in turn taught the Greeks. Moses set ... |
James W. Stephenson | ... ve warriors died in the fighting. Two days later, on June 18, militia under | encountered what was probably the same war party near Yellow Creek. The Ba ... |
Tung Chee Hwa | ... ong Kong cried cronyism, as the Hong Kong Government, under chief executive | , gave away the land to his new high-tech residential and commercial ventu ... |
Peter | ... E.R. Dodds draws a comparison with Jesus's prophecy at the Last Supper that | would deny him three times. Jesus knows that Peter will do this, but reade ... |
Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
Keith Ellison | ... n Minnesota's 5th congressional district, represented by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat |
Franco Zeffirelli | ... and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in October 1960, directed and designed by | . During this period, she toured the United States and Canada, and appeare ... |
Ma Ying-jeou | In the 2008 presidential election, KMT candidate | defeated DPP candidate Hsieh with 58.48% of the vote. The party also retai ... |
William Gibbs McAdoo | ... lin D. Roosevelt at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies | and John Nance Garner, can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Sm ... |
Thomas Beecham | ... ng to establish itself as a self-governing body after the withdrawal of Sir | . In 1949 the opera The Olympians by Arthur Bliss, to a libretto by Priest ... |
Delis Castillo | ... 17, 2004, after suffering three successive brain strokes. After vice-mayor | finished his term, was elected mayor in 2005 |
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 ... |
Lord Coleridge | ... city (Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant (1886) 17 QBD 54 (per | CJ)). Attachment to the person of the reigning Sovereign is not sufficient ... |
Franz Beckenbauer | ... aptain of the German football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, | , Lothar Matthäus and |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... especially the Matter of Britain and Matter of France, the former based on | 's Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written ... |
Lothar Matthäus | ... n football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, Franz Beckenbauer, | and |
Admiral Isakov | ... skevich, where the Noragyugh neighborhood is located. The project will link | Avenue with Arshakunyats Avenue and will be fulfilled upon cooperation wit ... |
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 ... |
Pope Clement VII | ... presented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and | objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided as the Krakauer Kuhhand ... |
Sarah T. Hughes | ... as assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He was sworn in by Federal Judge | , a family friend, making him the first President sworn in by a woman. He ... |
Wesley Clark | ... w Dole had a heated exchange with Democratic presidential primary candidate | in which Dole correctly predicted that Clark would lose the New Hampshire ... |
Rudolph IV | Margarete Maultasch decided to bequeathe Tyrol to Duke | of the House of Habsburg, probably pressed by the aristocracy, an act whic ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In many of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
Erik Paulsen | ... is located in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, and is represented by | (R).. Brooklyn Park is represented by Senate District (SD) 36, and 40, Hou ... |
Dunga | ... lli, Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso and many others faced the likes of | , Careca, Taffarel and several of the team that won the World Cup in the U ... |
Bobby Jindal | ... ean Americans, Chinese Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. The election of | as Governor of Louisiana has been hailed as pathbreaking. He is the first ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
Stephen II | ... by the aristocracy, an act which caused a conflict between Meinhard's uncle | , who forged an alliance with the powerful Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti ... |
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
John Nance Garner | ... 932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs McAdoo and | , can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Smith, who was an oppon ... |
Moses | ... n. Abraham taught science to the Egyptians , who in turn taught the Greeks. | set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of Rome, resist ... |
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 |
Rosa Luxemburg | ... adtschloss. The proclamation was issued by Karl Liebknecht, co-leader (with | ) of the communist Spartakusbund (Spartacist League), a group of a few hun ... |
CIA Director | ... meeting of senior officials, including Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, | William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The Watergat ... |
Pol Pot | ... Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by | , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea w ... |
Big Bill Broonzy | "He had a different style of playing a guitar" | remarked drily. "You just make the chords and change when you feel like ch ... |
Doug Magnus | ... Mason Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Ernst Röhm | ... wo million members at the end of 1933. Led by one of Hitler's old comrades, | , the SA represented a threat to Hitler's relationship with the German Arm ... |
Komtur | ... upporters and the s of Königsberg, and only Eric of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, | of Memel, opposed the new duke. On 10 December 1525, at their session in K ... |
Earl of Leicester | ... (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the | 's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575 |
Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... ell upon Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, the eldest child of | . She was held to be strikingly beautiful by her contemporaries. On 1 Augu ... |
Swami Vivekananda | ... , customs and port offices etc. It was here in this island in January 1897, | after his triumphant visit to the west to attend parliament of religions h ... |
Leslie Howard | ... filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor | and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel). These were The Bump, starr ... |
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 ... |
Isaac | ... ve that he preached the same monotheistic faith as his forefathers Abraham, | and Ishmael. Jacob is mentioned 16 times in the Qur'an. In the majority of ... |
John of Montecorvino | ... jumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, | , Niccolò de' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who pass ... |
Lew Grade | ... ly a child audience. Henson was finally able to convince British impresario | to finance the show, which would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndica ... |
Sergey Korolyov | ... ronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as | and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the |
Aleksandr Kolchak | ... n Civil War. These forces supported the White Russian government of Admiral | , based in Omsk, and White Russian soldiers fighting the Bolsheviks on the ... |
Joseph Whitworth | ... on of men to build on his work, such as Richard Roberts, Joseph Clement and | |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... into the castle without meeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The | , Simon Sudbury, took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would res ... |
Russell Mulcahy | ... nd also realised music videos directed by Roger Christian, Marcelo Anciano, | and Dean Chamberlain, and recorded the single "Say the Word" for the Playi ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. | called Wisdom his "favourite clown" |
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 ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... ems of a pacifist or non-liturgical nature; for example, the War Requiem of | juxtaposes the Latin text with the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Krzysztof Pende ... |
Chen Chu | ... ry close results in the southern city of Kaohsiung. Huang Chun-ying lost to | by a margin of 0.14 percent, 378,303 votes to 379,417 votes, making Chen C ... |
Chuck Jones | Renowned animator/director | is reported to have said, "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc, Mel Bla ... |
Hugo Haase | ... sisting of three MSPD and three USPD members. Led by Ebert for the MSPD and | for the USPD it sought to act as a provisional cabinet of ministers. But t ... |
Valentin Glushko | ... later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergey Korolyov and | and contributed to the success of the |
Władysław Anders | In 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by | , arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ... |
Jan Potocki | ... is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated. | 's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1805) has extremely rich interl ... |
Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from | , which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ... |
Máximo Meana | ... reorganizes once more, this time in a more definitive fashion, in 1883 when | was mayor of Ponce. This time the Ponce Fire Corps was made up of 400 fire ... |
Augustus Asplet Le Gros | ... r Glyn, John Lemprière, Philippe Le Sueur Mourant, Robert Pipon Marett, and | . Frederick Tennyson and Gerald Durrell were among authors who made Jersey ... |
Secretary of Commerce | ... tive as a Federal government standard on May 26, 2002 after approval by the | . It is available in many different encryption packages. AES is the first ... |
Prime Minister | ... one speech that opened Parliament in October, 2004, in which former Liberal | Paul Martin included electoral reform in his plan for the next Parliament. ... |
Girolamo Savonarola | ... the courtly poet Girolamo Benivieni, and probably the young Dominican monk | . For the rest of his life he remained very close friends with all three, ... |
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 ... |
Ramon Berenguer IV | ... hose women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, | , then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet (orden de la H ... |
Chen Chu | ... hen Chu by a margin of 0.14 percent, 378,303 votes to 379,417 votes, making | the first female mayor of a special municipality in the Republic of China. ... |
Sir Thomas Browne | ... orated dozens of invented words. The early modern English prose writings of | are the source of many neologisms as recorded by the Oxford English Dictio ... |
Frederick IV "Empty Pockets" | ... 10 the invasion of the lower Inn valley by the Bavarians. Under the rule of | internal conflicts between the powerful local aristocracy and the duke aro ... |
Governor of Puerto Rico | ... uccess at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of | in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004 - losing every time to either the Popul ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... ack on the UK alone, as had been threatened in late 1950s by Soviet Premier | and Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin it was unrealistic to expect that the ... |
Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
Jesus | ... inded in a car accident. He claimed further visions, including visions from | , who he claimed told him: You shall be the Peter to come, the Pope who wi ... |
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 ... |
see of Canterbury | ... is mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, that Walter should be chosen for the | , as well as to the monks of the cathedral chapter, and soon after Walter' ... |
Frederick I of Denmark | On 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King | , thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ... |
Ernest Rutherford | In 1911, | gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ... |
Sepp Herberger | Walter debuted with the German national team in 1940 under | , and scored a hat-trick against Romania |
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 ... |
Brooke Westcott | ... ternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place"). Scholar | notes that this reference to the author of the single prophetic book of th ... |
Nikolai Bulganin | ... atened in late 1950s by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister | it was unrealistic to expect that the US would retaliate against the Sovie ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after | . On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ... |
Primate | ... holic Archdiocese of Manila, the oldest archdiocese in the country, and the | of the Philippines, whose offices were located at the Minor Basilica of th ... |
Suha Tawil | In 1990, Arafat married | , a Palestinian Christian when he was 61 and Suha, 27. Before their marria ... |
Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
Menachem Begin | ... th the army were released and allowed to stay in Palestine. One of them was | , whose arrival in Palestine created new-found expectations within the Irg ... |
Ann Jellicoe | ... lean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of | . Simultaneously he developed in the field of music and played a pivotal r ... |
Doug Magnus | ... tiania Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
David Rappaport | Semi-regulars were dwarf actor | who played characters such as 'Green Nigel' (in a pastiche of BBC programm ... |
H. G. Wells | ... , Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was | who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity ... |
Frank Oz | ... becoming typecast as a purveyor of solely children's entertainment, Henson, | , and his team targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on the ... |
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 ... |
Jesus | ... l the revelation in the Bible, as well as the oral tradition transmitted by | and the Apostles. The sum of public revelation is known as the deposit of ... |
Lovie Smith | ... hich team won, as the Bears were coached by another African-American coach, | ). With the win the Colts became the only team to date to win a Super Bowl ... |
James Wilkinson | In 1786 | purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... plays - among his influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, | , and George Bernard Shaw. In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination ... |
Vicente Fox | ... 920-24 and Obregón city and airport are named in his honour. More recently, | served as President from 2000 to 2006. Mexico also has a large number of p ... |
John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... marked by more cooperation between the Irgun and the Jewish Agency, however | 's uncompromising demand that Irgun accept the Agency's command foiled any ... |
Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
Samuel Bache | Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of | , a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birming ... |
see of York | ... ing diplomatic and judicial efforts. After an unsuccessful candidacy to the | , Walter was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of He ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... tered the oil business by starting a refinery. In 1867, his older brother ( | )'s partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this refinery. In 1870, ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... y movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and | found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's assertion that "all men ... |
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 ... |
bishop of Milan | ... n in English as Saint Ambrose (c. between 337 and 340 – 4 April 397), was a | who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th c ... |
Niels Bohr | ... Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He strongly disagreed with | 's instrumentalism and supported Albert Einstein's realist approach to sci ... |
Marc Allégret | ... iterary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). In 1916, | , only 15 years old, became his lover. Marc was the son of Elie Allégret, ... |
Kintzing Prichett | ... d in 1837, and the legislature first met there in 1838. On October 9, 1839, | registered the plat of Madison at the registrar's office of the then-terri ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Doug Magnus | ... Weimer Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Conor Cruise O'Brien | According to | , the Butchers brought a new, frightening level of paramilitary violence t ... |
Władysław Sikorski | ... of his officials were stationed at nearby Addington and Wingrave. Meanwhile | , military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived a ... |
John Rutledge | ... f his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice | also declared in Talbot v. Janson, "a man may, at the same time, enjoy the ... |
Ezra Taft Benson | ... urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two Church presidents: | '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Ch ... |
Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, | along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then Michael Palin cam ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
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 ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
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 ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Doug Magnus | ... e level, Wilder is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Apocalypse | ... llfire Club, the arrival of the mysterious Madelyne Pryor, and the villains | , Mister Sinister, Mojo, and Sabretooth |
Richard I | ... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's son | to the throne of England |
Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
John Pettit | ... uring the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator | of Indiana argued that "all men are created equal", rather than a "self-ev ... |
George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
Lew Grade | During its ATV days, the chairman of the station | , was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded ... |
Thomas S. Monson | ... atter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and | '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... f the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan | sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in ... |
Salmon P. Chase | ... , was a "self-evident lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including | and Benjamin Wade, defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antis ... |
E. W. Bullinger | Knowledge of the Babylonian zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible. | interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation ... |
William Goebel | On February 3, 1900 Governor-elect | was assassinated in Frankfort while walking to the capitol to be inaugurat ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Okabena is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Tiberius Gracchus | ... he "Lex Sempronia Agraria" or "agrarian laws" of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by | , that seized the lands of the rich and distributed them to the poor. This ... |
Gilberto Concepción de Gracia | ... sland of Vieques, Puerto Rico (see Navy-Vieques protests). He stayed in the | encampment — baptized in honor of the PIP founder — for 362 consecutive da ... |
Mario | ... ip, known as the 8 bits or the 8 bit Club. He is a past evil archnemesis of | , Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool |
Sir Ralph Abercromby | ... nglish attacked again in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by | (who had just conquered Trinidad). His army laid siege to the city but was ... |
Saint Paul | ... ands immediately to the east of the transept, or ritual choir; the altar of | (B) in the eastern, and that of St Peter (C) in the western apse. A cylind ... |
Abraham | ... ims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as his forefathers | , Isaac and Ishmael. Jacob is mentioned 16 times in the Qur'an. In the maj ... |
Benjamin Wade | ... t lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including Salmon P. Chase and | , defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antislavery principles |
founding father | ... s oldest city, Green Bay in the northeast. Being named for the much-admired | James Madison, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the ... |
John | ... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brother | to the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, | ; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request ... |
Vasco da Gama | ... uguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, | having visited Mombasa in 1498. Gama's voyage was successful in reaching I ... |
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 ... |
Tom Anzelc | ... Representative for Minnesota State House of Representatives District 3A is | , who is from Balsam |
Earl Warren | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice | , known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination. ... |
Irenaeus | ... o determine exactly to what extent this is true and how far the teaching of | on redemption is derived from him |
Kenneth Ouriel | ... s treated successfully for an abdominal aortic aneurysm by vascular surgeon | . Dr. Ouriel said Dole "maintained his sense of humor throughout his care. |
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 ... |
Flavius Aëtius | ... een on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and its influential general | . Aëtius had spent a brief exile among the Huns in 433, and the troops Att ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS | . Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of ... |
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 ... |
Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
Sheridan Morley | ... n 1968, she was offered the role of Sally Bowles in the musical Cabaret. As | later reported: "At first she thought they were joking. She had never done ... |
Otto I | ... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of | . In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ... |
Sir Arthur Harris | ... easier for the incendiary bombs to fall into buildings and ignite them. As | , commander of RAF Bomber Command, wrote after the war |
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 ... |
Andrew Loog Oldham | ... little equipment and needed to borrow Alexis' gear to play. This was before | became their manager |
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 ... |
Tony Dungy | ... tatistically worst rushing defense in the league during the regular season. | became only the third man to have won the Super Bowl as both a head coach ... |
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 ... |
Samwise Gamgee | ... s are present in the Dead Marshes outside of Mordor. When Frodo Baggins and | make their way through the bogs the spindly creature Gollum tells them "no ... |
Henri Christophe | ... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King | 's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... arrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), about the "unmaking" of a | retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixot ... |
Manuel Corral | He died on March 22, 2005 in El Palmar de Troya, and was succeeded by | , who took the name Pope Peter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVI ... |
Cowkeeper | ... lorida. They were led by a dynasty of chiefs founded in the 18th century by | . This dynasty lasted until 1842, when the US forced the majority of Semin ... |
Antwerp | ... tween Monschau and Losheimergraben, cross the Meuse River, and then capture | . Kampfgruppe Peiper, named after and under the command of SS-Obersturmban ... |
Ross Perot | ... and some sponsors considered withdrawing their support. Billionaire tycoon | made a donation of US$10 million, on the condition that it be named in hon ... |
the bishop of Milan, Auxentius | ... p conflict in the diocese of Milan between the Catholics and Arians. In 374 | , an Arian, died, and the Arians challenged the succession. Ambrose went t ... |
Martin Luther | At Wittenberg in 1522 and at Nuremberg in 1524, | encouraged him to convert the order's territory into a secular principalit ... |
Nicasius | ... determined by the hagiographic vitae written to commemorate their bishops: | was slaughtered before the altar of his church in Rheims; Servatus is alle ... |
Jesus | ... sometimes refers to written sources consisting of narratives of the life of | and quotations of the sayings of Jesus as "memoirs of the apostles" (Greek ... |
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 ... |
Tom Flores | (along with | {IV-player, XV and XVIII-coach} and Mike Ditka {VI-player, XX-coach}), as ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... full term of his presidency. The late President's brother, Attorney General | , with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in ... |
Dmitri Shostakovich | ... iod of Nazi activity in Europe. A notable exception is the Russian composer | whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions ... |
Marc Allégret | ... 27, he travelled through the French Equatorial Africa colony with his lover | . He went successively to Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Ou ... |
Pat Garofalo | ... or Dave Thompson, and in the Minnesota House by District 36B Representative | |
Meinhard II | ... rol and Gorizia, but for a time the Duchy of Carinthia. At the end of count | 's rule (1259–1295) the "county and reign of Tyrol" had established itself ... |
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 ... |
John D. Rockefeller | ... June 24, 1922), American financier, was a co-founder with his older brother | of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He was the son of Willi ... |
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 ... |
Sigmund | And to | he gave a sword as gift |
Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
Abraham Lincoln | The Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by | , a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ... |
Franz Kafka | ... strife during the war. However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and | in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in ... |
Johnny Depp | ... tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred | as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges had previ ... |
Jean Yves Jason | The current mayor of Port-au-Prince is | , who headed the city at the time of the 2010 earthquake. The city's separ ... |
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 ... |
Lupus | ... saved Tongeren with his prayers, as Saint Genevieve is to have saved Paris. | , bishop of Troyes, is also credited with saving his city by meeting Attil ... |
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 ... |
Anton Rop | ... ition, Slovenia's government rejected this statement and its Prime Minister | reiterated that Slovenia has conditioned the decision to go to war upon a ... |
Daniel Webster | Like | , James Wilson, and Joseph Story before him, Lincoln argued that the Decla ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ... |
Bernard Delfont | ... he Knickerbocker Hotel as a subterfuge for a business meeting with producer | , the doors opened to their suite #205, flooding the room with light and t ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... ch notables as former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor | |
Governor General of Canada | In 1888, the new | , Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthu ... |
Mike Ditka | and | {VI-player, XX-coach}), as well as the first African-American Head Coach t ... |
Wagner | ... ng the then-conventional prejudices against the music of Berlioz, Liszt and | . (This would be in sharp contrast to his brother Walter, who would become ... |
Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
George Clifford | ... rancis Drake in 1595 (in what is known as the Battle of Puerto Rico) and by | , Earl of Cumberland, in 1598. Artillery from San Juan's fort, El Morro, r ... |
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 ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government. | , in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
Trevor Nunn | ... and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in | 's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
Leo I | ... ian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome | , who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from hi ... |
Fulke Greville | ... es Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – | – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George ... |
James Eastland | ... vote of 11 to 6. The six members who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators | of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North C ... |
Ho Chi Minh | In 1930 | founded the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
Pope Paul IV | Two years later | issued orders to have all the conversos thrown into the prisons of the Inq ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
David Ben-Gurion | ... which became commonly known as the "ghetto". Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister | were in favor of expulsion, while Mapam and the Israeli labor union Histad ... |
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 ... |
Orson Welles | ... Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by | . Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a hear ... |
Keith Ellison | ... ict, represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat. The city is split between two state legislative districts: 4 ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... en, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate | , and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of "Lyndon's law," and was ... |
members of parliament | ... political life, is the first sign of the rise of this class who, either as | or justices of the peace, later became the mainstay of English government. ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... st Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular then-House Speaker | , warning America that Dole would work in concert with the Republican Cong ... |
Lewis Cass | ... lman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War | would not consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory ... |
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam | ... f Mauritius, all having their headquarters there. The busiest street is Sir | Street, formerly known as Rue Desforges. It leads directly to the Municipa ... |
John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
Langeron | ... d persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generals Kienmayer and | , to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of the Allied le ... |
Frederick I Barbarossa | The Hohenstaufen Emperor | created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ... |
Sheri L. Dew | ... FO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO | , and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree |
Nitobe Inazō | ... pacifism made a lasting impression upon Uchimura. He and his Sapporo friend | were influential in the establishment of the Friends School in Tokyo as a ... |
Richard Branson | ... them away from Fast. Eventually in May, 1979, the band accepted an offer by | 's Virgin Records. Because of his label's early support, the band offered ... |
George Orwell | ... only one work of that author. This includes such words as "Orwellian" (from | , referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Ballardesque" or "Ball ... |
Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales | The third creation was on 10 November 1399, for | , eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ... |
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 ... |
Lloyd Bentsen | ... do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3, 1961." (In 1988, | , the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate ... |
Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
Mark Foley | ... opriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman | resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a ... |
Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
William Freeborn | ... nsus. The city of Freeborn, like its namesake county, was named in honor of | |
Pius Ncube | ... ion reported no major irregularities, opposition figures such as Archbishop | have made charges of vote rigging. Elections were held on a single day, no ... |
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 ... |
Henry King | ... E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – | – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Lon ... |
Rob Zombie | ... almost $20,000 to build. Barris also built the DRAG-U-LA (which inspired a | song by the same name), a dragster built from a coffin, which Grandpa used ... |
John C. Frémont | ... en and not a separate river as others believed under the Buenaventura myth. | 's 1843 Great Basin expedition proved that no river traversed the Great Ba ... |
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 ... |
Marquis de Sade | ... r of Crash). The word "sadistic" is derived from the cruel sexual practices | described in his novels. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle was the container of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roger de Beaumont | ... wer may have been part of the original design. Clinton was a local rival to | , the Earl of Warwick and owner of the neighbouring Warwick Castle, and th ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... n actors whose films were allowed in the country during the dictatorship of | . In Hoxha's view, proletarian Norman's ultimately victorious struggles ag ... |
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 ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... the Kingdom of Naples to Don Carlos of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule | |
Bill Clinton | ... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, by | in the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ... |
The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
Philip Sheridan | During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. | 's cavalry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounde ... |
Sigismund II Augustus | ... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law | of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses |
Ron Paul | ... y combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, and | strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which they v ... |
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 ... |
Kaganovich | ... ecution lists, fourth among the Soviet leadership after Molotov, Stalin and | |
George M. C. Fisher | ... 90s, Kodak planned a decade-long journey to move to digital technology. CEO | reached out to Microsoft and other new consumer merchandisers. Apple's pio ... |
Osceola | In 1835, the U.S. Army arrived to enforce the treaty. Seminole leader | led the vastly outnumbered resistance during the Second Seminole War. Draw ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
Pope Gregory IX | ... from the region, largely thanks to the famous inquisitor Bernard Gui. Under | the Inquisition was given great power to suppress the heresy. Contrary to ... |
Yermak | ... Kemerovo Oblast is Novokuznetsk, founded in 1618, soon after Cossack ataman | 's push into Siberia. Novokuznetsk is also the largest city in the oblast, ... |
Duke of Somerset | ... e was not seen as a cause of inflation (and therefore enclosures) until the | was Protector of Edward VI. Until then enclosures were seen as the cause o ... |
John Little McClellan | ... rs who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators James Eastland of Mississippi, | of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators ... |
Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
Elector | ... al Albert of Hohenzollern (German: ) (28 June 1490 – 24 September 1545) was | and Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg fro ... |
German East Africa | ... ernors of British East Africa (as the Protectorate was generally known) and | agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct host ... |
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 ... |
James Stillman | ... ockefeller married Elsie Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president | , and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller |
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 ... |
Charles Evans Hughes | ... so creating the Independence Party. He was defeated for the governorship by | |
Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
Roman Hruska | ... of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators | of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, al ... |
Thomas Campbell | ... m Blake – Edmund Blunden – Rupert Brooke – Robert Browning – Robert Burns – | – Thomas Campion – G. K. Chesterton – Hartley Coleridge – Robert Conquest ... |
John Barnes | ... Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United (who replaced Ian Rush); winger | from Watford; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton. The new-look Live ... |
Yigal Allon | ... y Israeli forces as a sequel to Operation Yoav on November 4, 1948. General | ordered the expulsion of the remaining Arabs but the local commanders did ... |
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 ... |
Guidobaldo II della Rovere | ... d (May, 1556). Those who escaped the Inquisition were received at Pesaro by | , Duke of Urbino. Guidobaldo had hoped to have the Jews and conversos of T ... |
Hilary | ... at, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Theologians compare him with | , who they claim fell short of Ambrose's administrative excellence but dem ... |
Edward Grey | ... Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers Alexander Izvolsky and | agreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in order to make a ... |
Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
Martin Luther | ... dreas Karlstadt. However, he developed his own principles and fell out with | over the eucharistic controversy (1524). He had his own views on the sacra ... |
Brian Henson | ... he commercial failure of Labyrinth demoralized Henson to the point that son | remembered the time of its release as being "the closest I've seen him to ... |
Sali Berisha | ... greeted by many appreciative fans, including the then President of Albania, | . During this trip, Wisdom was filmed by Newsnight as he visited a childre ... |
Counts of Holland | ... an artificial hill located near the current Rijksstraatweg, where once the | where inaugurated. According to tradition, the Huldtoneel was used before ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ed from the cruel sexual practices Marquis de Sade described in his novels. | 's Cat's Cradle was the container of the Bokononism family of nonce words |
Attila the Stockbroker | The performers at the festival in 2009 included 3 Daft Monkeys, | , the Swanvesta Social Club, and Rory McLeod |
Murat | ... were too great. Caffarelli's men halted the Russian assaults and permitted | to send two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by d'Hautpoul and the othe ... |
Sam Ervin | ... nators James Eastland of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and | of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
Richard Wagner | ... d not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, | , or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere. Gershwin responded to the critics, " ... |
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 |
John Jay | ... understood ownership of their farms. Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to | tha |
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 ... |
Bhai Mani Singh | ... h event associated with Diwali is the martyrdom of the elderly Sikh scholar | in 1737 |
Saint Paul | ... d the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter and | , convinced Attila to turn away from the city. According to a version of t ... |
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 ... |
d'Hautpoul | ... ults and permitted Murat to send two cuirassier divisions (one commanded by | and the other one by Nansouty) into the fray to finish off the Russian cav ... |
Thomas Müntzer | Schwenckfeld came to Reformation principles through | and Andreas Karlstadt. However, he developed his own principles and fell o ... |
Frank Hsieh | ... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and | assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
Hiram Fong | ... of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, | of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, all argued that although t ... |
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 ... |
Richard Strauss | The book inspired | to compose the tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, which he designated "fre ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... rea surrounded by barbed wire, which became commonly known as the "ghetto". | and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion were in favor of expulsion, while Mapa ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... mington. Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker | 's help pressured Kennedy to give him a spot |
Kienmayer | ... t Sokolnitz and persuaded the commanders of the first two columns, Generals | and Langeron, to flee as fast as they could. Buxhowden, the commander of t ... |
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 ... |
Dmitry Kabalevsky | ... 6 and dedicated to "the memory of all young Artists fallen in the war", and | 's War Requiem, a setting of a poem written by Robert Rozhdestvensky espec ... |
Paul | ... was helped by Ambrose's sermons, owes more to him than to any writer except | |
Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
Al Capone | ... dward moved to Chicago. Butch's father was a lawyer who worked closely with | before turning against him and helping convict Capone of tax evasion |
Nathaniel Macon | ... should not be added to the country. Proslavery Congressmen, led by Senator | of North Carolina, argued that since the Declaration was not a part of the ... |
Delphic Oracle | ... stions the King and Queen, they deny it, but, still suspicious, he asks the | who his parents really are. The Oracle seems to ignore this question, tell ... |
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March | ... hroughout its history people bribed the guards to help them escape. In 1322 | , was aided in his escape from the Tower by the Sub-Lieutenant of the Towe ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stuart Symington | ... his running-mate and did not want to ask him. Kennedy's reported choice was | . Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker Sam R ... |
Founding Fathers of the United States | ... Congressmen argued that the language of the Declaration indicated that the | had been opposed to slavery in principle, and so new slave states should n ... |
Alastair Sim | ... st-known play is An Inspector Calls (1945), later made into a film starring | released in 1954. His plays are more varied in tone than the novels, sever ... |
Tom Hanks | ... He was then joined by the Pythons, Innes, Carol Cleveland and special guest | , to perform "The Lumberjack Song" |
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 ... |
John Cecil Masterman | ... he Germans had ready access to through the neutral nations. In addition, as | , chairman of the Twenty Committee, commented, "If, for example, St Paul's ... |
John Dudley | ... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by | in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ... |
Julius Caesar | ... me for the group was subsequently dropped. That island was first invaded by | in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to ... |
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 ... |
Gebhard | ... e, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The Conradine | , Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Church of t ... |
Pol Pot | ... following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( | after 1976) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its app ... |
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 ... |
Chen Chu | ... 006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate | , the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeat ... |
Jack Kemp | ... on in income tax rates and made former Congressman and supply side advocate | his running mate. Dole also found himself criticized from both the left an ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... icance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as | in the development of agricultural fundamentalism |
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 ... |
Autumn de Wilde | On October 25, 2007, a book titled Elliott Smith was released by | , which consists of photographs, handwritten lyrics and "revealing talks 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 |
William Jennings Bryan | ... Democratic presidential nomination in 1904, but found that his support for | in previous years was not reciprocated. The conservative wing of the party ... |
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 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
Matija Majar | ... rganized by Slovene students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with | and Lovro Toman, he was among the authors who elaborated the political dem ... |
Paul | ... and is not merely a witness. Thus in Acts 23:21, over forty men, enemies of | , bound themselves, under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they h ... |
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 ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | ... 39) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and | (1835–1935) in Poland |
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 ... |
Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
John Chupco | ... merican Civil War, the members and leaders split over their loyalties, with | refusing to sign a treaty with the Confederacy. From 1861-1866, he led as ... |
Brigham Young | ... tates but generally avoided the Colorado River basin until the 1850s. Under | 's grand vision for a "vast empire in the desert" (the State of Deseret) M ... |
William A. Blakley | ... percent) to Republican John Tower's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat | was appointed to replace Johnson as Senator, but Blakley lost a special el ... |
Maximilian von Montgelas | ... d to a difficult inheritance. Though both he and his all-powerful minister, | sympathized more with France rather than with Austrian, the state of the B ... |
King Hussein | ... en and levied illegal taxes—all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored. | considered this a growing threat to his kingdom's sovereignty and security ... |
John Brown | Frankfort had a post office by 1794, with Daniel Weisiger as postmaster. | , a Virginia lawyer and statesman, built a home, now called Liberty Hall, ... |
Adolf Wagner | ... ude Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911) and Alexander Chayanov (1888–1939) in Russia | ;(1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski (1835 ... |
Sarah T. Hughes | ... thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend | to a federal judgeship; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the ... |
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 ... |
Hilary | Catching the impulse from | and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed sev ... |
Lord Mayor of London | ... cing the law and maintaining order. The creation in 1191 of the position of | removed many of the Constable's civic powers, and at times led to friction ... |
Pyotr Stolypin | Eastern European theorists include | (1862–1911) and Alexander Chayanov (1888–1939) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (18 ... |
John de Graham | ... these to crush the remaining resistance. The Scots lost many men, including | . Wallace escaped, though his military reputation suffered badly |
Robert Duvall | ... ga.k.a. False Witness with George Kennedy (1970) and The Outfit (1974) with | . She resumed making live and studio albums under the new management of Al ... |
George Soros | ... r's students at the London School of Economics was the billionaire investor | , among whose philanthropic foundations is the Open Society Institute, a t ... |
George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ... Despite his Protestant creed, Albert was greatly aided by his elder brother | , who had already earlier established Protestant religion in his territori ... |
United States Secretary of State | ... y, American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and | in the 19th century |
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 ... |
John Tower | ... nson was re-elected Senator with 1,306,605 votes (58 percent) to Republican | 's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat William A. Blakley was appointe ... |
Robert Owen | ... living conditions for their workers. One of the earliest such reformers was | , known for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at ... |
Bobby Kennedy | ... on with the murders of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator | , and backed into the shadows, largely to make way for the feminist revolu ... |
Ieng Sary | ... a new political party the Democratic National Union Movement was formed by | , who was granted amnesty for all of his roles as the deputy leader of the ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and | of South Carolina, all argued that although the present system had potenti ... |
Edgar Tekere | ... nd internationally condemned as being rigged, with the second-placed party, | 's Zimbabwe Unity Movement, winning only 20% of the vote. Presidential ele ... |
Pinhas Lavon | ... The deportation was approved by Ben-Gurion and Dayan over the objections of | , secretary-general of the Histadrut, who envisioned the town as a product ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
Tom DeLay | ... a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include Ross Perot, | , and Jessica Simpson. It releases biennial lists with explanations of the ... |
Baron Harkonnen | ... urned from Caladan with questionable intentions. The ego-memory of the evil | , Jessica's secret father, seduces Alia from within, promising his help in ... |
Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
patriarch of Jerusalem | ... r house of Prémontré itself. Its abbot had the status of a suffragan of the | , with the right t |
Morgan Tsvangirai | | | |Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangira |
Abraham | ... aled Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch | , marking the epoch of the Father; the second in Jesus Christ, who began t ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
Pope Innocent III | ... is doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to | , the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and ... |
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 ... |
John Howard | ... he closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Then Prime Minister | had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic r ... |
William Longchamp | ... e reign of Richard the Lionheart (1189–1199). The castle was extended under | , Richard's Lord Chancellor and the man in charge of England while he was ... |
Origen | While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, | and Athanasius, in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows m ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music. In 1945, | and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of ... |
Muhammad | ... acob is also important as his life drew numerous parallels with the life of | . Jacob suffered great loss repeatedly, as did Muhammad in the Year of Sor ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Lockey | ... s Bodley's Librarian; their levels of diligence have varied over the years. | (1660–1665) was regarded as not fit for the post, John Hudson (1701–1719) ... |
Ross Perot | ... r death) was a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Famers" include | , Tom DeLay, and Jessica Simpson. It releases biennial lists with explanat ... |
John | ... justiciar was in February 1194, when he presided over a feudal judgement of | , Richard's younger brother. After Richard's release from captivity, John, ... |
Mahavira | ... their homes. For Jains, Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by | in 527 BCE |
Joshua Nkomo | ... undi wars in Matabeleland in the 1980s. This led to the political merger of | 's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) with the ruling Zimbabwe African ... |
Origen | ... the Psalms (Tractatus super Psalmos), for which he was largely indebted to | ; of his Commentarius in Evangelium Matthaei, an allegorical exegesis of t ... |
John de Menteith | Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 when | , a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldie ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... omination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker | wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an admini ... |
Hu Jintao | ... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President | |
Lovro Toman | ... ne students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with Matija Majar and | , he was among the authors who elaborated the political demand for a Unite ... |
Joseph Brugère | ... de Paris; and other members of European royalty. Also present were General | , representing President Sadi Carnot; the presidents of the Senate and the ... |
Kirk Douglas | ... es of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features | , Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, Lee Grant, among others ... |
James Madison | In the Federalist No. 39, | argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based a ... |
Robert Fitzwalter | ... response moved against him. In 1214, while the king was at Windsor Castle, | led an army into London and laid siege to the Tower. Although under-garris ... |
Kenneth Clarke | ... ity of their MPs rebelled against the party line, including figures such as | . The Liberal Democrats opposed the war, and their MPs were visibly unanim ... |
Zack Snyder | ... fter a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film, director | 's Watchmen was released in 2009 |
Arthur Mutambara | | | |Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambar |
Pierre Batiffol | According to Hosea Ballou, then | (1911) and George T. Knight (1914) Amalric was a believer that all people ... |
Son Sen | ... party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, | , and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as con ... |
Venantius Fortunatus | A vita of Hilary was written by | c. 550 but is not considered reliable. More trustworthy are the notices in ... |
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 |
Sergey Korolyov | ... Leading Russian rocket-engine designer Valentin Glushko and rocket designer | studied Tsiolkovsky's works as youths, and both sought to turn Tsiolkovsky ... |
Ross Perot | ... ral College landslide, capturing 49.2% of the vote against Dole's 40.7% and | 's 8.4% who drew equally from both candidates |
Henry Morgenthau | ... Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, | , Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gor ... |
J. M. Barrie | ... sness; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright (like his idol | ) on both sides of the Atlantic; he had produced a witty piece of detectiv ... |
Abraham | ... her war chiefs, such as Halleck Tustenuggee and Jumper, and Black Seminoles | and John Horse, continued the Seminole resistance against the army. After ... |
Henry Wise Wood | The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, | , president of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) during that movement's ... |
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 ... |
James Callaghan | ... governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and | . The project was finally revealed by Margaret Thatcher's then defence min ... |
Queen consort | He was succeeded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was | of Astyages, King of Media |
Valentin Glushko | ... by von Braun's comments and notes." Leading Russian rocket-engine designer | and rocket designer Sergey Korolyov studied Tsiolkovsky's works as youths, ... |
Robert Crowley | ... mplaints of rack-rent appearing in popular literature, such as the works of | . There were popular efforts to remove old enclosures, and much legislatio ... |
William Cecil | ... Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland was Protector that his finance minister | took action on debasement to try to stop enclosure |
Ieng Sary | ... the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, | , Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the sta ... |
Lannes | ... Guard and Bernadotte's I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under | guarded the northern sector of the battlefield, where the new communicatio ... |
Joseph Mundassery | ... Books set its first shop in Thrissur by former education Minister Professor | , it become the abode of writer’s like O V Vijayan, Kovilan, VKN, Uroob, E ... |
Louis XIV | ... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of | (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... the nominal command of William S. Hamilton, a militia colonel and a son of | . Hamilton would prove to be an unfortunate choice to lead the force; hist ... |
Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
Rudy Giuliani | ... aq has undercut the influence of this doctrine within the Republican Party. | , mayor of New York at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ... |
Duchy of Brabant | ... hardt Jazz Festival - Di Rupo, Elio - Di Rupo I Government - Draining law - | - Duchy of Limburg - Duchy of Limburg (1839–1867) - Dutch and Flemish Rena ... |
Pope Pius IX | ... ches", and his works continued to be highly influential in later centuries. | formally recognized him as Universae Ecclesiae Doctor in 1851 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of | . In An Autobiography Christie admits, "I was still writing in the Sherloc ... |
Duchy of Parma | ... aty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the | and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of t ... |
Rick Perry | ... er by renaming the Texas CAP wing's TX-352 Squadron for him. Texas Governor | cited Kittinger's work, as did the Texas state senate with a special resol ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
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 ... |
Joice Mujuru | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
Yang Hucheng | ... il War. In the Xi'an incident (12 December 1936), Zhang and another general | kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek and imprisoned the head of the Kuomintang govern ... |
Halleck Tustenuggee | Other war chiefs, such as | and Jumper, and Black Seminoles Abraham and John Horse, continued the Semi ... |
Tony Blair | ... plan to invade Iraq albeit originally seeking a UN Mandate. Prime Minister | frequently expressed support for the United States in this matter, while M ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | In Poland | thought deeply about Agrarianism and worked out an eclectic program that f ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... enate despite Dukakis' loss to George H. W. Bush. The same went for Senator | of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Jose ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by | and others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ... |
John McCain | ... followed in regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as | , Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrog ... |
Gene Kelly | In 1951, MGM released the musical An American in Paris, featuring | and Leslie Caron. Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other a ... |
Henry Ford | ... nal to connect Lake Erie with Lake Michigan. This effort ultimately failed. | was attracted to the water power of the Huron River, and in 1925 he establ ... |
Henry Clay | ... . As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,864. Its name is in honor of | , American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... mmittee of the Senate of the United States. A young Senator from Wisconsin, | (who was Irish-American but, represented a heavily German-American ethnic ... |
Robert Todd | ... bon County), Henry Lee (Mason County), Thomas Kennedy (Madison County), and | (Fayette County). A number of communities competed for this honor, but Fra ... |
Frank Oz | ... Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use | as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in The Empire Strikes B ... |
Henry the Navigator | ... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince | , the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ... |
Britney Spears | ... sman for such products as Viagra, Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Pepsi-Cola (with | ), and as an occasional political commentator on the popular American inte ... |
Wu Shu-chen | ... d the political parties voted according to political lines. The first lady, | was prosecuted for corruption, namely illegally using state funds for pers ... |
Tony Slattery | ... ntroversy than O.T.T., and also introduced new talent such as Phil Cool and | . It lasted only six episodes. Chris Tarrant and Bob Carolgees were the on ... |
Pope Damasus I | The commentary itself was written during the papacy of | , that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of ... |
Governor of Puerto Rico | ... PIP). A former three-time Senator, Berríos is a recurring PIP candidate for | for three decades, although not consecutively for each elective term |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
Manetho | ... ons ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to | are also addressed |
James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
Anicius Probus | ... r. He was educated in Rome, studying literature, law, and rhetoric. Praetor | first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consu ... |
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. ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... bodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and | . Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as controlled by the gove ... |
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | ... stian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, | , and Andrew of Longjumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Gio ... |
James Byrnes | ... needed and who would produce it. Baruch's ideas were largely adopted, with | appointed to carry them out. During the war Baruch remained a trusted advi ... |
General Langeron | ... lleurs, French skirmishers. Initial Allied assaults proved unsuccessful and | ordered the bombardment of the village. This deadly barrage forced the Fre ... |
Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvoi | ... topped receiving the pension given to him as a writer. Colbert's successor, | , who was jealous of Colbert, quickly removed Perrault from his other appo ... |
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 ... |
Lincoln Chafee | ... s have recently held the governorships in several New England States, while | , a former moderate Republican senator is currently the independent govern ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... were the only ones by Western actors permitted by Enver Hoxha to be shown. | once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown" |
Vice President | In the election of 1912, | Sherman died shortly before the election, too late for any state to remove ... |
Bill Dyke | ... ith authorities, particularly during the administration of Republican mayor | , a one-time personality on WISC-TV who was later to run for U.S. vice pre ... |
Adam Smith | In the 18th century, | declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the wor ... |
Liudolf | ... e was Count Wichmann, mentioned as a Billung in 811. Oda, the wife of Count | , oldest known member of the Liudolfing House, was also a Billung |
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 ... |
Ottobuono | ... chets had to be sent for from London. Papal intervention through the legate | finally resulted in the compromise of the Dictum of Kenilworth, under whic ... |
Thurgood Marshall | In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney | to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
Simplician | ... ediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan. He studied theology with | , a presbyter of Rome. Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was t ... |
Lord Mayor of London | ... fe, Margaret Bowett, and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold (1420–1456), the | and, secondly, of Sir John Norreys (1400–1466), Keeper of the Wardrobe. Th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adam Smith | ... survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components. | described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Natio ... |
Martin Luther | ... was as a disgusted response to Tetzel's activities selling indulgences that | wrote his famous 95 Theses, which he sent to Albert on 31 October 1517 and ... |
Peter II of Aragon | In 1213, forces led by King | , came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ... |
Sherman | In the election of 1912, Vice President | died shortly before the election, too late for any state to remove his nam ... |
Jesus | ... raditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed | , was the 13th to sit at the table. However, the Bible itself says nothing ... |
Bernadotte's | ... tled upon a secondary line of retreat through Brunn. The Imperial Guard and | I Corps were held in reserve while the V Corps under Lannes guarded the no ... |
Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
Fionn mac Cumhaill | Legend has it that the hero | was born in Conn's time. His father, Cumhall, a warrior in Conn's service, ... |
Bob Hope | ... th regular appearances on coast-to-coast broadcasts starring Jimmy Durante, | and |
Peadar Ua Laoghaire | ... s by Henry Glassie. The first modern novel in the Irish language, Séadna by | , is a version of the tale |
Duke Magnus | The house became extinct when | died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... for Internal Affairs along with Vasili Averin. He was well known for aiding | in the Military Council (led by Leon Trotsky), having become closely assoc ... |
Mike Enzi | ... elegation. Today, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, | and John Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Con ... |
Harry Reid | ... e unless Stevens resigned first. Late on November 1, Senate Majority Leader | confirmed that he would schedule a vote on Stevens's expulsion, saying tha ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olympia Snowe | ... can senator is currently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators | and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts ... |
Walt Disney | For | , she played Lucifer the Cat in the feature film Cinderella, Lambert's mot ... |
Robert Eden | ... its name from Lady Caroline Eden, wife of Maryland's last colonial governor | . At the time of its creation, seven commissioners were appointed: Charles ... |
Léopold Clément's | ... ews reached Vienna that he had died of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. | younger brother, Francis Stephen, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... parable to those they might expect outside; one such example was that while | was held in the Tower his rooms were altered to accommodate his family, in ... |
Juan de Mariana | ... the sixteenth century this account re-appeared, extended and elaborated, in | , who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the Emperor Henry III ur ... |
Bagration | ... . The Russian Imperial Guard was held in reserve while Russian troops under | guarded the Allied right. Furthermore, the Russian Tsar rudely stripped th ... |
Queen mother | ... ome of the crown's influence in Poitou, Blanche managed to keep the English | Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan ... |
Saint Peter | ... Will the Smith. Will is a wicked blacksmith who is given a second chance by | at the gates to Heaven, but leads such a bad life that he ends up being do ... |
Sauron | ... Necromancer was a pseudonym used by Tolkien in The Hobbit for the character | . The song departs from the story of the book as Part III sees the return ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... ng in originality and in the mental toughness required of a world champion. | thought Euwe's modesty was a handicap in top-class chess (although Euwe wa ... |
Sayed Tantawi | ... of states, prime ministers and foreign ministers. Egypt's top Muslim cleric | led mourning prayers preceding the funeral procession |
Daniel arap Moi | At Kenyatta's death (August 22, 1978), Vice President | became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally aft ... |
Lyon Playfair | ... there in 1843. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to | at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close f ... |
Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
Titian | ... uable, and are chiefly copies of Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino and | . The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, ... |
Reed Smoot | ... e and U.S. House of Representatives, such as former Dean of the U.S. Senate | (class of 1876). Cabinet members of American presidents include former Sec ... |
Harry Belafonte | ... s Band finished the service by performing "When the Saints Go Marching In". | sang "Turn the World Around," a song he had debuted on The Muppet Show, as ... |
Pope Leo X | ... borrowed 21,000 ducats from Jakob Fugger, and had obtained permission from | to conduct the sale of indulgences in his diocese to obtain funds to repay ... |
Scott Walker | ... Madison was the site for large protests against a bill proposed by Governor | that removed most (or in some cases all) collective bargaining rights for ... |
Norm Coleman | ... nate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators | , John Sununu and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnel ... |
Benito Juárez | ... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor | , the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ... |
Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
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Prometheus | ... e Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the hand of Thetis until | , the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son ... |
Ieng Thirith | ... ol Pot and Ieng Sary married Khieu Ponnary and Khieu Thirith (also known as | ), purportedly relatives of Khieu Samphan. These two well-educated women a ... |
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 ... |
Enver Hoxha | ... Albania, where his films were the only ones by Western actors permitted by | to be shown. Charlie Chaplin once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clo ... |
Muhammad | Islam came to Yemen around 630, during the Islamic prophet | 's lifetime. At that time the Persian governor Badhan was ruling. Thereaft ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
Gennadi Sosonko | ... to Chess, and Strategy and Tactics in Chess Play. Former Soviet grandmaster | used Euwe's Practical Chess Lessons (Practische Schaaklessen) as a textboo ... |
Israeli cabinet | ... ared that his burial would strengthen Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem. | minister Tommy Lapid stated that "Jerusalem is the burial place of Jewish ... |
Birch E. Bayh II | ... aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator | and spent months in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a pun ... |
Scott Brown | ... sland. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator | of Massachusetts are notable moderate Republicans from New England. From 1 ... |
Burgess Meredith | ... he title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, | as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian |
Cynthia Lummis | ... Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman | . All three are Republicans. The state has not voted for a Democrat for pr ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ps from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like | and Fatty Arbuckle. The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Mari ... |
Kim B. Clark | BYU alumni in academia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School | and Michael K. Young '73, current President of the University of Washingto ... |
Churchill | ... ght through 1940 and again in 1941, drew peak audiences of 16 million; only | was more popular with listeners. But his talks were cancelled. It was thou ... |
Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
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 ... |
Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
Sarah Palin | ... with the people" and needed to step down—a call echoed by his running mate, | , governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ... |
Hugh de Morville | ... it was interpreted as a royal command, and four knights, Reginald fitzUrse, | , William de Tracy, and Richard le Breton, set out to confront the Archbis ... |
Shoko Asahara | ... Aum Shinrikyo cult considered using Ebola as a terror weapon. Their leader, | , led about 40 members to Zaire under the guise of offering medical aid to ... |
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 ... |
Walther Rathenau | ... rom the League of Nations. Thus, Germany seized the chance to make an ally. | , the Jewish Foreign Minister who signed the treaty, was assassinated two ... |
P. C. Chacko | ... house of the Parliament of India, once every five years. The current MP is | . The Lok Sabha seat has been held by the Indian National Congress for six ... |
Otto, Count of Ballenstedt | ... Duke of Bavaria, a member of the House of Welf; his daughter Eilika married | , a member of the Ascanian House. As a consequence, for the following deca ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capture | in December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ... |
Bishop of Worcester | ... e existed in Oxford was founded in the fourteenth century by Thomas Cobham, | . This small collection of chained books was situated above the north side ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... ranklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and | (1753–1824) in the early national period. In the mid-19th century importan ... |
Henry de Hastings | ... fort at the Battle of Evesham; the surviving rebels under the leadership of | , Montfort's constable at Kenilworth, regrouped at the castle the followin ... |
Rudolf Hess | ... the Tower was once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was | , Adolf Hitler's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the las ... |
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 ... |
Vladimir Lenin | ... ord that was named after a newspaper published by the Russian revolutionary | |
Hugo Stinnes | The strike prevented some goods from being produced, but one industrialist, | , was able to create a vast empire out of bankrupt companies. Because the ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... mate, Sarah Palin, governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader | , as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, John Sununu and Gord ... |
Orson Welles | One of the most influential films of all time was | ' 1941 film Citizen Kane, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's lif ... |
George W. Bush | After | (March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct." Committee member | explained the reasons for the change; among others, there were fears of "i ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... nd Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. He has also translated a | play into English. He appeared on the programme on BBC Four in 2012 called ... |
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 |
Wangari Maathai | ... ding the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist | |
Sergei Witte | ... s-Siberian Railway began in 1891 and was put into execution and overseen by | , who was then Finance Minister |
Henry | ... landowners, including churches and bishoprics. King Henry even sent his son | to live in Becket's household, it being the custom then for noble children ... |
Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
Origen | ... to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, | , Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging lett ... |
Melvyn Bragg | ... fessor of Philosophy at the LSE and the University of California, hosted by | |
John Archdale | ... r of the United Kingdom, who has an official residence at Chequers. Finally | colonial governor of North Carolina and , although more notably American, ... |
Thurgood Marshall | ... s one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusions of | , Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and William J. Brennan, ... |
William Kieft | ... ector of the Dutch West India Company, and the predecessor of then-Director | , Minuit knew the status of the lands on either side of the Delaware River ... |
Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
Warren Mitchell (basketball) | ... is is about the English actor. For the U.S. college basketball coach, go to | |
Governor of Massachusetts | ... States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. Mitt Romney, former | and 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, class of 1971 |
Sylvester Stallone | ... stallment in the Rocky film series. It is written and directed by and stars | as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo C ... |
Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
Gottlob Berger | In August 1940, | approached Himmler with a plan to recruit volunteers in the conquered terr ... |
John McCain | ... or his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, Barack Obama and | , were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said that Stevens ne ... |
Susan Collins | ... rently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators Olympia Snowe and | , both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts are notable mode ... |
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 ... |
Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
patron of the arts | ... a Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine | and scholar-poet, |
Basil of Caesarea | ... died the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and | , with whom he was also exchanging letters. He applied this knowledge as p ... |
John Barrasso | ... ay, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, Mike Enzi and | , and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Cynthi ... |
Dave Grohl | ... any rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and | The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, ... |
Hilary of Poitiers | ... e became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of | on Romans. The best presentation of the case for Ambrose is by P. A. Balle ... |
Hou Yuon | ... onomics and politics during his time in Paris. In talent he was rivalled by | , born in 1930, who was described as being "of truly astounding physical a ... |
Lew Grade | On the back of their success on stage and on screen, in 1961 | offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV. Entitled Tw ... |
Jimmy Bonthrone | ... f Bermuda (1839–46), Barbados (1846–48), and Malta (1851–58); knighted 1851 | , footballer and manager: born Kinglassie, Fife 16 June 1929; played for E ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... authority in Bavaria; but three alone left issue, and of these the eldest, | , also margrave of Brandenburg and count of Tyrol, died in 1361; followed ... |
Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
Vice President of the United States | ... f the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and | . Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election. ... |
Athanasius | ... erred to as the "Hammer of the Arians" (Latin: Malleus Arianorum) and the " | of the West." His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful. Hi ... |
Thomas Cobham | ... ry known to have existed in Oxford was founded in the fourteenth century by | , Bishop of Worcester. This small collection of chained books was situated ... |
presiding over the Senate | On November 22, 1963, while Kennedy was | —a task given to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his bro ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... ple narratives into one story are various novels written by American author | . Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his n ... |
George H. W. Bush | ... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with President | in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ... |
Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria | ... operty was divided between his two daughters. His daughter Wulfhild married | , a member of the House of Welf; his daughter Eilika married Otto, Count o ... |
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 ... |
Hamilton Palace | ... milton, forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, | . Many features of this period remain in the park, including the Duke's Br ... |
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 ... |
Pol Pot | ... l from 1968 until 1975, and established the regime of Democratic Kampuchea. | , who rose to the leadership of the communist movement in the 1960s, was b ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
Friz Freleng | In a scene in | 's cartoon Hare Trigger, Yosemite Sam (in his debut) calls himself "the me ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... h the Lee family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions. Lee's nephew, | , also arrived at the academy in 1852. In Stuart's final year, in addition ... |
Aaron Burr | ... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominated | for Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a ... |
Francis Drake | ... to New Spain attracted the attention of English and Dutch pirates, such as | , Henry Morgan and Thomas Cavendish, who called it “The Black Ship.” To pr ... |
Mack Sennett | ... silent film comedies in the early 20th century. The movies were produced by | for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917. The idea came from Ha ... |
Tou Samouth | During the mid-1950s, KPRP factions, the "urban committee" (headed by | ), and the "rural committee" (headed by Sieu Heng), emerged. In very gener ... |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
Winston Churchill | ... h parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, | and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Sha ... |
Marcus Garvey | ... inity, and tutored students in philosophy. Nkrumah encountered the ideas of | and in 1943 met and began a lengthy correspondence with Trinidadian Marxis ... |
Mikhail Botvinnik | ... ar second place finish in the great tournament at Groningen in 1946, behind | . But Euwe consented to participate in a five-player tournament to select ... |
Talleyrand | ... onfident of his victory. In a letter written to Minister of Foreign Affairs | , Napoleon requested Talleyrand not tell anyone about the upcoming battle ... |
Erechtheus | ... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of | /Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ... |
finance ministry | However in 2003, a team of American accountants–hired by Arafat's own | –began examining Arafat's finances; this team reached a different conclusi ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of | . There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ... |
Lenny Kravitz | ... uld keep the celebrity guests to a minimum on Wandering Spirit, only having | as a vocalist on his cover of Bill Withers' "Use Me" and bassist Flea from ... |
Stalin | ... r Pitkin" after the character from his films. In 1995, he visited the post- | ist country where, to his surprise, he was greeted by many appreciative fa ... |
Pope Leo X | ... ndulgences and sent a copy to his cardinal Albrecht, who in turn sent it to | . Then the cardinal and the Roman Catholic members of the town council wan ... |
Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
Duchy of Brabant | ... ne became fragmented, causing the formation of the Duchy of Limburg and the | , whose rulers retained the title Duke of Lothier (derived from "Lotharing ... |
Anthony Eden | ... our). It had previously been a Conservative safe seat, including as its MP, | a former British prime minister. At the 2005 general election, James Plask ... |
Orson Welles | ... 975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. (Legendary actor and director | voiced her husband, the cobra "Nag". |
Arthur Wellesley | After Light's demise, Lieutenant-Colonel | arrived in Penang to co-ordinate the defences of the island. In 1800, Lieu ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
Tony Blair | ... rds. Occasional one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating | , Gordon Brown and various other government figures. In the 1990s he becam ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... lectoral victory on the 36th ballot, but only after Federalist Party leader | —who disfavored Burr's personal character more than Jefferson's policies—h ... |
Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
Richard DeVos | ... auty, and home care markets. Amway was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and | . Based in Ada, Michigan, the company and family of companies under Altico ... |
Lawrence Jenco | ... on, and he assisted in successful negotiations which secured the release of | and David Jacobsen. His use of an American helicopter to travel secretly b ... |
John 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 ... |
Auxentius | ... cese, but in 364, extending his efforts once more beyond Gaul, he impeached | , bishop of Milan, and a man high in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Su ... |
Cassiodorus | ... , one of the Livia gens. The praenomen Lucius is given by Aulus Gellius and | |
Shah | ... ince of the Western Empire and a main source of food for Rome. The Sassanid | Yazdegerd II invaded Armenia in 441 |
Chuck Jones | ... Sylvester, and, memorably, a series of witches, including Witch Hazel, for | |
Pope Gregory VII | In consequence of his support of | in his quarrel with Henry, Welf lost but subsequently regained Bavaria; tw ... |
Douglas Fairbanks | ... ning, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, | , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's ... |
David | ... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero | , a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ... |
Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
Ieng Sary | ... term that later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, | , Khieu Samphan, and their associates |
Funsho Williams | The first phase of the Lagos BRT runs 12 miles through Ikorodu Road and | Avenue up to CMS. After weeks of test runs, operations started on March 17 ... |
Grand Duke's | ... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent | daughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine |
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 ... |
Benedetto Croce | ... d art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. | and R.G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotion ... |
Thomas Menino | ... illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor | and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
Adrian "Cap" Anson | ... ew York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The tour included future Hall of Famers | and John Montgomery Ward. While the players were on the tour, the National ... |
William Reid | Sir | (b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), go ... |
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 ... |
Duke of Hamilton | ... g this section of the gorge, although the area was once the preserve of the | , forming the hunting and pleasure grounds of the Dukes' former home, Hami ... |
John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
Willie Fernie | ... r, East Fife 1980-94; married (two sons); died Kirkcaldy, Fife 7 June 2008. | (born 22 November 1928 in Kinglassie, Fife. Died: 1 July, 2011, in Glasgow ... |
Edmund Burke | ... thought influenced the political (and aesthetic) thinking of Immanuel Kant, | and others and led to a critical review of modernist politics. On the cons ... |
Heracles | ... ogy as the patron and helper of many heroes, including Odysseus, Jason, and | . In Classical Greek myths, she never consorts with a lover, nor does she ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... later came to signify the party and the state headed by Pol Pot, Ieng Sary, | , and their associates |
County of Flanders | ... u - Council of State (Belgium) - Countess of Flanders - Count of Flanders - | - County of Loon - Le Coup de lune - Le Couronnement de Renart - Court of ... |
Charlie Dent | ... rt of Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, represented by Republican | , elected in 2004 |
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 ... |
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk | ... 36) and the former Lady Margaret de Mowbray (1388–1459), eldest daughter of | (of the first creation) (1366–1399) and Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366–1425 ... |
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 ... |
Russell H. Dilday | ... of 1979 was a major internal disagreement that captured national attention. | , president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1978 to ... |
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 ... |
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti | ... rch member), Jean Waddell (who was secretary to the Iranian Anglican bishop | ), John Coleman, and Coleman's wife. On 10 Nov 1984, he negotiated with Co ... |
Savary | The luring plan did not stop at that. On November 25, general | was sent to the Allied headquarters at Olmutz in order to secretly examine ... |
Aga Khan II | ... n Ali Shah was succeeded as Imam by his eldest son Aqa Ali Shah, who became | |
Brandenburg | ... he Crown of Poland. It was inherited by the Hohenzollern prince-electors of | in 1618; this personal union is referred to as Brandenburg-Prussia. Freder ... |
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 ... |
Duchy of Limburg | ... authority in Lower Lorraine became fragmented, causing the formation of the | and the Duchy of Brabant, whose rulers retained the title Duke of Lothier ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
Michael Bloomberg | ... alition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor | |
Wong Yan Lung | The current Secretary for Justice is the Honourable | SC |
Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine | ... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter, | |
Thurgood Marshall | ... hers are Harry Andrew Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, | , Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Ju ... |
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 |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... s to the 1970s under such leaders as Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , and Richard Nixon, they usually dominated the presidential wing of the p ... |
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 ... |
Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse | In 1229, she was responsible for the Treaty of Paris, in which | , submitted to Louis. By it his daughter and heir Joan was forced to marry ... |
George Wallace | ... opular votes than Humphrey, equating to less than 1% of the national total. | received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular v ... |
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 ... |
Garry Kasparov | ... . Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, and | analyzed the match for their own benefit and concluded that Euwe deserved ... |
Nicholas I of Russia | ... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor | on the Neva River |
Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford | ... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son, | . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ... |
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 ... |
Brian Henson | ... osaurs and their society has this strange toxic life style,' said [his son] | . But until The Simpsons took off, said Alex Rockwell, a vice president of ... |
Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Robert Runcie | ... with a Primate, is a humorous account of his journeys with his former boss, | |
James Whale | ... humorous writer and critic. His novel Benighted (1927) was adapted into the | film The Old Dark House (1932); the novel has been published under the fil ... |
Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
Count of Flanders | ... nberg group - Cougnou - Council of State (Belgium) - Countess of Flanders - | - County of Flanders - County of Loon - Le Coup de lune - Le Couronnement ... |
Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... re always represented in the cabinets of Republican presidents. In Vermont, | , a Republican Senator became an independent in 2001 due to growing disagr ... |
Sauron | ... R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to | 's power and attained near-immortality as wraiths, servants bound to the p ... |
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 ... |
Harry Thuku | ... st African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by | . After the Young Kikuyu Association was banned by the government, it was ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Emanuel Celler | Representative | , Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, respo ... |
Wolfgang Kapp | ... ace on 13 March 1920: 5000 Freikorps soldiers occupied Berlin and installed | (a right-wing journalist) as chancellor. The national government fled to S ... |
Bruno the Great | In 959 the Lotharingian duke | divided the duchy between Lotharingia superior (Upper Lorraine) and Lothar ... |
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 ... |
Senate Majority Whip | ... nedy defeated Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long by a 31–26 margin to become | , the youngest person to attain that position. While this further boosted ... |
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | ... rm in the United States House of Representatives. Archibald was a cousin of | . Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a stric ... |
El Cid | ... II). Ferdinand was prepared to pay, but one of his vassals, later known as | , who in reality was a youth during Ferdinand's reign, declared a war on t ... |
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 ... |
French Ministry of Defense | After Arafat's death, the | said that Arafat's medical file would be transmitted to only his next of k ... |
Countess of Flanders | ... Pieter Goethals - Coudenberg group - Cougnou - Council of State (Belgium) - | - Count of Flanders - County of Flanders - County of Loon - Le Coup de lun ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Son Ngoc Minh | Its leader was | , and a third of its leadership consisted of members of the ICP. According ... |
Mark Begich | Nonetheless, during a debate with his opponent | days after his conviction, Stevens continued to claim innocence. "I have n ... |
Pheidippides | ... ated the Greek word for horse, like Hipparchus and Xanthippe; the character | in Aristophanes' Clouds has his grandfather's name with hipp- inserted to ... |
Gordon Brown | ... nal one-off specials are also shown, with Bremner impersonating Tony Blair, | and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regula ... |
Robert D. Ray | ... r and child were sent to a lab for study instead. Pearson protested to Gov. | , finally gaining an audience with him after sitting outside his office in ... |
Finance Minister of the PNA | ... ccording to Salam Fayyad—a former World Bank official whom Arafat appointed | in 2002—Arafat's commodity monopolies could accurately be seen as gouging ... |
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 ... |
bishop of Milan | ... n 364, extending his efforts once more beyond Gaul, he impeached Auxentius, | , and a man high in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear ... |
Walter Lantz | ... ice of Grandmother Fa in Mulan in 1998; she also did a variety of voices in | 's Woody Woodpecker cartoons. For Warner Brothers Cartoons, she was Granny ... |
Jim DeMint | On November 13, Senator | of South Carolina announced he would move to have Stevens expelled from th ... |
Don Shula | ... the two clubs did have something in common, however, lay in new Miami coach | . Shula had coached the Colts the previous seven pre-merger seasons (1963- ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... election of 1968 ended with Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes to | 's 191. Yet, Nixon had only received 511,944 more popular votes than Humph ... |
Henry III of England | ... muster an army to protect Capetian interests against rebellious nobles and | . One of the barons tried to kidnap Louis. He took refuge in a castle and ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, | was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ... |
Harry Thuku | ... yu Association" (renamed the "East African Association") started in 1921 by | (1895–1970), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocate ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... epresented in all states. From the 1940s to the 1970s under such leaders as | , Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon, they usuall ... |
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 ... |
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam | Prince Rashed supported | 's Palestinian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebel ... |
Alexander I | ... to await reinforcements and to link up with surviving Austrian units. Tsar | then appointed general Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov to the commander-in-c ... |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... stinguished Flying Cross, and he was awarded the Harmon Trophy by President | |
Aeneas | ... me, they were restrained by Achilles, who afterwards attacked the cattle of | , sacked neighboring cities and killed Troilus |
mayor | With Arsenio Lacson becoming the first elected | in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior to this), the City of Manila unde ... |
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf | ... cution of the Austrian emperor, and some found refuge on the lands of Count | . These followers became known as Schwenkfelders. A group arrived in Phila ... |
Gary Crittenden | ... ly, alumni of BYU who have served as business leaders include Citigroup CFO | '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO Sheri L. Dew, and ... |
Robert Owen | ... ups against times of economic hardship. Enlightened industrialists, such as | also supported these organisations to improve the conditions of the workin ... |
Athanasius | While he thus closely followed the two great Alexandrians, Origen and | , in exegesis and Christology respectively, his work shows many traces of ... |
Earl Warren | ... liver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice | ,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Justice ... |
Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
Fatty Arbuckle | ... es to background ensemble, in support of comedians like Charlie Chaplin and | . The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Marie Dressler, Mabel ... |
Romano Bonaventura | ... 26), and helped by Theobald IV of Champagne and the papal legate to France, | , she organized an army. Its sudden appearance brought the nobles momentar ... |
Prometheus | Eventually Zeus experienced an enormous headache | ;, Hephaestus, Hermes, Ares, or Palaemon (depending on the sources examine ... |
Archibald Stuart | ... of Guilford Court House during the American Revolutionary War. His father, | , was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and politician who rep ... |
Thaddeus Stevens | On May 8, 1866, during a debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, | , the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, delivered ... |
John Barton | ... s as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in | 's "British Raj" revival of Much Ado About Nothing. As Bernard Levin wrote ... |
Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
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 ... |
Mark Begich | ... display of memorabilia of his wartime service in China-Burma-India. Senator | stated, "Over his four decades of public service in the U.S. Senate, Senat ... |
Newt Gingrich | On January 26, 2012, Dole issued a letter critical of | , focusing on Dole's and Gingrich's time working together on Capitol Hill. ... |
Geoffrey of Monmouth | ... s well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( | 's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Kn ... |
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 ... |
Winston Churchill | ... ran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the "Sword of Stalingrad" from | , he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from it ... |
Menachem Begin | ... tions into the IDF started. On June 1, an agreement had been signed Between | and Yisrael Galili for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF. One of th ... |
Fannie Lou Hamer | ... made the bus trip to Atlantic City, they voted it down. As MFDP Vice Chair | said, "We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than w ... |
Adam Smith | ... r natural price of a commodity. The labour theory of value, as presented by | , however, did not require the quantification of all past labour, nor did ... |
Mel Brooks | ... Hank Mann as a prop man. Sennett also starred in a cameo role-as himself.) | directed a Keystone Kops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie |
3rd Duke of Bridgewater | Brindley's reputation brought him to the attention of the | who was looking for a way to improve the transport of coal from his coal m ... |
Bayard Rustin | ... black civil rights leaders (including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, and | ) worked out a compromise with MFDP leaders: the MFDP would receive two no ... |
Maria Pearson | | is often credited with being the earliest catalyst for the passage of NAGP ... |
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick | ... d when Henry VI was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of | (nicknamed "the Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time i ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... rought more attention to Corneille. He was selected to write verses for the | ’s visit to Rouen. The Cardinal took notice of Corneille and selected him ... |
Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky | ... the Amur River, and consequently, to the Pacific Ocean. Siberia's governor, | , was anxious to advance the colonisation of the Russian Far East, but his ... |
Lee Atwater | Dole appears in the 2008 documentary on | , . In the film, Dole says, "I don't comment on Atwater." Additionally, "T ... |
William Pitt | ... greement led to the creation of the Third Coalition. British Prime Minister | spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards form ... |
Dr. Emil Salim | ... Environmental Impact Report). The review was headed by an "Eminent Person", | (former Environment Minister of Indonesia). Dr. Salim held consultations w ... |
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 ... |
Lamar Hunt | ... alled the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup after billionaire sports franchise owner | , five times beginning in 1915, and for the last time in 1926 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... ons, Gwenwynwyn and Gwanar, who both accompany Caswallawn in his pursuit of | , who has been chased from Britain. This triad is the only source connecti ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... ican government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), | postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) ... |
Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
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 | |
President pro tempore of the Senate | ... The sitting Vice President is expected to preside, but in several cases the | has chaired the proceedings instead. The Vice President and the Speaker of ... |
Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
Lisa Murkowski | ... spectrum spoke highly of the man many Alaskans knew as "Uncle Ted." Senator | said of Stevens: "His entire life was dedicated to public service—from his ... |
Pope Paul VI | ... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of | , and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ... |
King Henry VIII | ... and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of | . Thus, through Anne Boleyn, he was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabe ... |
Gordon Brown | ... that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating | , with her revealing "embarrassing indiscretions" |
Marcus Licinius Crassus | ... mpany. San Simeon was also used in the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of | (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and ... |
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 ... |
Tom Daschle | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, | , and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit ... |
Andrei Zhdanov | ... ber 1941 he commanded Leningrad Front. Working alongside military commander | as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerab ... |
Michael Howard | On 3 May 2005, Bremner dressed up as | and walked along the campaign trail in the marginal seat of Wellingborough ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of Marcus Licinius Crassus (played by | ). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and stayed at the house for pa ... |
King Arthur | ... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin | , Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor |
Donna Shalala | That same year, President George W. Bush appointed Dole and | co-chairs of a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medi ... |
Ellen J. Kullman | ... se; Jeff Kindler, Former CEO of Pfizer; Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels | ;, CEO of DuPont; and Andy Fastow, Former CFO of Enron. Other notable alum ... |
Lon Nol | ... uation created by the removal of Sihanouk as head of state in 1970. Premier | , with the support of the National Assembly, deposed Sihanouk. Sihanouk, i ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... at the Young Vic Theatre in London celebrating the work of German dramatist | , where a series of newly-translated versions of some of his short plays w ... |
Miguel Alemán Valdés | ... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s President | upgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ... |
Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... eir time entertaining, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included | , Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon v ... |
Manuel Víctor Domenech | ... itectural style later dubbed Ponce Creole. Architects like Francisco Valls, | , Eduardo Salich, Blas Silva Boucher, Agustín Camilo González, Alfredo Wie ... |
Norodom Sihanouk | ... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations between | and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ... |
W. E. B. Du Bois | ... He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, | , and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest s ... |
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 |
Howard Baker | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders | , Tom Daschle, and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Fleming | ... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 that | observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ... |
Samuel Slater | ... also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill. | (1768–1835) is the founder of the Slater Mill. As a boy apprentice in Derb ... |
Paul Wolfowitz | ... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
Jesus | ... le seeks to explain the Robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when | was dying on the cross, the Robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to hi ... |
General Wesley Clark | ... he mistake on his May 31, 2011 show. Both times he was interviewing retired | |
Harold Ickes | ... oint many civil libertarians to key positions, including Interior Secretary | , a member of the ACLU |
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 ... |
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba | ... as a member of the converso family of Pacheco, together with his brother D. | ("El Gran Capitán"), and a troop of soldiers, hastened to protect the New ... |
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 ... |
Stanley Savige | ... e Gippsland Campus of Monash University. A commemorative bust of Lt Gen Sir | was erected in 2006. Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy Australia foll ... |
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 ... |
Marcus Garvey | ... Pan-Africanism. He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like | , W. E. B. Du Bois, and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. N ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... guests on the show, including Angela Rippon, Princess Anne, Cliff Richard, | , John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jon ... |
Fionn mac Cumhaill | ... ngs Nuadu Finn Fáil and Nuadu Necht, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of | . A rival to Conn of the Hundred Battles was Mug Nuadat ("Nuada's Slave"). ... |
Semyon Timoshenko | ... initial failures in Finland. He was later replaced as Defence Commissar by | . Voroshilov was then made Deputy Premier responsible for cultural matters |
Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... . Also, in 1924, Wyoming became the first state to elect a female governor, | , who took office in January 1925. (In fact, Wyoming and Texas both electe ... |
Sean O'Keefe | ... vens, along with seven other passengers including former NASA administrator | , were in a plane crash about 17 miles north of Dillingham, Alaska, while ... |
St. Paul | Domínguez claimed that he was visited by Christ, along with St. Peter and | , who told hi |
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya. | (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ... |
Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
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, ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... hly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by | (in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present). The earlier Mississ ... |
Jim Bates | ... e Rayner (Michigan State University / Indianapolis Colts). 1964 Oxford grad | (University of Tennessee) has been a long time NFL defensive coach (Packer ... |
Arthur Grimble | Sir | wrote about his time working in the British colonial service in Kiribati ( ... |
Henry IV of Castile | ... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King | . He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ... |
Bertolt Brecht | ... ons suggested a pirate theme, and Moore agreed in part because he is "a big | fan": the Black Freighter alludes to the song "Seeräuberjenny" ("Pirate Je ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by | . It would become an archdiocese in 1983 |
Richard M. Johnson | ... , "[I]f a majority of the number of Senators shall vote for either the said | or Francis Granger, he shall be declared by the presiding officer of the S ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Lloyd-Webber | ... h middle classes. The only failure during this period was 1975 musical with | , Jeeves, and even this did little to dent Ayckbourn's popularity. Althoug ... |
3rd Duke of Norfolk | ... dy seems to have been moved at the Reformation, possibly to the tomb of the | at Framlingham Church. The monumental brass of his first wife Katherine Mo ... |
Eusebius of Caesarea | Fragments attributed by the Christian | to the semi-legendary Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, which Eusebius t ... |
Melina Mercouri | ... some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, | , Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, El ... |
Dr. Dre | ... he "Cuban Linx mindset", and RZA, with RZA handling most of the production. | , Scram Jones, and were other producers that were announced early on as wo ... |
George W. Bush | On 30 May 2007, US President | nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ... |
Lord Protector | ... e Tower of London. Edward V's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared | while the prince was too young to rule. The 12-year-old Edward was confine ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... lov followed this by smashing a platter of roast suckling pig on the table. | said it was the only time he ever witnessed such an outburst. Voroshilov s ... |
Walter Reuther | ... structure that he needed to win in the South. Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, | and black civil rights leaders (including Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, ... |
William Hulbert | ... g 206 games (and losing only 53) as a pitcher and batting .323 as a hitter. | , principal owner of the Chicago White Stockings, did not like the loose o ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
Duke of Lothier | ... Duchy of Limburg and the Duchy of Brabant, whose rulers retained the title | (derived from "Lotharingia"). With the disappearance of a "lower" Lorraine ... |
Son Sen | ... Chea and Keo Meas, were removed from the Central Committee and replaced by | and Vorn Vet. From then on, Pol Pot and loyal comrades from his Paris stud ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with | as a Keystone Kop |
Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
John Allen Campbell | On December 10, 1869, territorial Gov. | extended the right to vote to women, making Wyoming the first U.S. state t ... |
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) |
Hercules | ... s a war god worshipped in Gaul. In Roman times he was equated with Mars and | . He may be related to Cocidius, a similar god worshipped in Britain. He i ... |
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 ... |
Alekos Sakellarios | ... gures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: Mihalis Kakogiannis, | , Melina Mercouri, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nik ... |
Caleb Powers | ... t while walking to the capitol to be inaugurated. Former Secretary of State | was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel |
John Chrysostom | ... part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of | with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a cr ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
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 ... |
Iuliu Maniu | ... ania, Moldavia and Wallachia merged to become the National Peasants' Party. | (1873–1953) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, ... |
Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
Keo Meas | ... d Tou Samouth as the party's general secretary. Tou's allies, Nuon Chea and | , were removed from the Central Committee and replaced by Son Sen and Vorn ... |
Duchy of Benevento | ... tories between his brother's kingdoms, stretching from the North Sea to the | . The logic of the division was that Lothair had the allegiance of Italy, ... |
Bérenger Saunière | ... had deposited a treasure in Rennes-le-Château that was later discovered by | during the late 19th century. This was later utilised by Pierre Plantard i ... |
Demosthenes | ... own because they are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, | , Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Ar ... |
J. B. Danquah | ... held. The constitution was ratified and Nkrumah was elected president over | , the UP candidate, 1,016,076 to 124,623 |
Tony Blair | Bremner supported Reg Keys in the 2005 election when he stood against | as an anti-war candidate |
Pope Innocent IV | ... a of its enormous dimensions from the fact recorded, that when, in AD 1245, | , accompanied by twelve cardinals, a patriarch, three archbishops, the two ... |
Botvinnik | Vladimir Kramnik also says Euwe anticipated | 's emphasis on technical preparation, and Euwe was usually in good shape p ... |
Thomas Upington | ... Both the Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal had Irish prime ministers: Sir | , "The Afrikaner from Cork"; and Sir Albert Hime, from Kilcoole in County ... |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... species for s, so bluebell woods are likely to date back to at least 1600. | , one of the romantic poets, was very keen on the plant as revealed by the ... |
Francisco Solano López | Meanwhile, in December 1864 the dictator of Paraguay, | took advantage of the situation to establish his country as a regional pow ... |
Aleksandar Stamboliyski | ... onservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, | (1879–1923). BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when ... |
Reg Keys | Bremner supported | in the 2005 election when he stood against Tony Blair as an anti-war candi ... |
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, ... |
Deacon White | ... ngs (now known as the Chicago Cubs) in 1876. Spalding then coaxed teammates | , Ross Barnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players Cap ... |
Elton John | ... John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, | , The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
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. ... |
Lev Kamenev | ... l 1934. Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika (Grigory Zinoviev, | , Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charge (as opposed ... |
Richard W. Thompson | ... on-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy | (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She was the first Navy shi ... |
Simplician | ... er (April 4, 397) Ambrose also died. He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by | . Ambrose's body may still be viewed in the church of S. Ambrogio in Milan ... |
Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein | ... ess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on 1 October 1685. His tutor was | |
Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
Ted Marchibroda | ... fensive lineman Will Wolford serves as color commentator. Former head coach | of both Baltimore and Indianapolis Colts franchises, who served as color c ... |
Pope John Paul I | ... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted | (1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ... |
Bishop Orleton | ... from Kenilworth until the next year. A deputation of leading barons led by | was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when t ... |
Heinrich Himmler | Even with the difficulties of the quota system | formed two new SS regiments, the SS Germania and SS Deutschland, which tog ... |
Willibrord | ... ar / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop | in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets stretc ... |
John Wayne | ... Acapulco, where hotels owned by personalities such as Johnny Weismuller and | are located, is on the northern end of the bay. This is where the boardwal ... |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | ... cended from the Penn family of Penn and so is buried nearby and the current | , who has an official residence at Chequers. Finally John Archdale colonia ... |
George Frederick | ... ned as Albert Frederick became increasingly feeble-minded, leading Margrave | of Brandenburg-Ansbach to become Regent of Prussia in 1577 |
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 ... |
Mozart | ... ce in the area of music theory. Although these include analyses of music by | , Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, ... |
Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock | ... ears, Amis shared a house with his first wife Hilary and her third husband, | . Martin wrote the memoir Experience about the life, charm, and decline of ... |
Grigory Zinoviev | ... post he held until 1934. Frunze's position was compatible with the Troika ( | , Lev Kamenev, Stalin), but Stalin preferred to have a close ally in charg ... |
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 ... |
Ben Erdreich | ... J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by | , , designating the new courthouse building for the U.S. District Court fo ... |
Will Wolford | ... itle from 1984 to 1991 and again since 1995. Former Colts offensive lineman | serves as color commentator. Former head coach Ted Marchibroda of both Bal ... |
Jesus | ... Vatican II. His followers claimed he possessed the stigmata, the wounds of | after crucifixion, on his hands. However, the Catholic Church cast doubts ... |
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 ... |
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah | ... a landslide taking 34 out of 38 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly. | is credited with organizing Nkrumah's entire campaign while he (Nkrumah) w ... |
Simon Sudbury | ... eeting resistance and looted the Jewel House. The Archbishop of Canterbury, | , took refuge in St John's Chapel, hoping the mob would respect the sanctu ... |
Secretary of the Navy | ... pson (DD-305), a Clemson-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of | Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She wa ... |
John Kerry | ... ent of Protestants voted for Bush, along with 52% of Catholics (even though | was Catholic). Since 1980, large majorities of evangelicals have voted Rep ... |
Roger Mortimer | ... 1326, however, Edward was deposed by an alliance of Isabella and her lover, | . Edward was eventually captured by Isabella's forces and the custody of t ... |
Paul | ... of the South. The couple have four children, including Kelly, born 1975 and | , born 1977. Kelly is now a correspondent for ESPN UK; Paul followed in hi ... |
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 ... |
Wilhelm Groener | ... h the OHL (supreme army command), now led by Ludendorff's successor General | . The 'Ebert–Groener pact' stipulated that the government would not attemp ... |
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 ... |
Bob Addy | ... rnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players Cap Anson and | , to sign with Chicago. This was all done under complete secrecy during th ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... ittee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961. In 1925, after the death of | , Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affair ... |
Basil of Caesarea | ... matters of exegesis he is, like Hilary, an Alexandrian. In dogma he follows | and other Greek authors, but nevertheless gives a distinctly Western cast ... |
Charles Laughton | The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was | . He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been ada ... |
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 ... |
Sir John Norreys | ... of Nicholas Wyfold (1420–1456), the Lord Mayor of London and, secondly, of | (1400–1466), Keeper of the Wardrobe. The Duke's main home was at Stoke-by- ... |
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 ... |
John Brown | ... of (as usual) desperate peasant rebels who did not have access to firearms. | planned to arm a rebel slave army in America largely with pikes |
Joseph Lyons | ... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Minister | described the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ... |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... cTell was born on December 3, 1944 in Farnborough, Kent. He was named after | - Frank had worked as the composer's gardener before the war. A second son ... |
Sean Parnell | ... ing Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor | and three other former governors, 11 senators, 9 former senators, and 2 co ... |
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. ... |
Benjamin Britten | ... One notable setting is part of the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by | |
James Madison | ... icenses from the Anglican Church. Both Patrick Henry and the young attorney | defended Baptist preachers prior to the American Revolution in cases consi ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by Jeffrey Archer in which | tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly on July 4 |
Cap Anson | ... White, Ross Barnes and Cal McVey, as well as Philadelphia Athletics players | and Bob Addy, to sign with Chicago. This was all done under complete secre ... |
King Arthur | ... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by | to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ... |
Jackie Chan | ... ny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in the 2002 | film The Tuxedo, in which Chan was required to finish Brown's act after Br ... |
Kay Hagan | ... se Helms. However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to | |
Photius | ... th independent additions, to elucidate the portions of Scripture concerned. | (cod. 206), while blaming the diffuseness of these commentaries, praises t ... |
Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
Jeffrey Archer | ... Declaration document is at risk in Honour Among Thieves (1993), a novel by | in which Saddam Hussein tries to steal the Declaration to burn it publicly ... |
Origen | ... been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of | and , two other early Christian universalists. One quotation cited in favo ... |
Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
1st Duke of York | ... and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisation of the | (one of the Princes in the Tower, who was also 1st Duke of Norfolk) on 25 ... |
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 ... |
Gordon B. Hinckley | ... ion for several years running, an honor which the late LDS Church president | had commented on with pride. BYU's 2010 "#1 stone cold" sober rating marke ... |
Sarah Palin | ... d by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor | , current Governor Sean Parnell and three other former governors, 11 senat ... |
Gaspard Monge | ... umented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by William Cullen, | liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784. Michael F ... |
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 ... |
Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ted to the United States Senate in 2002, to succeed the retiring Republican | . However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to Kay Ha ... |
Mwai Kibaki | ... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president | , was elected President by a large majority |
Karl Liebknecht | ... fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and | after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmation of Ebert, those re ... |
Joe Biden | ... Baptist Temple was attended by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President | , former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor Sean Parnell and three oth ... |
Cal McVey | ... Cubs) in 1876. Spalding then coaxed teammates Deacon White, Ross Barnes and | , as well as Philadelphia Athletics players Cap Anson and Bob Addy, to sig ... |
Uhuru Kenyatta | ... ng in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted | , the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor. A rainbow coalitio ... |
Patrick Henry | ... ing the peace" by preaching without licenses from the Anglican Church. Both | and the young attorney James Madison defended Baptist preachers prior to t ... |
Quashquame | ... bandoned the village and recrossed the Mississippi. On June 30, Black Hawk, | , and other Sauk leaders met with Gaines and signed an agreement in which ... |
Burgess Meredith | Rocky's trainer Mickey ( | ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was r ... |
Elizabeth Dole | Dole has been married to Former Senator | , née Hanford, of North Carolina since 1975. Mrs. Dole ran unsuccessfully ... |
4th Duke | ... t creation of the Dukedom of Norfolk had become extinct on the death of the | in 1476, and the second creation had been invalidated by the illegitimisat ... |
Prince of Orange | ... lst (to control the left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by | Frederick Henry, during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) with Spain. An e ... |
Nikola Pašić | In Serbia | (1845–1926) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903; t ... |
Roger de Mortimer | ... ntury, including a huge event in 1279, presided over by the royal favourite | , in which a hundred knights competed for three days in the tiltyard in an ... |
Rosa Luxemburg | ... iers. Bloody street fights culminated in the beating and shooting deaths of | and Karl Liebknecht after their arrests on 15 January. With the affirmatio ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | ... isional entity created by the Oslo Accords. Arafat became the President and | of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of the PLC. In July, ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
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 ... |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). Eyeing the Catholic Centre Party's 70 (+ 20 BVP) seats, ... |
Rouher | ... sumed the portfolio of the interior. But the growing influence of his rival | provoked his resignation in 1863, when he received the title of duke |
Bob Fosse | ... ole as the vampish Lola, and it was on this show that she first worked with | as her choreographer. In the story, Verdon's Lola is a woman who was once ... |
Winston Churchill | ... der the direction of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Prime Minister | tasked the Royal Navy with helping locate and retrieve the wreckage so tha ... |
John Chrysostom | In this same period, Saint | explained the significance of angels' wings: "They manifest a nature's sub ... |
Michael Grandage | ... , playing Madame de Merteuil in Yukio Mishima's Madame De Sade, directed by | as part of the Donmar season at Wyndham's Theatre. A year later, Dench ren ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... ry, and on 3 June 1162 was consecrated as archbishop by Henry of Blois, the | and the other suffragan bishops of Canterbury |
St Irenaeus | Eusebius implies that other works were in circulation; from | he knows of the apology "Against Marcion," and from Justin's "Apology" of ... |
Stavros Dimas | ... irs and its head, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The current minister is | of the New Democracy party. According to the official website, the main ai ... |
Barbara Ehrenreich | ... on, as has the Boston Women's Health Collective. Other criticism comes from | and colleagues who see this new sexuality as one that privileges the male ... |
Henry of Blois | ... une 1162 at Canterbury, and on 3 June 1162 was consecrated as archbishop by | , the Bishop of Winchester and the other suffragan bishops of Canterbury |
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 ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis' of her husband | . Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public d ... |
Peter Minuit | ... o a number of Dutchmen and Germans in Swedish service, settled in the area. | was to become the first governor of the newly established colony of New Sw ... |
Pope Benedict IV | ... a native of Ardea, was Pope for some thirty days in 903 after the death of | (900–903). He was dethroned by antipope Christopher (903–904), who is some ... |
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 ... |
Theodor Eicke | ... d and the particularly fierce fighting of the Totenkopf", Obergruppenführer | was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross on 20 May 1942 |
Pat Robertson | ... o pay for Republican "infomercials" and televising of the GOP convention on | 's Family Channel, but backed off when Democrats criticized the donation a ... |
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 ... |
William Joyce | ... ho fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades. | became an English-language propagandist for the Third Reich, known colloqu ... |
Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
Niels Bohr | ... ed the strange properties of the photoelectric effect. The Danish physicist | used this same constant in 1913 to explain the stability of Rutherford’s a ... |
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 | |
Werner Herzog | He next starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the | film , and alongside Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in Streets of Blood. Both we ... |
Tom DeLonge | ... fteen. He played in various bands until his sister, Anne, introduced him to | , who she had met while attending Rancho Bernardo High School. Hoppus and ... |
Trent Lott | ... 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader | and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hot ... |
Zack Snyder | ... Levin met with Warner Bros. to develop the film there again. Impressed with | 's work on 300, Warner Bros. approached him to direct an adaptation of Wat ... |
Lanfranc | ... n as archbishop, Walter wielded a power unseen in England since the days of | |
Muhammad | ... m de guerre of Abu Ammar. Both names are related to Ammar ibn Yasir, one of | 's early companions. Although he dropped most of his inherited names, he r ... |
Anwar El Sadat | ... fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. | , President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently becam ... |
John Montgomery Ward | ... and Chicago. The tour included future Hall of Famers Adrian "Cap" Anson and | . While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new r ... |
Pope John X | Pope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded | (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ... |
Juan Negrín | ... ists. At the time, roughly 600 remained. At the end of 1938, Prime Minister | had promised Spanish citizenship to the Brigadists, a promise which he cou ... |
Flower Tucci | Sarah Jane Hamilton, Kat, Jiz Lee, Missy Monroe, Jenna Presley, and | . Fallon is known as the first pornographic actress to ejaculate on film. ... |
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 ... |
Louis de Broglie | ... blished that light carries momentum and can scatter off particles, and when | asserted that matter can be seen as behaving as a wave in much the same wa ... |
Pope Sergius III | ... murdered, presumably strangled by Christopher, who was in turn executed by | (904–911) in 904 |
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 ... |
Arthur Griffith | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of | , Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as ... |
Duke of Richmond | During February 1844, the | initiated the Central Agricultural Protection Society (CAPS, commonly know ... |
Eusebius | After Rufinus, Justin was known mainly from St Irenaeus and | or from spurious works. The Chronicon Paschale assigns his martyrdom to th ... |
Arlen Specter | ... by running a small creamery. Among his father's customers was the father of | who ran a junkyard in the town and used Dole's scales to weigh junk. Spect ... |
Michael Oblowitz | In 2010, Kilmer starred in the horror film from | , The Traveler, where he played the vengeful spirit of a man who had been ... |
John Elway | ... . The disastrous 1982 season earned the team the right to select Stanford's | , but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee ... |
Isaac Hayes | His influences include southern soul artists like | , Clarence Carter, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin plus Motown artists The Su ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader Trent Lott and House Speaker | slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill ... |
Andrew Greeley | Roman Catholic priest and author | criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed. In ... |
King Abdullah | ... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion against | of Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ... |
Stalin | ... erence (late 1943), Poland's geographic location was fundamentally altered. | 's proposal that Poland should be moved very far to the west was readily a ... |
Norbert of Xanten | ... order was a reformed branch of the Augustinian canons, founded, AD 1119, by | , on the Lower Rhine, c. 1080) at Prémontré, a secluded marshy valley in t ... |
Eamonn Duggan | ... atified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, | and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference ... |
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 ... |
Pope Stephen VII | ... ittle over seven months; the exact dates are not known. He was succeeded by | (928 or 929–931). Leo VI was son of the primicerius Christopher and held t ... |
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 ... |
Robert Barton | ... 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, | , Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipotentiary for the p ... |
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 ... |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | The university constitution was adopted in 1827. In the spirit of | the constitution emphasized the autonomy of the university and the unity o ... |
Erich Ludendorff | ... : the 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving | and Adolf Hitler took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Repub ... |
John Fetzer | ... d operated by famous broadcasting pioneer (and former Detroit Tigers owner) | , as "WKZO-TV". Along with television, Fetzer introduced Kalamazoo to radi ... |
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, ... |
Arif Mardin | ... m Luxury to Heartache (UK #10, US #32) dragged on for so long that producer | had to abandon the sessions due to prior commitments and leave it to engin ... |
Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
Peter Wood | Orton, at odds with director | over the plot, produced 133 pages of new material to replace, or add to, t ... |
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 ... |
Tlacaelel | ... the world would end as the other four creations of their legends had. Under | , Aztecs believed that they could give strength to Huitzilopochtli with hu ... |
Feng Yuxiang | ... Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, | and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even ex ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
Mary Baker Eddy | Since 2010, Kilmer has been working on a film about the life of | , the founder of the Christian Science church, and Mark Twain, one of her ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... g's "Metropolis", which offer an example of how technophobia can occur, and | 's "Modern Times", in which people are reduced to nothing but cogs in the ... |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
Harold Prince | ... , through tradition and joyfulness, in a life of uncertainty and imbalance. | replaced the original producer Fred Coe and brought in director/choreograp ... |
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 ... |
Peter Minuit | ... nland. A Dutchman, Samuel Blommaert, assisted the fitting-out and appointed | to lead the expedition. The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fo ... |
Richard Lugar | ... cities to two, Phoenix and Indianapolis. Under the administrations of mayor | and then William Hudnut, Indianapolis was making an ambitious effort to re ... |
Syd Nathan | ... label. Brown began to have recurring conflicts with King Records president | over repertoire and other matters. In one notable instance, Brown recorded ... |
Faisal | ## | (April 1906 – 25 March 1975); reigned 1964–197 |
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 ... |
David Lloyd George | During the Second Dáil the Irish Republic and the British Government of | agreed to hold peace negotiations. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Ai ... |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... revious election. Franz von Papen stepped down and was succeeded by General | as Reichskanzler on 3 December. Schleicher, a political army officer, had ... |
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 ... |
Fred Coe | Harold Prince replaced the original producer | and brought in director/choreographer Jerome Robbins |
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 ... |
William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise | ... ily he heard of the king's capture, and diverted to Germany. He, along with | , was among the first of Richard's subjects to find the king at Ochsenfurt ... |
Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... vative policy along Hindenburg's lines. He appointed as Reichswehr Minister | , and all the members of the new cabinet were of the same political opinio ... |
Chris Blackwell | ... m a key figure in the British folk scene during the mid-1960s. He signed to | 's Island Records in 1967 and released his first album, London Conversatio ... |
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 ... |
Frederick Henry | ... he left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by Prince of Orange | , during the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) with Spain. An earlier siege by ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ng scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new Prime Minister, the | , devised a new sliding scale for the Importation of Corn Act 1828 whereby ... |
Lord Cochrane | ... ower and real naval officers of the period, among them Sir George Cockburn, | , Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The actions of the ... |
Sir Mirza Ismail | ... arlier half of 20th century, the Nandi Hills waterworks was commissioned by | (Diwan of Mysore, 1926–41 CE) to provide a water supply to the city. Curre ... |
Phog Allen | ... tar high school athlete in Russell, and influential Kansas basketball coach | traveled to Russell to recruit him to play for the basketball team. While ... |
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 ... |
James Soong | Supporters of rival candidates Lien Chan and | accused Lee of setting up the split in the KMT that had enabled Chen to wi ... |
Sue Myrick | ... e 1994 political campaign of Republican congresswoman and Amway distributor | (N.C.). According to two reports by Mother Jones magazine, a liberal news ... |
Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
Peter Ustinov | | played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978) ... |
Hal Roach | ... g and it was not until 1926, when both separately signed contracts with the | film studio, that they began appearing in movie shorts together. Laurel an ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... still showed a liking for musical comedy. She worked with such directors as | on Stage Fright (1950), Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Mic ... |
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, ... |
Gregor Strasser | ... onist left wings in the various parties, including that of the Nazis led by | . This did not prove successful either |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ng as it did just after the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and General | , former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Brown Harris officiated. All thr ... |
Thomas, Earl of Surrey | ... ugh maternal) grandson of the 1st Duke of the 1st creation. His eldest son, | carried the sword of state |
Sir George Cockburn | ... allels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, among them | , Lord Cochrane, Sir James Gordon, Sir William Hoste and many others. The ... |
Jerome Robbins | ... placed the original producer Fred Coe and brought in director/choreographer | |
Elmer E. Rasmuson | ... ican nomination for U.S. Senate, but lost in the primary to Anchorage Mayor | . Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat Mike Gravel. In December ... |
General Benjamin Smith | ... ballroom. It was originally named Smith Hall after North Carolina Governor | , who was a special aide to George Washington during the American Revoluti ... |
Avitus | ... troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by | , and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king The ... |
Bob Bartlett | ... avel. In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat | , Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate. Since Gravel ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler to | as only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ... |
Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. | Johnson's grandfather | was raised as a Baptist. Subsequently, in his early adulthood, he became a ... |
Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
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 ... |
Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden | Winterberg was declared a city by | (1238-’61) about 1270. The foundation of the city of Winterberg was presum ... |
Frederick Brown Harris | ... ohn F. Kennedy and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate | officiated. All three have two things in common: the commanding general of ... |
Abdul-Rahman | ## | (born 1931 |
Jerome Robbins | ... tal of 3,242 performances. The production was directed and choreographed by | – his last original Broadway staging. The set, designed in the style of Ma ... |
Peter Cotes | Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as | ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap |
Toshiki Kaifu | ... 8 July 1991, after several months of difficult negotiations, Prime Minister | signed a joint statement with the Dutch prime minister and head of the Eur ... |
Clare Short MP | ... few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the issue. | threatened to resign from the cabinet, but then remained for two months be ... |
King Richard III | For his support of | during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of ... |
Henry Stone | ... e 1960 Top Ten R&B hit "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" on Dade Records, owned by | , under the pseudonym "Nat Kendrick & The Swans" because Nathan refused to ... |
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 ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... serves as an important throughline in the film, as suggested by the title. | sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of Henry V in the tiring room of t ... |
Mike Gravel | ... age Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat | . In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat Bo ... |
Kurt Eisner | ... upheavals of November 1918. Provisional National Council Minister-President | declared Bavaria to be a free state on 7 November 1918. Eisner was assassi ... |
Pope Julius II | ... s the unfinished statues of the slaves Michelangelo created for the tomb of | . Other sights include the medieval city hall, the Palazzo della Signoria ... |
Pope Sixtus IV | ... impotent, which prevented her from fulfilling her desire to have children. | commissioned three bishops to decide the case, who granted the annulment |
Hinrich Lohse | ... gust, after a meeting between Heinrich Himmler, Erich von Bach-Zelewski and | , the brigades received the following order |
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 |
Paul Pate | ... is system. The last mayor of Cedar Rapids under this form of government was | |
Ahmed | ## | (born 1942 |
Dennis Ross | ... mit on Arafat. They were The Missing Peace by longtime US Middle East envoy | and My Life by President Clinton. Clinton wrote that Arafat once complimen ... |
Richard Wagner | ... vements. The introduction of valves made this process unnecessary (although | wrote horn parts as if crooks were still in use, evoking the tradition whi ... |
Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
Lord Goldsmith | Before the invasion, the then UK Attorney General | , advised that the war would be in breach of international law for six rea ... |
Oscar II | ... an). Due to the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905, | had to change his motto |
Duchy of Brabant | ... oped in Leuven (Lúbhan in Irish and Louvain historically in English) in the | , now in Flanders (northern Belgium). The Flight of the Earls, in 1607, le ... |
Mark Begich | ... He won the Republican primary in August and was defeated by Anchorage Mayor | in the general election |
Father Yod | ... come to recognition via labels such as Homestead, Merge, Drunken Fish, and | |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | ... e project was put on hold while the TM organization dealt with the death of | |
Stephen Joseph | ... rborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by | |
MPs | ... he third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal (Importation Act 1846) on 15 May, | voted 327 votes to 229 (a majority of 98) to repeal the Corn Laws. On 25 J ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
Terry Gilliam | ... t into turnaround in 1991, and the project was moved to Warner Bros., where | was attached to direct and Charles McKeown to rewrite it. They used the ch ... |
Mel Brooks | ... ,” but the visuals show a Bollywood-style devi and a Taj Mahal-like castle. | 's 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles leaves its Western setting when the climact ... |
Alexander III | ... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsar | and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ... |
Muhammad | ... (Arabic for "full moon"), after the Battle of Badr, in which Muslims under | defeated the Quraish tribe of Mecca |
Abdullah | ## | (born August 1922); current king, since 200 |
Guelders | ... ptured by Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of | , took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor Char ... |
Theodor Herzl | ... nd Zionism by engaging in discussions with Jews and reading publications by | and other prominent Zionists. At the same time, he became an Arab national ... |
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset | Jane also had two other lovers: the queen's eldest son | , and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. Grey's wife was the wealthy he ... |
Lieutenant Governor of Jersey | ... ght of Jersey". The Queen's representative and adviser in the island is the | . He is a point of contact between Jersey ministers and the United Kingdom ... |
Alexander Izvolsky | ... pen up Mesopotamia and Persia to German trade and technology. The ministers | and Edward Grey agreed to resolve their long-standing conflicts in Asia in ... |
Pope Sergius II | ... 9 and took up his residence in that country and was crowned king at Rome by | on 15 June 844. He at once claimed the rights of an emperor in the city, w ... |
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, ... |
John Ensign | ... en of Nebraska, Dick Chrysler of Michigan, Richard Rombo of California, and | of Nevada. Their informal caucus meets several times a year with Amway big ... |
Howard Baker | After | retired in 1984, Stevens sought the position of Republican (and then-Major ... |
Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
Moses | ... cribe the same God. De ente et uno, has explanations of several passages in | , Plato and Aristotle |
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 ... |
Heinrich Brüning | The finance expert | was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident Paul vo ... |
Plutarch | ... st of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying (according to | ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new memb ... |
William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
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 ... |
Hydatius | ... ssures to retire "from Italy without ever setting foot south of the Po." As | writes |
Jeffrey Katzenberg | ... e him raves... I had a wonderful experience in spite of all the naysayers." | (producer of Prince of Egypt) talks about the actor. "Val was one of the f ... |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Bob Dole | ... ught the position of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against | , Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens w ... |
Saint Timothy | ... ing to Gentiles. At a later period, Paul's epistles place him with Paul and | at Ephesus, whence he was sent by Paul to Corinth, Greece for the purpose ... |
Karl Barth | ... opponents were ostracized and expelled from the university. The theologian | was forced to resign and to emigrate to Switzerland for refusing to swear ... |
Paul of Tarsus | ... temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopagus, the "mount of Ares" where | preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis; from archaic times ... |
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 ... |
Alfonso López Trujillo | Cardinal | was a central figure at the Medellín Conference, and was elected in 1972 a ... |
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 ... |
Prime Minister | ... of the British crown; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the | , from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown ... |
Norman Finkelstein | ... best we're likely to see – on the [one-sided diplomacy] Miller describes." | published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Journal of Palestine Stud ... |
Pete Domenici | ... hen-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and | . As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favorite to succeed Ba ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... Becket acquired a position in the household of Theobald of Bec, by now the | |
Shannon Bell | ... s that direct experimentation fails to provide any evidence. Alzate states: | argues that the debate is confused by the discussion of two separate pheno ... |
Edward Vincent | ... lls Estates is located in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bonnie Lowent ... |
Heather Wilson | ... funding from Amway in 1998 included Representatives Bill Redmond (R-N.M.), | (R-N.M.), and Jon Christensen (R-Neb) |
Ernest Rutherford | ... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. | and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pope Leo IV | ... was decisively rejected; but in 850 he was crowned joint emperor at Rome by | , and soon afterwards, in 851, married Engelberga and undertook the indepe ... |
Henry Fox | ... legitimate son of Charles II of England. In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with | , a politician who was eighteen years her senior. Though her parents disap ... |
Bonnie Lowenthal | ... Edward Vincent, and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Rolling Hills Estates is located in California's 46th congres ... |
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 ... |
Alan Sugar | Secondly, Amstrad founder | wanted the machine to resemble a “real computer, similar to what someone w ... |
John Brown | ... cans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas. He participated in the capture of | at Harpers Ferry. Resigning when his home state of Virginia seceded, he se ... |
Mario | ... minent on the Japanese game music scene. He is best known for the Zelda and | themes |
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 ... |
Kurt von Schleicher | ... Hindenburg on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General | on behalf of the military. The new government was expected to lead a polit ... |
Tokugawa Ieyasu | ... o was the nation's first "equal" treaty with any country; which overshadows | 's pre-Edo period initiatives which sought to establish official relations ... |
Osbert Sitwell | ... of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918. | , in a letter to James Agate, notes that Bennett was not, despite current ... |
Nawwaf | ## | (born 1933 |
Heracles | Paris was later killed by Philoctetes using the enormous bow of | |
Don Young | Due to Stevens's long tenure and that of the state's sole congressman, | , Alaska was considered to have clout in national politics well beyond its ... |
Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
Wilhelm von Gennep | ... ed by Gottfried IV. von Arnsberg during his war with the Cologne archbishop | . For the reconstruction the archbishop granted an at first ten-year-old t ... |
Don McCafferty | ... NFL merger. The 1970 Colts immediately went on a rampage, as new head coach | led the Colts to an 11-2-1 regular season record, winning the AFC East tit ... |
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 ... |
Michelangelo Antonioni | The film Blowup (1966), directed by | , concerns the work and sexual habits of a London fashion photographer pla ... |
Georg Ludwig von Maurer | ... the proposal to naturalize Lola, who was an Irishwoman; and the Protestant | took his place. The new ministry granted the certificate of naturalisation ... |
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 ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
Zhang Xueliang | | , known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of Zhang Zuolin, warlord of ... |
Ken Loach | ... Spanish Revolution. An example of a modern work which promotes this view is | 's film Land and Freedom. A well-known contemporary account of the Spanish ... |
Lord John Russell | ... he Corn Laws. His colleagues resisted this. Soon afterwards the Whig leader | declared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
Muhammad | ... d pubic hair is a hygienic practice which was taught by the Islamic prophet | and which was enumerated as having been part of practices conforming to ma ... |
Muqrin | ## | (born 15 September 1945 |
Adam Smith | ... to the remainder of society in this sense may be deemed to be "antisocial". | wrote that a society "may subsist among different men, as among different ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... Partnership." This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister | to strengthen global economic stability |
Sam Rayburn | ... was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman | . In 1930, Johnson campaigned for Texas State Senator Welly Hopkins in his ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... ed. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon, Soviet leader | had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 border. Brezhnev said that if Is ... |
George Orwell | ... contemporary account of the Spanish Civil War which also takes this view is | 's book Homage to Catalonia |
Sheilagh M. Kesting | ... be chosen since George Buchanan, four centuries before. In May 2007 the Rev | became the first female minister to be Moderator |
James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare | ... t daughters be entrusted to the care of their sister Emily and her husband, | . Lady Caroline resented this slight but hoped to redeem herself by presen ... |
Sammo Hung | Films featuring cycle rickshaws and their drivers include Kickboxer and | 's 1989 martial arts film Pedicab Driver, which dealt with a group of pedi ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... ngs used the same actors in a lot of their films, including Ian Carmichael, | , Terry-Thomas, Dennis Price, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Miles Mall ... |
Deval Patrick | Starting with Governor | 's tax initiative program, Melrose has become a popular place to shoot fil ... |
Katherine Harris | ... te the song with Wes King, the brother-in-law of Florida Secretary of State | . Smith had been asked to perform at some of the memorial services that we ... |
Jon Sobrino | ... ng theology from the perspective of the poor and the oppressed. For example | , S.J., argues that the poor are a privileged channel of God's grace |
Theobald of Bec | ... nd her family may have originated near Caen. Gilbert was perhaps related to | , whose family also was from Thierville. Gilbert began his life as a merch ... |
Ralph Nader | He made a donation to | 's 2008 presidential campaign. On January 30, 2009, Kilmer was chosen to b ... |
Eoin O'Duffy | ... and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance). | led a brigade of 700 Irish volunteers to fight for Franco during the Spani ... |
Howard | The | government in Australia was a strong and largely uncritical supporter of U ... |
Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
Ben Affleck | ... Melrose has become a popular place to shoot films. In the fall of 2009, the | movie The Town captured many key scenes in a historic bank on Main Street ... |
James Stirling | Perth streets were often sandy bogs which caused Governor | in 1837 to report to the Secretary of State for Colonies |
Lord Stanley | ... d decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws. | resigned from the Cabinet in protest. The next day Peel resigned as Prime ... |
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! |
Penthesilea | ... s temporary truce with Priam, fought and killed the Amazonian warrior queen | , but later grieved over her death. At first, he was so distracted by her ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olympia Snowe | Senators | (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amend ... |
Harold Pinter | ... ipt to Karel Reisz's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by | , is a film-within-a-film adaptation of John Fowles's book. In addition to ... |
Zhang Zuolin | Zhang Xueliang, known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of | , warlord of Manchuria in northeast China. For sometime prior to the Kuomi ... |
James III of Scotland | ... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to | . Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ... |
Heracles | ... te that Athena guided Perseus in his quest to behead Medusa. She instructed | to skin the Nemean Lion by using its own claws to cut through its thick hi ... |
Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
Julius Caesar | ... 49 BC. She organized an army on the site but did not need to use it due to | 's arrival in Alexandria. Ashkelon was later placed under the rule of Hero ... |
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 ... |
Mike Sullivan | ... as a member of the Wyoming State Senate. He was later appointed by Governor | to the Wyoming State Board of Equalization. Trowbridge's father, Elton Tro ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... so close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, and | . He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs (Operation Mad Ba ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... ad reached 3,000 "Jews and Partisans". On 1 August, after a meeting between | , Erich von Bach-Zelewski and Hinrich Lohse, the brigades received the fol ... |
John Nance Garner | ... dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President | . He became a surrogate son to Sam Rayburn |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... and the introduction of censorship laws. One victim was the author and poet | , who, freshly appointed university professor in Bonn, was banned from tea ... |
Byron Dorgan | Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and | (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have ins ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
George Orwell | ... gh the song has been removed from more recent performances of that musical. | wrote an essay called A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ... tes) was eventually wiped out by Chinese military and Japanese authority of | |
Vice President | During the 1988 presidential election: then- | George H. W. Bush noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described hi ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
Stephen Joseph | ... rborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, | . It is said that Joseph became both a mentor and father figure for Ayckbo ... |
Kray twins | ... il Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the | (see photo) |
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 ... |
Dennis Kucinich | ... elections, Hagelin and the Natural Law Party endorsed Democratic candidate | |
Leonardo Boff | ... nt's most famous books, A Theology of Liberation. Other noted exponents are | of Brazil, Jon Sobrino of El Salvador, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay |
Jim E. Mora | ... nfante and hiring Bill Polian to run the organization. Polian in turn hired | to coach the team and drafted University of Tennessee Volunteers quarterba ... |
Henry de Sully | ... astic cathedral of Worcester, he disciplined the monks between the death of | and the election of John of Coutances, as was his right as the archbishop ... |
Stevens T. Mason | ... ts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by Governor | after the Indian Chief named "Oronoko". However, apart from this story, th ... |
Bill Kenwright | ... e trouble than it was worth. The assistant stage manager on the production, | , would become one of the UK's most successful producers |
Rudyard Kipling | ... an executive with the Soo Line Railroad because of his great admiration for | . The ZIP code is 49780 |
Charles Nelson Reilly | ... ed on the game show Match Game in the 1970s, both as a stand-in for regular | and also as the "special male guest" occupying seat one. He often sat in f ... |
Swiss Federal Council | ... ton of Bern - November 3, 1958, Bern) was a Swiss politician, member of the | (1951-1958) |
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 ... |
Cordell Hull | Democratic President Roosevelt and especially his Secretary of State | were critical of the Neutrality Acts, fearing that they would restrict the ... |
Deval Patrick | ... HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. Additionally, the District of Columbia, ... |
Gustavo Gutiérrez | ... njustice in that region. The term was coined in 1971 by the Peruvian priest | , who wrote one of the movement's most famous books, A Theology of Liberat ... |
John Wilkins | ... y Basil and Chrysostom. The result of this reading, and of the influence of | , Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was seen in the general tone of hi ... |
José Quintero | ... th eastern European accents. He appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone ( | , 1961), Carry On Cleo, 1964, and Help! (Richard Lester, 1965) and played ... |
Richard DeVos | High-ranking Amway leaders such as | and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a p ... |
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 ... |
Aaron Burr | ... da (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and | , his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read ... |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
Charles Bunbury | ... ion by the young King George III, as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir | soon afterwards, provoked a quarrel between the sisters that was not heale ... |
Francisco Zayas Seijo | ... lis Castillo Rivera de Santiago finished his term. Cordero was succeeded by | . In the 2008 general elections María "Mayita" Meléndez was elected mayor ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... i government. In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with | and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas an ... |
Michele Bachmann | United States Representative | (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for ... |
Andy Warhol | ... atles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, | and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins (see photo) |
Tommy Thompson | ... most notably becoming a leader in welfare reform under Republican Governor | during the 1990s. The state's economy also underwent further transformatio ... |
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 |
Pit Preacher | ... ents will gather, often engaging in lively debate with speakers such as the | . The Morehead–Patterson Bell Tower, located in the heart of campus, tolls ... |
Julius Caesar's | ... ssed that of the Aediles under the Republic, as could have been seen during | Aedileship |
Bob Fosse | ... is also strongly identified with her second husband, director–choreographer | , remembered as the dancer–collaborator–muse for whom he choreographed muc ... |
Malcolm X | ... following the murder of Scott La Rock, with the title and cover alluding to | . KRS-One became involved with the Stop the Violence Movement at this time ... |
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 ... |
James Heflin | ... War. (Note: He imposed racial segregation in federal agencies and offices.) | of Alabama was given the honor of the main address. Heflin was a noted ora ... |
Crystal Eastman | ... s through litigation, lobbying, and community education. Founded in 1920 by | , Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500,000 members and h ... |
Reginar | ... icitur: "duke of the kingdom that many call Lothair's". He was succeeded by | , who led the nobility in electing Charles the Simple of West Francia king ... |
Muhammad al-Badr | Shortly after assuming power in 1962, Ahmad's son, the Crown Prince | was deposed by coup forces, who took control of Sanaa and created the Yeme ... |
John Larroquette | | and Christine Baranski star as Peter and Annie Brennan, soon-to-be empty n ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... il late 1942 they were assigned to the Reich Main Security Office headed by | . The brigades were now used for rear area security and policing, and, mos ... |
Phil Angelides | ... ubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat | , who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn ... |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
D. James Kennedy | ... t in the United States. Moser states that DeVos was a supporter of the late | , giving more than $5 million to Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries. DeVos w ... |
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 ... |
Harald Maddadsson | ... arls of Orkney continued to rule much of Northern Scotland until 1196, when | agreed to pay tribute to William the Lion, King of Scots for his territori ... |
Jack Gold | ... 5) and played leads in All The Way Up (James MacTaggart, 1970), The Chain ( | , 1984), The Dunera Boys (Ben Lewin, 1985) and Foreign Body (Ronald Neame, ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... her at Lincoln's Inn. The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of | ; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry (where he was ... |
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 ( ... |
Juan Luis Segundo | ... oted exponents are Leonardo Boff of Brazil, Jon Sobrino of El Salvador, and | of Uruguay |
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 ... |
Seth Read | ... Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel | and his brother, Colonel Joseph Read owned more than half of the land in t ... |
Bob Chinn | ... . After requesting permission to use the name from his old director friend, | , Holmes reprised the detective role for the 1986 Penguin Production:The R ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
John of Coutances | ... sciplined the monks between the death of Henry de Sully and the election of | , as was his right as the archbishop of the province. In his own diocese, ... |
Peter Shumlin | ... cember 7, 2010. Vermont joined the compact on April 22, 2011, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. On August 8, 2011 California joined whe ... |
Tom DeLonge | ... tended Rancho Bernardo High School, and had become friends with new student | over the summer. DeLonge recalled the meeting in 2000: "When I first met M ... |
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 ... |
Gray Davis | ... d on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor | . Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder ... |
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | The Lennox sisters were daughters of | , a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of Charles II of England. ... |
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 ... |
Claiborne Pell | ... sation against the magician Harry Houdini. A similar event involved Senator | . Pell believed in psychic phenomena. When Randi demonstrated viewing a hi ... |
Bishop Zummáraga | ... Tlatolatl. The statue appeared some years later during an investigation by | in the 1530s, only to be lost again. There is speculation that the statue ... |
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 ... |
Jon Sobrino | ... Theology of Liberation. Other noted exponents are Leonardo Boff of Brazil, | of El Salvador, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ... Robert Bloch, H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, | , Mark Twain and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Terence Rattigan | ... to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to | 's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer |
Chiang Ching-kuo | | died in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... dalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, | , Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, t ... |
Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
Pope Adrian VI | ... enedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope since | |
Jon Gries | ... Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, Tia Carrere, Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, | , Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb and former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry ... |
Jesus Christ | ... tells him about humankind's potential redemption from original sin through | (whom Michael calls "King Messiah") |
Benito Juárez | This day commemorates President | 's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ... |
Tarcisio Bertone | ... eph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and of its then Secretary, Archbishop | , now Cardinal Secretary of State. The declaration was approved by Pope Jo ... |
William the Conqueror | ... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. | ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ... |
George W. Bush | ... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President | |
Lee Huan | ... headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister | , was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui and sought to block his accession ... |
Gilbert | ... d him by granting him the title margrave. Reginar was succeeded by his son, | , who used the title dux Lotharingiae: "duke of Lotharingia". When the Wes ... |
Green Arrow | ... ther comic book titles, such as Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, | , Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and Shade, the Changing Man. He was ... |
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 ... |
Pope Nicholas I | ... gia, and King Charles the Bald. But after Louis had secured the election of | in 858, he became reconciled with his brother, and received some lands sou ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... In 1656 he became tutor to the son of Edmund Prideaux, attorney-general to | . About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by Thomas Sydserf, a Sco ... |
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | He is the father of | , member of the cantonal government of Graubünden (Grisons), who was herse ... |
Kirill I of Moscow | ... ian Orthodox church of Yerevan was conducted on 18 March 2010, by Patriarch | . The church is being built on Admiral Isakov Avenue, and is set to be fin ... |
Henry Edward Fox | ... ons, including the great Whig politician, Charles James Fox and the general | . Their home, Holland House, Kensington, was a social and political gather ... |
count of Guelders | The city of Arnhem had its real origins in 1233 when Otto II, | from Zutphen, conferred city rights on the town, which had belonged to the ... |
Ehud Barak | ... f the Second Intifada led to a sharp swing to the right in Israeli politics | ;was defeated by in 2001 |
Julius Caesar | ... initiated the Julian calendar of that name, 46 BC was allotted 445 days by | . Before then, the Romans added whole intercalary months in an unsystemati ... |
Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
Stephen Joseph | In 1957, Ayckbourn was employed by the director | at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, the predecessor to the modern Stephen ... |
Martin O'Malley | ... of Columbia have joined the compact. The first was Maryland, when Governor | signed the bill into law on April 10, 2007. New Jersey joined on January 1 ... |
Bernard Baruch | ... oosevelt, a "cash and carry" provision that had been devised by his advisor | was added: the President could permit the sale of materials and supplies t ... |
Arthur Wellesley | ... onnected passenger, Lady Barbara Wellesley, the fictional younger sister of | (later to become the Duke of Wellington) become dangerously attracted to e ... |
John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... eral important political figures of the island, including Luis A. Ferré and | , both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well as the childhood town of g ... |
Philip II | ... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces by | due to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ... |
Cassiodorus | ... e silken tent where Attila lay in state, singing in his dirge, according to | and Jordanes: "Who can rate this as death, when none believes it calls for ... |
Hau Pei-tsun | ... Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General | , Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrust ... |
Eumenes | ... lon. He incurred the enmity of Perdiccas, the regent, by refusing to assist | to obtain possession of the provinces allotted to him, Paphlagonia and Cap ... |
Mahmoud al-Zahar | According to Hamas leader | , when Arafat realized that the Summit negotiations would not result in th ... |
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 ... |
Bertolt Brecht | In | 's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play is staged as a parable to villagers ... |
Charles James Fox | ... y happy one. The couple had four sons, including the great Whig politician, | and the general Henry Edward Fox. Their home, Holland House, Kensington, w ... |
Kenneth McClintock | ... r's great-granddaughter Margaret Hoover and Senate of Puerto Rico President | unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Hoover at Puerto Rico's Territorial ... |
Luis A. Ferré | ... birthplace of several important political figures of the island, including | and Rafael Hernández Colón, both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well ... |
St. Stan | ... s which take place during the summer months. Among them are the River Roar, | 's Polish Festival, the Independence Day Fireworks Festival, the Pig Gig R ... |
Delis Castillo Rivera de Santiago | ... of January 17, 2004, after suffering three consecutive strokes. Vice-mayor | finished his term. Cordero was succeeded by Francisco Zayas Seijo. In the ... |
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 ... |
Christine Gregoire | ... da Lingle. On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor | signed HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when G ... |
Swiss Federal Council | ... 7 February 1896 - 31 October 1962) was a Swiss politician and member of the | (1955-1959) |
Ahmad bin Yahya | ... ng an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1948 and was succeeded by his son Ahmad. | 's reign was marked by growing econimic and political reforms, renewed fri ... |
Mike Squires | ... tcher Scott Olsen and Chicago White Sox first baseman and gold glove winner | was born in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo was also the hometown of longtime Detroit ... |
Jennifer Granholm | In May 2005, Dick DeVos ran against incumbent Governor | in Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial election. DeVos was defeated by Granholm, ... |
Louis V, Duke of Bavaria | ... she repudiated with the help of the Tyrolean aristocracy in order to marry | , a member of the powerful Wittelsbach dynasty. This weakened the position ... |
Gustav Stresemann | | was Reichskanzler for 100 days in 1923, and served as foreign minister fro ... |
Edwin Anderson Alderman | ... th Governor of North Carolina, David Lowry Swain (president 1835–1868); and | (1896–1900), who was also president of Tulane University and the Universit ... |
Millard Fillmore | ... he Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army. The mother of President | , Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was born in Northbridge. Ezra Taft Benson, Sr ... |
President of the Confederation | ... aded the Political Department, i.e. ministry of foreign affairs. Graber was | in 1975 and handed over office on 31 January 1978. During his term of offi ... |
Fernando Lamas | ... ught dance to performers who eventually became stars, such as Jane Russell, | , Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe |
Peter Cheeseman | ... t reportedly because was having trouble working with the artistic director, | . By now, his career as a writer was coming to fruition, and his acting ca ... |
John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
Rafael Cordero Santiago | Ponce's mayor for 15 years (since 1989), | , died in office on the morning of January 17, 2004, after suffering three ... |
Eumenes | ... s and Antigonus found himself entrusted with the command of the war against | , who had joined Perdiccas against the coalition of Antipater, Antigonus, ... |
Dom Francisco de Almeida | ... ast Africa officially began after 1505, when flagships under the command of | conquered Kilwa, an island located in what is now southern Tanzania |
Swiss Federal Council | He was elected to the | on June 15, 1961 and handed over office on January 31, 1970. He is affilia ... |
John A. Logan | ... ral John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, New York, and General | , who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor ... |
Patriarch of Constantinople | ... s pupils included Basilios Bessarion and George Scholarius (later to become | and Plethon's enemy). He was made chief magistrate by Theodore II |
James Soong | ... to the KMT chairmanship and sideline him as a figurehead. With the help of | —himself a member of the Palace Faction—who quieted the hardliners with th ... |
Linda Lingle | ... Hawaii joined on May 1, when the legislature overrode a veto from Governor | . On April 28, 2009, the State of Washington joined, when Governor Christi ... |
Jennifer Celotta | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) Dave Finkel .... supervisin ... |
Terence Rattigan | ... loane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright | , who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival. The play was transferre ... |
Joseph Stalin | Meanwhile, | and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan’s inva ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... d to late 20th century, ranging from the anti-communist crusades of Senator | in the 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated ... |
Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
Mike Farrell | ... year to tape a special two-part farewell episode, "Goodbye Radar." Castmate | tried to persuade Burghoff to stay on the show, citing the lacklustre care ... |
Vice President of the United States | ... ted States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th | (1961–1963). He is one of only four people who served in all four elected ... |
Denzel Washington | ... united with director Tony Scott a third time for a supporting role opposite | in the box-office hit Déjà Vu. The song "Val Kilmer" was named after him o ... |
Thomas Sydserf | ... eral to Oliver Cromwell. About 1661 he was ordained without subscription by | , a Scottish bishop. Tillotson was present at the Savoy Conference in 1661 ... |
Patrick J. | ... ary 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011), Ted, Jr. (born September 26, 1961), and | (born July 14, 1967). By the mid-1960s, their marriage was troubled due to ... |
Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
Kirby J. Hensley | The ULC was founded in 1959 under the name "Life Church" by the Reverend | . He operated the church out of his garage. Disappointed with the Pentecos ... |
Sancroft | ... ame time named dean of St Paul's. Soon afterwards he was elected to succeed | ; but accepted the promotion with extreme reluctance, and it was deferred ... |
John Kerry | ... enior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is | . The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is Scott Brown |
St Augustine | The first Archbishop of Canterbury was | (not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 59 ... |
Andy Warhol | Pop artists like | became both noteworthy and influential through work including and possibly ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Solvay | In 1861, the Belgian industrial chemist | developed a method to convert sodium chloride to sodium carbonate using am ... |
Megabyzus | ... ars, however, the Egyptian rebellion was defeated by the Achaemenid general | , who captured the greater part of the Athenian forces. In fact, according ... |
George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
Joseph Stalin | ... a occupant was dismissed or fell out of favor with the rulers of the state. | 's favourite Dacha was in Gagra, Abkhazia. The construction of new dachas ... |
Scott Brown | ... d in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is | |
John Brown | ... on for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about | 's raid on the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Stuart volunteered to be aid ... |
Baron Carrington | ... o lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Cliveden, | who lives in Bledlow, Benjamin Disraeli who lived at Hughenden Manor and w ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rod Dowhower | ... entire season (the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers went 0–14) when they dismissed | and replaced him with former Patriots head coach Ron Meyer. The Colts resp ... |
Isaac | In the Hebrew Bible, he is the son of | and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham and Sarah and of Bethuel, and the you ... |
Erich Ludendorff | ... f the party in July 1921. On 8 November 1923, the Kampfbund, in a pact with | , took over a meeting by Bavarian prime minister Gustav von Kahr at a beer ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
Ruud Lubbers | ... t with the Dutch prime minister and head of the European Community Council, | , and with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors, pledging clo ... |
Lien Chan | ... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments were | as foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister |
Verdi | ... adily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, Berlioz, | , and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter-reactio ... |
Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
Pamela Fryman | .... supervising producer (unknown episodes) | .... executive producer (unknown episodes) David Guarascio .... executiv ... |
Chris Blackwell | Bailey was hired in 1970 by Island Records' | to shoot publicity photos of Cat Stevens for his upcoming album Tea for th ... |
Baba Gurdit Singh | ... consisting of the representatives of other units. The idea was supported by | |
Mullah Omar | ... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to | himself. |
John of Salisbury | ... traditional historiography has given them names. The known biographers are | , Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fi ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... uced at the Chatelet Theatre, Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by | , with design by Pablo Picasso, choreography by Leonid Massine, and music ... |
Jean Case | ... President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, which is chaired by | of the Case Foundation. He is also an avid spokesperson for sponsoring chi ... |
John Fetzer | ... Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo was also the hometown of longtime Detroit Tigers owner | , who owned the American League team from 1961 through 1984, when he sold ... |
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 ... |
Martin Lipton | The poison pill was invented by mergers and acquisitions lawyer | of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1982, as a response to tender-based h ... |
Hans von Seeckt | ... onservative reactionaries who were sympathetic to right wing organizations. | , the head of the Reichswehr, declared that the army was not loyal to the ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was an | (1691–1694) |
Albertus Magnus | ... and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
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 ... |
Jimmy Connors | ... d every summer by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as | , John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Ja ... |
Sarah | ... brew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham and | and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve son ... |
Walter Kasper | ... archaic term "Unction of the Sick" or the term "Extreme Unction". Cardinal | used the latter term in his intervention at the 2005 . However, the Church ... |
Eric Dickerson | ... h a 9–6 record bolstered by the mid-season arrival of Pro Bowl running back | . The next few seasons saw Indianapolis wallow in mediocrity before collap ... |
Prime Minister | ... roposals for a sliding scale and during the next year Huskisson and the new | , the Duke of Wellington, devised a new sliding scale for the Importation ... |
Ben Smith | ... t asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy family friend | as interim Senator for John's unexpired term, which he did in December 196 ... |
John Winthrop | In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor | and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River i ... |
John McEnroe | ... by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, | , Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and ... |
Richard Barre | ... ices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, Ralph Foliot, | , William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Hervey, had mostly ... |
Drew Carey | The show's current on-air staff is led by host | , announcer George Gray and a cast of four models. Bob Barker hosted the s ... |
Nightcrawler | ... aturing several X-Men in solo series, such as Emma Frost, Gambit, Mystique, | , and Rogue. Another book, Exiles, started at the same time and concluded ... |
Swiss Federal Council | ... pf (born February 3, 1925) is a Swiss politician and a former member of the | (1979-1987) |
Jim Harbaugh | The Colts did not return to the playoffs until the 1995 season, with | at quarterback and Marshall Faulk at running back, clinching a wild card b ... |
Pat Buchanan | ... and by the Perot wing of the Reform Party, which disputed the nomination of | . Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was Nat Goldhaber |
Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook | ... piracy to provide money for terrorist acts in Israel." The indicted include | , senior member of Hamas, believed to be currently in Damascus, Syria and ... |
Yang Hucheng | ... rred to Shaanxi again for suppression in 1936, where he worked with General | , who used to be a general of Northwestern China Army and a favorite of Fe ... |
Abraham | In the Hebrew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of | and Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had ... |
Hannibal | | was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian Livy records the ... |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... hat a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community. | reiterated Gandhi's assurance to the Sikhs at the All India Congress Commi ... |
Henry Clay Frick | In 1909, | , a steel magnate, bought the present-day so that his daughter Helen could ... |
Zhang Zuolin | During the warlord period in China, the warlord | established himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later, the J ... |
Lord Liverpool | ... ent of peace during 1814, corn prices decreased, and the Tory government of | passed the 1815 Corn Law. This resulted in serious rioting in London |
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's | ... r 15) and Aniversario de la Independencia (September 16) commemorate Father | Grito de Dolores — on September 16, 1810, in the village of Dolores, near ... |
Brendan Sullivan | ... n October 2, 2008, denied the mistrial petition of Stevens's chief counsel, | , due to allegations of withholding evidence by prosecutors. Thus, the lat ... |
Tlacaelel | ... e was of little importance to the Nahuas, but after the rise of the Aztecs, | reformed their religion and put Huitzilopochtli at the same level as Quetz ... |
Ralph Foliot | ... of royal justices. Although the group, which included Simon of Pattishall, | , Richard Barre, William de Warenne, Richard Herriard, and Osbert Fitz Her ... |
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 |
Ron Meyer | ... hey dismissed Rod Dowhower and replaced him with former Patriots head coach | . The Colts responded by winning the final three games under his watch |
Julius Caesar | In 44 BC | added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the ca ... |
Eliot Spitzer | ... Willis, fell under regulatory investigation under New York Attorney General | and other state attorneys general. At issue was the practice of insurance ... |
George Abbott | ... ay in the 1950s and 1960s. That reputation solidified during her next show, | 's Damn Yankees (1955), based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the P ... |
Guillermo Padrés Elías | ... ora would not have its first PAN governor until 2009, which the election of | |
Chrysostom | ... f to an exact study of biblical and patristic writers, especially Basil and | . The result of this reading, and of the influence of John Wilkins, Master ... |
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 ... |
Pope Adrian II | ... he was released from his oath, and was crowned a second time as emperor by | on May 18, 872 |
Carl Icahn | ... rly 1980s in response to the wave of takeovers by corporate raiders such as | . The term "poison pill" derives its original meaning from a poison pill p ... |
Hannibal | ... t Ba‘l "Lord" as a name-element in Carthaginian names such as Hasdrubal and | almost certainly does not refer to Melqart but either to Ba`al Hammon, chi ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Insull | ... from the lives of other rich men of the time, among them Harold McCormick, | and Howard Hughes, into Kane). Hearst used all his resources and influence ... |
Chaim Herzog | According to | |
Noël Coward | ... , making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from | . This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because h ... |
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 ... |
Rachel | ... Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and | , and by their female slaves Bilhah and Zilpah. The children named in Gene ... |
David Durenberger | ... e first since Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator | (R-MN) pled guilty to a felony more recently, in 1995). Stevens faced a ma ... |
Prince-elector | ... ty's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn (English: Academy of the | of Cologne) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg ... |
Chester A. Arthur | ... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
Saddam Hussein | ... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President, | . The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ... |
Edward Everett Hale | ... any sources state that Edward Everett Horton's grandfather and namesake was | , author of The Man Without a Country. Horton attended the Boys' High Scho ... |
Anna Span | ... tion in the scene "Top Milf") on advice of legal counsel when the director, | , pushed for a hearing with the Video Appeals Committee. The BBFC maintain ... |
John Berkeley | ... n June 24, 1664. The Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to | and George Carteret for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected ... |
John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
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 ... |
Saint Peter | ... il of Raphael and the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by | and Saint Paul, convinced Attila to turn away from the city. According to ... |
Nat Goldhaber | ... nomination of Pat Buchanan. Hagelin's running mate in the 2000 election was | |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... z Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and | . In the years 2010 and 2011, the Times Higher Education ranked the Univer ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President | was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ... |
Raphael | ... and Attila into a pious "fable which has been represented by the pencil of | and the chisel of Algardi", reporting that the Pope, aided by Saint Peter ... |
Zheng Xiaoxu | ... act as the head of state for Manchuria. One of his faithful companions was | , a Qing reformist and loyalist |
Dick Cheney | ... won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice President | is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1 ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Dudley | In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor | were granted land along the Concord River in the wilderness which was call ... |
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 ... |
Heracles | ... hat he tried to build a temple with the skulls and the bones of travellers. | slaughtered this abominable monstrosity, engendering the wrath of Ares, wh ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during | 's funeral |
George Gavan Duffy | ... tment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and | as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference in England. Of the five ... |
Salah Khalaf | ... Israel. McKay, p.58; Schiff and Rothstein claim Fatah was founded in 1959. | and Khalil al-Wazir state Fatah’s first formal meeting was in October 1959 ... |
Harrison A. Williams | ... ator to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history, and the first since Senator | (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) pled guilty to a ... |
Roelf Meyer | In February 1994, Cyril Ramaphosa and | , chief negotiators of the African National Congress and the National Part ... |
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 ... |
Nellie Tayloe Ross | ... l but eight years between 1975 and 2011. Uniquely, Wyoming elected Democrat | as the first woman in U.S. history to serve as state governor. She served ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... as of London, and later Thomas à Becket; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170) was | from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr ... |
Jim Courier | ... ollege. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, | , Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, ... |
Andy Warhol | ... hosted world class and award nominated exhibitions, including the works of | , Grant Wood, and the Iowa Biennial, among others |
William of Orange | ... s Anne, who followed his advice in regard to the settlement of the crown on | . He possessed the special confidence of William and Mary, and was made cl ... |
Maharaja of Patiala | ... and the Simla Hill States. It was imagined as a theocratic state led by the | with the aid of a cabinet consisting of the representatives of other units ... |
Jason Alexander | ... him in an attempt to discover the identity of B-movie actor Merritt Stone. | played Poirot in episode 108 of Muppets Tonight in a spoof called "Murder ... |
George W. Bush | In 2007, President | appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at ... |
Marshall Berman | According to one of | 's books (Berman 1982, 16–17), modernity is periodized into three conventi ... |
Lysimachus | ... r of the city, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, | and Cassander (315 BC) against Antigonus. In 314 BC Antigonus invaded Phoe ... |
Rosie Perez | ... cle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists | ;continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump; and Will Smith che ... |
Zhang Jinghui | ... ). Zheng Xiaoxu served as Manchukuo's first prime minister until 1935, when | succeeded him. Puyi was nothing more than a figurehead and real authority ... |
Lindy Infante | ... e the Colts one year after assuming control from his father by firing Coach | and hiring Bill Polian to run the organization. Polian in turn hired Jim E ... |
vicar | In Anglican churches, a curate may be commonly called a | , a rector or a priest-in-charge (depending upon the way s/he has been lic ... |
Carl Icahn | ... h later led to several shareholder lawsuits and an aborted proxy fight from | . Yahoo's stock price plunged after Microsoft withdrew the bid, and Jerry ... |
Ruhollah Khomeini | ... archy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah | ; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late ... |
Pope Alexander III | ... the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonized by | |
Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels | ... ish: Academy of the Prince-elector of Cologne) which was founded in 1777 by | , the prince-elector of Cologne. In the spirit of the Enlightenment the ne ... |
Jarvis Cocker | ... uence on rock n' roll, photographing several artists including Paul Weller, | , Razorlight, Brian Eno, M.I.A., Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebas ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... ing us by not admitting it." The famous author and believer in spiritualism | had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician Harry Hou ... |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... nate by senior Senator, (Democrat) John Kerry and junior senator Republican | |
Howard Hughes | ... other rich men of the time, among them Harold McCormick, Samuel Insull and | , into Kane). Hearst used all his resources and influence in an unsuccessf ... |
Vyacheslav Molotov | Sovetsk is the birthplace of | |
Khalil al-Wazir | ... .58; Schiff and Rothstein claim Fatah was founded in 1959. Salah Khalaf and | state Fatah’s first formal meeting was in October 1959. See Anat N.Kurz (2 ... |
Plutarch | ... asury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia. However, | indicates that many of Pericles' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as u ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Beer Hall Putsch, also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under | in Munich. In 1920, the German Workers' Party had become the National Soci ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... eir numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to | . Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from ... |
W. Clement Stone | ... he 1960s) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America (founded by | in 1919). In 1987, that company was renamed to Aon, a Gaelic word meaning ... |
Cesar Romero | ... uch as Dallas and Knots Landing, but initially ahead of rival soap Dynasty. | appeared from 1985 to 1987 on Falcon Crest as the romantic interest of Ang ... |
William Sayle | ... Irish, one which involved cutting the throats of all the English. Governor | prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was that a nightly ... |
Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
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 ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
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 ... |
Jim Irsay | | began to shape the Colts one year after assuming control from his father b ... |
Wesley Rose | After hearing Jackson's demo tape, | , president of Acuff-Rose Music, arranged for Jackson to audition for the ... |
Zheng Xiaoxu | ... at Manchurian Empire, sometimes termed Manchutikuo (Pinyin: Mǎnzhōu Dìguó). | served as Manchukuo's first prime minister until 1935, when Zhang Jinghui ... |
Gamal Abdel Nasser | President | of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. In 1971, ... |
Ralph Ward | The Hastings Embroidery was commissioned by Group Captain | and made by the Royal School of Needlework in 1965 to celebrate the 900th ... |
Tecumseh | ... Lakes, his success earned the admiration and loyalty of the Indian leader, | . Brock then led a force of his troops along with colonial militia, fencib ... |
Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
Woody Allen | ... 1988), Dream On (1993) and (1993). Verdon appeared as Alice's mother in the | movie Alice (1990) and as Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl ... |
George Orwell | ... y those in enemy and occupied territories who often had to listen secretly. | broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II |
Nelson Rockefeller | ... ident on a ticket headed by President Gerald Ford. Incumbent Vice President | had withdrawn from consideration the previous fall, and Dole was chosen. D ... |
Abdur Rahman Khan | ... he border, launching the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The war's conclusion left | on the throne, and he agreed to let the British control Afghanistan's fore ... |
César De Paepe | ... te Humaniste - Cercle de Lorraine - Cercle Gaulois - Cercle Royal du Parc - | - Chamber of rhetoric - Chant des Wallons - Charter of Kortenberg - Charte ... |
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 ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of | , was an auto-racing enthusiast and created the Vanderbilt Cup, the first ... |
Pope Leo XIII | In 1882 | had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 Ap ... |
Saxe-Coburg | ... republics before merging to form the state of Thuringia in 1920, except for | , which became part of Bavaria |
Cooter Davenport | (Live action co-stars Waylon Jennings (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones ( | ), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy Enos Strate), and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) ... |
Nayef Hawatmeh | ... y formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and | 's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Pales ... |
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 ... |
Cathal Brugha | ... officers and informers, but the list was reduced to 35 on the insistence of | , the Irish Minister for Defence, on the grounds that there was insufficie ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, | , and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter began the keeping of the Char ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gluck | She sang the title role of | 's opera Orphée et Eurydice at Théâtre Lyrique in Paris in November 1859, ... |
Hugh Peters | Wenham was originally a part of Salem. | , the minister in Salem, preached to a group on a hill by the Great Pond a ... |
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 ... |
Enos Strate | ... (narrator/"balladeer"), Ben Jones (Cooter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy | ), and Rick Hurst (Deputy Cletus Hogg) did not appear in this cartoon vers ... |
Washington Secretary of State | ... Sam Reed received 74.6% of the county's vote in his run for re-election as | ; Republican Allan Martin received 67.25% of the vote for state treasurer; ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... nt—who had only taken the position three months before at the retirement of | —and met with Israeli commanders. The Israelis planned a cautious countera ... |
George Wallace | ... iot Act. The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such ... |
Walter Mondale | ... , and Dole was chosen. Dole stated during the Vice Presidential debate with | , "I figured it up the other day: If we added up the killed and wounded in ... |
Philip Schaff | ... sser quality on some minor points. An American (in fact a German American), | , was commissioned to supervise the first series of the NPNF. He was joine ... |
John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
Menachem Begin | ... ith David Raziel, who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until | . Jabotinsky simultaneously instructed the Irgun to end its policy of rest ... |
Orson Welles | ... ar cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, | as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and ... |
Thomas Prince | ... 759, out of land that was once part of Rutland. It was named after the Rev. | . In 1810, it annexed a piece of Hubbardston, and in 1870, it annexed a pi ... |
Robert de Beaumont | ... Gray the Bishop of Norwich, Eustace the Bishop of Ely, William Marshal, and | the Earl of Leicester to seek peace with Philip Augustus. Philip insisted ... |
Abdur Rahman | ... n agreement of 1873 in favour of the Afghan claim. Under the strong rule of | these outlying territories were closely welded to Kabul; but after the acc ... |
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 ... |
Dowager Empress Maria | ... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the | in the 1986 miniseries |
Ermolao Barbaro | ... mmentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to | in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and Ar ... |
Junius Rusticus | ... d Eusebius (HE IV 16.7-8). Justin was tried together with six companions by | who was urban prefect from 163-167, and was beheaded, probably in 165. The ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
Stephen Joseph | After the death of | in 1967, the position of Director of Productions was appointed on an annua ... |
Mozart | She was the mezzo-soprano in the Tuba mirum movement of | 's Requiem at Chopin's funeral at Église de la Madeleine in Paris on 30 Oc ... |
Paul Robeson | ... ts leadership ranks, when it defended Neo-Nazis, when it declined to defend | , or when it opposed the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. Conv ... |
Plutarch | ... ed near Athens, once Aegina was under Athenian's power. The Greek historian | (46 AD–120 AD) also refers to an instance during the Parthenon's construct ... |
Seleucus | ... seized the treasures at Susa and entered Babylon. The governor of the city, | fled to Ptolemy and entered into a league with him, Lysimachus and Cassand ... |
Jim McMahon | ... & '96, Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer '90, and two-time Super Bowl winner | . In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Mille ... |
Fateh Singh | ... sought to create a Punjabi Suba ("Punjabi Province"). The Sikh leaders such | tactically stressed the linguistic basis of the demand, while downplaying ... |
Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
Steve Barron | ... d by an expensive music video (a rarity at the time) directed by film maker | , the single went immediately to #1 and stayed there over Christmas 1981. ... |
William Kissam Vanderbilt II | | , the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, was an auto-racing enthusias ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Taylor Johnston | ... he Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for example, was created by | , a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum.) B ... |
Medea | Achilles fought and killed the Amazon Helene. Some also said he married | , and that after both their deaths they were united in the Elysian Fields ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
Geoffrey Fitz Peter | ... his relations with other officers, Walter worked closely with the justiciar | , on the collection of taxation, and both men went to Wales in 1203 on a d ... |
John Kerry | ... Barney Frank. The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is | . The other Senator is Scott Brown, elected in 2010. Westport is patrolled ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded by his son | . When the younger Chiang came to power he began to liberalize the system. ... |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
Diane Keaton | ... Alice (1990) and as Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl Streep, | , and Hume Cronyn. In 1999, Verdon served as artistic consultant on a plot ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Methodius of Olympus | ... beheaded with six other Christians in Rome for his beliefs. Hippolytus and | also mention or quote him. Eusebius of Caesarea deals with him at some len ... |
Barney Frank | ... part of Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, which is represented by | . The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is John Kerry ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... the book was based upon the poem "A Tree Song" from Puck of Pook's Hill by | , which she had enjoyed as a child. The chant in question stated that |
Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
General Weber | Following the signing of the armistice, Austrian | informed his Italian counterparts that the Imperial army had already laid ... |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
Malcolm MacDonald | ... in Palestine. On 23 February 1939 the Secretary of State for the Colonies, | revealed the British intention to cancel the mandate and establish a state ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
Daniel arap Moi | Kenyatta was succeeded by | , who ruled until 2002. Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-par ... |
Peter Garrett | ... formed six tracks including the Oils' song "When the Generals Talk", whilst | gave a speech introducing a reformed Crowded House |
Moses | ... rgin birth, the miracles of Jesus Christ, and the parting of the Red Sea by | , are not believable. For example, Randi refers to the Virgin Mary as bein ... |
Benjamin Disraeli | In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister | proposed "to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Casp ... |
Lee Teng-hui | ... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected | , a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ... |
Chris Rock | ... the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which White had a duet with | , called "Basketball Jones," a remake of Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jone ... |
Andrey Kolmogorov | ... in space so that a statistical description is needed. Russian mathematician | proposed the first statistical theory of turbulence, based on the aforemen ... |
Paul von Hindenburg | ... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question. | became Reichspräsident in 1925 |
William Kissam Vanderbilt | ... t roadway designed for automobile use only. The road was privately built by | with overpasses and bridges to remove intersections. It opened in 1908 as ... |
Abbot Desiderius | ... f Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south. | sent envoys to Constantinople some time after 1066 to hire expert Byzantin ... |
Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... s, such as Aleister Crowley, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, and even | , went on to become the traditional text for Gardnerian Wicca |
Rowan Williams | The current archbishop is the Most Reverend | . He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Aug ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted | a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. In 1584, Raleigh sen ... |
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 ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... , the epic has also inspired other visual works by well-known painters like | who executed a set of ten colour engravings in 1974. Milton's achievement ... |
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 |
Eusebius of Caesarea | ... his beliefs. Hippolytus and Methodius of Olympus also mention or quote him. | deals with him at some length, and names the following works |
Guelders | ... and also included much of modern-day Drenthe. In 1336, it was made part of | , though it was ceded to the Bishopric of Utrecht in 1347 and was known as ... |
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 ... |
Robert Moses | ... as well as with horse manure and garbage was cleared by Parks Commissioner | , in preparation for the 1939-1940 World's Fair. The original name for the ... |
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 ... |
Clint Eastwood | ... was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite | in the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. In 1976, he starred as the pro ... |
Irenaeus | ... otes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him. | speaks of his martyrdom and of Tatian as his disciple. Irenaeus quotes Jus ... |
Mikhail Skobelev | ... saw Afghanistan as a buffer state. The Russians, led by Konstantin Kaufman, | , and Mikhail Chernyayev, continued to advance steadily southward through ... |
primacy over the Archbishop of York | Along with | , the Archbishop of Canterbury also has a precedence of honour over the ot ... |
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 |
John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
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 ... |
Abe Fortas | ... held Johnson. Stevenson went to court, but—with timely help from his friend | —Johnson prevailed. Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Wa ... |
Thomas Aquinas | ... and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of | |
Cletus Hogg | ... oter Davenport), Sonny Shroyer (Deputy Enos Strate), and Rick Hurst (Deputy | ) did not appear in this cartoon version) |
Massachusetts Senate | ... erkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Field Marshal Montgomery | ... beret suppliers to the armed forces during World War II, including famously | |
DeWitt Clinton | ... sus, the population was 75,382. It is named after early American politician | . The county seat is St. Johns |
Yahya Hammuda | ... inians." In December 1967 Ahmad Shukeiri resigned his post as PLO Chairman. | took his place and invited Arafat to join the organization. Fatah was allo ... |
F. W. Murnau | ... udios in Potsdam near Berlin. Hitchcock also observed part of the making of | 's film Der letzte Mann (1924). He was very impressed with Murnau's work a ... |
Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
William F. Knowland | ... wever, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator | of California, and by the Republican National Committee, (Alaska itself ha ... |
Ernest McFarland | ... 51, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, | of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953 |
Krešimir Ćosić | ... r and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins '51, and three-time Olympic medalist | '73. BYU also claims notable professional football players including two-t ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
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 ... |
Pat Robertson | ... . Bush in the Iowa caucus—Bush finished third, behind television evangelist | . However, Bush recovered in time to defeat Dole in the New Hampshire prim ... |
Mikhail Chernyayev | ... uffer state. The Russians, led by Konstantin Kaufman, Mikhail Skobelev, and | , continued to advance steadily southward through Central Asia towards Afg ... |
Ahmad Shukeiri | ... declared by Nasser to be the "leader of the Palestinians." In December 1967 | resigned his post as PLO Chairman. Yahya Hammuda took his place and invite ... |
Scott Brown | ... urrently represented in the United States Senate by Senators John Kerry and | |
Ben Nelson | ... rict Method in Nebraska, but those bills were vetoed by Democratic Governor | |
Chief Powhatan | ... rin, to the north and south. After 1570, the Algonquians consolidated under | in response to threats from these other groups on their trade network. Pow ... |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
Philip Saville | ... in masks, as in ancient Greek theatre. The second film version, directed by | , was filmed in Greece. This one showed the actors' faces and boasted an a ... |
Crystal Eastman | ... ACLU was the National Civil Liberties Bureau (CLB). The CLB was founded by | and Roger Baldwin in 1917. Supporters of the CLB generally fell into one o ... |
Phil Gramm | ... omination against underdog candidates such as the more conservative Senator | of Texas and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However ... |
Christoph Clark | ... e later Italian Parliament member Ilona 'Cicciolina' Staller, Tracey Adams, | , and Amber Lynn. His final film was The Devil In Mr. Holmes, starring Tra ... |
Sam Reed | ... ve Cathy McMorris Rodgers 82.45% of their vote. In other results Republican | received 74.6% of the county's vote in his run for re-election as Washingt ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and | , Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic conventi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
principality of Benevento | ... al of a state comprising a compact and strategic region between the Lombard | and the Byzantine city-states of the coast (Naples, Gaeta, and Amalfi) |
Blanton Winship | ... ard of the typical U.S. state and which answered to U.S.-appointed governor | , opened fire upon unarmed and defenseless cadets and bystanders |
Chen Li-an | ... torate so that electorates would vote for other pro-unification candidates, | and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President Clinton t ... |
King Philip | ... son was ransomed upon Redemption Rock, now within the town of Princeton, by | |
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 |
Bishop of Monmouth | ... owan Cantuar. Immediately prior to his appointment to Canterbury he was the | in Wales. Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the ... |
James Whale | Rich, shadowy photography echoed | 's expressionistic Frankenstein films, emphasizing the family's ghoulishne ... |
Arlen Specter | ... the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and more moderate Senator | of Pennsylvania. However populist Pat Buchanan upset Dole in the early New ... |
Adolfo de la Huerta | ... 920 to the early 1930s, four Sonorans came to occupy the Mexican presidency | , Obregón, Calles and Rodríguez |
Dan Lungren | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | . Locally Rancho Calaveras is represented by Calaveras County Supervisor D ... |
U. R. Ananthamurthy | ... arnataka announced that it had accepted a proposal by Jnanpith Award winner | to rename Bangalore to Bengaluru. On 27 September 2006, the Bruhat Bengalu ... |
Louis XIII of France | Under | the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ... |
Tip O'Neill | ... only ballot at the Democratic convention, which nominated John F. Kennedy. | , then a representative from Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, recall ... |
Archbishop of Wales | ... h in Wales. Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the | . On 18 March 2012, Rowan Williams announced he would be stepping down as ... |
John Knox | ... nd broke with Rome, in a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by | . It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of J ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Paul Newman | Lemmon's production company JML produced Cool Hand Luke in 1967. | was grateful to Lemmon for his support and offered him the role of the Sun ... |
Lin Yang-kang | ... electorates would vote for other pro-unification candidates, Chen Li-an and | . The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiw ... |
Heliodorus of Emesa | The Hellenistic novelist | in his Aethiopica refers to the dancing of Tyrian sailors in honor of the ... |
Bob Fosse | ... husbands, tabloid reporter James Henaghan (married 1942, divorced 1947) and | (married 1960, his death 1987). She and Henaghan had one son, Jim Henaghan ... |
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | ... victory at the Battle of Watling Street in 61 AD between the Roman governor | and the Briton leader Boudica |
Moshe Dayan | ... been buried. In July 1950, the shrine was destroyed at the instructions of | |
Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Pat Buchanan | ... s and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However populist | upset Dole in the early New Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... llowing year, he was named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President | . The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday kn ... |
Rob McKenna | ... llan Martin received 67.25% of the vote for state treasurer; and Republican | received 76.28% in his re-election run for Attorney general. All county po ... |
Charley Chase | ... omics Billy West, a Charlie Chaplin imitator, Jimmy Aubrey, Larry Semon and | . In total, Hardy starred or co-starred in more than 250 silent shorts, ab ... |
George Habash | ... was indispensable. Many primarily Palestinian political parties, including | 's Arab Nationalist Movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini's Arab Higher Committe ... |
see of St David's | ... ster. Walter refused to acquiesce in the election of Gerald of Wales to the | in Wales and opposed the efforts of Gerald and others to elevate St David' ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
Bill Brock | ... a senator, he did not hire a full time campaign manager, former TN Senator | , until the fall of 1987, well after Bush's team had been in place. Despit ... |
Luther | ... ts in their controversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of | ans and Calvinists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphas ... |
Lords Spiritual | ... rham and Winchester), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the | of the House of Lords. He is one of the highest-ranking men in England and ... |
Seán Lemass | ... e IRA man, Frank Teeling, was wounded and captured. Future Irish Taoiseach, | was involved in the killing of a Captain Bagely, also on Mount Street, whi ... |
Steve Kagen | ... 6%. Republicans had a stronghold in the Fox Valley, but elected a Democrat, | , of Appleton, for the 8th Congressional District in 2006. However, Kagen ... |
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 ... |
William Marshal | ... Life of William Marshal, which dates to soon after 1219, when word reached | , one of the richest and most influential barons, that Richard was dead, h ... |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | Former U.S. Secretary of State and former | General Colin Powell was the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2 ... |
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 |
Dino Rossi | ... ived 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for governor | received 69.83% of the county's vote. They also gave Republican representa ... |
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 ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... ontests held after IA, NH, MN, and SD. Despite a key endorsement by Senator | , one of many Republican senators who supported their leader, Dole was def ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... avalry. It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist | in his novel Kim (1901) |
Hal Roach | ... rob him. Several years later, both comedians had separately signed for the | film studio and next appeared in 45 Minutes From Hollywood (1926) |
Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
Stuart Symington | ... failure of the "Stop Kennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, | , and Hubert Humphrey, Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at th ... |
Norman Granz | ... y's place in the jazz pantheon, however, are the 17 albums she recorded for | 's Norgran and Verve labels between 1952 and 1962 |
Harry Solter | She was married three times. First to | (1908–1913), then to Charles Woodring (May 12, 1921–1931), and lastly to H ... |
Calvin | ... ntroversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and | ists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural r ... |
Carloman, son of Charles Martel | ... ed its re-establishment in 718 by Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were | ; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf; and Pau ... |
Husayn ibn Ali | According to Shiite tradition, the head of | , grandson of Mohammad, was buried in Ashkelon. In the late 11th century i ... |
Pedro Albizu Campos | ... the abolition of slavery and protest the incarceration of their leader, Dr. | , in a federal prison on charges of sedition |
Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Jim Doyle | ... t Congressman, Mark Green, of Green Bay, ran against the incumbent Governor | . Green lost by 8% statewide, making Doyle the first Democratic Governor t ... |
Colin Powell | ... Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General | was the speaker for Damascus High School's Class of 2000 commencement cere ... |
Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
Gregory the Great's | According to | biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was ... |
Heracles | ... of the royal line. In Greek, by interpretatio graeca he was identified with | and referred to as the Tyrian Herakles |
Salah Jadid | ... d guilty of the murder. Nonetheless, both were pardoned by Syrian President | . The incident, however, brought Assad and Arafat to unpleasant terms, whi ... |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
Russ Feingold | ... islature. Republican Ron Johnson defeated Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator | , and Republicans took two previously Democratic-held House seats, creatin ... |
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 ... |
John Kerry | ... y William Keating. The state's senior member of the United States Senate is | , who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy ... |
Ernest Angley | ... mprehensive exposé of faith healers, including Peter Popoff, W.V. Grant and | . When Popoff was exposed, he was forced to declare bankruptcy within the ... |
Mozart | ... (where her father, mother, brother and sister gave the first performance of | 's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, L ... |
Roseanne Barr | The Roseanne Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by American actress | following the end of her long-running sitcom. The show featured Roseanne i ... |
Wade Hampton | ... reach Ewell's flank by taking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. | , Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacin ... |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
Duchy of Parma | ... t: Maria Theresa lost the mineral-rich Duchy of Silesia to Prussia, and the | to Spain |
Ted Kennedy | ... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator | on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ... |
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 ... |
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange | ... ant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to | from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1 ... |
Innocent III | ... supporting the monks and the king supporting the archbishop. Finally, Pope | ruled for the monks and ordered Walter to destroy what had been built |
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 ... |
W. Marvin Watson | ... to Johnson as a courtesy and did not expect him to accept. Others (such as | ) say that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election aga ... |
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 ... |
Scott Brown | ... the death of Senator Ted Kennedy on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is | , who won the special election in 2010 following Ted Kennedy's death |
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 ... |
John Kerry | ... ate. Al Gore carried the presidential vote in 2000 by only 5,700 votes, and | won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, Barack Obama carr ... |
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 ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
Louis Lucien Bonaparte | ... ed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince | in London. He started his academic work on Basque in 1852 |
Hincmar, archbishop of Reims | ... eigns (see the twelve legendary Paladins). A Frankish capitulary of 882 and | , writing about the same time, testify to the extent to which the judicial ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... s northern Berkshire County, as well as portions of Franklin County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
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 ... |
Todd Andrews | ... t, only about a third had been killed. IRA man and future Irish politician, | recalled later, "the fact is that the majority of the IRA raids were abort ... |
Henry Ford | ... U has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, George Wallace, | , and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as Dick Greg ... |
Chen Shui-bian | ... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidate | won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ... |
John Calvin | ... nox. It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of | which Knox had been exposed to while living in Geneva, Switzerland. In 156 ... |
Robert J. Dolan | | (D) is the mayor. Melrose is represented in the Massachusetts House of Rep ... |
Oscar Peterson | ... erforming in festivals and concerts with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, | , Dinah Washington, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She ... |
Ariel Sharon | ... ed Operation Gazelle, was launched on October 15. IDF forces spearheaded by | 's division broke through the Tasa corridor and crossed the Suez Canal to ... |
Archbishop of York | ... ereign is the Supreme governor of the church). Along with his colleague the | he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's import ... |
Henry M. Morris | ... it would be conjurable by incantations. Literal Christian interpreters like | say that the stranger was "God Himself and, therefore, Christ in His prein ... |
padshah | ... sides of the Durand Line. In 1923, Amanullah responded by taking the title | – "king" – and by offering refuge for Muslims who fled the Soviet Union, a ... |
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) ... |
Prince Eugene of Savoy | ... strian defeat. The territorial advances made in the last Turkish War, under | , in Bosnia, Serbia and Oltenia (Lesser Wallachia), were obliterated. Popu ... |
Peter Popoff | ... money was used for Randi's comprehensive exposé of faith healers, including | , W.V. Grant and Ernest Angley. When Popoff was exposed, he was forced to ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second and former Tennessee governor | finishing third. Publisher Steve Forbes also ran and broadcast a stream of ... |
Tony Dungy | The firing led to the hiring of head coach | , the former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had led his forme ... |
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 |
William Mackinnon | ... n of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir | 's British East Africa Company (BEAC) in 1888, after the company had recei ... |
Steve Forbes | ... nd and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander finishing third. Publisher | also ran and broadcast a stream of negative ads. At least eight candidates ... |
Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
Hafez al-Assad | ... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to | (Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ... |
Leo Durocher | ... rnations is described as a small town outside of Los Angeles, California. ( | , who was then coaching with the Los Angeles Dodgers, guest-starred as him ... |
Heracles | Its mythical foundation was attributed to | (on behalf of his fallen friend Abderus), its historical one to a colony f ... |
King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
James Soong | ... i-bian won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent | (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate Lien Chan. Chen garn ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... ward nomination, for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 | film Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991's The Fi ... |
Arthurian legend | ... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion, | , and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ... |
Lopez Arellano | ... anti-Salvadoran. This group put pressure on the Honduran president, General | , to protect the property rights of wealthy landowners |
John Wayne | ... me newsreels. The first real movie I saw, that I distinctly remember, was a | movie. |
Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
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Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
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 ... |
William Shirley | ... al town and government, but the British colonial Governor of Massachusetts, | , denied their request since he wanted to keep the number of towns to a mi ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
Maximilian Kolbe | ... yr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14, alongside | |
Anote Tong | ... jing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President | to change his mind. With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, ... |
Irineu Evangelista de Sousa | ... authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave the Viscount of Mauá ( | ) the task of putting it into effect. He organized the "Companhia de Naveg ... |
Russ Feingold | ... ames Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators Herb Kohl and | , and Congressman David Obey |
Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
Aidan Kelly | ... gical was later found amongst his papers from the Museum after his death by | and was later obtained by Richard and Tamarra James of the Wiccan Church o ... |
Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
Philip Hart | ... Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and | ). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in his right hand ... |
William Longchamp | ... e Lucy to the see of Winchester, Richard FitzNeal to the see of London, and | to the see of Ely. The elevation of so many new bishops was probably meant ... |
Bishop of London | ... ia, or court, consisting of some of the senior bishops of his province. The | —the most senior cleric of the church with the exception of the two archbi ... |
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 ... |
Richard Leakey | ... Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by | . The oldest Acheulean tools ever discovered anywhere in the world are fro ... |
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 ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... cique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador | when he came to the island in 1508. Archeological findings have identified ... |
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 ... |
United States Secretary of State | ... t to the US at 16:33 GMT (6:33 pm local time). A message arrived later from | saying, "Don't preempt." At the same time, Kissinger also urged the Soviet ... |
Zhang Xueliang | ... the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal | , a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japanese-occupied Manchukuo |
Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri | ... gainst four southern leaders--Ali Salim al-Baidh, Haydar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, | , and Salih Munassar Al-Siyali -- for misappropriation of official funds. ... |
Laurence Olivier | ... and based on a novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred | and Joan Fontaine. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve you ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
Arthur Grimble | ... part of the colony in 1919 and the Phoenix Islands were added in 1937. Sir | was a cadet administrative officer based at Tarawa (1913-1919) and became ... |
William Herschel | ... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir | (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ... |
Herb Kohl | ... ngressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators | and Russ Feingold, and Congressman David Obey |
Bernardo O'Higgins | ... overnments there. In the 1820s, some of them helped liberate the continent. | was the first Supreme director of Chile. When Chilean troops occupied Lima ... |
Richard FitzNeal | ... o bishoprics at this council were Godfrey de Lucy to the see of Winchester, | to the see of London, and William Longchamp to the see of Ely. The elevati ... |
Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
Julius Caesar | ... village in Armorica, a province of Gaul (modern France), in the year 50 BC. | has conquered nearly all of Gaul for the Roman Empire. The little Armorica ... |
Harold Pinter | ... nto the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life". | read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Acco ... |
Jagjit Singh Chauhan | In 1971, Khalistan proponent | , traveled to the United States. He placed an advertisement in The New Yor ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... tary caste. This impressive and often emotional spectacle — orchestrated by | — aimed to link Hitler's government with Germany's imperial past and port ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... ust before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo | , the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Mars ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, | ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972 |
Nikolay Rumyantsev | ... an expedition, fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count | , in the brig Rurik. In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... ters of Rabbani, who led the Jamiat, and the extremist elements surrounding | , who then founded the Hezb-i Islami. Massoud, who had regular and vehemen ... |
Juan Ponce de León | ... for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador | . Ponce is often referred to as La Perla del Sur (The Pearl of the South), ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... ttist for the new musical genre known as opera, collaborating with composer | . After Alceste (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it fo ... |
John Hanson | ... The complex at Chapel Point has scenic views overlooking the Potomac River. | , President of the U.S. Continental Congress, was born nearby |
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 ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
Tommy Thompson | ... gure in the early 1950s. Recent leading Republicans include former Governor | and Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include S ... |
Lloyd Bridges | ... mily and began his first televised acting in 1958 as child with his father, | , and brother Beau on television's Sea Hunt. Some of his best-known major ... |
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | ... n May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the | , Leonid Brezhnev; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972 |
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 ... |
Samuel Goldwyn | ... ilms himself. In addition, Selznick, as well as fellow independent producer | , made only a few films each year, so he did not always have projects for ... |
Michael Collins | On 14 September 1921 the Dáil ratified the appointment of Arthur Griffith, | , Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy as envoys plenipoten ... |
Kenneth Keating | ... nship. After Meir made her decision, at 10:15 am she met with US ambassador | in order to inform the United States that Israel did not intend to preempt ... |
Douglas McKay | ... n the Department of the Interior, was promoted by Secretary of the Interior | to the Secretary's office. Bennett successfully lobbied McKay to replace h ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Walter Crane | ... ing, as well as Vess's clear echoing of visual tropes of Arthur Rackham and | , including one image that is strikingly similar to one of Rackham's illus ... |
Sean Fallon | ... rovisional contract with Celtic in May 1967. Celtic manager Jock Stein sent | to see Dalglish and his parents at their home; on hearing that Fallon was ... |
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 |
David O. Selznick | At the end of the 1930s, | signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when th ... |
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 ... |
George Carteret | ... he Duke of York sold the area that is today New Jersey to John Berkeley and | for a proprietary colony, separate from the projected New York. The actual ... |
Saint Patrick | ... Hacienda San Patricio", which they named after the patron saint of Ireland, | . A relative of O'Daly, Demetrio O'Daly, succeeded Captain Ramon Power y G ... |
Norman Thomas | ... rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays and | , believed that direct, militant action was the best path. Hays was the fi ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
Drew Carey | ... from wearing fake eyeglasses designed to look similar to those worn by host | , though this restriction was later relaxed. Instead, contestants will oft ... |
Peter Stuyvesant | ... tage and an armed squadron of ships under the direction of Director-General | seized New Sweden. The Dutch moved an army to the Delaware River in the su ... |
Pope Gregory I | ... St Augustine of Hippo), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by | on a mission to the English. He was accepted by King Æthelbert, on his con ... |
Herb Kohl | In the United State Senate Wisconsin is represented by Ron Johnson and | . Wisconsin is divided into eight congressional districts |
Gene Raymond | ... some heifers onto the set with name tags of Lombard, Robert Montgomery, and | , the stars of the film, to surprise the director. Hitchcock said he was m ... |
Karl von Abel | ... n building and works of art. In 1837 the Ultramontanes came into power with | (1788–1859) as prime minister. The Jesuits now gained the upper hand; one ... |
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 ... |
Thomas Becket | ... centered around the attempt by Baldwin to build a church dedicated to Saint | , just outside of the town of Canterbury. The plan was to staff the church ... |
Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
Minos | ... r his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and | ) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for ... |
Henry the Fowler | ... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns of | and especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ... |
Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... ch of the Jamiat-i Islami ("Islamic Society"), whose chairman was professor | . This Islamist organization opposed the rising communist and Soviet influ ... |
James Forrestal | ... ssioned officer in the Naval Reserve, then asked Undersecretary of the Navy | for a combat assignment. Instead he was sent to inspect the shipyard facil ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket, the | . The problem for the King was that the Church acted like an imperium in i ... |
Vanessa Redgrave | ... hen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and | as Peggy Ramsay. Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay |
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 ... |
Gilbert | ... nkish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king Otto I brought the reigning duke | to heel and incorporated Lotharingia into his realm as one of the "younger ... |
Peter Grant | ... nd later adopted it as the name for his newly forming band, however manager | , while doodling with the name on a pad of paper, spelled "lead" as "led" ... |
Weesheet | ... ops near present-day Victory, Wisconsin, he gave up the attempt. Sauk chief | later criticized Black Hawk and Wabokieshiek for abandoning the people dur ... |
Stuart Heisler | ... John Howard Lawson, Dorothy Parker, and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by | |
Lord Bassam of Brighton | ... recruits to the same terrorist training camps in Pakistan used by Al Qaeda. | , then Home Office minister, stated that International Sikh Youth Federati ... |
Abraham | ... ld at the time of the Binding of Isaac, and news of Rebekah's birth reached | immediately after that event. In that case, since Isaac was 60 when Jacob ... |
Sigmund | ... bard immediately after the bard tells an episode from the life of the hero | and his nephew Fitela. In the Old Norse Eiríksmál it is Sigmund and his ne ... |
Rhadamanthus | After his death, Aeacus became (along with the Cretan brothers | and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especi ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... ish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published on its front page an open letter to | written by Kaj Munk criticising the persecutions against Jews |
Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
Freigraf | ... dy (a branch of the French royal dynasty) to render their rare German title | , which was the style of a (later lost) bordering principality, the allodi ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... presario, Fred Karno, working as a supporting actor and as an understudy of | . Laurel said of Karno "There was no one like him. He had no equal. His na ... |
Upton Sinclair | ... nced as un-American or unpatriotic. In one typical instance in 1923, author | was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an Industrial W ... |
Dorothy Parker | The movie was written by Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson, | , and Lionel Wiggam, and was directed by Stuart Heisler |
Reed Smoot | ... David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and | 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Julie B. Beck '73 and '2 ... |
Thomas Becket | ... standing difficulty involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury. The problem for the King was that the Chur ... |
Raúl Castro | ... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting President | to discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ... |
Johan Risingh | ... Casimir was captured by soldiers from the New Sweden colony led by governor | . Fort Casimir was renamed Fort Trinity (in Swedish, Trefaldigheten) |
Philip Hart | ... Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, | and Daniel Inouye |
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 ... |
Fred Andrew Seaton | ... igned in order to run for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Oregon and | had been appointed to replace him. Seaton, a newspaper publisher from Nebr ... |
Khalil al-Wazir | ... There he encountered two Palestinian friends: Salah Khalaf ("Abu Iyad") and | ("Abu Jihad"), both official members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. A ... |
Archbishop of York | ... archbishopric of York. Walter was also an unsuccessful candidate to become | in September 1186. The medieval chronicler Gervase of Canterbury said that ... |
Lawson Swearingen | ... and state government watchdog C.B. Forgotston relocated to Hammond in 2006. | , a former Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate and a former pr ... |
Sam Rayburn | ... e machinations of Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker of the House | . Johnson was immediately appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee. He wor ... |
Harvey Milk | ... seeing the 2008 biographical drama film Milk, in which Sean Penn portrayed | , the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California |
Stephen Frears | ... adaptation is based on Orton's diaries and on Lahr's research. Directed by | , it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa ... |
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 ... |
Paul Alter | ... n). Michael Dimich assumed the director's chair in June 2011. Marc Breslow, | , Bart Eskander and Rich DiPirro each served long stints previously as dir ... |
Gustavo Gutiérrez | Peruvian Catholic priest, Fr. | , O.P. wrote A Theology of Liberation (1972) |
Fred Karno | ... Pantomimes. In 1909 he was employed by Britain's leading comedy impresario, | , working as a supporting actor and as an understudy of Charlie Chaplin. L ... |
Vasco da Gama | The Portuguese explorer | reached Mombasa in 1498. The goal of Portuguese presence was not settlemen ... |
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 ... |
Patricio Lynch | ... pied Lima during the War of the Pacific in 1881, they put in charge certain | , whose grandfather came from Ireland to Argentina and then moved to Chile ... |
Dean of York | ... ding as a negotiator, a justice, and as a royal secretary. He was appointed | by order of King Henry II about July 1186. The archbishopric had been vaca ... |
Thich Nhat Hanh | ... ng the Dalai Lama, the Japanese writer D.T. Suzuki, and the Vietnamese monk | . Merton has also been the subject of |
Henry II of England | The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of | that began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ... |
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 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
John Nance Garner | ... politics in Texas (Operation Texas) and the machinations of Vice President | and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Johnson was immediately appointed to ... |
Plácido Domingo | ... sical acts including Charles Aznavour, Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, | , Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, John McLaughlin, Brazzaville, The A ... |
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 ... |
Marc Breslow | ... ank Wayne's son). Michael Dimich assumed the director's chair in June 2011. | , Paul Alter, Bart Eskander and Rich DiPirro each served long stints previ ... |
Moshe Dayan | Golda Meir, | , and General David Elazar met at 8:05 am the morning of Yom Kippur, six h ... |
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 ... |
Quirinius | ... ewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, | ' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the ... |
Radelchis I | ... year of his imperial coronation and compelled the rival dukes of Benevento, | and Siconulf, to make peace. His mediation split the Lombard duchy and gav ... |
Frank Oz | ... raise their children. Henson hired writer Jerry Juhl in 1961 and puppeteer | in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credited both writers with developing ... |
Tyrone Guthrie | ... l as presented many times on television. The 1957 film version, directed by | , starred Douglas Campbell as Oedipus, and had the cast performing the ent ... |
Babe Ruth | ... ars of his porn career, Holmes was nicknamed "The Sultan of Smut", a pun on | 's nickname, The Sultan of Swat |
Bob Chinn | ... e investigator named Johnny Wadd most of which were written and directed by | . The success of the first film of the series, Johnny Wadd, created an imm ... |
Sebastian Kappen | ... d others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in Sri Lanka, was excommunicated. | , an Indian theologian, was also censured for his book Jesus and Freedom. ... |
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 ... |
Beant Singh | On 31 August 1995, Chief minister | was killed by a suicide bomber. The pro-Khalistan group Babbar Khalsa clai ... |
Salah Khalaf | ... is work in civil engineering. There he encountered two Palestinian friends: | ("Abu Iyad") and Khalil al-Wazir ("Abu Jihad"), both official members of t ... |
Victor Hugo | ... ent, though this role would soon be usurped by one of Vigny's best friends, | . Unlike his friend, Vigny retained his Royalist sympathies in politics: " ... |
Kenneth Kaunda | ... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted president | on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... earned", or educated at a university. His contemporary, the medieval writer | said of Walter that the Exchequer was his school |
Wolfgang Reitherman | ... innie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). According to the film's director, | , Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more "folksy, ... |
Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars | ... e published a substantial historical novel, Cinq-Mars, based on the life of | ; with the success of these two volumes, Vigny seemed to be the rising sta ... |
William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
Lloyd Bridges | ... ngeles, California on December 4, 1949. He is son of showbiz parents, actor | . and actress and writer Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson). His older brother, ... |
Bishop of Maidstone | The | was previously a second actual suffragan bishop working in the diocese, un ... |
Tony Dungy | In week 16, the Colts played without coach | following the suicide of his son James earlier in the week. With the team ... |
Charles Calvert | ... ulation was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for | (1637–1715), third Baron Baltimore |
Robert Moses | ... or Parkway obsolete less than 20 years after construction. At the same time | was planning the Northern State Parkway. Initially the owners and some Lon ... |
Herb Wesson | ... vernor, Schwarzenegger engaged in a light-hearted exchange with Assemblyman | over their heights. At one point Wesson made an unsuccessful attempt to, i ... |
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 ... |
Howard Baker | ... irman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985. From 1985, when | of Tennessee retired, until his resignation from the Senate, Dole was the ... |
Aeneas | ... raves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or | . After arduously traversing the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new m ... |
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 ... |
Danny Ainge | ... '76. Professional basketball players include three-time NBA Finals champion | '81, 1952 NBA Rookie of the Year and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins '51, ... |
Harold Pinter | ... cal acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and | 's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and ... |
Sylvia Browne | On Larry King Live, March 6, 2001, Larry King asked | if she would take the challenge and she agreed. Then Randi appeared with B ... |
Joseph Devlin | ... of London for funerals at Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. When | , an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killin ... |
Rick Rubin | ... ew album, titled Peace, and they decided to go to New York so that producer | could remix the first single, "Love Removal Machine" |
Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
Clement of Alexandria | ... ad Zenam et Serenum, an exhortation to Christian living, is dependent upon | , and is assigned by Pierre Batiffol to the Novatian Bishop Sisinnius (c. ... |
Patrick Clune | ... of the British agents, together with another man, Conor Clune (a nephew of | , Archbishop of Perth, Australia), who were being held in Dublin Castle, w ... |
Leonardo Boff | ... ssident priests from teaching such doctrines in the Catholic Church's name. | was suspended and others were censured. Tissa Balasuriya, in Sri Lanka, wa ... |
Kevin Spacey | Actor | recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people. ... |
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 ... |
Heath Ledger | ... amily goes to Charlestown to vote on independence, Gabriel Martin played by | reads in the paper that there was an uprising in Chestertown, with British ... |
Anthony Haswell | ... cluded the assertion that Jefferson had fathered children by a slave woman. | was an English immigrant and Jeffersonian printer in Vermont. Haswell call ... |
Pope Pius XII | ... since 1928, had strong connections to the Vatican Secretary of State, later | . In return for pledging his support for the act, Kaas would use his conne ... |
Mussolini | ... gure could be found for Danes. However, Munk's attitude towards Hitler (and | ) turned to outspoken disgust, as he witnessed Hitler's persecution of the ... |
Antonio Banderas | ... ould make more people aware of the Chilean tragedy. The movie would feature | – another fan of Víctor Jara – as Jara himself where he would sing some of ... |
Joseph Losey | Much of the | movie The Romantic Englishwoman (1975) was filmed on location in the town, ... |
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 ... |
Frank Carlson | ... ublican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed retiring Senator | , subsequently being elected. Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and ... |
Ludwig Kaas | ... mocrats were physically removed. After meeting with Centre leader Monsignor | and other Centre Trade Union leaders daily and denying them a substantial ... |
Douglas MacArthur | Johnson reported to General | in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group ba ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... shop of Salisbury as precentor, the Bishop of Worcester as chaplain and the | as |
W. Stewart Campbell | ... d), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, | , Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson), Best Cinematography and ... |
Benjamin Gitlow | The most important ACLU case of the 1920s was Gitlow v. New York, in which | was arrested for violating a state law against inciting anarchy and violen ... |
Peter R. Romero | ... n-Set Decoration (Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, | , Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson), Best Cinematography and Best Picture |
Richard le Breton | ... nd four knights, Reginald fitzUrse, Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, and | , set out to confront the Archbishop of Canterbury |
Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
Bing Crosby | ... sely based on the life of Dixie Lee (1911–1952), first wife of actor-singer | |
Harold Pinter | ... ision film Langrishe, Go Down (1978), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by | from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played ... |
Paulinus of Nola | ... and wrote Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about | ). Just like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic p ... |
Emperor Napoleon III | ... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition to | and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ... |
Count Gerhard III | ... ational hero for having assassinated an earlier German occupier of Denmark, | , was a contemporary analogue to World War II-era Denmark |
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 ... |
Wade Hampton | ... major general rank, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates | and Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. ... |
Clive Barker | ... title was revised before publication due to the contemporaneous release of | 's unrelated film of the same name |
George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... rts. After an unsuccessful candidacy to the see of York, Walter was elected | shortly after the accession of Henry's son Richard I to the throne of Engl ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Worcester | ... op of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Salisbury as precentor, the | as chaplain and the Bishop of Rochester as |
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 ... |
Francis Younghusband | ... e Wakhan and provoked a diplomatic incident by ordering the British Captain | to leave Bozai Gumbaz in the Little Pamir. This incident, and the report o ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Heracles | ... ionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as Heracles. Aeacus laments | 's theft of Cerberus and sentences Dionysus to Acheron and torment by houn ... |
Adelchis | ... when he was treacherously attacked in his palace, robbed and imprisoned by | , prince of Benevento, in August 871. The landing of fresh bands of Sarace ... |
Ariel Sharon | On the day before the war, General | was shown aerial photographs and other intelligence by Yehoshua Saguy, his ... |
Gothelo I | ... each to the rule of a margrave. Except for one brief period (1033–44, under | ), the division was never reversed and the margraves had soon raised their ... |
Abdul Fattah Ismail | In 1980, PDRY president | resigned and went into exile. His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a le ... |
Pope Innocent VIII | In February 1487, | halted the proposed debate, and established a commission to review the ort ... |
Yuri Andropov | The project was a blow to | 's so-called "peace offensive". Andropov said that "It is time they [Washi ... |
Elijah Wood | ... re several Cedar Rapidians including actors Bobby Driscoll, Ashton Kutcher, | and Ron Livingston. The area has also produced a number of professional at ... |
Måns Nilsson Kling | ... governor of New Sweden were carried out by Lieutenant (promoted to Captain) | , until a new governor was chosen and brought from Sweden two years later |
Gilbert Foliot | In June 1170, Roger de Pont L'Évêque, the archbishop of York, along with | , the bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, the bishop of Salisbury, c ... |
Bishop of Salisbury | ... of Winchester as chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the | as precentor, the Bishop of Worcester as chaplain and the Bishop of Roches ... |
William Jennings Bryan | ... ACLU National Committee, headed Scopes' legal team. The prosecution, led by | , contended that the Bible should be interpreted literally in teaching cre ... |
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 ... |
Members of Parliament | ... ir frequently expressed support for the United States in this matter, while | (MPs) were divided. Blair experienced a significant rebellion from many La ... |
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 ... |
Johan Björnsson Printz | Under | , governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fo ... |
Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais | ... Hope. The Port is named in honour of King Louis XV. The first Governor was | |
Heracles | ... 05 BC) by Aristophanes, Dionysus descends to Hades and announces himself as | . Aeacus laments Heracles's theft of Cerberus and sentences Dionysus to Ac ... |
Josceline de Bohon | ... he archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, and | , the bishop of Salisbury, crowned Henry the Young King at York. This was ... |
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 ... |
Roger de Pont L'Évêque | In June 1170, | , the archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the bishop of London, ... |
Golda Meir | ... tember 25, Hussein secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israeli Prime Minister | of an impending Syrian attack. "Are they going to war without the Egyptian ... |
Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
Pierre Batiffol | ... ristian living, is dependent upon Clement of Alexandria, and is assigned by | to the Novatian Bishop Sisinnius (c. 400). The extant work under the title ... |
Jesus | ... y "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex", E.R. Dodds draws a comparison with | 's prophecy at the Last Supper that Peter would deny him three times. Jesu ... |
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 ... |
Sylvia Browne | ... ively challenge notorious high-profile alleged psychics and mediums such as | , Allison DuBois and John Edward with a campaign in the media |
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 ... |
Herakles | ... etatio graeca he was identified with Heracles and referred to as the Tyrian | |
Alfred Hugenberg | ... es, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by | (196 + 52 seats). According to the Nuremberg Trials, this cabinet meeting' ... |
Bishop of Lincoln | ... s Canterbury's provincial dean, the Bishop of Winchester as chancellor, the | as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Salisbury as precentor, the Bishop of Wo ... |
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 |
John Reith | First hopes for the Empire Service were low. The Director General, Sir | (later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much i ... |
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 ... |
Hal Roach | ... leave Laurel and return to her native Australia. In 1925 Laurel joined the | film studio as a director and writer and between May 1925 and September 19 ... |
Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial | ... ent by philanthropist Charles Wakefield in his capacity as President of the | . Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons described the section of keel as ... |
Oliver Cromwell | In the wake of the mid 17th century Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, | deported many Irish prisoners of war into slavery or indentured labour in ... |
Lord Lothian | ... rt, son of Frederick and Nettie, served as personal assistant to Ambassador | and supervisor of American Relief to Great Britain through the British emb ... |
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 ... |
Heinrich Brüning | ... the Communists, even threatening their lives on 3 March. Former Chancellor | proclaimed that his Centre Party would resist any constitutional change an ... |
Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
Pope Alexander III | ... mmunication and interdict against the king and bishops and the kingdom, but | , though sympathising with him in theory, favoured a more diplomatic appro ... |
Willem Kieft | Director | objected to the landing of the Swedes, but Minuit ignored him, since he kn ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... xception of the two archbishops—serves as Canterbury's provincial dean, the | as chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln as vice-chancellor, the Bishop of Sal ... |
Ronald Reagan | The treaty was undisturbed until | announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ... |
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 |
Pontius Pilate | ... Herodian Temple, Quirinius' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as | , Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the b ... |
Phil Ochs | American folksinger | , who met and performed with Jara during a tour of South America, organize ... |
James Madison | ... was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and | |
Sylvester Stallone | ... s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and | becoming international stars. Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense o ... |
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 ... |
H. G. Wells | ... ence fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian | written during the period 1936-38. Throughout the book, Wells describes hi ... |
Joseph Dudley | ... g the Norridgewock tribe against the New Englanders. Massachusetts Governor | put a price on his head. In the winter of 1705, 275 British soldiers under ... |
John Everett Millais | ... founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and | , and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of arti ... |
Nathaniel Dance | Brown's portrait by | , c. 1768, is conserved in the National Portrait Gallery, London |
Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
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 ... |
Tim Johnson | ... n County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect | to office. The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage ... |
Two-Face | ... om Batman's own rogues gallery (such as the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, | , the Scarecrow, Bane, Killer Croc, and Harley Quinn) have been imprisoned ... |
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 ... |
Joseph L. Bristow | ... roduced to the American lexicon. During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator | cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned ... |
Marshall S. Carter | ... ur of learning that the Liberty had been torpedoed the director of NSA, LTG | , sent a message to all intercept sites requesting a special search of all ... |
Steve Jobs | ... originally an olive green with matching company logotype all in lower case. | insisted on promoting the color capability of the Apple II by putting rain ... |
William H. Emory | ... 1851 Army officer and geographer Lt. Nathaniel Michler, working under Major | , mapped this portion of the boundary between Mexico and the United States ... |
Alfred Marie-Jeanne | ... ular vote to serve six-year terms. The President of the Regional Council is | |
Michael Collins | ... of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligence | had operated a clandestine "Squad" of IRA members in Dublin (a.k.a. "The T ... |
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 ... |
Michael Collins | ... ts on the morning of 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under | and Richard Mulcahy to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in t ... |
Albert Anastasia | ... ommission. For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like | , Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambin ... |
Slavoj Žižek | ... f film theorists with psychoanalytic potential, including Jacques Lacan and | . Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this time in the Norther ... |
George Orwell | ... monstrated in the documentary “The Corporation”. In the early 20th-century, | originally wrote a preface for his book “”, which focused on the British s ... |
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish | ... round present-day Kalamazoo was reserved as the village of Potawatomi Chief | . Six years later, as a result of the 1827 Treaty of St. Joseph, the tract ... |
Dixie B. Graves | ... s voted against Black. Alabama Governor Bibb Graves appointed his own wife, | , to fill Black's vacated seat |
William Mahone | ... onflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder | (soon to become a famous Confederate officer). The Union forces withdrew t ... |
Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
Ice Cube | ... 70s funk samples; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, | and Snoop Dogg. Gangsta rap continued to exert a major presence in America ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... Despite setbacks as a screenwriter, Ellis teamed up with acclaimed director | in 2009 to adapt the Vanity Fair article "The Golden Suicides" into a film ... |
Thomas H. Moorer | Admiral | , former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a critic of the officia ... |
Jean Chrétien | ... Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through | ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and ... |
Kurt Vonnegut | ... f this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of | . In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called ... |
Sam Raimi | ... t of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire. The film was directed by | . Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly remarked on Dunst's ability to " ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... g them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was Bishop of London, and Justus, who was | . Remaining in Britain, Laurence succeeded in reconverting Eadbald to Chri ... |
Muhammad Salih | ... ntested election. Karimov drew 86% of the vote against opposition candidate | (also spelled "Salih" or "Salikh" ), whose showing experts praised in view ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
Ricky Tomlinson | ... , meetings, product launches and lectures. Past notable appearances include | , Joe Longthorne and Patrick McGuinness. Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra g ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... city. He continued to speak on political issues, particularly in favour of | at the time of his expulsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to acce ... |
Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
Maximilian von Montgelas | ... xiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French. In Ansbach | wrote an elaborate concept for the future political organisation of Bavari ... |
Hugo Black | ... an era lasting for a dozen years, during which Roosevelt appointees (led by | , William O. Douglas, and Frank Murphy) established a body of civil libert ... |
BeBe Zahara Benet | ... of judges as "America's next drag superstar". The first season's winner was | , and first runner-up Nina Flowers was chosen by fans as "Miss Congenialit ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... Pashtun officers. The generals rebelled and the situation was taken over by | , who held general rank as head of the Jowzjani militia, also based in Maz ... |
Gerald of Wales | ... erson at 165 m (180 yards) "part of the time" and could always hit an army. | commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century |
Shavkat Mirziyoyev | | | |
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 ... |
William Richardson Davie | ... Corkle Place is the Davie Poplar tree under which the university's founder, | , supposedly selected the location for the university. The legend of the D ... |
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 ... |
Edward Burne-Jones | ... sts and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and | . His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precurs ... |
Mahlon Dickerson | ... nd the township had some of the richest sources of iron ore in the country. | , who was New Jersey's 12th Governor, and his family owned the Dickerson M ... |
Hydatius | ... l sack of Rome (June 2–16, 455). Oost has pointed out that in his chronicle | wrote Placidia was unmarried as of 455 |
Joseph Dudley | In May 1707, Massachusetts Governor | organized an expedition to take Port Royal. Led by John March, 1,600 men f ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day which, in the fictional alternate universe, had | as its star |
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg | ... of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415. However, after the 1440 death of | , the Franconian cadet branch of the family was not politically united wit ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon | ... iscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens, London councillor and granddaughter of the | . He gained two stepsons from this marriage; Sir Simon Towneley and Sir Pe ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... lerns made Ansbach the seat of their dynasty until their acquisition of the | in 1415. However, after the 1440 death of Frederick I, Elector of Brandenb ... |
Roy Bean | ... son in the county, was also started in 1882, but is now a ghost town. Judge | is said to have operated a saloon at Sanderson. The oil and gas industry b ... |
Alexander Wilson | ... office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and | . The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor parties won 36 seats each. ... |
Steve Jobs | ... pple has paid high attention to its quality of packaging, partly because of | ' personal preferences and opinions on packaging and final product appeara ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... to contest elections and oppose the programs of Secretary for the Treasury | . Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalist ... |
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 Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
Charles Haughey | ... convinced that he had enough support to defeat the other likely candidate, | , and that Lynch should resign early to catch his opponents on the hop. Ly ... |
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 ... |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | ... son – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – | – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Ke ... |
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 ... |
Frank Costello | ... ng the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, | , Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and Vito Genov ... |
Pope Stephen II | ... lly used in Western Europe after the end of the Roman Empire; for instance, | granted the title "Patricius of the Romans" to the Frankish ruler Pepin II ... |
King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... lined to sixty thousand by 1509. Although population estimates vary, Father | , the “Defender of the Indians” estimated there were 6 million (6,000,000) ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
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 ... |
Martin Scorsese | In 1976 he appeared in his first mainstream film role, in | 's landmark Taxi Driver; Scorsese allowed Brooks to improvise much of his ... |
Philip Sidney | ... ongs of Divers Noblemen and Gentlemen", appended to Newman's edition of Sir | 's Astrophel and Stella, which appeared in 1591. In 1595 "Poemata, a colle ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... area and in exile, were soon working on national insurrection preparations. | was chosen as its leader; the popular general came from abroad and on Marc ... |
Chief Victorio | ... 1880 soldiers at Tinaja de las Palmas attacked a group of Mescaleros led by | . August 1880, Buffalo Soldiers ambushed Victorio at Rattlesnake Springs. ... |
Hjalmar Schacht | ... ritish Treasury. He was a close friend of the German Central Bank president | and the godfather to one of Schacht's grandchildren. Both were members of ... |
Matthew Lyon | Republican editors, | , a member of Congress, and private individuals were targets of prosecutio ... |
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 ... |
Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
Dick Powell | ... estern anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of | 's Four Star Television. He was offered the part of Dr. Kildare in an NBC ... |
John Kerry | ... eceived 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 48.5% (485 votes), with 999 ballots cast among the t ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... eneficiary of the rebellion due to its sheltering of the rebel ringleaders. | broke from other New Yorkers, including major landowners with claims on Ve ... |
Jesse Ventura | ... ul film, Schwarzenegger led a cast which included future Minnesota Governor | (Ventura also appeared in The Running Man and Batman & Robin with Schwarze ... |
Orel Hershiser | ... were affectionately dubbed "Fernandomania." In 1988, another pitching hero, | , again led them to a World Series victory, aided by one of the most memor ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... ly a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by | and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ... |
Lord Byron | On 15 October 1816, the Romantic poet | visited the Ambrosian Library of Milan. He was delighted by the letters be ... |
Plutarch | ... ries of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and | , none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after ... |
Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
George W. Bush | ... istered voters participating. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
Clemens August of Bavaria | ... e place at least since 1578, and around 1720 a Baroque garden was built for | . The first director of the Botanical Garden was Nees von Esenbeck from 18 ... |
David R. Ellis | ... eguizamo. Christensen recently has been cast in the role of Joe Lassiter in | 's upcoming film, The Genesis Code |
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 ... |
Meyer Lansky | ... emon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, | , Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese all of who ... |
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 ... |
Philip Sheridan | ... al inaccuracies, one of which was that Stuart, George Armstrong Custer, and | were firm friends and all attended West Point together in 1854 |
Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
Donna Pescow | | was almost considered 'too pretty' for the role of Annette. She corrected ... |
Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
James Monroe | ... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and | (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ... |
Tommy Lucchese | ... mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, | , Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese all of whom he led, Charles Lucky Lucian ... |
Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... medical attention. Marches and other protests continued for several weeks. | came to Danville and spoke at High Street Baptist Church about the brutali ... |
Petronius Maximus | ... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues, | |
Secretary of War William L. Marcy | ... in July 1849 his report recommended sink wells along the route. July 1848, | wanted a military post established on the north side of the Rio Grande. Ma ... |
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 ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... dshed. In early 1992, in a recorded conversation, Massoud tried to convince | not to attack Kabul but instead to join the peace talks. Massoud was await ... |
John Humphrey Noyes | ... y successful communes in American history. The Oneida Community, founded by | in Oneida, New York, was a utopian religious commune that lasted from 1848 ... |
Harlan F. Stone | ... d Frank Murphy) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice | wrote the famous "footnote four" in United States v. Carolene Products Co. ... |
Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
Deborah Pratt | ... t the series, but are mostly unseen. Ziggy (voiced by co-executive producer | ) is the artificial intelligence that runs the project and attempts to ded ... |
James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | ... E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – | – A. E. Housman – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – T. E. Hulme – Leigh Hunt ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... g Alive, was released in 1983. It starred John Travolta and was directed by | . (Staying Alive was rated PG; it also predated the introduction of the PG ... |
Dr. Dre | ... n from 1970s funk samples; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, | , Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg. Gangsta rap continued to exert a major presence ... |
Danny DeVito | Twins (1988), a comedy with | also proved successful. Total Recall (1990) netted Schwarzenegger $10 mill ... |
Justus | ... ht's death. Among them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was Bishop of London, and | , who was Bishop of Rochester. Remaining in Britain, Laurence succeeded in ... |
Ange Mancini | ... f Martinique is located in Fort-de-France, and the Prefect of Martinique is | |
Matthew Lyon | | , born in Ireland, was a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont. H ... |
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 ... |
Richard Russell | ... or his highly successful "courtships" of older senators, especially Senator | , Democrat from Georgia, and the leader of the Conservative coalition and ... |
Arthur C. Mellette | ... ation was 2,048. Its county seat is White River. The county was named after | (June 25, 1842 – May 25, 1896) who was the last Governor of the Dakota Ter ... |
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 ... |
Paul Newman | ... -up comedian. He appeared in more than 15 films, including The Hustler with | and Jackie Gleason, in which he had a cameo role as a bartender |
Bishop of London | ... that followed Æthelberht's death. Among them in Gaul were Mellitus, who was | , and Justus, who was Bishop of Rochester. Remaining in Britain, Laurence ... |
Moses | ... int. In 1998, he lent his voice to the animated film The Prince of Egypt as | , before starring in the independent film Joe the King (1999) and playing ... |
Jon Corzine | ... eceived 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.1% (329 votes), with 763 ballots cast among the t ... |
Rod Blagojevich | ... he Capitol Steps, poking fun at Illinois politics, especially then-Governor | . The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps performs the "Bottle Dance ... |
Kirk Gibson | ... the most memorable home runs of all time, by their injured star outfielder | coming off the bench to pinch hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth ... |
Vice President | ... He was later a United States Senator, was the first Republican nominee for | (in 1856), and Minister to France |
Jefferson Davis | ... apital of the Confederate States of America within the space of a few days. | and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of William T. Sutherl ... |
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, ... |
Frank Murphy | ... ring which Roosevelt appointees (led by Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and | ) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice Harlan F. St ... |
Billy Bragg | ... in September 2009 to record the 1970s Clash B-side "Jail Guitar Doors" with | . The song is the namesake of a charity founded by Bragg which gives music ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... his forces outside of Kabul trying to convince other commanders especially | to do the same in order to avoid bloodshed. In early 1992, in a recorded c ... |
Bugsy Siegel | ... a of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, | , Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese all of whom he led, Char ... |
Chris Christie | In the 2009 race for Governor, Republican | received 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
Harley True Burton | ... t spent his later years in Donley County. It was also the home of historian | , author of A History of the JA Ranch, which Goodnight formerly co-owned. ... |
P.G.T. Beauregard | ... the ancestress of many notable people, including American Civil War general | . She is a collateral relative of most of the royal families of modern Eur ... |
Laurence Housman | ... itor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873. Housman's brother | and sister also became writers |
Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
Alexander W. Terrell | ... population was 984. Its county seat is Sanderson. The county was named for | , a Texas state senator. It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No ... |
Modibo Keïta | President | , whose Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally (US/RDA) party had dominat ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... sion channels such as E!. Young sports icons are considered teen idols like | , Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as ... |
Prime Ministers | In India, | Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mo ... |
Andrew George | ... rnish electorate. A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP | and representatives of the Convention (Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Col ... |
Robert De Niro | ... became a huge critical success both for director Martin Scorsese and actor | , who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting of the film to play the 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 ... |
Sammy Wilson | ... consulted but the scenario set out is a perfectly plausible one". The DUP's | stated that the plan "shows that some loyalist paramilitaries are looking ... |
Zhang Qian | ... 14 BCE by the Han dynasty, largely through the missions and explorations of | , but earlier trade routes across the continents already existed. In the l ... |
John Nance Garner | Red River County is the birthplace of | , 32nd Vice President of the United States. B.P. Newman (1927–2008), a Tex ... |
Mary McAleese | ... onoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland | , Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John T. Mills | ... As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,936. Mills County is named for | , a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. The seat of the county is Goldthwa ... |
Moe Dalitz | ... rime figures. The owners, along with two officials of the resort, Morris B. | and Allard Roen, filed a libel lawsuit for $522 million against the magazi ... |
John L. Smith | ... in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, Branch Rickey and the | . Before long he was working to buy new land in Brooklyn to build a more a ... |
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 ... |
Carlo Gambino | ... bert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, | and Vito Genovese all of whom he led, Charles Lucky Luciano is considered ... |
Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
Charles Kingsley | ... eigh Hunt – Elizabeth Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – | – Rudyard Kipling – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydg ... |
Vice President of the United States | Red River County is the birthplace of John Nance Garner, 32nd | . B.P. Newman (1927–2008), a Texas business entrepreneur, developer, and p ... |
Byron Dorgan | ... ly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator | as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract ... |
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 ... |
John Cornyn | ... entative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent | |
Strongbow | ... 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by | and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Henrik Ibsen | ... one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being | , Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | According to Israeli sources, at the start of the war on June 5, General | (then IDF Chief of Staff) informed Commander Ernest Carl Castle, the Ameri ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Oliver Ellsworth | ... met in Philadelphia was dominated by strong-government advocates. Delegate | of Connecticut argued that because the people could not be trusted (as exe ... |
George the Pious | Margrave | introduced the Protestant Reformation to Ansbach in 1528, leading to the s ... |
Martin Scorsese | ... ce success, but eventually became a huge critical success both for director | and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds during the shooting o ... |
Alan Cranston | ... aign to win the United States Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Sen. | , as he received less than two percent of the vote in the Republican Party ... |
Walter O'Malley | Real estate businessman | had acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the ... |
Robert Cummings | ... ing his later years. Hitchcock was forced to use Universal contract players | and Priscilla Lane, both known for their work in comedies and light dramas ... |
Joseph Lyons | ... of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under | and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies |
Dante Alighieri | ... him Gabriel, but in publications he put the name Dante first (in honour of | ). He was the brother of poet Christina Rossetti, the critic William Micha ... |
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 ... |
Hellespontine Sibyl | ... ave been her home. The sibylline collection at Gergis was attributed to the | and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis. Thence it passed to E ... |
James Madison | ... s, its population was 13,664. Its seat is Madisonville, and it is named for | , the fourth president of the United States |
Yashwant Sinha | ... term of five years. Vajpayee and his economic team, led by Finance Minister | , continuing the policies initiated by the previous Congress Government un ... |
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 ... |
Tissaphernes | ... via the Hellespont. He first descended upon the Phrygians and their leader | who had broken a “solemn league” with the Greeks and had earned the “downr ... |
Governor Temple | ... me Templeville derives from the Temple family, whose most famous member was | of Delaware |
Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
John McCain | ... the 226 counties in Texas to cast the majority of its votes for Republican | . McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat Barack Obama won 3 ... |
Robert Moses | ... nted to build a new, state of the art stadium in Brooklyn. But City Planner | and other New York politicians refused to let him build the Brooklyn stadi ... |
Isaac Julien | ... cluded Richard Billingham, video/installtion artist (and now film director) | and installtion artist Mike Nelson |
Prime Minister | In Israel, | Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed a ... |
John Kalodner | ... he band's first mainstream success in the US. With the guidance of A&R guru | , it has sold 8x platinum in the US. The success of Whitesnake also pushed ... |
Pol Pot | ... Tensions peaked when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, an ally of China, to depose | , resulting in a Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979. In 1978-79, some 450 ... |
William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby | ... . In 1285 the husbands of two of these, Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan and | , jointly claimed view of frankpledge over Napton. There are further refer ... |
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 ... |
Kirk Douglas | ... got the part of Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with | and Ann-Margret in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a bi ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... th Jennings – Samuel Johnson – John Keats – Henry King – Charles Kingsley – | – Philip Larkin – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – John Lydgate – H. F. Lyte – ... |
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 ... |
Francis Nicholson | In September 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by | finally captured Port Royal after a siege of one week. This ended official ... |
John Bruton | ... President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh | , Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Norman Lloyd | ... confrontation between a suspected saboteur (Cummings) and a real saboteur ( | ) atop the Statue of Liberty. That year he also directed Have You Heard?, ... |
Dick Cole | ... ew George and representatives of the Convention (Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, | , David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo) presented the declaration to 10 Downin ... |
Robert Menzies | ... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under | |
Elbridge Gerry | ... ample of the confederation government's weaknesses, while opponents such as | thought that a federal response to the rebellion would have been even wors ... |
Samuel Ryder | ... tch, held on the East Course at Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, was | , a seed merchant who traded from St Albans, Hertfordshire. Having watched ... |
Bertie Ahern | ... ral which was attended by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach | , former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and Charles Haughey, and va ... |
Alexander Kielland | ... ire Store) Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and | . Bjørnson is celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem, ... |
Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester | ... f Winchester. Napton was still part of the Honour of Winchester in 1271 but | had died in 1265 with no male heir, leaving his estates to his three daugh ... |
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi | ... Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état that toppled President | . Following the latter coup, Abdel Aziz became President of the High Counc ... |
John Sununu | ... Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, | and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnell said there w ... |
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 ... |
Robert Anderson Irion | ... s population was 1,599. Its county seat is Mertzon. The county is named for | , a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas |
Dean Rusk | ... er the Liberty attack ended. In a message sent from U.S. Secretary of State | to U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Rusk asked for " ... |
Thomas Hutchinson | ... ples of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to African Americans. | , the former royal governor of Massachusetts, also published a rebuttal. T ... |
Duke Cosimo I de' Medici | ... d the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, which prompted | to invite him to move to the expanding university in Pisa, which he turned ... |
Moussa Traoré | ... up a 14-member Military Committee for National Liberation (CMLN), with Lt. | as president. The military leaders attempted to pursue economic reforms, b ... |
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 ... |
Ben Dover | ... sked, "It's art. But is it porn?" calling in "Britain's biggest porn star", | , to comment. Culture Minister Kim Howells made a scathing criticism of th ... |
Montgomery Blair | ... e her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of | , Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddau ... |
Earl of Somerset | ... ement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the | to the infamous . If, moreover, as appears quite likely, his Two Bookes of ... |
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 ... |
James A. Bradley | ... t. Developed in 1871 as a residential resort by New York brush manufacturer | , the city was named for Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the ... |
Michael Collins | ... many RIC Police Intelligence officers during the Irish War of Independence. | set up a special unit – the Squad – for this purpose, which had the effect ... |
Rick Lazio | ... is represented by Steve Israel. A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by | in 2000 when he made his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. The third d ... |
Charles Haughey | ... e, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and | , and various political persons from all parties. The coffin was then flow ... |
Robert De Niro | ... rage, a 3D IMAX film, and that same year, he starred opposite Al Pacino and | in Heat, which is now considered one of the best crime/drama films of the ... |
Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
David Szatmary | ... l leaders who had previously opposed a strong federal government. Historian | writes that the timing of the rebellion "convinced the elites of sovereign ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... ution to be administered by Pakistan, which favored rival mujahideen leader | . In an interview Massoud expressed: "We thought the CIA knew everything. ... |
John McCain | ... he national and state levels. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Mike Markkula | | , a retired Intel salesman who provided early critical funding for Apple C ... |
Vito Genovese | ... ank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and | all of whom he led, Charles Lucky Luciano is considered by many to have be ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
James Scullin | ... d to the Australian Federal Parliament in 1929 and served in Prime Minister | 's Labor Cabinet. Lyons became acting Treasurer in 1930 and helped negotia ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
Steve Israel | ... rict, which includes Huntington, Brentwood and Bay Shore, is represented by | . A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by Rick Lazio in 2000 when he ma ... |
John Jay | In early 1787 | wrote that the rural disturbances and the inability of the central governm ... |
Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
Albert Reynolds | ... Ireland Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, | and Charles Haughey, and various political persons from all parties. The c ... |
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 |
Gary McMichael | ... finally dissolved itself in 2001 following very limited electoral success. | , son of John McMichael, was the last leader of the UDP, which supported t ... |
Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
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 ... |
John Jay | ... and the republican interest." In New York, the candidates for governor were | , a Federalist, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferso ... |
Ronald Collet Norman | ... England Governor. The Norman family were well known in banking. His brother | and his nephew Mark Norman became leading bankers. His great-nephew David ... |
André Malraux | ... snais married Florence Malraux (daughter of the French statesman and writer | ); she was a regular member of his production team, working as assistant d ... |
Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
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 ... |
Ted Theodore | ... dvocated orthodox fiscal management. When Labor reinstated the more radical | as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... tary engagement in Afghanistan "a bleeding wound", Soviet General Secretary | began a withdrawal of Soviet troops from the nation. On February 15, 1989, ... |
Daniel O'Connell | Jack Lynch has been described as "the most popular Irish politician since | ." This praise did not come from Lynch's allies or even his own party, but ... |
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil | ... lized, and the Massachusetts town of Haverhill was raided instead. In 1709, | , governor of New France, reported that two-thirds of the fields north of ... |
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester | ... de Beaumont's manor at Napton became part of the honour of Leicester. When | died in 1204 leaving no male heir his estates were divided between his two ... |
Sun Myung Moon | ... of mainstream evangelical Christianity and examined alternatives, including | 's campus ministry organization CARP, and Mormonism. Cleaver was baptized ... |
John Everett Millais | ... philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which they founded along with | |
Dick Cole | ... elected councillors in Cornwall Council and 25 town and parish councillors. | is the current leader |
Rob Reiner | ... attending Beverly Hills High School with the likes of Richard Dreyfuss and | |
Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
Brendan Sullivan Jr | ... d that Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and expensive lawyer", | ., in response to the investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversati ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville | ... thought was a southern continent. Europeans did not return until 1768, when | rediscovered the islands. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New ... |
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 ... |
Kim Howells | ... g in "Britain's biggest porn star", Ben Dover, to comment. Culture Minister | made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". Prince ... |
Francis Asbury | ... ort by New York brush manufacturer James A. Bradley, the city was named for | , the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Unite ... |
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 ... |
Diane Keaton | ... atifah appeared in the crime comedy Mad Money opposite Academy Award-winner | as well as Katie Holmes and Ted Danson. She appeared on Saturday Night Liv ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
Henry Clay | ... ng of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by John Quincy Adams and | , formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it evolved into th ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... d as well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the Palace of Versailles, | 's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of Lou ... |
El Hadj Umar Tall | This empire, founded by | of the Toucouleur peoples, beginning in 1864, ruled eventually most of wha ... |
Desmond O'Malley | ... he biggest crowds in the city's history. Lynch's friend and political ally, | , delivered the graveside oration, paying tribute to Lynch's sense of dece ... |
Dante Alighieri | As early as the 14th century when | depicted him in Limbo alongside the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Jim Gilliam | ... obinson, three-time MVP Roy Campanella, Cy Young Award winner Don Newcombe, | and Joe Black. Robinson would eventually go on to become the first African ... |
Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of | |
Thomas Cromwell | ... he Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In 1532 | spent £3,593 on repairs and imported nearly 3000 tons of Caen stone for th ... |
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 ... |
Wrede | ... e demand being passionately backed by the crown prince Louis and by Marshal | ; on 8 October was signed the treaty of Ried, by which Bavaria threw in he ... |
John Adams | ... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators like | observed that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear. |
Amadou Toumani Touré | ... vernment rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by current President | , arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution. Within days, t ... |
Isaac Stevens | ... Indian attacks on white explorers and settlers dropped significantly after | negotiated the Treaty of Hellgate in 1855, and white settlement in the are ... |
Geoffrey Perkins | ... sounding nature, but also for the fact that it had a banjo in it, which, as | recalls, Adams said would give it an "on the road, hitch-hiking feel. |
King Philip II's | ... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command of | illegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ... |
Earl of Euston | ... granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once removed); the | ; the Lord Elphinstone (his 1st cousin once removed); and Mrs Harold Phill ... |
Levi Woodbury | ... is Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and | , an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, the relationship bet ... |
Raphael | ... e mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded | and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir Joshua R ... |
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 ... |
Lord North | ... ere unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of Prime Minister | were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary supremacy. ... |
Scheherazade | ... rated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by | . In most of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, an ... |
Prime Minister | ... hese measures were unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of | Lord North were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary ... |
Widukind | ... , grew up in the abbey of Herford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader | . In Herford she met Henry the Fowler, who later became king of Germany |
Holden Thorp | ... Tulane University and the University of Virginia. The current chancellor is | , who earned a bachelor of science degree from UNC in 1986, a PhD in chemi ... |
John Kerry | ... Gore an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate | won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate ... |
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 ... |
Dick Cole | ... ouncil. Andrew Long for Callington, Stuart Cullimore for Camborne south and | was elected to represent St Enoder. In 2010 an independent councillor, Nei ... |
Joshua Reynolds | ... d Raphael and Michelangelo and the formal training regime introduced by Sir | . Their approach was to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, an ... |
Pierre P. Garven | # | 1915–191 |
Rob Wittman | ... ylvania residents are represented by either Eric Cantor (R-7th District) or | (R-1st District) in the House of Representatives. The current U.S. Senator ... |
Harry Solter | ... films directed by Griffith in 1908. Toward the end of 1908 Lawrence married | |
Alpha Oumar Konaré | ... t, National Assembly, and municipal councils were elected. On June 8, 1992, | , the candidate of ADEMA, was inaugurated as the president of Mali's Third ... |
James Madison | ... esolutions. Though the resolutions followed the "interposition" approach of | , Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... ch's allies or even his own party, but from the former leader of Fine Gael, | . As a sportsman Lynch earned a reputation for decency and fair play, char ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... ull-scale war. A publication by the George Washington University describes: | and his Junbish-i Milli militia backed by Uzbekistan joined an alliance wi ... |
Jared Leto | Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced | in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains aw ... |
Pierre P. Garven | # | 1906–191 |
Jamie Lee Curtis | ... lm, and saw Schwarzenegger, reunited with James Cameron, appearing opposite | |
Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
Henry the Fowler | ... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met | , who later became king of Germany |
John McCain | ... party's electors since 1912. Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican | in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33,435 votes ... |
Tim Bishop | ... second, and part of the third. The former two seats are held by Democrats. | , a Democrat, represents the once heavily Republican first district, which ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
Horace Stoneham | ... fficult decision to move the Dodgers to California, convincing Giants owner | to move to San Francisco instead of Minneapolis to keep the Giants-Dodgers ... |
Danny DeVito | ... he last of his three collaborations with Ivan Reitman and again co-starring | and also for the second time featuring Pamela Reed. This film brought Schw ... |
Rudyard Kipling | In 1894 | published The Jungle Book, a collection of stories about a boy who lives i ... |
James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
Richard Mulcahy | ... 21 November were an effort by the IRA in Dublin, under Michael Collins and | to wipe out the British intelligence organisation in the city |
Sri Aurobindo | ... n Tagen, Stockhausen had read a biography by Satprem about the Bengali guru | (Guerreri 2009), and subsequently he also read many of the published writi ... |
Joseph V. Doria, Jr. | # | 1998–200 |
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 ... |
Mariah Carey | ... rominence during the late 1990s. At that time, several celebrities, such as | , had adopted Hello Kitty as a fashion statement. Newer products featuring ... |
Robert Stigwood | Producer | said in a recent interview on "The Inside Story: Saturday Night Fever", ab ... |
Mark Warner | ... sentatives. The current U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are | (D) and Jim Webb (D) |
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 ... |
Robert Lepage | ... n the April 2011 production of Die Walküre. The staging of Das Rheingold by | involved 24 identical wedges able to rotate independently on a horizontal ... |
Jay-Z | ... ktra in 1989), remains popular. It has been applied to artists ranging from | to Lupe Fiasco |
Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
Vice President of the United States | Ayres played a | twice, in Advise & Consent and The Man, as well as the President of the Un ... |
Venkaiah Naidu | ... nstitution provides for a three-year term for the President. Recently, both | and LK Advani resigned ahead of schedule due to factionalism and controver ... |
Carl Laemmle | ... dependent Moving Pictures Company of America (IMP). The company, founded by | , the owner of a film exchange (who later absorbed IMP into Universal Pict ... |
Siegmund Lubin | ... en they returned to the United States, they joined a film company headed by | (Siegmund "Pop" Lubin), described as the 'wisest and most democratic film ... |
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 ... |
Shinzō Abe | ... hairman of the Education Rebuilding Council, which was set up by Japan's PM | after he came to power in 2006 |
Ngo Dinh Diem | In 1963, the South Vietnamese President | , a Catholic, and the younger brother of Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc banned t ... |
Lupe Fiasco | ... 989), remains popular. It has been applied to artists ranging from Jay-Z to | |
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 ... |
Nitin Gadkari | ... ersies. Rajnath Singh held this post from 2006 to 2009, he was succeeded by | . Beyond this, there are several Vice-Presidents, General-Secretaries, Tre ... |
Gerrard Winstanley | ... dly documented in 17th-century England and 18th-century Europe and America. | (1648), Richard Coppin (1652), Jane Leade (1697), and then George de Benne ... |
Al Pacino | ... n Wings of Courage, a 3D IMAX film, and that same year, he starred opposite | and Robert De Niro in Heat, which is now considered one of the best crime/ ... |
Lord Teverson | ... h seeks to equalise the size of constituencies. An amendment to the bill by | that would have ensured that "all parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scill ... |
John J. Burzichelli | The Mayor of the Borough of Paulsboro is | , who is also the Chair of Economic & Neighborhood Development and represe ... |
Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
John Kerry | ... te and carried all precincts - all southern and central precincts voted for | . This is probably accounted for by the presence of Naval Air Station Whid ... |
Alexander H. Stephens | ... an County, after U.S. President James Buchanan, but was renamed in 1861 for | , the vice president of the Confederate States of America |
John C. Calhoun | ... vided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since | in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice presi ... |
Norman Thomas | ACLU leadership was split on whether to purge its leadership of communists. | , John Haynes Holmes, and Morris Ernst were anti-communists who wanted to ... |
King Charles I | ... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts with | to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... of bombardment by Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami, the Junbish-i Milli forces of | and the Hezb-e Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari in early 1994. Atrocities were c ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... n 1754, it would be set off and incorporated as a town by colonial Governor | , although thereafter spelled Somersworth due to a clerical error. Since t ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... l University in 1971, a university for all agricultural related activities. | , the Bhishmacharya of Kerala politics started his career in Thrissur as a ... |
Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
John Kerry | ... cured a combined 1 percent of the ballots. Obama fared better than Democrat | had done in 2004. Latinos in Texas gave Obama 63 percent of their ballots, ... |
Yitzhak Rabin | ... Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister | and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided ... |
Jill Eisenstadt | ... ture novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and | . In Tartt's The Secret History (1992), her version of Bennington is given ... |
Gedaliah | ... tion) was banished and the administrative centre shifted to a new location. | was appointed governor of the Yehud province, supported by a Chaldean guar ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... each driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16. Senna won from Niki Lauda and | . After the race Senna was quoted as saying, "Now I know I can do it. |
Richard Coppin | ... ury England and 18th-century Europe and America. Gerrard Winstanley (1648), | (1652), Jane Leade (1697), and then George de Benneville in America, taugh ... |
Juan de Garay | ... s abandoned. A second (and permanent) settlement was established in 1580 by | , who arrived by sailing down the Paraná River from Asunción (now the capi ... |
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 ... |
Harry Bridges | ... any persons who were prosecuted under the Smith Act, including labor leader | |
Rick Lazio | ... olk County had long been a Republican bastion in New York. U.S. Congressman | , who opposed Hillary Clinton in the 2000 Senate race, was from Suffolk Co ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... years, Rossetti worked on English translations of Italian poetry including | 's La Vita Nuova (published as The Early Italian Poets in 1861). These and ... |
Mikhail Artamonov | ... ion of Balanjar has not yet been established precisely. Soviet archeologist | initially placed Balanjar on the site of the modern Daghestani city of Buy ... |
Johannes Kelpius | ... 19th century, including the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness (led by | ), the Ephrata Cloister, and the Harmony Society, among others. The Harmon ... |
John Wayne | Clift's first movie role was opposite | in the 1948 film Red River which was shot in 1946 and released in 1948. Cl ... |
George 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 ... |
Lorin Maazel | ... in a single movement of an hour or so, have been made by Leopold Stokowski, | (Der Ring ohne Wörte) (1988) and Henk de Vlieger (The Ring: an Orchestral ... |
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, ... |
Thomas Gates | ... plored and began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir | "took possession" of a nearby Native American village, which became known ... |
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 ... |
Louie Gohmert | ... e of Representatives by Leo Berman (R) of Tyler. Its U.S. representative is | (R), and the Texas Senate by Senator Kevin Eltife (R) |
Lord Lindsey | ... ord Levels together formed the biggest scheme, they were not the only ones. | and his partner Sir William Killigrew had the Lindsey Level inhabited by f ... |
Stephen Conroy | ... 15 December 2008. According to a spokesman for the Communications Minister, | , "The expert panel has determined that Telstra’s submission to the nation ... |
B. V. Bowden | The appointment of | (later Lord Bowden) in 1953 marked the beginning of a phase of expansion. ... |
Andrei Tarkovsky | ... d, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laureates Selma Lagerlöf and Albert Schweitzer, | Bruno Walter, and Alternative Nobel Prize winner |
Svipdagr | ... tonic Mythology Ullr is the son of Sif and Egill-Örvandill, half-brother of | -Óðr, nephew of Völundr and a cousin of Skaði. His father, Egill, was the ... |
Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
The Duke of Gloucester | ... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: | (his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ... |
Kevin Eltife | ... ts U.S. representative is Louie Gohmert(R), and the Texas Senate by Senator | (R) |
Andrew George | ... the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was | , the Liberal Democrat MP; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish is ... |
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 ... |
Don Letts | ... nk scene. Featuring interviews with James, Sensible, Scabies, Glen Matlock, | and Chrissie Hynde, the programme gave some new insights into the bands an ... |
King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
Harry Solter | Also at Vitagraph was a young actor, | , who was looking for 'a young, beautiful equestrian girl' to star in a fi ... |
James Fenton | ... With Scullin temporarily absent in London, Lyons and acting Prime Minister | clashed with the Labor Cabinet and Caucus over economic policy, and grappl ... |
Dante Alighieri | ... mies of the Visconti in Pisa soon removed the last judge, Nino, a friend of | , in 1288 |
Edward I of England | ... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King | (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... the Junbish-i Milli forces of Abdul Rashid Dostum and the Hezb-e Wahdat of | in early 1994. Atrocities were committed by individuals of different armed ... |
James Bowdoin | ... ions made at high values with lower-valued paper. The merchants, among them | , were opposed, because they were generally lenders who stood to lose by s ... |
Martin Parmer | ... 10,269. The seat of the county is Farwell. The county is named in honor of | , a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early judge. Parme ... |
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. | ... omplete control over all its revenue streams. When the news came out, Mayor | and Moses made a feeble effort to save the Dodgers, offering to build a ba ... |
Alastair Sim | ... r of prominent British actors, including Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, and | . This was Hitchcock's first production for Warner Bros., which had distri ... |
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 ... |
Craig Benson | ... ents signed the petition. The property tax issue itself quieted as Governor | announced in 2003 the property taxes would be cut almost by half by 2008 |
Robert Lansing | On October 5, Secretary of State | was the first official to propose that Marshall forcibly assume the presid ... |
William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... horough-bred Frenchman". It has been said that the Alien Acts were aimed at | , the Jeffersonian from Geneva; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Fra ... |
Pe'er Visner | ... eens (, HaYerukim) is a minor political party in Israel currently headed by | . Although the party is currently not represented in the Knesset, it does ... |
George Clinton | ... ork, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent | , who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans. Four states' electors ... |
Luke | ... ith similar characters, Coy and Vance Duke, after the actors playing Bo and | walked out over a dispute about royalties. Thus, the first season of this ... |
Solomon Trujillo | In May 2009, | stood down as Chief Executive Officer to return to the United States. Davi ... |
Pope Pius VII | ... n, 1940–1942; Pradel, 1937; Verlet, 1985). Nevertheless, on 3 January 1805, | , who came to France to officiate at Napoléon's coronation, visited the pa ... |
Henry Knox | ... state, property, and that he did not have permission from Secretary at War | to do so |
William Cohen | ... peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, the U.S. Defence Secretary, | , said that Morocco and the U.S. have "mutual concerns over transnational ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
David Thodey | ... jillo stood down as Chief Executive Officer to return to the United States. | took over the role |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e declaration, Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, with | of Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independe ... |
Dan K. Moore | ... of campus, christened "Dan Moore's Wall" by The Daily Tar Heel for Governor | . A group of UNC students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, fil ... |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... ham, and he contributed two illustrations to Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of | 's Poems as well as illustrations for works by his sister Christina Rosset ... |
Anthony Asquith | ... pted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by | who adapted the screenplay and directed it. Michael Denison (Algernon), Mi ... |
Dick Cole | ... on Kerrier District Council, along with one in Restormel (the party leader | ) and, until his death in 2005, John Bolitho in North Cornwall. One of the ... |
David Lammy | ... oated them to parody the work. The prize was presented by Culture Minister, | . Before introducing him, Sir Nicholas Serota, in an "unusual, possibly un ... |
Velázquez | ... sky, people and objects take form with the brilliance and subtle drama of a | . A distant and discreet irony endows the figures, insignificant in themse ... |
Magic Johnson | ... y Guggenheim CEO Mark Walter and including former Los Angeles Lakers player | , baseball executive Stan Kasten and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced ... |
Ibrahim Nasir | In 1957, however, the new prime minister, | , called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ... |
Salvador Dalí | ... 5), which explored psychoanalysis and featured a dream sequence designed by | . Gregory Peck plays amnesiac Dr. Anthony Edwardes under the treatment of ... |
Joseph Brant | ... ho was reported to promise assistance in the form of Mohawk warriors led by | . (Dorchester's proposal was vetoed in London, and no assistance came to t ... |
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 ... |
Chi Chi LaRue | ... hom he also co-hosted on WKTU radio. On one episode, RuPaul featured guests | and Tom Chase speaking about the gay porn industry |
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 ... |
John Dickinson | ... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence. | made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ... |
Prime Minister | ... a massive landslide which saw Labor cut down to 14 seats, and Lyons became | in January 1932. The UAP came up four seats short of a majority in its own ... |
Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
Jodie Foster | ... lland appeared in France at the César Award. The president of the ceremony, | , introduced her and de Havilland received a standing ovation |
Joseph Mundassery | ... m Chembukavu.Government Engineering College, Thrissur, is another gift from | , the controversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Educat ... |
James Steuart | ... or manifesto of the movement. Perhaps the last major mercantilist work was | ’s Principles of Political Economy published in 1767 |
Yona Yahav | ... unicipalities. In Haifa, where former Green candidate (presently of Kadima) | was re-elected to a second mayoral term, the Greens hold four seats, while ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
United States Senate Majority Leader | ... tive from 1937–1949 and as a Senator from 1949–1961, including six years as | , two as Senate Minority Leader and two as Senate Majority Whip. After cam ... |
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 ... |
George C. Marshall | ... f under Robert E. Lee) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general | resided at Dodona Manor in Leesburg. Essayist and journalist Russell Baker ... |
Samuel Chase | ... , all appointed by Washington. Many of them, particularly Associate Justice | , were openly hostile to the Federalists' opponents. Individual Supreme Co ... |
Robert Dinwiddie | ... y was formed May 1, 1752 from Prince George County. The county is named for | , Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1751-58. The county raised several mili ... |
Harvey Fierstein | ... e tour in November 2009 due to torn muscles in his arms. He was replaced by | |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
James M. Cox | ... of the Hoosier delegation. Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, | as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they wer ... |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... iew has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by | |
Menachem Begin | ... resented by President Anwar Sadat, and Israel represented by Prime Minister | . The Oslo Accords of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Mi ... |
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 ... |
Robert Morris | ... n and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and | abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of indepe ... |
Boss Hogg | ... boys and their cousin Daisy in an automobile race around the world against | , Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, and Rosco's dog Flash in a duel for the prize ... |
William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Following the failure of the coup against the government of | in Moscow in August 1991, Uzbekistan's Supreme Soviet declared the indepen ... |
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 ... |
William Crawford | ... s Monroe narrowly won the party's nomination for President in Congress over | in 1816 and defeated Federalist Rufus King in the general election |
C. Achutha Menon | ... ontroversial former education minister who introduced Kerala Education Act. | , the former Chief Minister of Kerala gifted Kerala Agricultural Universit ... |
Antonio de Mendoza | ... ites. In 1532, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor imposed a vice-king to Mexico, | , in order to prevent Cortes' independantist drives, who definitively retu ... |
Pe'er Visner | ... erm, the Greens hold four seats, while in Tel Aviv, where Green Party chair | serves as deputy mayor, the Greens hold three seats |
General Benjamin F. Butler | Although | bought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ... |
Maatia Toafa | ... lation to Australia, New Zealand or Kioa in Fiji, the former Prime Minister | said his government did not regard rising sea levels as such a threat that ... |
Peter Guber | ... Lakers player Magic Johnson, baseball executive Stan Kasten and film mogul | , was announced on March 27, 2012. The total sale price exceeded $2 billio ... |
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 ... |
Admiral David Dixon Porter | Although General Benjamin F. Butler bought 12 and | bought one, it wasn't until 1866 that the US Government officially purchas ... |
Senate Majority Whip | ... ted States Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader and two as | . After campaigning unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, ... |
Donna Pescow | ... Barry Miller). Another, albeit informal, member of their group is Annette ( | ), a neighborhood girl who longs for a more permanent and physical relatio ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents' wives: Mrs. | and later Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Day was also a native; he was well kno ... |
Edward Burne-Jones | ... s of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired William Morris and | . Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti personally, but both were m ... |
John McCain | ... ama received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican | , who received 48.7% of the vote (487 ballots), with 83.4% of registered v ... |
Moses | ... tral part of the curricula of Waldorf schools, in particular the history of | and the establishment of the Land of Israel. A number of early anthroposop ... |
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria | ... in building was built by Enrico Zuccalli for the prince-elector of Cologne, | from 1697–1705. Today it houses the faculty of humanities and theology and ... |
Pope Nicholas I | ... m the Tyrrhenian Sea by the Muslim conquest of Sicily in 827. A letter from | in 864 mentions for the first time the "Sardinian judges", their autonomy ... |
Cameron | ... ction in 2010 of both parties saying they would "stand up for Cornwall. But | and Clegg have devised this Bill which will breach the territorial integri ... |
Henry Ford | ... (NLRB) posed a dilemma for the ACLU, because in 1937 it issued an order to | , prohibiting Ford from disseminating anti-union literature. Part of the A ... |
Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
William Crawford | ... the party in Congress boycotted the caucus; only a small rump group backed | . The Crawford faction included most "Old Republicans", who remained commi ... |
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 ... |
Vinson | ... ice, he was acting Chief Justice on two occasions: from Stone's death until | took office on June 24, 1946; and from Vinson's death on September 8, 1953 ... |
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 ... |
Sir Thomas Morgan | ... Park, a swampy meadow behind the Cardiff Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by | , during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this ho ... |
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 ... |
Manuel Noriega | ... d success until 1991, when the United States invaded Panama to oust General | . At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financia ... |
Thomas Gates | ... ompany's Admiral, Sir George Somers, and the new Governor of Jamestown, Sir | , to relieve the colony of Jamestown, settled two years before. Somers had ... |
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 ... |
Indian Prime Minister | ... ions. Failure to realize such divided loyalties led to the assassination of | Indira Gandhi, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
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. ... |
Pope John VIII | ... time the "Sardinian judges", their autonomy now clear in a later letter by | , which defined them as "Princes" |
David Lowry Swain | ... able leaders of the university include the 26th Governor of North Carolina, | (president 1835–1868); and Edwin Anderson Alderman (1896–1900), who was al ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... an Rights Watch, Iran was assisting the Shia Hazara Hezb-i Wahdat forces of | , as Iran was attempting to maximize Wahdat's military power and influence ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Clegg | ... 0 of both parties saying they would "stand up for Cornwall. But Cameron and | have devised this Bill which will breach the territorial integrity of Corn ... |
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. ... |
Alexander Spotswood | ... counties. The county was named in Latin for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | |
C. Achutha Menon | ... famous politicians and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, | , K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence ... |
Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
Louis Marshall | ... at Syracuse University, under the leadership of Syracuse University Trustee | , with the active support of Syracuse University Chancellor Day. Its found ... |
Stoneman's | ... nsive line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until General | Union cavalry troops tore up the tracks. This event was immortalised in th ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... Wahdat's military power and influence. Saudi Arabia supported the Wahhabite | and his faction. Massoud tried to avoid war between the Saudi-backed Ittih ... |
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 ... |
The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing | Guided by the vision of founder | the URI Charter was developed through a series of international conference ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Valley Days under the title Trails West; the series' original host had been | . He also turned in an appearance as a hand surgeon in the Night Gallery e ... |
Samuel Adams | ... ommanded the legislature to "vindicate the insulted dignity of government." | claimed that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason am ... |
Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
Benning Wentworth | ... Charmingfare was incorporated in 1763 and named Candia by Colonial Governor | , possibly after the old name under Venetian domination of the principal c ... |
3rd Marquess of Bute | The | stipulated that the ground could only be used for "recreational purposes". ... |
Ehud Barak | ... place between United States President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister | , and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Ultimately, it was an ... |
Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
John Hawkwood | ... e White Company, comprising men-at-arms and longbowmen and commanded by Sir | , is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century. The powerful ... |
K. Karunakaran | ... s and bureaucrats like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, | , Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individu ... |
Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
Simon Pegg | In 2008, Dunst starred alongside | in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an adaptation of the memoir of ... |
Sam Giancana | ... 960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate Fidel Castro using Mafia bosses | and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the President’s brother, Donald Nixon ... |
Joseph Clemens of Bavaria | ... lsdorfer Schloss), which was built from 1715 to 1753 by Robert de Cotte for | and his successor Clemens August of Bavaria. Today the Poppelsdorf Palace ... |
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 ... |
Simon Cowell | ... llent! He's the real deal, the absolute antithesis to all that the likes of | stand for. And for that we should all be grateful. This tour will be a cel ... |
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 ... |
John Brown | ... ohn Brown" law in 1860 because it was used to convict and hang abolitionist | after his raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 |
Jonas Savimbi | ... w by the United Nations. The initial focus of the UN's investigation was on | 's UNITA movement in Angola, which was found to have bartered uncut diamon ... |
Martin Buber | Jewish thinkers such as | and Hugo Bergmann were also influenced by Anthroposophy. Hugo Bergmann vie ... |
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 ... |
Titian | ... not on medievalism, but on the Italian High Renaissance artists of Venice, | and Veronese |
Joseph Mundassery | ... s like R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, | , Vinod Rai etc. after the independence. These individuals have changed th ... |
Powhatan | ... cker) and child buried in Bermuda before marrying Pocahontas, a daughter of | , in Jamestown. Intentional settlement of Bermuda began with the arrival o ... |
Clemens August of Bavaria | ... to 1753 by Robert de Cotte for Joseph Clemens of Bavaria and his successor | . Today the Poppelsdorf Palace houses the university's mineral collection ... |
Elias Dayton | ... 8, British soldiers near the Crosswicks Creek shot the horse out from under | , a captain with the New Jersey militia. A cannon ball from the period rem ... |
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 ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... 98, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and | |
George Soros | ... Hong Kong dollar in August 1998 and after the Russian ruble collapsed. (See | |
John Lloyd | ... t episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by | . In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "1 ... |
Peter O'Malley | ... ayers from Asia; mainly, Japan, Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Taiwan. Former owner | began reaching out in 1980 by starting clinics in China and Korea, buildin ... |
Julius Caesar | ... II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul | (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of Rome often met their end in this w ... |
King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
Boleyn's father | ... nry VIII made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because | owned property there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval res ... |
Diana DeGette | ... .S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and United States Representative | |
Titian | ... human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V. Most believe it was illustrated by | 's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar. A few weeks later he published an abridge ... |
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. | ... lican Senators William Edgar Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Gerald P. Nye and | , but support of non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican par ... |
William Egan | ... – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: Ernest Gruening and | as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
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 ... |
Ken Salazar | ... Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior | , and United States Representative Diana DeGette |
Liam Cosgrave | ... t was defeated by the National Coalition of Fine Gael and the Labour Party. | was elected Taoiseach and Lynch found himself on the opposition benches fo ... |
Pete Wilson | ... California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor | . Yet, political analysts have identified Schwarzenegger as a liberal, as ... |
Arthur H. Vandenberg | ... nd strong Neutrality Acts were the Republican Senators William Edgar Borah, | , Gerald P. Nye and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., but support of non-interve ... |
King Henry VIII | ... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that | made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ... |
George Wythe | Wythe County was formed from Montgomery County in 1790. It was named after | , the first Virginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During th ... |
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle | ... hat, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to | for his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much ... |
Archie Cameron | ... re-enter Coalition with the UAP. The replacement of Earl Page as leader by | allowed Menzies to reach accommodation. A new Coalition ministry was forme ... |
Dick Cheney | ... ers. Its graduates include Lynne Cheney, wife of former U.S. Vice President | , and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken S ... |
Walter Lini | ... ginally was called the New Hebrides National Party. One of the founders was | , an Anglican Priest, who later became Prime Minister. Renamed the Vanua'a ... |
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 ... |
Robert Cummings | ... lates the evidence to pin the death on his wife. Her lover, Mark Halliday ( | ), and Police Inspector Hubbard (John Williams), work urgently to save her ... |
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 ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... ssions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that | emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 183 ... |
Elton John | ... According to author Darden Asbury Pyron, "Liberace was the first gay person | had ever seen on television; he became his hero. |
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 ... |
Michelangelo Antonioni | ... been centrally explored in movies such as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, and | 's Blowup, and has appeared to comic effect in films such as Gregory's Gir ... |
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 ... |
Hugo Black | ... 9 deaths of Supreme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leaving | and William O. Douglas as the only remaining civil libertarians on the Cou ... |
Michel Gondry | ... xpressed interest in playing the role of Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry in | 's upcoming biographical film about the band. Dunst is due to appear in Ju ... |
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 ... |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | ... e English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously. | produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, ... |
European Commissioner | ... gdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973. Patrick Hillery became Ireland's first | . In appointing Hillery Europe was gaining one of Ireland's most experienc ... |
Henry Clay | ... rinciples of 1798, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by | and John C. Calhoun |
Pietro Gasparri | ... lle Ratti became Pope Pius XI, shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with | and Eugenio Pacelli for the following 36 years (1922–1958) |
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 ... |
Mary Harron | ... reen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and | 's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive re ... |
Mihály Károlyi | In October 1918, | established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ... |
Benning Wentworth | Worcester argues that, at the time of the charter, Governor | was indebted to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle for his appoin ... |
William Brantley Aycock | ... North Carolina. The law was immediately criticized by university Chancellor | and university President William Friday, but was not reviewed by the North ... |
Lew Grade | ... ial television in the 1950s, where it was broadcast on Sunday afternoons by | 's Associated TeleVision. This exposure gave Liberace a dedicated followin ... |
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 ... |
Tony Shaw | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by Leigh Matthews and captained by | , had a one-sided grand final win against Essendon, the Magpies recording ... |
Henry IV | ... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of | , king of France |
Bill Clinton | ... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, | , and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ... |
Joel Osteen | ... political influence. In the 21st century, the televised church services of | 's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, and Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathed ... |
Ferdinand | ... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with | , king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ... |
Plutarch | ... ur progressively more perfect ones, the oldest of which was the Golden Age. | , the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the bl ... |
Queen Mary II | ... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and | of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ... |
Harvey Fierstein | ... iews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. Alfred Molina, and later | , starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later Andrea Martin and Rosie O'D ... |
Grace Kelly | ... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wife | for her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ... |
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 ... |
Suchet | ... ptain, and in 1809 - 1810 found opportunities for winning distinction under | in the eastern theatre of the Peninsular War, in which he rose to the rank ... |
Leigh Matthews | The 1990 Premiership team, coached by | and captained by Tony Shaw, had a one-sided grand final win against Essend ... |
Patrick Hillery | ... h its nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973. | became Ireland's first European Commissioner. In appointing Hillery Europe ... |
Pope Leo XIII | The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by | in 1885. St Veronica is commemorated on 12 July |
Tony Blair | ... executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of George W. Bush and | , British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain's involvement ... |
Puyi | ... Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with | , the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor. Manc ... |
Louis X | ... after a violent quarrel, to grant a share in the government to his brother | , an arrangement which lasted until the death of Louis in 1545 |
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 ... |
Harold Holt | ... eing former Prime Minister Billy Hughes and the young future Prime Minister | . Menzies tried and failed to have the issue of national insurance examine ... |
Seguin II | ... the latter appeared c. 844 in the region of Bordeaux. In Autumn 845, count | marched on the Vikings assaulting Bordeaux and Saintes but was captured an ... |
Helena Charles | ... ts and politicians from a number of political parties. Its first leader was | . Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as indepen ... |
John Campbell | ... County was established in 1757 from Fairfax County. The county is named for | , Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756–59. Western se ... |
Jimmy Stevens | ... nd for coconut production, protests began in both Santo and Malekula led by | and his kastom movement called "Nagriamel" |
Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
Secretary of the Interior | ... ett, legislative counsel in the Department of the Interior, was promoted by | Douglas McKay to the Secretary's office. Bennett successfully lobbied McKa ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
Pope Pius XI | ... Ratti's expulsion climaxed in Warsaw. Two years later, Achille Ratti became | , shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio ... |
James Monroe | ... party unity was greatly diminished and the party's organization faded away. | ran under the party's banner in the 1820 election and built support by con ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
Edmund Campion | ... was given Scota in marriage as a reward for his services. Writing in 1571, | named the pharaoh Amenophis; Keating named him Cincris |
King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... demy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won that year for her role in | 's Suspicion over de Havilland's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. Charle ... |
John Gielgud | ... screenplay written by David Mercer, and a distinguished cast that included | and Dirk Bogarde. The story shows an ageing, maybe dying, novelist grappli ... |
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 ... |
Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
Mohamed Nasheed | | won the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ... |
Anna Komnene | ... ions about it. Again and again their historians refer to that dreadful day" | , writing a few decades after the actual battle, wrote |
William IV | ... maintenance of peace. He died in March 1508, and was succeeded by his son, | , whose mother, Kunigunde, was a daughter of the emperor Frederick III |
Pat Robertson | ... ral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and | . Most developed their own media networks, news exposure, and political in ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. | (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ... |
Duke of Vasconia | ... sometimes the Counts of Bordeaux held the title concomitantly with that of | . They were meant to keep in check the Basques and defend the mouth of the ... |
Earl of Derby | ... ental Europeans arose from discussion in 1977 between Jack Nicklaus and the | , who was serving as the President of the Professional Golfers' Associatio ... |
William H. Avery | In 1968, Dole defeated Kansas Governor | for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed reti ... |
John Kerry | ... ail message that reporters should not "artificially hold George W. Bush and | 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that complaints from Bu ... |
Isaías Medina Angarita | ... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General | |
Giovanni Battista Rubini | ... and poet Felice Romani, and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor | , who had sung in Bianca e Gernando |
Karl Polanyi | ... lectuals and which continued until her death in 1939. His older brother was | , the political economist |
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' ... |
Samuel Ryder | ... Ryder Cup is also the name of the trophy, after the person who donated it, | . The Ryder Cup, and its counterpart the Presidents Cup, are unique in 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 ... |
Sigurd the Mighty | ... the Sudreys as a vassal of King Harald. His grandson Thorstein the Red and | , Jarl of Orkney invaded Scotland were able to exact tribute from nearly h ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | ... er, and also in the "Song of the Bow", a poem from The White Company by Sir | |
Prime Minister | ... veden. Other historic houses are still in use as private homes, such as the | 's country retreat Chequers |
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 ... |
Daniel Webster | ... ially roads. Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including | , joined the party. After Clay's defeat by Jackson in the 1832 presidentia ... |
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 ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
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 ... |
Osceola | ... ent after a city of the same name in Iowa, which had been named after Chief | of the Seminole people. After three years of settlement and disputes over ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet | |
Kansas Governor | In 1968, Dole defeated | William H. Avery for the Republican nomination for the United States Senat ... |
Chris Landreth | ... kers and the general public. Past KAFI award winners include Bill Plympton, | and John Canemaker |
Arthur Fadden | ... ewly created Advisory War Council in October 1940. New Country Party leader | became Treasurer and Menzies unhappily conceded to allow Earle Page back i ... |
Giorgio Vasari | Among Bandinelli's pupils were | and Francesco de' Rossi (Il Salviati). His sons Clemente Bandinelli, a col ... |
John G. Downey | ... was the first foreign-born governor of California since Irish-born Governor | in 1862 |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
Albert Anastasia | ... nd ensure an easy passage for U.S. forces involved in the Italian Campaign. | , who controlled the docks, promised that no dockworker strikes would aris ... |
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 ... |
Doug Magnus | ... ameron Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Jacob | Benjamin was the last-born of | 's twelve sons, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian ... |
John Curtin | ... all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party under | refused to join. Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created A ... |
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 ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... ildings. The Ponce en Marcha project was conceived in 1985 by then governor | during his second term in La Fortaleza and Ponce mayor Jose Dapena Thompso ... |
Benning Wentworth | Incorporated by Governor | in 1764 and settled in 1768, the town takes its name from Italy's Piemonte ... |
Paul Robeson | ... tinued to steer a moderate course through the Cold War. When leftist singer | was denied a passport in 1950, even though he was not a communist and not ... |
Mozart | ... e, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by | , but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the wi ... |
Dick Cole | ... prospective parliamentary candidates for Westminster. The candidates are:- | (St Austell and Newquay), Conan Jenkin (Truro and Falmouth), Loveday Jenki ... |
Prince of Brazil | ... eight more children, including John himself. When John was born, he became | as the king's heir-apparent, as well as the 11th Duke of Braganza |
Nelson Rockefeller's | ... sident and some in the Republican Party suggested Johnson tacitly supported | campaign. He reportedly said that if Rockefeller became the Republican nom ... |
Henry Clay | ... 24 elections. When the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, | backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longt ... |
Anwar Ibrahim | ... s in a few short weeks. After the controversial sacking of finance minister | , a National Economic Action Council was formed to deal with the monetary ... |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ... m sovereignty over Taiwan (known to them as Takasago Koku) since 1592, when | undertook a policy of overseas expansion and extending Japanese influence ... |
Clark Clifford | The | Report consists of a review of "all available information on the subject" ... |
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 ... |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | Another route established by | in 1849 was across Nicaragua. The long San Juan River to the Atlantic Ocea ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... m as a "front" for communism. Critics included the American Legion, senator | , the HUAC, and the FBI. Several ACLU leaders were sympathetic to the FBI, ... |
Karl Barth | ... ust Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians | and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
Kiefer Sutherland | ... n at the end of the world. The film, which also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, | and Charlotte Rampling premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Dunst w ... |
Henry Lee | ... been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in a letter to | , "You talk, my good sir, of employing influence to appease the present tu ... |
The Jarl of Orkney | ... as were ruled over by local Jarls, originally captains of ships or Hersirs. | and Shetland however, claimed supremacy |
Tom McClintock | ... Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat Cruz Bustamante, fellow Republican | , and others. His nearest rival, Bustamante, received 31% of the vote. In ... |
Duke of Buckingham | ... n the UK today. The arms were first borne at the Battle of Agincourt by the | |
Michael O'Kennedy | ... of Lynch for this move. In the same year the Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, | , published a Fianna Fáil policy document calling for a withdrawal of Brit ... |
Ippolito de' Medici | ... ence, republican enemies of the Medici took advantage of the chaos to exile | . Bandinelli, a supporter of the Medici, was also exiled. In 1530 Emperor ... |
Gul Agha Sherzai | ... ilitias nor the government in Kabul, but was ruled by local leaders such as | and their militias. In 1994, the Taliban (a movement originating from Jami ... |
Andrew George | ... , David Mudd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (Liberal Party) and currently | (Liberal Democrats |
Maggie Brooks | The county's executive branch is headed by the County Executive, | . The executive's office is located on the first floor of the County Offic ... |
Malcolm Glazer | ... eeding the approximately $1.5 billion purchase of Manchester United F.C. by | in 2005. On the same day, the members of the group announced a partnership ... |
Leopold VI, Duke of Austria | ... Vienna, Austria, traces its history to an endowment made by the Babenberger | (“the Glorious”) to the Cistercian monks at Lilienfeld Abbey in 1202, thou ... |
Cruz Bustamante | ... f the vote to choose a successor to Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat | , fellow Republican Tom McClintock, and others. His nearest rival, Bustama ... |
Arthur Coles | ... y, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, | and Alexander Wilson. The UAP–Country Party coalition and the Labor partie ... |
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 ... |
Lord Gambier | ... mudians had preceded him into senior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral | , and Bermudian-born Royal Marines Brigadier Harvey, who, when promoted to ... |
USS Monitor | ... g the burned-out hulk of USS Merrimack. Virginia engaged the Union ironclad | in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads during the Union blockade of Hampton ... |
Charles Haughey | In 1975 Lynch allowed | to return to his Front Bench as Spokesperson on Health. There was much med ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
Moses | ... received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer returned to the theatre to play | in a Los Angeles musical production of , produced by BCBG founder Max Azri ... |
Anne of Brittany | ... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry | , and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ... |
Barthold Georg Niebuhr | ... University of Bonn include the poet August Wilhelm Schlegel, the historian | , the theologians Karl Barth and Joseph Ratzinger and the poet Ernst Morit ... |
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 |
Gray Davis | On October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor | being removed from office with 55.4% of the Yes vote in favor of a recall. ... |
Alfred Byrne | ... hat there was a standard formation for English longbow armies was argued by | in his influential work on the battles of the Hundred Years War, The Crecy ... |
Tom O'Higgins | ... Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's | |
David Leveaux | ... song for Yente and two other women called "Topsy-Turvy". It was directed by | . The production was nominated for six Tonys but did not win any |
Secretary of Defense | ... rview for the Johnson Presidential Library oral history archives, Johnson's | Robert McNamara stated that a carrier battle group, the U.S. 6th Fleet, se ... |
Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
Eriq La Salle | ... Priestley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, | , Patricia Richardson, Patrick Warburton, Anna Gunn, Claudia Christian, Ja ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
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 ... |
Ben Chifley | ... election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, | , and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years |
Denzel Washington | ... e played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside | and Angelina Jolie |
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 ... |
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher | ... ant and a High Sheriff. Currently the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire is | and the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire is Amanda Nicholson. The office of ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... rion counties in Virginia. Most historians think the county was named after | , while a minority believe it was named after Zachary Taylor |
Meriwether Lewis | ... ritory of the Blackfeet until the United States claimed the region in 1803. | was the first white person to visit the site, which he did on June 13, 180 ... |
Abdul Ali Mazari | ... f Kabul from water, food and energy supplies. The Iran-controlled Wahdat of | [as well as the Ittihad of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf supported by Saudi Arabia] t ... |
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 ... |
Prince of Orange | ... t Languet, who served as de Saxe under Emperor Charles V and then under the | , who claimed in 1565 that Vesalius was performing an autopsy on an aristo ... |
Paolo Barelli | ... January 2007, he received from the Italian Swimming Federation's president | , swim and water polo coach diplomas |
Geoffrey Keating | In | 's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's "ninth appellation it received likewise ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill. | spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932 |
Martin Scorsese | The concert was directed and filmed by | . Concert footage and interviews with the band members and friends were co ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President | to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ... |
Dino Rossi | Murray was challenged by Republican nominee | . Leading up to the election, Murray was endorsed by several prominent Was ... |
Adam McKay | ... filming the independent comedy, Bachelorette, produced by Will Ferrell and | .Reports have stated that she will join Clive Owen and Orlando Bloom in th ... |
Maximilian I | Whatever lustre the international position won by | might add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ... |
Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
David Arquette | On June 25, 2002, in an episode of Son of the Beach, | guest-starred as Johnny Queefer in a send-off episode entitled "Saturday N ... |
J. P. Morgan | ... ng to convince Hoover to veto the bill, calling it "an economic stupidity." | 's chief executive Thomas W. Lamont said he "almost went down on [his] kne ... |
Alan Rickman | ... ident of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and Zooey Deschanel as Trillian, with | providing the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android (and Warwick Davis acti ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Luc Godard | ... 7 Resnais participated with six other directors, including Chris Marker and | , in a collective work about the Vietnam war, (Far from Vietnam) |
Vito Volterra | ... xplained in terms of the theory of dislocations which had been developed by | in 1905. The insight was critical in developing the field of solid mechani ... |
Lew Wasserman | MCA head | , whose client list included James Stewart, Janet Leigh and other actors w ... |
Trofim Lysenko | ... happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of | gained the backing of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such a ... |
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 ... |
Pope Leo X | In the bureaucratic world of the Roman Catholic Church, | eventually granted Scotland exclusive right over the word, and this led to ... |
Matthias Erzberger | ... ides, e.g. the murder of Republican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), | (1921), or Walther Rathenau (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisati ... |
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 ... |
David Lowry Swain | During the Civil War, North Carolina Governor | persuaded Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt some students fr ... |
Lachlan Macquarie | ... of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after | , an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales |
Rudy Giuliani | In 2000, at the Inner Circle press dinner, mayor | spoofed John Travolta by dancing to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Giulia ... |
Jackie Chan | ... of Around the World in 80 Days, where he appeared onscreen with action star | for the first time. In 2005 he appeared as himself in the film The Kid & I ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... four years' study in Paris, she had her operatic début 1864 as Violetta in | 's opera La Traviata at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris. After this success she ... |
Chuck Jones | ... Sonny with a Chance & Kappa Mikey feature a sketch show within the TV show. | 's 1953 cartoon Duck Amuck shows Daffy Duck trapped in a cartoon that an u ... |
Liam Cosgrave | ... called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minister for Defence, Paddy Donegan. | refused to sack his Minister and the government's popularity took a downtu ... |
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 ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... in the America. The town would be incorporated in 1764 by Colonial Governor | . In 1794, a bridge was completed across Little Bay from Fox Point in Newi ... |
Governor | ... y in Bermuda is vested in the monarch and is exercised on her behalf by the | . The governor is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the British Gove ... |
John Hancock | ... ts passed on this demand to their customers, although the popular governor, | , did not impose hard currency demands on poorer borrowers and refused to ... |
Kurt Eisner | ... wing political homicides, e.g. the murder of Republican politicians such as | (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or Walther Rathenau (1922) by right-win ... |
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 ... |
Duke Eudes | ... was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated | in the Battle of the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... wide margin. On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senator | of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his th ... |
Bourke B. Hickenlooper | ... part, the senators were dismayed about the attack, as expressed by Senator | : "From what I have read I can't tolerate for 1 minute that this [attack] ... |
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 |
Elizabeth Hanford Dole | ... inet. Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator | of North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party. | and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ... |
Syama Prasad Mookerjee | The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr | in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause. The party opposed the appeasemen ... |
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 |
Vice Presidential | ... ted Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's | running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Le ... |
Rod Chandler | ... tic nomination. In the general election she faced Republican Representative | , whom she defeated 54 percent to 46 percent despite being outspent by a w ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | Mercantilist policies have included: | 's work in seventeenth century France exemplified classical mercantilism. ... |
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 ... |
Paddy Donegan | ... 976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minister for Defence, | . Liam Cosgrave refused to sack his Minister and the government's populari ... |
William Tryon | ... County now includes 37 counties of New York State. The county was named for | , colonial governor of New York |
Adam Smith | ... al mercantilism. In the English-speaking world its ideas were criticized by | with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later David Rica ... |
Winston Churchill | ... lew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with | 's British War Cabinet. En route he inspected Singapore's defences – findi ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... st the Islamic State and Massoud were known for their systematic brutality. | released 10,000 dangerous criminals from the main prisons into the streets ... |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... rust. On 30 March 2011, she sang at a gala celebrating the 80th birthday of | . She also performed at the Classical Brit Awards in May 2011, singing Gol ... |
Damon Dash | ... ither was married. Aaliyah was engaged to co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records | at the time of her death and had plans to marry him after the premiere of ... |
Corliss Lamont | ... wanted to distance the ACLU from communism; opposing them were Harry Ward, | and Elizabeth Flynn who rejected any political test for ACLU leadership. A ... |
Henry Ford | ... terson, Henry Seager, Frank Taussig, and Clair Wilcox. Automobile executive | spent an evening at the White House trying to convince Hoover to veto the ... |
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 ... |
Otto Kerner | ... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor | |
Pope Benedict XIV | ... Vatican gained the recognition of Portugal as a lawful sovereign country by | in 1748 and the title "Most Faithful King" bestowed upon him and his succe ... |
Thomas Paine | ... ear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, | 's pamphlet Common Sense was published. Paine, who had only recently arriv ... |
Counts of Bordeaux | ... r sympathise with a Basque rebellion. Under the Carolingians, sometimes the | held the title concomitantly with that of Duke of Vasconia. They were mean ... |
George Romney | ... cent, from 25 percent four months before. He ran about even with Republican | in trial matchups that spring. Asked to explain why he was unpopular, John ... |
Maria Anna of Austria | John married Archduchess | , daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, his first cousin, in 1708. Fr ... |
Barbra Streisand | ... g Australian singer Jamie Redfern and Canadian banjo player Scotty Plummer. | was his most notable new adult act, early in her career |
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 ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... Presidential elections Klickitat is something of a "swing county." In 1988 | narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972 ... |
James Whetter | ... inster parliamentary seats as well as local government ones. On 28 May 1975 | left MK to form the Cornish Nationalist Party which was campaigning for fu ... |
Ron Howard | ... ell as appearing in The Missing, where he again worked with Willow director | . The next year, he starred in Spartan, where he played a United States go ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... Arabia] targeted civilians of the 'opposite side' in systematic atrocities. | allowed crimes as a perceived payment for his troops. For civilians there ... |
Brock Adams | ... a series of articles by The Seattle Times alleging that incumbent Democrat | had sexually assaulted a number of women. When Adams dropped out of the el ... |
Paul Douglas | ... s in the U.S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by | , Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Sea ... |
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 ... |
Jackie Fahey | ... rship election arise. This group, known as the "gang of five," consisted of | , Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
Bodhidharma | ... of Buddhism from India during the early 5th century AD, with the figure of | , to China |
Vito Genovese | During his exile, Luciano missed a major power shift in America. | , who was at one time Luciano's Underboss, had decided that he wanted to t ... |
Ignacy Daszyński | ... ember the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with | heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6. Germany ... |
Pope Gregory I | During his reign, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to his predecessor | . Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loom ... |
Helena Charles | ... founded as a pressure group on 6 January 1951 at a meeting held in Redruth. | was elected the organisation's first chair. At the first meeting, MK adopt ... |
Philip II of Spain | ... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
Vincent Gigante | ... o Frank Costello. After a botched 1957 assassination attempt on Costello by | , Costello stepped down as Don and let Genovese take over. But Genovese wa ... |
Aisin-Gioro Puyi | | | 爱新觉罗溥仪 Àixīnjuéluó Pǔy |
Doc Hastings | ... a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+13 and has been represented by Republican | since 1995. In state government the county is part of the fifteenth distri ... |
Bill Drummond | ... ouse on the corner of Grove Road and Roman Road, London E3. Jimmy Cauty and | of the K Foundation received media coverage for the award of the "Anti-Tur ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... for Versailles became more of a matter for public record, especially after | assumed the post of finance minister. Expenditures on Versailles have been ... |
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 ... |
Secretary of the Interior | ... in my wildest dreams imagined such a nihilistic slab of stone.” James Watt, | under President Ronald Reagan, initially refused to issue a building permi ... |
Guillaume Durand | ... and the celebration of the Eucharist. The first attribution was this was in | 's thirteenth-century Rationale Divinorum Officiorum |
Bill Bradley | ... Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and | of New Jersey in the Senate |
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 ... |
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz | ... pported by authors such as Anthony Cascardi and Canavaggio. Others, such as | (or Francisco Olmos Garcia, who considers it a "tired issue" and only supp ... |
George Romney | ... njured, and the inner city a burned out shell. In Detroit in 1967, Governor | sent in 7400 national guard troops to quell fire bombings, looting, and at ... |
Syd Coventry | ... ord. Collingwood also had three Brownlow Medallists during the period, with | winning in 1927, Albert Collier in 1929 and Harry Collier in 193 |
Cumaean Sibyl | The sibyl who most concerned the Romans was the | , located near the Greek city of Naples, whom Virgil's Aeneas consults bef ... |
Titian | ... anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which most believe was illustrated by | 's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, though others believe was illustrated by ... |
Heinrich Heine | ... luence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and | , but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his ... |
Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
George Colley | ... here was an open mutiny by many backbenchers when the Minister for Finance, | , attempted to impose a 2% levy on farmers. Colley was forced into a humil ... |
Deendayal Upadhyaya | ... and building it up as a nation-wide movement fell on the young shoulders of | . For 15 years, he remained the outfit's general secretary and built it up ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... the Republic of Upper Volta, it was renamed on 4 August 1984, by President | , to mean "the land of upright people" in Mòoré and Dioula, the major nati ... |
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 |
Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
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 ... |
Walther Rathenau | ... lican politicians such as Kurt Eisner (1919), Matthias Erzberger (1921), or | (1922) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul. In 1926, the 27th ... |
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 ... |
Lupo | ... was appointed count of Bordeaux, probably undermining the power of the Duke | , and possibly leading to the Battle of Roncevaux Pass that very year. In ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... r, food and energy supplies. The Iran-controlled Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari | targeted civilians of the 'opposite side' in systematic atrocities. Abdul ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... ate for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close friend of Governor | , whose first wife, Diana Spencer, was cousin to the Duke of Marlborough. ... |
Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
Benning Wentworth | ... early as 1719, but township was not granted until 1742 by Colonial Governor | , following separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts. In 1831, North ... |
Helgi Haddingjaskati | ... Sigrún dies of sadness, but that the two are thought to have been reborn as | and the valkyrie Kára |
Jock McHale | ... tive premierships in 1935 and 1936. The club's coach during this period was | , who served as coach from 1912 to 1949, a VFL/AFL record. Collingwood als ... |
Robert Hays | The 1980 film Airplane! contained a parody scene, with | mocking the famous pose and the clothing shown on the poster and album cov ... |
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 | |
Dean Rusk | ... e are intelligence and military officials who dispute Israel's explanation. | , U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote: I was never ... |
Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
Russell Simmons | The other production credit on Raising Hell went to Run's brother, | ; he ran Rush Artist Management, now Rush Communications, which as well as ... |
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 ... |
Charles McGrath | ... ons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs--Moses Gabb, Allan Guy and | --resigned from the ALP in protest of the Scullin government's economic po ... |
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 ... |
Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
Carlo Gambino | ... Queens. More than 2,000 mourners attended his funeral. His longtime friend, | , spoke at the funeral |
Martynas Mažvydas | ... l translation in 1545; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by | was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). La ... |
Reinhard Heydrich | ... des in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination. | was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on beh ... |
Dick Lugar | ... osition of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, | , Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretic ... |
Alexander Prokhorov | ... ples describing the operation of a maser was described by Nikolay Basov and | from Lebedev Institute of Physics at an All-Union Conference on Radio-Spec ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the | (played by Stephen Fry) |
Thomas Sankara | ... hting developed between moderates in the CSP and the radicals, led by Capt. | , who was appointed prime minister in January 1983. The internal political ... |
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 ... |
John McMichael | ... d into the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party in 1981 under the leadership of | , a prominent UDA member killed by the IRA in 1987, amid suspicion that he ... |
Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
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 |
Carlo Gambino | ... nded his funeral. His longtime friend, Carlo Gambino, spoke at the funeral. | was the only other boss besides Luciano to have complete control of the Co ... |
Marshal Ney | ... with false intelligence. He divided his army into a left wing commanded by | , a right wing commanded by Marshal Grouchy, and a reserve, which he comma ... |
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 ... |
George Clooney | ... f the villains. Kilmer went on to do The Saint with a salary of $6 million. | replaced Kilmer as Batman in 1997's Batman & Robin |
Reed Smoot | ... goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition. | championed another tariff increase within the USA in 1929, which became th ... |
Émile Borel | ... loped in successive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by | , Henri Lebesgue, Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lagrange | ... tional symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by | and Laplace in the 1770s has been put in the form of operator equalities b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jesus | ... (under February 4), was a pious woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as | carried his cross to Golgotha, gave him her veil that he might wipe his fo ... |
Carlo Gambino | ... i Capi, and that he be crowned Boss of all Bosses. But he did not count on | , one of Luciano's protégés, to hold loyalty to his old Boss |
Charles Albert | Untaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son, | (1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ... |
Saye Zerbo | ... ountry's traditionally powerful trade unions, and on 25 November 1980, Col. | overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup. Colonel Zerbo establishe ... |
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 ... |
Albert Reynolds | ... consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and | |
Moses Gabb | ... nment. Soon afterward, Lyons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs-- | , Allan Guy and Charles McGrath--resigned from the ALP in protest of the S ... |
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 ... |
Sam Peckinpah | ... terrorised by intruders, Robert Aldrich's Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and | 's TV film of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine (1966). In 1965, s ... |
Spike Jonze | ... e revealed to be a movie being enjoyed by the characters. Parts of director | 's Adaptation. follows a fictionalized version of screenwriter Charlie Kau ... |
Pope Gregory I | He had been sent by | as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely ... |
Charles VI | ... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperor | proved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ... |
Francisco de Miranda | ... n the Venezuelan War of Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo | , Simón Bolívar (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of A ... |
Nikolay Basov | ... theoretical principles describing the operation of a maser was described by | and Alexander Prokhorov from Lebedev Institute of Physics at an All-Union ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... d 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. Secretary of the Treasury | was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source of government reve ... |
Najib Tun Razak | On April 21, 2009, the prime minister | has announce liberalisation of 27 services sub-sector by abolishing the 30 ... |
Allan Guy | ... afterward, Lyons, Fenton and three other right-wing Labor MPs--Moses Gabb, | and Charles McGrath--resigned from the ALP in protest of the Scullin gover ... |
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 ... |
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin | ... constant is a recurring constant in number theory. The French mathematician | proved in 1898 that when taking any positive integer n and dividing it by ... |
Aaron Burr | ... rst bid for the presidency with Jefferson as its presidential candidate and | as its vice presidential candidate. Jefferson came in second in the electo ... |
Bevil Grenville | ... ly, and many panicked. 1,400 of them fled, some as far as Oxford. Under Sir | , Hopton's Cornish pikemen stormed Waller's breastworks, while Royalist mu ... |
Elton John | ... hit on the UK Singles Chart, a remake of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with | , which went to number seven. It was around this time that RuPaul co-hoste ... |
Alfred P. Sloan | ... nd Lindzen (born February 8, 1940) is an American atmospheric physicist and | Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lin ... |
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo | ... unions and was overthrown two years later, on 7 November 1982, by Maj. Dr. | and the Council of Popular Salvation (CSP). The CSP continued to ban polit ... |
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 |
Byzantine Papacy | ... from 604 to 606. He was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo. Pope during the | , he was fourth former apocrisiarius to Constantinople elected pope |
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. ... |
Debbie Allen | ... lebrities guest-starred on the series over the course of its run, including | , Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Sh ... |
Robert Peel | ... inst repeal was 303, by 1845 this had decreased to 132. The first year that | voted in favour was 1846, though he had spoken in favour of repeal during ... |
Reed Smoot | ... moot-Hawley Tariff or Hawley-Smoot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator | and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, ... |
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 ... |
Adam Smith | ... f free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of | , David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Billy Bragg | ... while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include | and Aztec Camera. U2's The Edge has compared the Clash's inspirational eff ... |
Stanley Bruce | ... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down | 's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ... |
Secretary of the Treasury | ... e tariff were between 5 and 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. | Alexander Hamilton was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source ... |
Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st Baronet | ... son of Frederick Henry Norman and Lina Susan Penelope Collet, a daughter of | , himself a Bank of England Governor. The Norman family were well known in ... |
Adam Smith | ... nomist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least | . Unlike Hayek however Polanyi argues that there are higher and lower form ... |
Rick Rubin | ... out so much as knowing the name of the band. When Raising Hell ' s producer | heard them playing around with it in the studio, he suggested using the ly ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
Mark Ruffalo | ... ll begin in Spring of 2012. In January 2012, Dunst will also star alongside | and Billy Crudup in the drama film, Red Light Winter |
Richard Wagner | ... June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was an English woman married to Siegfried Wagner, | 's son. She was the effective head of the Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, ... |
John Randolph | ... ith the antislavery movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as | and John C. Calhoun found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's ass ... |
Thomas Sankara | ... zed power in a coup d'état in 1987, betraying his long-time friend and ally | , who was killed in the coup |
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 ... |
Joe Masseria | ... ented Mafia coup, facilitating the murders of two of the most feared bosses | and Salvatore Maranzano. At the peak of his criminal career Lucky Luciano' ... |
Robert De Niro | ... fessional boxer and former World Middleweight Champion. He was portrayed by | in the 1980 film Raging Bull |
Bartolomé de las Casas | ... y evidence is the multi-volume History of the Indies by the Catholic priest | who observed the region where Columbus was governor. In contrast to "the m ... |
Blaise Compaoré | ... elections. The amendment also would have prevented the incumbent president, | , from being reelected |
Liu Mingchuan | ... of coastal defenses and on 12 October 1885 Taiwan was made a province, with | serving as the first governor. He divided Taiwan into eleven counties and ... |
Deborah Pratt | # Prologue (Saga Sell) – Music by Mike Post/Velton Ray Bunch, narrated by | (1:05 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ... ity in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister. | who had become the leader of the Jana Sangh after Upadhyaya's death in 196 ... |
Solomon | ... beginning of 2 Chronicles (chapters 1–9) is a history of the reign of King | , son of David |
Thurgood Marshall | ... ry responsibility for Supreme Court cases (often led by lead NAACP attorney | ), with the ACLU focusing on police misconduct, and supporting the NAACP w ... |
Samuel Hill | ... lickitat County was created out of Walla Walla County on December 20, 1859. | was an early promoter of the area, promoting better roads and building loc ... |
Shaun Woodward | ... up now regretted being responsible for the killing of more than 400 people. | , the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, stated that this "i ... |
Nicholas V | ... er, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447; in that year a bull of | gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the ... |
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 ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
Abdul Rashid Dostum | ... major leaders including the Islamic State's President Burhanuddin Rabbani, | , and others were living in exile. The Taliban repeatedly offered Massoud ... |
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 ... |
Salii | ... Republic, only minor priesthoods with little political importance like the | , the Flamines and the Rex Sacrorum were exclusively filled by patricians |
Dante | ... edieval than in the modern side of the movement, working on translations of | and other Medieval Italian poets, and adopting the stylistic characteristi ... |
General William Lenoir | ... eturned from Christmas holidays in January 1940. The building was named for | , first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university in 1790. The n ... |
Mozart | ... the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and | . It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student t ... |
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 ... |
Robert Peel | During 1841 Sir | became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent o ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ts (who had formed the All for Australia League), and former Prime Minister | ' Australian Party (a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled f ... |
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 ... |
Sylvester Stallone | ... In The Simpsons Movie (2007), he is portrayed as the President, and in the | movie, Demolition Man (1993, ten years before his first run for political ... |
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 ... |
Rex Sacrorum | ... hoods with little political importance like the Salii, the Flamines and the | were exclusively filled by patricians |
Morarji Desai | ... anata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with | as Prime Minister. Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had become the leader of the J ... |
Deborah Pratt | ... o appears in the first season episode "How the Tess Was Won"), and later by | (Bellisario's wife, as well as a co-producer and writer on the show). A sh ... |
Marc Webb | ... neo-classical composer, and Ofer Ben-Amots, an Israeli composer. Filmmaker | (class of 1995) was nominated for several awards including two Golden Glob ... |
Al Capone | ... Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by | . Waller was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. ... |
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 ... |
Kirk Douglas | ... ind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and | . It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Mi ... |
Chester W. Nimitz | ... he lead ship of the class is named for World War II Pacific fleet commander | , who was the Navy's last fleet admiral. With an overall length of and ful ... |
Prince Johnson | ... n relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast. | , a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia's Truth ... |
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 ... |
Jo Ann Emerson | ... strict and is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by | (R-Cape Girardeau) |
Albert Gallatin | ... inst him two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. | recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, on ... |
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 ... |
Avitus | ... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senator | was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ... |
Walt Disney | ... Servants' Entrance (1934), which featured a combination of live action and | animation in a musical dream sequence. He played the title role in Young D ... |
Aaron Burr | ... 1800 election, but an equal number of electors cast votes for Jefferson and | . The tie sent the election to the House, and Federalists there blocked an ... |
Phil Angelides | Schwarzenegger ran for re-election against Democrat | , the California State Treasurer, in the 2006 elections, held on November ... |
Adam Smith | ... the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments of | and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel s ... |
Cato the Elder | ... sea cabbage and wild cabbage, it was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans | ;praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "It i ... |
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 ... |
Shannon Higgins | ... James Worthy and Michael Jordan in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), | , Kristine Lilly, and Tisha Venturini in women's soccer |
John Byron | ... hen this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir | , the Lieutenant of the Tower. The Trained Bands had switched sides, and n ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
John Stuart | ... granted in 1770 and incorporated in 1795. Originally named Stuart after Sir | , it was incorporated as Stewartstown after the Revolutionary War, followi ... |
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 ... |
Joint Chiefs of Staff | In Washington, President Lyndon B. Johnson had received word from the | that the Liberty had been torpedoed by an unknown vessel at 9:50 a.m. east ... |
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 ... |
Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... hist Michele Schirru was executed after a failed assassination plot against | |
Emperor Maximilian | ... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of the | and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ... |
Al Capone | ... often debate as to who was the greater between Luciano and his contemporary | . The much publicized exploits of Al Capone with the Chicago Outfit made h ... |
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 ... |
J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
Ezequiel Zamora | ... Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General | and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
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 |
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 ... |
Earle Page | ... yons formed an exclusively UAP government supported by the Country Party of | . In 1934, however, the UAP lost six seats, forcing Lyons to renew the tra ... |
Richard Wagner | ... enrietta Karop, and her husband Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of | |
Síle de Valera | ... th the new British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. These discussions led | , a backbench TD, to directly challenge the leadership in a speech at the ... |
Norman Thomas | ... anti-communists from ACLU leadership. In 1953, the anti-communists, led by | and James Fly, proposed a set of resolutions that inferred guilt of person ... |
John Lloyd | ... adder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by | . The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 198 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... ilism in the 17th century. This French mercantilism was best articulated by | (in office, 1665–1683), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon |
Philip Game | ... instead of into Government bank accounts. The New South Wales Governor, Sir | , intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the s ... |
Pietro Gasparri | ... litus, and, for the codification of Canon Law, which under della Chiesa and | , he as Eugenio Pacelli had the opportunity to participate in |
Robert De Niro | ... fellas (1990) – all of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend | . He won the Academy Award for Best Director for (2006), having been nomin ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
Joel Schumacher | In December 1993, Batman Forever director | had seen Tombstone and was most impressed with Kilmer's performance as Doc ... |
R. S. Thomas | ... e – George Szirtes – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – | – Francis Thompson – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Towns ... |
Salvatore Maranzano | ... facilitating the murders of two of the most feared bosses Joe Masseria and | . At the peak of his criminal career Lucky Luciano's influence was far rea ... |
McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
Wincenty Witos | ... eking his leadership and intent on preventing the three-time prime minister | of the peasant Polish People's Party from forming another coalition, stage ... |
Phil Ford | ... letes of the year from North Carolina include Rachel Dawson in field hockey | ;, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, James Worthy and Michae ... |
Tommy Kirkham | ... p for some time, support Shoukri and break away under former UPRG spokesman | . Other senior members met with Taoiseach for talks on 13 July in the same ... |
Antonio Gramsci | ... sion by the fascist regime of its opponents within the region was ruthless. | , one of the founders of Italian Communist Party, was arrested and died in ... |
Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
Sir Edmund Hillary | ... rst accomplished in 1913 by Freda du Faur and guides Peter and Alex Graham. | made his first ascent in January 1948. In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, H ... |
John J. Beckley | Just as important was effective party organization of the sort that | pioneered. In 1796, he managed the Jefferson campaign in Pennsylvania, bla ... |
Saer de Quincy | ... half that passed to his younger sister Margaret, and thereby to her husband | who in 1207 was made Earl of Winchester. Napton was still part of the Hono ... |
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 ... |
Pope Julius II | ... ibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean Sibyl and the Erythraean Sibyl. The library of | in the Vatican has images of sibyls and they are in the pavement of the Si ... |
Hannah McKinney | ... he current mayor, Bobby J. Hopewell, was elected November 13, 2007, beating | , who automatically became vice mayor |
William the Silent | ... n again in Western Europe. The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland (1296), | of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and Henry ... |
Governor of Virginia | ... n was 96,319. It was organized in 1809 and named for William H. Cabell, the | from 1805 to 1808. Its county seat is Huntington |
Agnès Varda | ... Le Chant du styrène); and with other film-makers (Resnais was the editor of | 's first film, La Pointe courte, and co-directed with Chris Marker Les sta ... |
Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
Nathan Dane | Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county. It was named after | , a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped ... |
John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
Greg Dyke | ... especially, Esther Rantzen. He was a vociferous critic of Director-General | and BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey, who he blamed for lowering the sta ... |
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 ... |
Philip Doddridge | ... 5 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counties, and named for | (1773–1832), a distinguished of Western Virginia, who spent the greater pa ... |
George Colley | ... e untenable, with supporters of Haughey caucusing opinion within the party. | , the man who Lynch saw as his successor, went to him and encouraged him t ... |
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 ... |
Maurice Yaméogo | ... ugust 1960, it attained full independence from France. The first president, | , was the leader of the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV). The 1960 constitut ... |
Lynden Pindling | In 1967, Sir | of the Progressive Liberal Party became the first black premier of the col ... |
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 ... |
Enid Lyons | ... hes". Lyons was assisted in his campaigning by his politically active wife, | . She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husban ... |
Leonard Nimoy | ... nclude Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), Theodore Bikel and | . Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Lipson, went on to ... |
Jacob | ... he narrative of Joseph, refers to Benjamin as the righteous youngest son of | . Muslim tradition, however, fleshes out the details regarding Benjamin an ... |
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 ... |
William Huskisson | ... the protectionist system. During 1821 the President of the Board of Trade, | , composed a Commons Committee report which recommended a return to the "p ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... ashi was the first who became widely recognized. Wataru Takada, inspired by | , also became popular.. They both were influenced by American folk music b ... |
Yoshiyuki Tomino | is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by | , it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, a ... |
Franconia | ... nal courts of Westphalia which, in turn, were based on the county courts of | . They received their jurisdiction from the Holy Roman Emperor, from whom ... |
Władysław Grabski | ... nomic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( | 's economically competent government lasted for almost two years). The ach ... |
Sargent Shriver | ... people. I was exposed to the idea of being a public servant and Eunice and | became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of John F. Kennedy, a ... |
Andrey Kolmogorov | ... pplications of measures are in the foundations of the Lebesgue integral, in | 's axiomatisation of probability theory and in ergodic theory. In integrat ... |
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 ... |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ... , or sexual at all — a famous early sexless example being Herland (1915) by | . Charlene Ball writes in Women's studies encyclopedia that use of specula ... |
Corliss Lamont | ... cisions, including Lamont v. Postmaster General (in which the plaintiff was | , a former ACLU board member), which upheld fifth amendment protections an ... |
Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
Sangoulé Lamizana | ... nded the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lt. Col. | at the head of a government of senior army officers. The army remained in ... |
Tennyson's | ... of two illustrations by Rossetti for Edward Moxon's illustrated edition of | Poems (1857 |
Josiah Child | ... culated the Elizabethan System, which in turn was then developed further by | . Numerous French authors helped cement French policy around mercantilism ... |
Thomas E. Trowbridge | ... County was represented in the Wyoming House of Representatives by Democrat | (1930-2009) of Saratoga, a Nebraska native. From 1982-1986, Trowbridge was ... |
Horace Stoneham | ... l reasons, among others. Along the way, he managed to convince Giants owner | (who was considering moving his team to Minnesota) to preserve the rivalry ... |
Frederick H. Billings | ... growth from its founding as a railroad town in 1882. The city is named for | , a former president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. With one of the lar ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... th an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by | . Near the ending, the events of the film itself are revealed to be a movi ... |
Lord Dorchester | ... s, and pockets of local resistance continued. Some rebel leaders approached | , the British governor of Quebec for assistance, who was reported to promi ... |
Robert de Beaumont | The Domesday Book records that in 1086 | , Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 Henry I made ... |
Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
Sir Ernest Gowers | ... tably of all, Fowler's Modern English Usage and The Complete Plain Words by | . Detailed guidance on many aspects of writing British English for publica ... |
Comiskey Park | LaMotta and Robinson had their fifth bout at | , Chicago, Illinois on September 26, 1945. Robinson won by a very controve ... |
Duke of Wellington | ... ies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the | combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. It ... |
Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
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 ... |
Jacob | ... Qur'an, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with | when the older brothers plotted against Joseph |
Síle de Valera | ... ury to many in Fianna Fáil. When Lynch returned he was confronted openly by | , Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with T ... |
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 ... |
Lal Krishna Advani | ... uism, where a temple should be reconstructed. The party under its president | galvanised the nation with various rath yatras and succeeded in awakening ... |
Nathan Twining | Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen. | , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska; and Jac ... |
Schwarzenegger | ... tions. Bodrov responded: The Americans make movies about the Russians where | as a policeman tears off gumbah's leg and drugs are hailing from it and be ... |
Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
Princess of Wales | ... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the | , and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ... |
Levi Eshkol | ... speed of Israel's notification. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister | , Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 4 ... |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | ... he political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 | breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a ... |
Drahomíra | By his wife | , a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, Wenceslaus and B ... |
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 ... |
George Cukor | ... catty gossip Sylvia Fowler in the all-female comedy The Women, directed by | . The film was a major hit, boosting her career and establishing her reput ... |
Jesus | ... s of the New Testament form the Canonical gospels which recount the life of | and are central to the Christian faith. Christian Bibles include the books ... |
Attorney General | ... nty was created in 1848 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for U.S. | and presidential candidate William Wirt. The county is serviced by one hig ... |
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. ... |
Huey P. Newton | ... aver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders | and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out with each other, r ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to | and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although ... |
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 ... |
Earle Page | ... plan. On this issue, deputy leader Robert Menzies and Country Party leader | would have a public falling out |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson | ... s Stevenson – John Suckling – Algernon Charles Swinburne – George Szirtes – | – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Francis Thompson – Anthony ... |
William H. Cabell | ... of 2010, the population was 96,319. It was organized in 1809 and named for | , the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. Its county seat is Huntingto ... |
Victor Gruen | ... by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic. The Mall was designed by | , who also designed the country's first enclosed shopping mall, which had ... |
Cassiodorus | Gregory Nazianzen (Oratio 4.108) and | (Variae 1.2) relate how Tyrian Heracles and the nymph Tyrus were walking a ... |
Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
Woodes Rogers | ... as were made a British crown colony in 1718 under the royal governorship of | , who, after a difficult struggle, succeeded in suppressing piracy. In 172 ... |
Lord Melchett | ... he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain | (Stephen Fry) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former ... |
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 ... |
Gavin Newsom | ... zenegger at the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast, San Francisco mayor | said that, "[H]e's becoming a Democrat [... H]e's running back, not even t ... |
Count of Meulan | The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Robert de Beaumont, | held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 Henry I made de Beaumont Earl ... |
John Tyler, Sr. | ... t Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 9,208. The County is named after | , father of President John Tyler. Its county seat is |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | In 1968 after the assassination of | , Brown released "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" following pressur ... |
Adam Smith | ... g other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), Karl Marx quotes | and sums up |
Frank Church | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator | (the Church Committee) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete eviden ... |
Earl Warren | ... Supreme Court in history and has been influential on justices as diverse as | , William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia |
Robert Cummings | ... , producers made a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, | , Ronald Reagan and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the fil ... |
King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
Inejiro Asanuma | In 1960, | , Chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party, was assassinated in a stabbing ... |
Francis Wyatt | ... ed Newcestown near Bandon in County Cork. Newce sailed to Virginia with Sir | in October 1621 and was granted of land. He died two days later. His broth ... |
Aidan Kelly | ... abon, which have become popular in North American Wicca, were introduced by | in the 1970s. The word "sabbat" itself comes from the witches' sabbath or ... |
Roger Sherman | ... lvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and | of Connecticut, to draft a declaration. Because the committee left no minu ... |
Ron Ziegler | ... His legal team favored releasing the tapes unedited, while Press Secretary | preferred using an edited version where "expletive deleted" would replace ... |
Richard Wagner | ... oal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla (mit einziehenden Einheriern) (1880), | 's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1848– ... |
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 ... |
Manetho | ... straea (identified as Virgo), the goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by | (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy ... |
Bob Paisley | ... les, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, | paid a British transfer record of £440,000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool. ... |
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 ... |
Ozzie Virgil | ... eague team to integrate their roster with the addition of Pumpsie Green and | on July 21, 1959. While limited in numbers, the on-field performance of ea ... |
Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
Jesus | ... ligious feeling, the sense of absolute dependence on God as communicated by | through the church, and not the creeds or the letter of Scripture or the r ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... e South America. Based on this Treaty and on the claims by Spanish explorer | to all lands touching the Pacific Ocean, and with help from their powerful ... |
Carl Laemmle | ... as a cemetery, Forest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as | and Cecil B. DeMille. The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The ... |
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 ... |
Yisrael Galili | ... started. On June 1, an agreement had been signed Between Menachem Begin and | for the absorption of the Irgun into the IDF. One of the clauses stated th ... |
Roland Emmerich | Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in | 's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespear ... |
Greek Sibyl | ... tists. Whether the sibyl in question was the Etruscan Sibyl of Tibur or the | of Cumae is not always clear. The Christian author Lactantius had no hesit ... |
Dr. Dre | ... lack Mafia Life proved a surprising success. Especially without the help of | (who produced two tracks and served as overall assistant producer on their ... |
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 ... |
Cecil B. DeMille | ... rest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle and | . The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation w ... |
Donald Trump | ... business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from Milton Friedman to | ... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned a thing or two ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
Nazi Boni | ... rkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as | and Roger Nikiema. The 1960s saw a growth in the number of playwrights bei ... |
Mack Sennett | ... eared with the troupe authentically. In the This Is Your Life TV tribute to | several Sennett alumni ran on stage dressed as Keystone Kops |
Thomas McKean | ... , abstained. Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between | (who voted yes) and George Read (who voted no). The remaining nine delegat ... |
Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
Thomas Wolsey | | , Archbishop of York, Chief Minister and favourite of Henry VIII, took ove ... |
Lester Maddox | ... slature to choose the governor in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat | and Republican Howard Callaway. Whereas Black voted with the majority unde ... |
Garret FitzGerald | ... so put by the Irish government then led by the centre-right Fine Gael under | , and most mainstream Protestant leaders. In the debate, no one actually a ... |
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 ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
Christina Aguilera | ... pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as Britney Spears, | and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at the end of the decade ... |
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) ... |
Michael Chertoff | ... na, Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief | "ran around like Keystone Kops, uncertain about what they were supposed to ... |
David | ... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, | and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ... |
Archbishop of York | Thomas Wolsey, | , Chief Minister and favourite of Henry VIII, took over the site of Hampto ... |
Melchett | ... t characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example | and Lord Flashheart |
Montagu family | ... sion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the | for £20,000. The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occup ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
Warren Buffett | ... iding me... from Milton Friedman to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and | . I even learned a thing or two from Planet Hollywood, such as when to get ... |
Karl Ritter von Halt | ... s were organized on behalf of the Sports Office of the Third Reich (DRL) by | . Von Halt had been named President of the Committee for the organization ... |
James Lapine | ... ania, opposite Roger Daltrey as Liszt, and by Bernadette Peters in the 1991 | film Impromptu, which last dramatized encounters between d'Agoult, Liszt ( ... |
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 ... |
Lee Raymond | ... ers Choi Kyung-Ju and Ben Crane, Terry Bradshaw, the former chief of Exxon, | , former FOX News Host and Radio Commentator Glenn Beck, and Matthew K. Ro ... |
Wulfsige | ... year of succession is unknown. Asser's predecessor as Bishop of Sherborne, | , is known to have attested a charter sometime between 890 and 896. Asser' ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... erforming benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including | 's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the ear ... |
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 ... |
Angelo Liteky | ... knife" of which only 144 were made. It also contains the Medal of Honor of | , who renounced it in 1986 by placing the medal at the memorial in an enve ... |
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 ... |
Georgy Malenkov | ... state) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and | as Premier of the Soviet Union. Voroshilov, Malenkov, and Khrushchev broug ... |
Erythraea | ... ius, and was said to have given birth to the Sibyl, who is sometimes called | , from Erythrae, a small place on Mount Ida (Dionysius of Halicarnassus i. ... |
President pro tempore | ... 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history. He was | in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007 ... |
Prince Christian of Denmark | ... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was | (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ... |
Roy Blunt | United States Senator | was born in Niangua |
Peter Rodman | ... ad to an abyss of violence that Sihanouk had worked for ten years to avoid. | , however disagreed with this view |
Hans von Tschammer und Osten | ... organization of the Fourth Winter Olympics in Garmisch by Reichssportführer | |
Francis Xavier Pierz | ... ly by Catholic German-Americans, who were attracted to the region by Father | . Lower Town was founded by settlers from New England and the mid-Atlantic ... |
Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
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 ... |
Moses | ... ter moved to Egypt. The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of | , who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. He leads the Children ... |
P. D. James | ... s 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for | ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh s ... |
Sean Payton | ... g, the brief and former owner of the Texas Rangers. Other residents include | , Mark Teixeira, Vernon Wells, professional golfers Choi Kyung-Ju and Ben ... |
Don Diego de Vargas | ... en held since 1712 to celebrate the Spanish retaking of the city in 1692 by | from the Pueblo tribes who had occupied the city since the Pueblo Revolt o ... |
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 ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | In the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American. | was a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States ... |
Hero of the Soviet Union | ... to the Central Committee in 1966. Voroshilov was awarded a second medal of | 1968. He died in 1969 in Moscow and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropo ... |
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 ... |
Augustus Hill Garland | ... ted in 1887. The new location was named Garland after U.S. Attorney General | . Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and the th ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber | ... iammetta (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of | (model: Marie Spartali Stillman |
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 ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
John Wayne | ... in The Lost Weekend (1945), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt | in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Mu ... |
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr | ... port, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor | in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supp ... |
Chris Christie | ... k Obama of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans | and Bob McDonnell were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virg ... |
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 ... |
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, former | and a critic of the official United States Government version of events, c ... |
Hugh Scott | ... from people's minds with a wave of the hand." The Senate Republican Leader | said the transcripts revealed a "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immor ... |
Leonid Brezhnev | ... of the Soviet Union granted Voroshilov's request for retirement and elected | chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council (the head of state). The ... |
Plutarch | ... of the Maenads or Thyades in the Korykion cave on Mount Parnassos, although | informs us that his friend Clea was both a Priestess to Apollo and to the ... |
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 |
Knights of Columbus | ... olumbus Day celebrations because of its association with immigrants and the | . They were afraid it was being used to expand Catholic influence. By far ... |
Paul Newman | ... lers set with Cold War-related themes. The first, Torn Curtain (1966), with | and Julie Andrews, displays the bitter end of the twelve-year collaboratio ... |
Joseph Smith | ... lated films) to play the lead role in a film entitled Prophet: The Story of | , although the project never materialized. Kilmer performed in The Postman ... |
Earl Warren | In 1953 Vinson died and was replaced by | . While all members of the Court were New Deal liberals, Black was part of ... |
Julian Bond | ... laws. The ACLU's southern office also defended African-American congressman | in Bond v. Floyd, when the Georgia congress refused to formally induct Bon ... |
Bob McDonnell | ... and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and | were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | An American Civil rights activist, | was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee |
Churchill | ... if it reduced casualties elsewhere by greater amounts. It was thought that | would reverse this decision later (he was then away at a conference); but ... |
Yigael Yadin | ... ion between them and the IDF units started. In response, Ben-Gurion ordered | (acting Chief of Staff) to concentrate large forces on the Tel Aviv beach ... |
Stephen Fry | ... glas Adams (ISBN 1-85695-028-X) in 1994.To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor | , the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition (ISB ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... natively been seen as a labour theory of property. Other writers (including | ) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his Muq ... |
Iris Murdoch | ... on display ranging over books such as Colin Wilson’s The Outsider (panned), | ’s debut novel Under the Net (praised), or William Empson’s Milton’s God ( ... |
Chen Yi | ... cluding the Republic of China's KMT regime which sent the Japanese-educated | to attend the affair. He expressed his admiration about the efficiency of ... |
Jock Stein | ... glish signed a provisional contract with Celtic in May 1967. Celtic manager | sent Sean Fallon to see Dalglish and his parents at their home; on hearing ... |
Elton John | ... services which are not necessarily martial in nature. The British musician | , for example, is a Knight Bachelor, thus entitled to be called Sir Elton. ... |
William Clark | ... of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. York, an African American slave owned by | and who had participated in the Expedition, was the first black American t ... |
Liaquat Ali Khan | ... here was a dramatic new increase in the number of political assassinations. | , the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a ... |
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 ... |
Rob Reiner | ... a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by | . It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The story follows ... |
Prime Minister of Pakistan | Liaquat Ali Khan, the first | , was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951. Conspiracy the ... |
Venantius Fortunatus | ... e Goths by the historian Jordanes dating from 551. Then follows a remark by | in his description of his travels from Ravenna to Tours (565-571) in which ... |
Casimir IV Jagiellon | ... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King | ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ... |
Brad Mays | ... dway production of Dragon Slayers, written by Stanley Keyes and directed by | in 1986 at the Union Square Theatre in New York, which was re-staged with ... |
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 ... |
Senate Majority Leader | On August 9, 2011, | Harry Reid appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint S ... |
Zechariah ben Jehoiada | ... I Chronicles XXIV attributing the gift of prophecy to Joad's son Zacharie ( | ) in order to suppose that the father (whom the Bible does not describe as ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Victor II | ... rban II) and in other versions Victor (which is plausibly identifiable with | ). Ferdinand was prepared to pay, but one of his vassals, later known as E ... |
Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
B. S. Moonje | ... e decided to go to Kolkata to study medicine. He was sent to Kolkata by Dr. | in 1910 to pursue his medical studies. There he lived with Shyam Sundar Ch ... |
Nora Ephron | When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American romantic comedy film written by | and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan a ... |
Peter King | ... iddle-class coastal areas of southwestern Suffolk County, is represented by | , a Republican |
Mikhail Gorbachev | ... atcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, | and NATO representatives |
Sylvester Stallone | ... eme restaurants (modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe) along with Bruce Willis, | and Demi Moore. Schwarzenegger severed his financial ties with the busines ... |
Thomas Browne | ... anz Bardon). The synonymous Hermetical also occurs in the 17th century. Sir | in his Religio Medici of 1643 wrote "Now besides these particular and divi ... |
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 ... |
Infanta Joanna | ... rived from a council of Burgundian notables. On 20 October 1496, he married | , daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, ... |
Charles II of Spain | In 1701, following the death in late 1700 of King | , war broke out over who should succeed him to the Spanish throne. Althoug ... |
Steven Spielberg | That same year, | 's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressiv ... |
Frank Lausche | ... ns being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey, 1932 (George White), 1952 ( | ), and 1958 (Michael V. DiSalle). However, excepting DiSalle, each of thes ... |
Ban Ki-moon | ... arious sizes up to chlorine tanker trucks. United Nations Secretary-General | condemned the attacks as, "clearly intended to cause panic and instability ... |
Prime Minister | ... was nearly 60 that St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie King appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
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 ... |
Willie Jones | ... ormed in 1779 from the southwestern part of Craven County. It was named for | , a Revolutionary leader and president of the North Carolina Council of Sa ... |
Paul Brownstein | ... icts) and fed live to movie theatres across the country. Thirty years later | tracked down a print of the "lost" show in a St. Louis closet after someon ... |
Sir Henry Vane the Elder | ... , and been most active in conducting it, the object of which was to prevent | 's elevation to the office of Secretary of State. This unfortunate quarrel ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig | ... cey, Roger Blake, Denis Lill, Warren Clarke and Geoffrey Palmer, who played | in "Goodbyeee", the final, fatal episode of Blackadder Goes Forth |
Laurence Olivier | ... prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring | , Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson. Burghley (spelled Burleigh in the film) ... |
Henry II | ... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to | that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ... |
House of Glücksburg | ... xandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the | |
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 ... |
Edward Hyde | ... o ask it to pass finance bills, since the Bishops' Wars had bankrupted him. | recalled the subdued tone of his entrance to Parliament |
Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
Peter Pilz | In 2005, | , from the Austrian Green Party, demanded that parliament revoke Schwarzen ... |
Eric Williams | ... f Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect in abolition was downplayed by historian | , who argued that abolition was motivated not by humanitarianism but by ec ... |
Prime Minister | ... regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative | Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme ... |
Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
George Mason | ... ne 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and | 's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from bot ... |
Robin Raphel | In 1997, U.S. State Department's | told Massoud to surrender to the Taliban. She obtained a clear answer with ... |
Earl of Uxbridge | ... y of his staff officers on Wellington, including his second-in-command, the | . Uxbridge commanded the cavalry and had carte blanche from Wellington to ... |
Gerald Gardner | After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claim ... |
Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
K. B. Hedgewar | It was founded in 1925 by | , a revolutionary and doctor from Nagpur, as a social and cultural organiz ... |
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 ... |
Hellespontine | ... raclitus names at least three Sibyls, the Phrygian, the Erythraean, and the | . Frazer, James, translation and commentary on Pausanias, Description of G ... |
Earl of Suffolk | ... ch included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including the | who as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade ag ... |
Windows Explorer | ... could be accessed by any OLE software, and was installed as an extension to | (the desktop/file manager) and was later included in Windows 2000 |
Henry W. Grout | ... ished in 1932, the district started with an endowment set up in the will of | . The district is a nonprofit educational entity that is active in engagin ... |
Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka | ... Vietnam and China, his government was overthrown in a military coup led by | and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as John St ... |
Robert Bork | ... the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General | . Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he consi ... |
Jacob | ... an account of God's covenant with the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac and | (also called Israel)—and Jacob's children—the "Children of Israel"—especia ... |
Danny McGrain | ... e to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including | , George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay. Dalglish made his first-team ... |
Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
Secretary of State for External Affairs | ... ction of a post war international order and promoted him to the position of | (foreign minister) in 1945, a portfolio King had previously always kept fo ... |
Lewis Morris | Morris County was named after Colonel | , governor of New Jersey in 1738/9, the year the county was named |
Henry IV of France | ... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father | had once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ... |
Edward VI | ... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under | . Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ... |
Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
Queen Victoria | In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of | , the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ... |
Mikhail Frunze | ... year old orphan boy who they named Petya. They also adopted the children of | , following his death in 1925. During Stalin's rule they lived in the at t ... |
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
Philip Heselton | ... buck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as | and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grime ... |
Arkebe Oqubay | | was a Mayor of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He held office from early 2003 to Ma ... |
Members of Parliament | ... risis of 1944). His support prevented more than a handful of Quebec Liberal | (MPs) from leaving the party, and was therefore crucial to keeping the gov ... |
Burgundian Netherlands | ... Emperor, Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the | (as Philip IV) from his mother, Mary of Burgundy, and briefly succeeded to ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... used as the Waterloo Woman's Club. The front lawn of the house was used for | 's Presidential candidacy announcement on June 27, 2011 |
Steve Levy | ... ections have turned the county more toward the Democrats. In 2003, Democrat | was elected county executive, ending longtime Republican control. In 2001, ... |
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 | |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... verwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by Louis XIII of France and | , to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father Henry IV of Fra ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
William Clark | ... d. The Crow Indians frequented this area from about the year 1700. In 1806, | traveled through the region on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He inscribe ... |
Minister of Justice | ... these recommendations, King recruited St. Laurent to his wartime cabinet as | , Lapointe's old post, on December 9. St. Laurent agreed to go to Ottawa o ... |
James J. Hill | ... las Beachley, arrived later that year. With investments from railroad owner | and Helena businessman Charles Arthur Broadwater, houses, a store, and a f ... |
John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
Cardinal Wolsey | ... It is possible that the current design replaced an earlier maze planted for | . It was originally planted with hornbeam; it has been repaired latterly u ... |
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 ... |
Lou Macari | ... f future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, | , and David Hay. Dalglish made his first-team competitive debut for Celtic ... |
Saint Boniface | ... essed indeed a heathen reaction, but the arrival in Bavaria in about 734 of | checked apostasy. Boniface organised the Bavarian church and founded or re ... |
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Earl of Hertford | ... s of Bertie County, Chowan County, and Northampton County. It was named for | , later 1st Marquess of Hertford |
Robert M. La Follette | ... ry was also notable for the emergence of progressive politics championed by | . Between 1901 and 1914, Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin created the ... |
Orphic | ... movement would include Neoplatonist philosophy, the Chaldaean Oracles, late | and Pythagorean literature, as well as much of Gnosticism |
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 ... |
Chief Executive | ... eople's Republic of China, commonly the Hong Kong Government, is led by the | as Head of the Government, who is also the head of the Hong Kong SAR. The ... |
Margraviate of Brandenburg | ... ged to gain control over a significant territory, being overshadowed by the | , which was originally seated in the same city. Chapter and cathedral, sur ... |
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 ... |
Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) | ... Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the | and his uncle Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
Zakir Hussain | Dr | the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ... |
Benito Mussolini | ... uivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. Cavaliere | ), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg Ritte ... |
Louis VIII | ... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of | . She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX |
Charles Martel | ... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. When | became the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ... |
Decimus Junius Brutus | ... s of memory loss as the legendary Lethe River. In 138 BC, the Roman general | sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the ... |
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 ... |
Kevin Keegan | Dalglish was signed to replace | , and Liverpool supporters were initially sceptical that he could perform ... |
Sylvanus Lowry | ... and the mid-Atlantic states. Upper Town, or Arcadia, was plotted by General | , a slave-holding Southerner from Kentucky. Lowry was St. Cloud's first ma ... |
Caesar Rodney | ... nce. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of | , who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again ... |
Abe Fortas | ... on to uphold the state constitutional provision, his colleagues Douglas and | dissented. According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddo ... |
Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
Alexander Ramsey | ... sey County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for | , a U.S. Senator from Minnesota at the time. County government was not for ... |
Kirk Cameron | At the end of the 1980s, actor | became a major teen idol teenage heartthrob. Cameron was best known for hi ... |
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark | ... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ... |
George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Rudy Giuliani | ... tial election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates | and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 a ... |
Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
Alfred Hitchcock | The climax of the | film The Man Who Knew Too Much was filmed in the Royal Albert Hall |
Elton John | ... ic Clapton, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello, and | |
Jack | ... s Crassus (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, | and stayed at the house for part of their honeymoon. They watched their fi ... |
Viscount Mandeville | ... n Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with | (the future Earl of Manchester) who sat in the House of Lords, had encoura ... |
Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
Berhanu Nega | ... rk of Africa. Mayor Oqubay lost the mayorship of Addis Ababa in May 2005 to | , but after boycotting the parliament Berhanu Nega's C.U.D. or Kinijit par ... |
Bob McDonnell | ... ) assists in state gubernatorial races; it is currently chaired by Governor | of Virginia |
Logan Fontenelle | ... ulation was 333 at the 2010 census. Petersburg is the site of a memorial to | , an Omaha chief who was killed near there in a skirmish with Brulé and Ar ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Stalin | During the 1930s and 1940s | 's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, s ... |
Antwerp | ... Allied forces. This caused the remaining V-1s to be directed at the port of | and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks ... |
Howard Callaway | ... r in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican | . Whereas Black voted with the majority under strict construction to uphol ... |
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 ... |
Colonel Gaddafi | ... afti), John Coleman, and Coleman's wife. On 10 Nov 1984, he negotiated with | for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan ... |
Adam Smith | Scottish economist | accepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its applic ... |
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 ... |
Matthew K. Rose | ... on, Lee Raymond, former FOX News Host and Radio Commentator Glenn Beck, and | |
Edward Rutledge | ... e next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself. | of South Carolina, who was opposed to Lee's resolution but desirous of una ... |
John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
Sam Phillips | ... nown as "gut-bucket blues" came out of the jug band scene, and was cited by | of Sun Records as the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded ... |
Robert Mardian | ... Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, | and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigatio ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gordon Liddy | ... character Nick Fury added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of | character, only a much bigger, tougher guy". Richard Reynolds described Th ... |
Isaac | ... is provide an account of God's covenant with the Hebrew patriarchs—Abraham, | and Jacob (also called Israel)—and Jacob's children—the "Children of Israe ... |
Hubert Ingraham | ... nt governor-general is Sir Arthur Foulkes and the current Prime Minister is | |
Prime Minister | ... throne. He was proclaimed king from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace by | Knud Kristensen |
Stephen Miller | ... St. Cloud area when the Civil War broke out. Lowry died soon after in 1865. | served a two-year term as Minnesota governor beginning in 1864, the only c ... |
Pol Pot | ... political killings, gives a figure of 2 million. Former Khmer Rouge leader | gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, Khieu Samphan, said 1 million ha ... |
Robert Runcie | ... stant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, | , in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Leb ... |
John Francis Bray | ... the "Ricardian socialists" — Charles Hall, Thomas Hodgskin, John Gray, and | — applied Ricardo's theory to develop theories of |
Mohamed Al-Fayed | ... (2004) about Lauren Harries and her family; You're Fayed, about businessman | ; Michael Carroll - King of Chavs about the British lottery winner known t ... |
Thomas Hodgskin | ... or and the value of the product, the "Ricardian socialists" — Charles Hall, | , John Gray, and John Francis Bray — applied Ricardo's theory to develop t ... |
draconian | ... rs and to cease normal processing. This policy, occasionally referred to as | , stands in notable contrast to the behavior of programs that process HTML ... |
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 ... |
Ernst Moritz Arndt | ... ssian government with "demagogic agitation" in conjunction with the patriot | |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then | , Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he t ... |
Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
Jesus | ... amed the settlement after the town of Bethlehem in Judea, the birthplace of | . Originally it was a typical Moravian Settlement Congregation, where the ... |
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 ... |
Abraham | ... of Genesis provide an account of God's covenant with the Hebrew patriarchs— | , Isaac and Jacob (also called Israel)—and Jacob's children—the "Children ... |
Michael Apted | ... ilm about Wilberforce and the struggle against the slave trade, directed by | and starring Ioan Gruffudd was released in 2007 to coincide with the 200th ... |
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 ... |
Arthur Foulkes | ... is supporters in the House of Assembly. The current governor-general is Sir | and the current Prime Minister is Hubert Ingraham |
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 ... |
Ambrose, Earl of Warwick | ... n debt. In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother | , and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Rober ... |
Moses | The Torah, or "Instruction", is also known as the "Five Books" of | , thus Chumash from Hebrew meaning "fivesome", and Pentateuch from Greek m ... |
John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
Elia Kazan | ... onally renowned filmmakers in the Greek diaspora such as the Greek-American | |
Louis IX | ... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, | |
Idi Amin | ... gether with his wife, Frances, and their four children, Waite witnessed the | coup in Uganda, he and his wife narrowly escaping death on several occasio ... |
George Clooney | ... e village is also mentioned in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou starring | in a lead role. There's a street sign reading "Satartia — 7 miles" in one ... |
Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
Khieu Samphan | ... Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot gave a figure of 800,000, and his deputy, | , said 1 million had been killed |
Bill Gates | On March 6, 1988 Alan Cooper showed | his shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dynamically. March 20 ... |
Ali Fallahian | ... implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for | , the head of the Iranian Intelligence. Evidence indicates that Fallahian’ ... |
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 ... |
Balasahab Deoras | ... illusioned with the armed movement. In his memoirs, the third chief of RSS, | narrates an incident when Hedgewar saved him and others from following the ... |
Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... o the assassin's widow. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and | , an Afghan Wahhabi Islamist, have also been mentioned as possible organiz ... |
Louis B. Hanna | The county was created by proclamation of Governor | on September 3, 1914 and named after the Native Americans who live on the ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
George Wallace | ... ride in defending individuals with unpopular or bigoted viewpoints, such as | , George Lincoln Rockwell, and KKK members. The ACLU has defended American ... |
Ron Ramsey | ... orial District and the Hawkins County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. | and State Senator Mike Faulk currently serve in these positions. All of th ... |
H. R. Haldeman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of | and John Ehrlichman, two of his most influential aides, both of whom were ... |
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 ... |
Oecolampadius | In 1529 the city became Protestant under | and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentury. The bishop's crook was howe ... |
Lord Hill | ... de batterie drew up in the centre. These opened fire at 11:50, according to | (commander of the Anglo-allied II Corps), while other sources put the time ... |
Mayor of London | ... veiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and the | had given speeches |
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 ... |
Oliver | After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father | as Lord Protector in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in ... |
John Kerry | ... d area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican J ... |
George Lincoln Rockwell | ... g individuals with unpopular or bigoted viewpoints, such as George Wallace, | , and KKK members. The ACLU has defended American Nazis many times, and th ... |
Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
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 ... |
Ian Rush | ... lso around this time that he began to form a potent strike partnership with | ; Dalglish began to play just off Rush, "running riot in the extra space a ... |
Glenn Barr | ... orthern Ireland. The strike was led by Vanguard Assemblyman and UDA member, | |
Mike Faulk | ... s County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and State Senator | currently serve in these positions. All of these elected officials are mem ... |
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 ... |
Moshe Dayan | ... ite this, at 7 AM, that is, four hours later, Israel’s minister of defense, | , “gave the order to go into action against Syria.” He further writes that ... |
Sebastian Coe | ... Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, | |
Robert Carey | ... ave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria; he bestowed the stewardship on | , earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and Thomas, after t ... |
Gérard | ... hen too far away to reach Waterloo. Grouchy was advised by his subordinate, | , to "march to the sound of the guns", but stuck to his orders and engaged ... |
Ingrid of Sweden | Instead, he married Princess | (1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... 78, where he took a job with the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then | , Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for ... |
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 ... |
Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
Woody Allen | ... model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by | for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained ... |
Clement of Alexandria | ... ssical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, Aristotle, | , Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, O ... |
Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
Werner Herzog | ... ar cabin. Phoenix then realized that the man was famed German film director | . While Herzog helped Phoenix out of the wreckage by breaking the back win ... |
Loussac | ... the Ann Stevens Building in her honor. There is also a reading room at the | Library in Anchorage which is named for her |
Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
Joe Fagan | After becoming player-manager on the retirement of | in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Divi ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... ntered United Front (Northern Alliance) territory under the auspices of the | and had his assistance in bypassing "normal security procedures. |
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 ... |
Dave Kleis | The mayor of St. Cloud is | , who won reelection in 2008 after his only opponent, Ryan Fagan, abandone ... |
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 ... |
Robert Runcie | ... the British Council of Churches. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr | , appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury's Assistant for Anglican Communio ... |
Rudyard Kipling | ... xample is the recurrent use of the vocative phrase, O (my) Best Beloved, by | in his Just So Stories. This use of O may be considered a form of clitic, ... |
Isabelle | # | (14 April 1225 – 23 February 1269) |
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 ... |
Elliot Richardson | On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, | , and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate ... |
Henry | ... stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, | and Thomas, after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular loca ... |
Tony Knowles | ... en, Walter, and Ted; and two daughters: Susan and Beth. Democratic Governor | appointed Ben to the Alaska Senate in 2001, where he served as the preside ... |
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 ... |
John Mariucci | ... s born here in 1913. He was an NHL Hall of Fame goalie. Also born here were | (in 1916) and John Mayasich (in 1933). More recently, Eveleth produced Mar ... |
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 ... |
Sam Ervin | ... to approve and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with | named chairman the next day. The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and | , calling on colonies without a "government sufficient to the of their aff ... |
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 ... |
Geoffrey Perkins | ... on by Simon & Schuster's Audioworks in the mid-1980s. Both were produced by | and featured cover artwork by Hipgnosis |
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 ... |
Caravaggio | ... mus Bosch, Bruegel and others). Some surviving artworks are "Cardsharps" by | (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and "The Triumph of Death" by ... |
Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and | . The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ... |
John Kerry | ... hen 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for George W. Bush, 32.8% voted for | , and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third party candidate or wrote in ... |
Ma Jun | ... inting chariot device was first invented by the Chinese mechanical engineer | (c. 200-265 AD). It was a wheeled vehicle that incorporated an early use o ... |
United States Secretary of State | ... nty seat of Carter County. The city was organized in 1830 and was named for | (and later President) Martin Van Buren |
Levi P. Morton | ... United States history, a record which was previously held by Vice President | . He is interred in Uvalde Cemetery |
Percy Sutton | ... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was | , a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ... |
Arthur Conan Doyle | In A Study in Scarlet, a novel by | , the retribution of the Mormons is compared to that of the Vehmgericht |
Bishop of Bristol | In 1963, Waite was appointed Education Advisor to the Anglican | , Oliver Tomkins, and assisted with Tomkins's implementation of the SALT ( ... |
Antwerp | ... Victor Hugo found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add | , and you have Bordeaux". Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux ... |
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 ... |
William O'Brien | ... its rich agricultural hinterland. Irish states-men such as Thomas Davis and | were both born in Mallow in the 19th century. The main street in Mallow is ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
Schuyler Colfax | Garner and | are the only two Vice Presidents to have been Speaker of the House of Repr ... |
Heinrich II | ... athedral of Basel (known locally as the Münster) began under German Emperor | |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia | ... a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and | |
Kathy Burke | ... ey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, | , Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (to ... |
Pop Warner | ... rmer Penn teammate Heinie Miller for the 1930 through the 1932 season. When | was hired to coach Temple for the 1933 season, he chose to hire his own as ... |
Paulo Maluf | ... ulo-Guarulhos International Airport, where it was met by São Paulo's mayor, | , and state governor, Luís Antônio Fleury. The coffin was carried by soldi ... |
Martin Bormann | ... l, Court Of Honor, features the Fehme being revived by a German officer and | (a featured character in other semi-historical novels with post-war 'Nazi ... |
Pythia | ... passed it to Phoebe. The Delphic Sibyl has sometimes been confused with the | , the priestess of Apollo who gave prophecies at the Delphic Oracle. The t ... |
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 ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
Alexander Butterfield | ... iew, the Deputy Minority Counsel Donald Sanders asked White House assistant | if there was any type of recording system in the White House |
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière | ... n 20 October 1792 a letter was read before the National Convention in which | , interior minister, proposed that the furnishings of the palace and those ... |
Wim Wenders | ... Sky Over Berlin) is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by | . The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and lis ... |
Tommy Docherty | | gave Dalglish his debut for the Scottish national side as a substitute in ... |
John Adams | ... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. | , a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ... |
Eleonora de' Medici | ... Mantua (Gonzaga) (1598–1655), the daughter of Duke Vincenzo I of Mantua and | , at Innsbruck |
Stephen Fry | ... ard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, | , Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, and Danny Baker. Two series (totalling twent ... |
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 ... |
Malcolm X | ... rican community in 1949 and regularly interviewed civil rights leaders like | and aired live broadcasts from conferences of the NAACP. Influential WQHT, ... |
Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
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 ... |
Robert Taft | ... ve Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans led by Senator | to create the conservative coalition, which dominated domestic issues in C ... |
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 ... |
Sofia Coppola | ... eron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in | 's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & ... |
Financial Secretary | ... ief Executive is assisted by the Chief Secretary for Administration and the | , and other secretaries who heads policy bureaux. The secretaries for each ... |
Roger Waters | The band participated in former Pink Floyd member | ' The Wall Live in Berlin concert in 1990 |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
Fred Thompson | ... 6, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, the Chief Minority Counsel | asked Butterfield if he was "aware of the installation of any listening de ... |
Francis Drake | ... tled two years before. Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir | and Sir Walter Raleigh. The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the fla ... |
Tommy Herron | ... of violence began in 1972. In May of that year, the UDA's pressured leader | decided that responsibility for acts of violence committed by the UDA woul ... |
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 ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... not sympathetic to the Army's concerns. In the chaos following the death of | in 1658, General George Monck allowed the members barred in 1648 to retake ... |
Orson Welles | ... ges in novel ways and create new illusions. One early showcase for Dunn was | ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu (and some of Gregg Toland's ... |
comte d’Artois | ... sieur Fayolle during his voyages in America. The collection was sold to the | and was later confiscated by the state. Fayolle, who had been nominated to ... |
King James II | In 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of | , disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ... |
Edmund Goulding | ... Fontaine and Alexis Smith. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola and directed by | |
Margaret Pole | ... ying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, | , and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside ... |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
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 ... |
Alfred Pleasonton | ... ply lines. In reaction to this, he ordered his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. | , to take a combined arms force of 8,000 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantry on ... |
Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar | RSS was founded in 1925 by | , who was a doctor in the central Indian city of Nagpur. Hedgewar as a med ... |
Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême | ... own's influence in Poitou, Blanche managed to keep the English Queen mother | and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan from supporting the English side ... |
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 ... |
William Ruckelshaus | ... xon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy | for refusing to fire the special prosecutor. Nixon's search for someone in ... |
Ray Clemence | ... he winning goal for Scotland at Hampden Park against England, by nutmegging | . A year later Dalglish scored against the same opponents and goalkeeper a ... |
Winston Churchill | ... on was 12,790 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Callaway County. | made his famous "Sinews of Peace" (Iron Curtain) speech in Fulton at Westm ... |
Felix V | ... ntury Council of Basel (1431–1449), including the 1439 election of antipope | |
Lord Brooke | ... the battle, however, the royalist garrison was withdrawn on the approach of | and the castle was garrisoned by parliamentary forces. The new governor of ... |
Richard Attenborough | ... works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign. | depicted him in the film Elizabeth. He was a prominent supporting characte ... |
David Cameron | ... The Princess Royal unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister | and the Mayor of London had given speeches |
Pierre Mauclerc | ... and her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan from supporting the English side. | did support the English and Brittany rebelled against the crown in 1230. B ... |
Plutarch | ... es, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, | , Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
Ho Chi Minh | | reading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ... |
Walter Raleigh | ... Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir | . The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture ... |
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 ( ... |
John Michell | ... massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist | in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society |
Ice Cube | ... ial services included Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, | , Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jess ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... n, when Republican candidate George H. W. Bush accused Democratic candidate | (a member of the ACLU) of being a "card carrying member of the ACLU" |
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 ... |
Governor of Hong Kong | As of 1 July 1997, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong officially replaced the | as the head of the government for Hong Kong from the transfer of sovereign ... |
John L. Lewis | ... d not appeal to liberals, however. In Congressional testimony, union leader | described him as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil o ... |
Welf | ... Tostig's two sons took refuge in Norway, while his wife Judith married Duke | of Bavaria |
Andrei Tarkovsky | ... is is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu, François Truffaut, and | |
Sir Bedivere | ... ified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, | threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another legend relating to the po ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... he Nominated Assembly, set up after the expulsion of the Rump Parliament by | . The Assembly very quickly became known as Barebone's Parliament by criti ... |
Louis XIV | ... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when | moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ... |
Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
Vicente Fox | ... ree Trade Agreement, creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000, | became the first non-PRI candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 7 ... |
John McLoughlin | ... d with their lucrative fur trade, their Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver, Dr. | , gave substantial help including employment until they could get establis ... |
Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
Massoud Khalili | ... ammed Asim Suhail, a United Front official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and | were injured. One of the suicide attackers, Bouraoui, was also killed by t ... |
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 ... |
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen | ... ow's remaining seasons. She was replaced with former Saved by the Bell star | , who played the bad-girl character Valerie Malone. Shannen Doherty has ap ... |
Brian Cowen | ... When the issue was (successfully) submitted to a referendum a second time, | , the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained "legal guarantees" ... |
Emilio Estevez | ... k, the whole group collectively and separately became teen idols. They were | , Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson ... |
Freiherr | ... second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below " | ". For its historical association with warfare and the landed gentry in th ... |
Henry Schacht | At the time of its spinoff, Lucent was placed under the leadership of | , who was brought in to oversee its transition from an arm of AT&T into an ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ees were Senator John McCain, of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor | for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... |
Harold Godwinson | ... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King | , the last crowned English King of England |
Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... aking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gen. | , and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen. ... |
Henry A. Wallace | ... on the first ballot. Garner got only 61 votes out of 1,093. Roosevelt chose | to be the Vice Presidential running mate, instead of Garner |
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | ... urer under Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, died. His vacant post was offered to | , who declined it and proposed Burghley, stating that the latter was the m ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Lehman | ... iller, The Short Night, collaborating with screenwriters James Costigan and | . Despite some preliminary work, the story was never filmed. This was due ... |
Dr. Dre | ... d Michael Jackson, Jimmy Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, | , Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, J ... |
Willie Aames | ... ll), on the ABC series The Odd Couple, a part that previously was played by | |
Governor General | ... g jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the | |
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 ... |
André de Chauvigny | ... g with his niece the fiefs of Issoudun and Graçay, together with those that | , lord of Châteauroux, held in Berry, of the English crown. The marriage w ... |
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 ... |
Anthony Michael Hall | ... up collectively and separately became teen idols. They were Emilio Estevez, | , Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and ... |
Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
George W. Bush | ... of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of | might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay L ... |
Earl of Northumbria | Tostig Godwinson (died 25 September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon | and brother of King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned English King of Eng ... |
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 ... |
Chief Secretary for Administration | ... ng from the transfer of sovereignty. The Chief Executive is assisted by the | and the Financial Secretary, and other secretaries who heads policy bureau ... |
Arjuna Ranatunga | ... y as he was sent up the order to open the batting and attack as a tactic by | who was the captain of Sri Lanka in the mid to late 90s. The gamble had se ... |
John McCain | ... idential election, 60.2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican | , while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3.22 percent of ... |
Samuel Chase | ... s's preamble, instructing its delegates to remain against independence, but | went to Maryland and, thanks to local resolutions in favor of independence ... |
Khieu Samphan | Although Pol Pot relinquished the Khmer Rouge leadership to | in 1985, he continued to be the driving force of Khmer Rouge insurgency, g ... |
Sydney Smith | ... hose who did not respect the Sabbath. Years later, the writer and clergyman | criticised Wilberforce for being more interested in the sins of the poor t ... |
Tung Chee Hwa | ... rincipal Officials Accountability System introduced by then Chief Executive | in July 2002, all principal officials, including the Chief Secretary, Fina ... |
Joe Fagan | After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 and | 's subsequent resignation as manager, Dalglish became player-manager of Li ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
Henry II of England | ... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter of | and , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ... |
Hugo Chávez | ... lished in 1921 under President Juan Vicente Gómez. In 2002, under president | , the name was changed to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenou ... |
John B. Callahan | ... a mayor and a seven-person city council. The current mayor of Bethlehem is | , who was elected to his second term in November 2005. His election marks ... |
Robert Fulton | ... 825 but was not incorporated until March 14, 1859. The city was named after | , the engineer and inventor. The early residents of Fulton were from a pre ... |
George White | ... of Ohio, the exceptions being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey, 1932 ( | ), 1952 (Frank Lausche), and 1958 (Michael V. DiSalle). However, excepting ... |
Joe Biden | ... esident. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator | of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were el ... |
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 |
Edwin Waller | ... e where the southern leg of the Chisholm Trail leads to the Colorado River. | was picked by Lamar to survey the village and draft a plan laying out the ... |
Billy Hull | ... East Belfast, the Hammer and Roden Street The first meeting was chaired by | , with Alan Moon as its vice-chair, but Moon was quickly replaced by Jim A ... |
Thomas Paine | ... ties did lead to the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of | 's The Age of Reason. Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery ... |
Sigmund | ... for Eric Bloodaxe, who will soon arrive in Valhalla. Odin tells the heroes | and Sinfjötli to rise to greet Eric and invite him into the hall, if it is ... |
Sir Edward Hyde | ... g as stewards once again, but after her death Charles II gave the castle to | , whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon and Earl of Clarendon. The ruined c ... |
John McLoughlin | ... lumbia River became the northern boundary of the county in 1844. Soon after | staked a land claim in Oregon City and built a house that in 2003 became a ... |
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 ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... y County, Missouri, United States. The city was named for New York Governor | . The population was 9,311 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of He ... |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... tized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent), (1 February 188225 July 1973) was the 12th | from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957 |
Rupert Murdoch | ... une 2007 Lewis-Smith's company made a programme featuring an interview with | , funded by Murdoch's Sky1 channel: How TV Changed Football Forever (Guard ... |
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 ... |
Morcar | ... orters, then declared Tostig outlawed for his unlawful actions and sent for | , younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia. The northern rebels marched so ... |
Antonia C. Novello | ... w York State, issued a protocol for the performance of metzitzah b'peh. Dr. | , Commissioner of Health for New York State, together with a board of rabb ... |
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 ... |
Paul Thomas Anderson | Phoenix will make his return to acting in the upcoming | film The Master |
Grand Master | In 1525 during the Protestant Reformation, the | of the Teutonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territor ... |
Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
Hironobu Sakaguchi | ... pany allegedly having been threatened with bankruptcy in 1987, main planner | explained that the title of the game stemmed from his personal situation; ... |
James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
Clive Barker | ... arvel Comics' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid (created by horror novelist | ) in 1993 as well as writing for EPIC Comics "Clive Barker's Hellraiser" a ... |
Hun Sen | ... overnment which included the former Vietnamese-backed Communists (headed by | ) as well as the Khmer Rouge's former non-Communist and monarchist allies ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Basel | ... bero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops (see | , whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms ... |
William Laud | ... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop | and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford |
Otto of Nordheim | ... , mother of and regent for the German king Henry IV, entrusted the duchy to | |
Victor Hugo | ... uildings (about 5,000), including those on the quays, are from this period. | found the town so beautiful he once said: "take Versailles, add Antwerp, a ... |
John P. O'Neill | ... ed against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier. | was a counter-terrorism expert and the Assistant Director of the FBI until ... |
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 ... |
prince-bishop | ... sions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by | s (see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on ... |
John Tsang | ... posals and moving the appropriation bills. The current FS is the Honourable | |
John Michell | ... too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by | and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
Finance Secretary | ... of which reports to the Chief Secretary, and the other three reports to the | . The Chief Secretary is customarily considered to be the leader of the bu ... |
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 ... |
Edwin | ... g outlawed for his unlawful actions and sent for Morcar, younger brother of | , Earl of Mercia. The northern rebels marched south to press their case wi ... |
Jules Hardouin-Mansart | ... aign at Versailles began (1678–1684). Under the direction of the architect, | , the Palace of Versailles acquired much of the look that it has today. In ... |
Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to | . The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ... |
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 ... |
Tommy Herron | ... use of guns, and unarmed combat. Its most prominent early spokesperson was | , however Andy Tyrie would emerge as leader soon after. Its original motto ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... ort. St. Cloud is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district, represented by | (R). St. Cloud is partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15 ... |
Coman mac Faelchon | The name Roscommon is derived from | who built a monastery there in the 5th century. The woods near the monaste ... |
MC Hammer | ... zier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, | , Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J ... |
Microsoft Outlook | ... net Explorer, some e-mail programs, such as Microsoft's Outlook Express and | programs, may install and execute the worm as soon as the e-mail message i ... |
George W. Bush | ... isenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and | . The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingric ... |
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | ... ministration under King James I. His daughter Anne became the first wife of | in 1571; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marr ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... es. In 1980, then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, appointed him | 's Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs, on the recommendation of Tomk ... |
Burgemeester | ... van burgemeester en wethouders, abbreviated to B&W), made up of the mayor ( | ) and the aldermen. The executive implements national legislation on matte ... |
Ta Mok | ... . By 1999, most members had surrendered or been captured. In December 1999, | and the remaining leaders surrendered, and the Khmer Rouge effectively cea ... |
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 | |
Soldier Field | The group was the opening band for the final Grateful Dead shows at | , in Chicago, Illinois in July 1995 |
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 ... |
Sir William Hamilton | ... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note | ;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Linda Smith | In 1998 she won reelection against Representative | , 58 percent to 42 percent |
Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Patricia Russo | ... Henry Schacht had been brought back on an interim basis to replace McGinn. | was named permanent Chairman and CEO, succeeding Schacht who remained on t ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... e Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, | , Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Krav ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir | . When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ... |
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 ... |
Woody Allen | ... t. At the age of eight years old she made her film debut in a minor role in | 's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anth ... |
Newt Gingrich | ... George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip | campaigning on the Contract with America, was elected to majorities to bot ... |
Stanley Coren | ... epts of "intelligence" and "obedience" in discussions of canine brainpower. | 's survey of canine obedience trainers, published in the book The Intellig ... |
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 ... |
Lord Clarendon | The castle remained the property of the Clarendons until 1937, when | found the maintenance of the castle too expensive and sold Kenilworth to t ... |
L. Patrick Gray | ... med Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job (the leaks hurt | , Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position ... |
Steve Gottwalt | ... s partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15A, represented by | (R), and partly in 15B, represented by King Banaian (R). State Senate Dist ... |
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá | ... are linked to drug-trafficking and illegal weapons. In mid-July 2005, Gov. | announced a series of measures aimed at lowering Ponce's high murder rate. ... |
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 ... |
Thomas McKean | ... the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees under | authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence. On June 15, t ... |
prime minister | ... bunker in London where he connected telephone calls from war leaders to the | . He met Winston Churchill on several occasions when asked for updates on ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister | in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada |
Paddy Wilson | ... g the assassination of Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician | in 1973. The UDA was involved in the successful Ulster Workers Council Str ... |
John McCain | ... l election, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and | and Sarah Palin 46% |
John McCain | ... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years | received 55.2% of the county's vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election ... |
Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | ... ost three weeks (during which they also interviewed Burhanuddin Rabbani and | ) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001, an aide to Massoud r ... |
Lu Watters | ... d group of revivalists consisted of younger musicians, such as those in the | band. By the late 1940s, Louis Armstrong's Allstars band became a leading ... |
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 ... |
Michael Apted | ... ll band called Stray Cats. He would reprise this role the following year in | 's sequel, Stardust |
Secretary of the Interior | ... of Northcutt Ely. Twenty years earlier Ely had been executive assistant to | Ray Lyman Wilbur during the Hoover administration, and by 1950 headed a pr ... |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
Sam Rayburn | ... after Prohibition had ended and Garner had left the House by future Speaker | . |
John Marshall | ... Missouri Valley College. Marshall was named after the statesman and jurist | (1755–1835) |
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 ... |
Tom Hanks | ... on after, she landed a small part in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), as | 's daughter. In 1993, Dunst played Hedril in "Dark Page", the seventh epis ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
Joe Biden | In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and | won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah Palin 46% |
Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
Eli Dayan | "Deputy Foreign Minister, | offered compensation to the victims families in 1995, but explained that I ... |
Ian Rush | ... e 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that | had told him that "if [he] didn't drink lots of milk, when [he] [grew] up, ... |
Trophonius | ... k world. There were rivers of Lethe and Mnemosyne at the oracular shrine of | in Boeotia, from which worshippers would drink before making oracular cons ... |
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 ... |
William Franklin | ... een governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governor | was "an enemy to the liberties of this country" and had him arrested. On J ... |
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 ... |
Chief Executive of Hong Kong | As of 1 July 1997, the | officially replaced the Governor of Hong Kong as the head of the governmen ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
Salomon | ... ègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin Peninsula to the Breton king | , on the condition that Salomon would take an oath of fidelity and fight a ... |
John McCain | In the Presidential election of 2008, the party's nominees were Senator | , of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice Presi ... |
Abe Fortas | ... s (while at school). The term enclave originated with Supreme Court justice | 's use of the phrase "schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism" in t ... |
John of England | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and | , Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ... |
Jean Cocteau | ... was shot by the 77 year-old cinematographer Henri Alekan, who had worked on | 's La Belle et la Bête). It represents the angels' point of view in monoch ... |
Pope Innocent III | Finally, in 1212, through the mediation of | , a crusade was called against the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Ara ... |
Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
Knud Kristensen | ... proclaimed king from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace by Prime Minister | |
Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
Hoover | ... xecutive assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur during the | administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm specializing in na ... |
Sarah Palin | ... ck Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and | 46% |
George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
Katharine Hepburn | ... ding secretary and treasurer), Nathaniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, | , Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heu ... |
George Bernard Shaw | ... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of | 's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ... |
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 ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... e named delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, Martin by Senator | and Lyon by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi |
Jesus | ... the Old Testament; and later writings recording the lives and teachings of | and his followers, known as the New Testament. "Testament" is a translatio ... |
Michael Jordan | ... Phil Ford, Tyler Hansbrough, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, James Worthy and | in men's basketball; and Mia Hamm (twice), Shannon Higgins, Kristine Lilly ... |
Michele Bachmann | In September 2011, after Republican presidential candidate | repeated an anecdote shared with her that the HPV vaccine causes "mental r ... |
imam | ... 19th century but its control was largely confined to cities, and the Zaidi | 's rule over Upper Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew ... |
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 ... |
Gary Hart | ... aid he too would have ordered the invasion. Indeed Mondale attacked Senator | , his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, as isolationist and we ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable | . The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Chinese civil war, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan and | declared martial law. Japan formally renounced all territorial rights to T ... |
Prime Minister | | | |Morgan Tsvangira |
El Cid | ... uspension of disbelief can we accept that in the space of twenty-four hours | kills Chimène's father in a duel, overwhelms the Moorish invaders during t ... |
Nancy Pelosi | ... ence on Aging, Martin by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Congresswoman | |
Andrew Moray | ... aking place across Scotland, including those of several Scottish nobles and | in the north |
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 ... |
Barney Frank | ... and other scandals. This led to House Financial Services Committee Chairman | to ask the agency to investigate the charges which they did. In April 2012 ... |
Vice President | | | |Joice Mujur |
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 ... |
Julius Caesar | ... m in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of | and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major threat to his power. That occ ... |
Howard Thomas | ... t Television Authority (ITA) and the manager of their Pathé News subsidiary | , who became the new company's managing director |
Antwerp | ... ensity of hits were received by Croydon, on the southeast fringe of London. | , Belgium was hit by 2,448 V-1s from October 1944 to March 1945 |
Pope Gregory I | ... pitone, a leader of the Barbaricinos (people of Barbagia). According to the | 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (t ... |
Godwin | Tostig was the third son of | (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ... |
Maurice Bishop | ... t coup d'état had overthrown the established government and shot its leader | . This was the first actual rollback that destroyed a Communist regime and ... |
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 ... |
Donna Pescow | ... iscothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and | as Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco ... |
50 Cent | ... ce-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, | , Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public and private ... |
Lydia (satrapy) | ... balus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap (governor). (See: | ) |
John Carpenter | ... tember 1993, when he was 12. The following year he acquired a minor role in | 's In the Mouth of Madness. From 1995 through 1999, he appeared in several ... |
Robert La Follette | ... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated by | and his sons, originally of the Republican Party, but later of the revived ... |
Brigham Young | ... tes, and the martyrdom of their prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, Mormon leader | was chosen by the leaders of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) church to lead th ... |
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 ... |
Saul Bass | ... with the best talent of his day—film poster designers such as Bill Gold and | —and kept them busy with countless rounds of revision until he felt that t ... |
Thomas E. Dewey | ... des), to initiating politicians into their club including Mark Hatfield and | during his 1948 presidential campaign. Russian newspapers used images of t ... |
Rafael Rivera Esbrí | ... by a group of firefighters amongst whom was Pedro Sabater and the civilian | , who would later become mayor of the city. The fire started at the U.S. M ... |
Mariah Carey | ... use of melisma, a gospel tradition adapted by vocalists Whitney Houston and | would become a cornerstone of contemporary R&B singers beginning in the la ... |
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 ... |
Ron Paul | In 2010 Congressmen | questioned whether the Federal Reserve Bank had been used to funnel illega ... |
Charles-François Delacroix | In 1793, | deputy to the Convention and father of the painter Eugène Delacroix propos ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed George Moscone for mayor over | . The club changed its name to the Alice B. Toklas Gay and Lesbian Democra ... |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's | ... er 2011, the Hall was used to broadcast the 25th anniversary performance of | Phantom of the Opera to cinemas across the UK - it was also the first time ... |
Lenny Kravitz | ... esse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, | , 50 Cent, Stevie Wonder, and Don King, among others. All of the public an ... |
Henry VIII of England | ... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by | , they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain |
General George C. Marshall | ... lery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's 37mm Gun M1, in September 1940 | asked the British for the loan of four Bofors 40 mm guns with Kerrison Pre ... |
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 ... |
Gus Hall | Cherry is the birthplace of | , an important politician of the Communist Party of the United States |
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 ... |
Vice President | ... rican National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU-PF and the appointment of Nkomo as | |
Lloyd Corrigan | ... ny television appearances. He starred from 1953–1955 with Phyllis Avery and | in the CBS sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley in the role of a college English and l ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nomy under his control. (Some aspects of it had fallen under the control of | 's secret police, and remained so until the collapse of government. |
Robert Taft | ... he Republican party to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator | . Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the Truman administration's ... |
George Moscone | ... r presidents were Jo Daly and Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed | for mayor over Dianne Feinstein. The club changed its name to the Alice B. ... |
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 ... |
William Jennings Bryan | Hearst's newspaper was the only major publication in the East to support | and Bimetallism in 1896. Subsequently, the price of the Journal (later New ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
Henry Kissinger | ... professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State | predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a ... |
John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Magnolia is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Alfred Cumming | ... ganized an efficient mail service. In 1858 he stepped down to his successor | |
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 ... |
Mark Hatfield | ... 23,756,000 deer hides), to initiating politicians into their club including | and Thomas E. Dewey during his 1948 presidential campaign. Russian newspap ... |
Franz von Weyrother | ... ders however was too strong, and the Allies adopted Austrian Chief of Staff | 's plan. This called for a main drive against the French right flank, whic ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
Vice President of the United States | ... he 44th Speaker of the House in 1931–1933. In 1932, he was elected the 32nd | , serving from 1933 to 1941. A conservative Southerner, Garner opposed the ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
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 ... |
Greg Walden | ... ane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, | , a Republican, is Klamath County's representative in the United States Ho ... |
Antwerp | ... ndisclosed De Beers technology developed in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, and | , Belgium |
Luis de Quixano y Font | ... Firefighters Corps was reorganized under the administration of Ponce mayor | , and Tomás Cladellas was named fire chief. In 1879 the Ponce Fire Corps r ... |
Kellermann's | ... mperial Guard, some 4,800 sabres, were committed. When these were repulsed, | heavy cavalry corps and Guyot's heavy cavalry of the Guard were added to t ... |
Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
Howard Hughes | ... e national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by | , to serve as Hughes' public-policy lobbyist in Washington. O'Brien was el ... |
Richard Pombo | ... Ilitch-owned Gateway Casinos Resorts, LLC, and support from California Rep. | (R) who sponsored a new bill in Congress, H.R. 512, to speed up federal re ... |
Chiang Ching-kuo | ... tic reforms were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under | . The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, whi ... |
Stephen Fry | ... transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington (played by | ) |
Richard Cromwell | After | , who had succeeded his father Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658, was effec ... |
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 ... |
Scott Walker | The executive branch is headed by the governor. The current governor, | , assumed office on January 3, 2011. In addition to the governor, the exec ... |
Giudicati | ... ), the saracen's attempt of invasion of the island was stopped by Sardinian | with the support of the Fleets of Maritime Republics of Pisa and Genoa. Po ... |
Abdullah Abdullah | ... s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2006. He is now a member of | 's (another United Front group) |
Milhaud's | Initially | reserve cavalry corps of cuirassiers and Lefebvre-Desnoëttes' light cavalr ... |
Jack Pickersgill | ... inisterial portfolios as the ministers responsible themselves. To that end, | (a minister in St-Laurent's cabinet) said as prime minister St-Laurent had ... |
Niklot | ... ted against the Polabian Slavs in 1147, as a part of the Northern Crusades. | , pagan chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lotha ... |
Doug Whitsett | ... Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican | . Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klamath County's representative ... |
John Beresford | ... British naval vessels led by HMS Poictiers under the command of Captain Sir | briefly and ineffectually bombarded the town. A cannonball from the bombar ... |
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 ... |
Nicholas Serota | Unlike recent years, Sir | was not the jury chairman; instead, the chairman was Christoph Grunenberg, ... |
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 ... |
Ahmad Zia Massoud | ... t deal of prestige in the politics of Afghanistan. One of his six brothers, | , was the Vice President of Afghanistan from 2004 until 2009 under the fir ... |
George Cukor | ... haniel Benchley (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, | , Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The ... |
USS Monitor | Recovered artifacts from the | are displayed at the Mariners' Museum, one of the more notable museums of ... |
Imams | The former North Yemen came under control of | of various dynasties usually of the Zaidi sect, who established a theocrat ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice President | to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, ... |
Burt Lancaster | ... Williams and Hal Kanter and directed by Daniel Mann, starring Anna Magnani, | , Marisa Pavan and Jo Van Fleet |
Woodrow Wilson | ... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed | 's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
Maurice Maeterlinck | ... sed the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 which was awarded to his friend, | |
Gregory I | ... The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope | to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carr ... |
Ramsey | ... yer, writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Minnesota Governor | . He was on the state's Republican electoral ticket with Abraham Lincoln i ... |
Burt Lancaster | ... so realistically, that many members of the cast and crew cried. His co-star | revealed that he was so nervous about being out-acted by Clift, that he wa ... |
David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
Oregon State Senate | ... epresentatives by two Republicans, Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the | by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klam ... |
Senator Aden Ridgeway | ... Beds are Burning" was shown on video and introduced by Australian Democrats | as an indigenous spokesperson on Reconciliation. "Power and the Passion" w ... |
Alan Shearer | ... tball for the first time since 1966. In 1992, Dalglish signed Southampton's | for a British record fee of £3.5 million. Despite a serious injury which r ... |
Phil Gramm | ... . Senate campaign; the Senate seat was won by the Republican primary winner | |
Zebulon Baird Vance | ... officially recognized as Zebulon, North Carolina. The town was named after | , the Governor of North Carolina during the American Civil War. The first ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
Larry O'Brien | ... these theories suggests that the target of the break-in was the offices of | , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice Presiden ... |
James Moeser | In 2003, Chancellor | announced the Carolina Covenant, which provides a debt free education to l ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of | 's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 4 ... |
Henry Silverman | ... es in the world (at Wharton)), Gigi Sohn (founder of Public Knowledge), and | (CEO of Cendant Corporation) |
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 ... |
Wilfrid Laurier | ... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after | |
Tom DeLay | ... her key Republican elected was future Congressman and House Majority Leader | , who was elected to the county's only seat in the Texas House of Represen ... |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... l leadership convention of August 1948. St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as | on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, ... |
Dan Reeves | ... tely placed at the center of a dispute wherein the owners refused to permit | to transfer the Cleveland Rams to Los Angeles. Bell help negotiate a settl ... |
Woody Allen | ... , neurotic New Yorkers"; James characterized it as "the sitcom version of a | film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable ... |
Achilles | In the paradox of | and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ... |
Thorvald Stoltenberg | ... ally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister | . It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norw ... |
Ron Paul | Among the first Republicans elected was fiscally conservative | to the U.S. House of Representatives. He became known for opposition to th ... |
Salvador de Vives | ... ial mayoral seal that was adopted in 1844 under the administration of mayor | |
Robert Mugabe | ZANU-PF | , elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ... |
William V | ... 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574-1616), daughter of Duke | of Bavaria. They had seven children |
Max Weber | Some historians such as David Landes and | credit the different belief systems in China and Europe with dictating whe ... |
Lev Landau | ... His arguments were opposed by many of his contemporaries like Eddington and | , who argued that some yet unknown mechanism would stop the collapse. They ... |
Gavin Newsom | ... sued a marriage license by the City and County of San Francisco after mayor | ordered that marriage licenses be given to same-sex couples who requested ... |
Joseph Larmor | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, | , Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations s ... |
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 ... |
Peter Garrett | ... Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. While vocalist | was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an ... |
Fitzhugh Lee | ... nk, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates Wade Hampton and | to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. Jeffry D. Wert w ... |
Pey Berland | The university was created by the archbishop | in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before re ... |
Bonnie Hunt | ... of the dice. She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams, | , and David Alan Grier. The movie grossed $262 million worldwide. That yea ... |
William Pitt the Younger | ... ughs (or "robber buttons"), Dr. Samuel Johnson (played by Robbie Coltrane), | (Simon Osborne), the French Revolution (featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Plan ... |
Frederick V | ... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of | , who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ... |
Jesse Ventura | ... ooks, coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald | ;, former Independent Governor of Minnesota and Pro Wrestler and several o ... |
Micky Dolenz | ... the late 1960s after their TV show became an over night success, especially | and Davy Jones. The English born member of The Monkees Davy Jones was regu ... |
Howard Hughes | ... e to harass political enemies, and a $100,000 contribution from billionaire | . Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian Stanley Kutl ... |
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 ... |
David Nitschmann | On Christmas Eve in 1741, | and Count Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, leading a small group of Moravians, fou ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
Parmenides | ... on about Zeno and his teachings, citing Favorinus, says that Zeno's teacher | was the first to introduce the Achilles and the Tortoise Argument. But in ... |
Doug Magnus | ... te level, Hills is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
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 |
George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
Boniface IV | In 610 Laurence received letters from Pope | , addressed to him as archbishop and Augustine's successor. The correspond ... |
Peter | ... nastery church built by Augustine in Canterbury, and dedicated it to saints | and Paul; it was later re-consecrated as St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. ... |
Abu Ali Mustafa | ... at the assassination was in retaliation for the August 27, 2001, killing of | , the Secretary General of the PFLP, by the Israeli Air Force under its po ... |
Rodrigo Borgia | ... ia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was the illegitimate daughter of | , the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, a ... |
Count Dohna-Schlobitten | ... s course at Halle, Schleiermacher became the private tutor to the family of | , developing in a cultivated and aristocratic household his deep love of f ... |
Herb Brooks | Notable residents of Dellwood include the late | , coach of the Miracle on Ice hockey team; the late F. Scott Fitzgerald; J ... |
Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
Henry Vane the Younger | ... 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling during the treason trial of | . A ruling that Henry Vane himself had concurred with in opposition to Oli ... |
Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
Knights of Columbus | ... provide insurance for the struggling immigrants. One such organization, the | , chose that name in part because it saw Christopher Columbus as a fitting ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
Jon Stewart | ... bert's success because he had made mention of him on his show. In response, | , host of The Daily Show, claimed that he was responsible for the success ... |
Elia Kazan | ... s (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Clift starred with Lee Remick in | 's Wild River in 1960. In 1958, he turned down what became Dean Martin's r ... |
Clement | ... e's action in consecrating Laurence to Saint Peter's action of consecrating | as Bishop of Rome during Peter's lifetime, which the theologian J. Robert ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... lden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings in | 's Dial M for Murder |
Yan Xishan | In 1930, when warlords Feng Yuxiang and | attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government, Zhang Xuel ... |
Roy Keane | ... w Premier League. The following year, Dalglish failed in an attempt to sign | . Blackburn finished two positions higher the following season, as runners ... |
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 ... |
Rafael Cordero Santiago | ... in the city's history. Ponce's best known mayor of recent years is perhaps | , who held office since 1989 until his sudden death on the morning of Janu ... |
Mahlon Pitney | ... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justice | wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ... |
Marty Schottenheimer | McDonald also was the home of NFL coaches Marvin Lewis and | , Oscar-winning songwriter Jay Livingston and his brother Alan Livingston, ... |
von Hindenburg | ... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal | |
Alf Landon | ... date from 1936 to present. It was the only county in the state to be won by | . In the last five elections the Republican Presidential candidate has def ... |
Ed Rendell | ... e Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor | , Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter ... |
Albert Speer | Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by | , the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's ma ... |
Rehavam Ze'evi | Israeli tourist minister | was assassinated on October 17, 2001, by Hamdi Quran and three other membe ... |
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 ... |
Georges Lemaître | ... es (see Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates), although it took until 1933 for | to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was ... |
Lord Protector | After Richard Cromwell, who had succeeded his father Oliver as | in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in April, 1659, the ... |
Murli Manohar Joshi | ... ue’s demolition in Ayodhya. Former Education Minister in NDA Government Mr. | have also been found culpable in the demolition in the Liberhan Commission ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... t of present day Colombia, near the Gulf of Urabá, Spanish explorers led by | explored and conquered the area near the Atrato River. The conquest was of ... |
Marvin Lewis | McDonald also was the home of NFL coaches | and Marty Schottenheimer, Oscar-winning songwriter Jay Livingston and his ... |
see of Canterbury | Laurence succeeded Augustine to the | in about 604, and ruled until his death on 2 February 619. To secure the s ... |
Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
Rajani Palme Dutt | Regarding India, the Marxist historian | said: "The capital to finance the Industrial Revolution in India instead w ... |
Cesar Romero | Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney and | |
Vint Cerf | #Redirect | |
Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
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 ... |
Brian Clough | ... fferent clubs to top-flight league championships, after Herbert Chapman and | . Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in June 1995. He left ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... e la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities received from | eventually secured their complete triumph and Pierre Corneille, who had no ... |
Joseph Smith | While in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, | , president of the church, was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several cla ... |
Ignacy Paderewski | ... studied the technique of the famous Polish pianist and later family friend | and at eight met him backstage at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. "I was i ... |
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar | ... person. He would have found bin Laden." Among supporters of the Taliban or | 's Hezb-i Islami he is obviously seen differently. Still, a 2009 CNN repor ... |
Pope Alexander VI | ... hter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became | , and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni ... |
John Kerry | ... % of Wheeler Country voters voted for George W. Bush, while 27.8% voted for | , and 2.7% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in ... |
Ranulf Flambard | ... n for the king. At the latest, it was probably finished by 1100 when Bishop | was imprisoned there. Flambard was loathed by the English for exacting har ... |
Feng Yuxiang | In 1930, when warlords | and Yan Xishan attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang governm ... |
Michael Dukakis | ... ial election: then-Vice President George H. W. Bush noted that his opponent | had described himself as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" and used tha ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
Rick Santorum | ... %) for John Kerry. In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, | and both had significant victories in Tioga County despite their defeats s ... |
Joseph B. Kershaw | ... alry. His defense at Laurel Hill, also directing the infantry of Brig. Gen. | , skillfully delayed the advance of the Federal army for nearly 5 critical ... |
Hermann Göring | ... oduction improved greatly. Prior to his appointment, the economy was run by | . However, Göring had fallen out of favor. After a power struggle, Speer m ... |
Gnaeus Ahenobarbus | ... suls of that year had determined to conceal the extent of Antony's demands. | seems to have wished to keep quiet; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an ... |
Mickey Rooney | Visiting members included Errol Flynn, Nat King Cole, | and Cesar Romero |
Woody Allen | Evan Rachel Wood's character, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, in the | fictional film Whatever Works is from Eden, Mississippi |
PLO Chairman | ... of the Palestinians." In December 1967 Ahmad Shukeiri resigned his post as | . Yahya Hammuda took his place and invited Arafat to join the organization ... |
John Gordner | ... d in the State House by a conservative Democrat in the 109th district until | changed parties to Republican in 2001. He was elected to the State Senate ... |
William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray | ... alfa County was formed in 1907 from Woods County. The county is named after | , the president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention and ninth govern ... |
Fritz Todt | ... itler planned but would never build. Then, after the Minister of Armaments, | , died in a plane crash, Hitler unexpectedly tapped Speer for the position |
James Ensor | ... ssels art world. His articles brought many promising young talents, such as | , to the attention of the public |
Yitzhak Rabin | In Israel, Prime Minister | was assassinated on November 4, 1995. Yigal Amir confessed and was convict ... |
George Orwell | ... opened on February 6, 1984. The first book checked out of Davis Library was | 's 1984. The R.B. House Undergraduate Library is located between the Pit a ... |
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 ... |
George Clooney | ... te, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by | . In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical fi ... |
Lynn Swann | ... US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against | |
Gorbachev | ... y role in the Armenian national democratic movement that emerged during the | era of the 1980s. The reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika opened questions ... |
Herbert Chapman | ... story to lead two different clubs to top-flight league championships, after | and Brian Clough. Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in Jun ... |
George H. W. Bush | During the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice President | noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ... |
George W. Bush | ... 4 presidential election, in which 69.5% of Wheeler Country voters voted for | , while 27.8% voted for John Kerry, and 2.7% of voters either voted for a ... |
Ed Rendell | ... its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and | received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
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 |
Oscar Underwood | ... the United States Senate from Alabama, following the retirement of Senator | . Since the Democratic Party dominated Alabama politics at the time, he ea ... |
John McCain | ... column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for | . In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board |
John McCain | ... sh received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 | received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum and both had significan ... |
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 ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... s played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred | as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was direc ... |
James Eastland | Doddsville was the hometown of longtime United States Senator | |
John Kerry | ... n 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for | . In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum a ... |
Abdullah Abdullah | ... vastly outnumber those of any other Afghan including those of Karzai." Dr. | , one of the closest friends of Massoud, was Karzai's strongest rival in t ... |
Chevalier Bayard | Lucrezia met the famed French soldier, the | while the latter was co-commanding the French allied garrison of Ferrara i ... |
Stephen Fry | ... nto contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( | ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ... |
Kalyan Singh | ... rime minister, and LK Advani, the party's then (2009) leader in parliament. | , who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh during the mosque’s demoliti ... |
Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
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 ... |
Rick Rubin | ... ns of Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, and new school producers such Larry Smith, and | of Def Jam, were quickly advanced on by the Beastie Boys, Marley Marl and ... |
Lewis F. Linn | ... ty is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named in honor of | , a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American occupation of th ... |
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. |
Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
Chiang Kai-shek | ... Henry Donald, he overcame his opium addiction and declared his support for | . He was given the nickname of 千古功臣 (Hero of history) by PRC historians no ... |
Chris Sutton | ... d. At the start of the 1994–95 season Dalglish paid a record £5 million for | , with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership. By the last ga ... |
Cesare | ... rally accepted version is that Lucrezia was informed of this by her brother | , and she warned her husband, who fled Rome |
Rick Santorum | ... . received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator | and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
A.H. Layard | ... orld. In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by | and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh. Of particular interest to ... |
Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
Hajj Amin al-Husseini | ... ian political parties, including George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement, | 's Arab Higher Committee, the Islamic Liberation Front and several Syrian- ... |
Abraham | According to the Hebrew Bible God commanded the Biblical patriarch | to be circumcised, an act to be followed by his descendants |
Hamid Karzai | In 2001, the Afghan Interim Government under president | officially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation". One a ... |
John Kerry | ... ge W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for | in 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, w ... |
Unita Blackwell | ... t is the county seat of Issaquena County. One of its more famous natives is | , Mississippi's first black female mayor, who was elected in 1977. She bec ... |
President Nasser | Encouraged by the rhetoric of | of Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for th ... |
Andrew Moray | On 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and | won the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scotti ... |
Saint Adalbert of Prague | ... of his royal court. While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met | , the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired ... |
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 ... |
Bishop of Rochester | ... e begun in 1078, however the exact date is uncertain. William made Gundulf, | , responsible for its construction, although it may not have been complete ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nicolás de Ovando | ... s after Columbus's discovery, the administration of Hispaniola was given to | of the Order of Alcántara, founded during the Reconquista. As in the Iberi ... |
John Russell Bartlett | ... e. Maj. Jefferson Van Horne was sent out in 1849 to establish Marcy's goal. | , was commissioned in 1850 to carry out the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. B ... |
Edmond Picard | Having gained his law degree, he became a trainee (1881–1884) with | , a renowned criminal lawyer, who also played a pivotal role on the Brusse ... |
Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
Yahya Muhammad | ... er Yemen was formally recognized. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam | strengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Ki ... |
Saint Adalbert | ... ed in Magdeburg, seat of Adalbert of Magdeburg, the teacher and namesake of | . While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral. The fift ... |
John McCain | ... presidential election, 61.33% of Wheeler County voters voted for Republican | , while 34.61% voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 4.06% of voters either ... |
Henry Ford | During the 1920s | , founder and president of the Ford Motor Company, bought a sizable tract ... |
Schleicher | ... n in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, | and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidentia ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | Laurence (sometimes Lawrence or Laurentius; died ) was the second | from about 604 to 619. He was a member of the Gregorian mission sent from ... |
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. ... |
Juan Bautista de Anza | ... aided by Comanches who lived on the plains of what is now eastern Colorado. | , governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedi ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... al calendar, as they desired more frequent celebrations. Their High Priest, | , was away visiting the Isle of Man at the time, but he did not object whe ... |
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 ... |
Stand Watie | ... also known as the Hay Camp Action). Confederate troops led by Brig. General | and Brig. General Richard Gano captured 85 Union troops and killed even mo ... |
Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
G. Gordon Liddy | # | (R) Special Investigations Group, convicted of burglary |
Chuck Greenberg | ... nkie. Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers has a home in Westlake, as well as | , the brief and former owner of the Texas Rangers. Other residents include ... |
Greg Smith | ... located in Oregon State House District 57 which is currently represented by | . It is also located in Oregon State Senate District 29, represented by Da ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... al Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor | , with the support of 16 other states, sued the Federal Government and the ... |
Sam Giancana | ... Sinatra because of the entertainer's association with Mafia figures such as | , the stay was cancelled. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival Bing Cros ... |
Prince of Orange | ... e construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed his son, the | , had been wounded. The Lion's Hillock, a giant mound, was constructed her ... |
Ruud Gullit | ... of the subsequent 1998–1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager | . One commentator has since written, "His 20 months at Newcastle United ar ... |
John McCain | ... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. While | received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-close ... |
Charles Bent | ... lion, known as the Taos Revolt, in which the newly appointed U.S. Governor, | , was killed. New Mexico was a territory of the United States beginning 18 ... |
Thomas McKean | ... the Declaration had been signed by Congress on July 4. But in 1796, signer | disputed that the Declaration had been signed on July 4, pointing out that ... |
Winston Churchill | ... first summit was held in December 1953, at the insistence of Prime Minister | , to discuss relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Particip ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
Oregon State Senate District 29 | ... rict 57 which is currently represented by Greg Smith. It is also located in | , represented by David Nelson. Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republ ... |
William Shirley | ... rge-scale action was a major expedition organized by Massachusetts Governor | that successfully besieged the French fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. The ... |
Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
Andrew Moray | Along with | , Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 129 ... |
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 ... |
Philander C. Knox | ... rding to the 1911 record of events by the U.S. State Department, under Sec. | , the Declaration was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Cong ... |
Cecil Rhodes | ... nes was formed in 1888 by the merger of the companies of Barney Barnato and | , by which time the company was the sole owner of all diamond mining opera ... |
David Nelson | ... mith. It is also located in Oregon State Senate District 29, represented by | . Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republicans |
William Hulbert | ... . The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman | , became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who ... |
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 ... |
Brüning | ... instability than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors | , Papen, Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed ... |
Pelasgus | Lycaon, son of | , the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... n 1649, the palace became the property of the Commonwealth presided over by | . Unlike some other former royal properties, the palace escaped relatively ... |
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 ... |
Cecil Rhodes | | , the founder of De Beers, got his start by renting water pumps to miners ... |
Jan Jesenius | ... Battle of White Mountain in 1620, 27 Bohemian estates leaders together with | , rector of the Charles University of Prague were executed on the Prague's ... |
Quintus Dellius | Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, | , had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans. ... |
Ron Howard | ... ear. His first starring role was in Russkies (1987). He later co-starred in | 's Parenthood (1989), in which he was credited as Leaf Phoenix |
Kuveni | ... (6th-5th century BC), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through | , a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused. The Mahavans ... |
John Kerry | ... on 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democrat | received 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ... |
U.S. Attorney General | ... s. The move was completed in 1887. The new location was named Garland after | Augustus Hill Garland. Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were ... |
William the Silent | ... assassinated with a firearm were the Regent Moray of Scotland in 1570, and | , the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands in 1584. Gunpowder and other exp ... |
Cesare Borgia | ... became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included | , Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia. It is often suggested that Cesare a ... |
Jesus | ... ism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained in detail why | was wrong to create Christianity and why Muhammad was wrong to create Isla ... |
Philip Sheridan | ... f the Potomac, Maj. Gen. George Meade, and his cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. | , quarreled about the Union cavalry's performance in the first two engagem ... |
H. R. Haldeman | # | (R) Chief of Staff for Nixon, convicted of perjur |
Nightcrawler | ... n universe also includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, | , Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost. Besides the ... |
Diego de Vargas | ... Pueblo continued armed resistance to the Spanish until 1696, when Governor | defeated the Indians at Taos Canyon |
Robert De Niro | ... Also in 1997, Dunst appeared in the political satire Wag the Dog, opposite | and Dustin Hoffman. The following year she was the voice of the title char ... |
H. G. Wells | ... in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), Robert Bloch, | (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M ... |
John McCain | ... ote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican | won 51% to Democrat Barack Obama's 46% and each of the three state row off ... |
Abraham Lincoln | ... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as | reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ... |
Jeff Stibel | A project at Brown University started by | , James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss and others called Applied Cognition Lab c ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... itive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in | 's To Die For (1995) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublem ... |
Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
Lip Pike | ... BP investigated Athletic of Philadelphia for paying three players including | , but ultimately took no action against either the club or the players. To ... |
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 ... |
William S. Knudsen | ... ge summer homes at the north end of Parke Lane (one remains today). General | , president of General Motors Corporation from 1937 to 1940, lived during ... |
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 ... |
Jules Hardouin Mansart | ... ch other. Wren's design for a domed palace bore resemblances to the work of | and Louis Le Vau, both architects employed by Louis XIV at Versailles. It ... |
Hippolytus of Rome | ... Flavius Josephus, to be derived from the eponymous Lud son of Shem; however | (AD 234) offered an alternative view that the Lydians were descended from ... |
Michael Grade | ... high cost of the first series, the then controller of programming of BBC1, | was reluctant to sign off a second series without major improvements and c ... |
The Black Douglas | ... for that magazine, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, | , and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fi ... |
Muhammad | ... rts, explained in detail why Jesus was wrong to create Christianity and why | was wrong to create Islam; he laments the pains Jews have suffered in pers ... |
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 ... |
Stephen Fry | ... e, notably re-recordings of "Marvin" and "Reasons To Be Miserable", sung by | , along with some of the "Guide Entries", newly written material read in-c ... |
Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ... |
Catherine II of Russia | ... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress | , who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ... |
Apuleius | ... s of Bidpai, Hitopadesha and Vikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by | and Metamorphoses by Ovid extend the depths of framing to several degrees. ... |
Governor of New York | ... es, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, for | in 1906, and for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910. Nonetheless, thr ... |
Robert Moses | ... tan along the East River, designed by controversial New York master planner | |
John Murtha | ... 's 12th congressional district and lost to the popular Democratic incumbent | in the 2006 election |
Kevin Spacey | ... d not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star | . She later explained: "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was m ... |
Bob Casey Jr. | ... ee row-office statewide winners carried Columbia in 2008. In 2006, Democrat | received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator ... |
Chomsky | Herman and | (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ... |
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 ... |
Paul Martin | ... opened Parliament in October, 2004, in which former Liberal Prime Minister | included electoral reform in his plan for the next Parliament. So far Cons ... |
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 ... |
Mick Mulvaney | ... arolina's . As of the 2010 House elections, it is represented by Republican | , who comes from neighboring Lancaster County. The district was one 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 ... |
Trudeau | ... nto a panic. This led in a large part to the articulation of Prime Minister | 's "Third Option" policy of diversifying Canada's trade and downgrading th ... |
Plutarch | Polybius and | , a Greek author writing under the Roman empire, cite a battle at Mt. Lyka ... |
Idi Amin | ... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about | ; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ... |
Riley Bartholomew | ... city with business and commerce not far away. One of the first settlers was | , a former General in the Ohio Militia who became a Richfield Justice of t ... |
Tom Werner | ... nt basis if it was offered to him, and on 19 January the Liverpool chairman | stated that the club's owners would favour this option. On 22 January 2011 ... |
Archbishop of Armagh | ... International Commission on Decommissioning, as well as Lord Eames, former | and Sir George Quigley, former top civil servant. Chastelain stated that t ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... rade. He then attended Chatsworth High School—where his classmates included | and Mare Winningham—as well as the Hollywood Professional School. At the a ... |
Christina Aguilera | ... , including Brown, who died during the previous year. Earlier that evening, | delivered an impassioned performance of one of Brown's hits, "It's a Man's ... |
George W. Bush | ... recent years. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 53% of the vote and Republican | won 44%. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 50.14% of the vote and Bush ... |
Orson Welles | ... ry was a source of inspiration for the development of the lead character in | ' film Citizen Kane. His mansion, Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, Californ ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In his ten-year collaboration with | , Bernard Herrmann experimented with ideas in Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960 ... |
Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
Erythraean | ... h several Sibyls: Heraclitus names at least three Sibyls, the Phrygian, the | , and the Hellespontine. Frazer, James, translation and commentary on Paus ... |
Doug Magnus | ... level, Lismore is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
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 ... |
Nicolas Fouquet | After the disgrace of | in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet’s state and employed the talents of Le ... |
Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
Pharaoh | ... time being without foreign intervention. However, in the spring of 609 BC, | Necho II personally led a sizable army up to the Euphrates to aid the Assy ... |
Samuel de Champlain | ... ponsored by France; the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real in Newfoundland; and | (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed th ... |
Sherman Minton | ... the Court. The three final candidates were Solicitor General Stanley Reed, | , and Hugo Black. Roosevelt said Reed "had no fire," and Minton did not wa ... |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | In 1513, | crossed the Isthmus of Panama, to find gold but instead led the first Euro ... |
John Ashcroft | ... a crime in Al-Kidd v Ashcroft, a civil suit against former Attorney General | . In January 2010, the American military released the names of 645 detaine ... |
Vincent Massey | In 1952, he advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as the first Canadian-born Governor-General. Each of the aforementioned ac ... |
Jonathan Swift | A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by | |
Joseph Chamberlain | ... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of | 's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ... |
Rupprecht | ... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince | , commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ... |
Bing Crosby | ... am Giancana, the stay was cancelled. Kennedy instead chose to stay at rival | 's estate, which further infuriated Sinatra. Lawford was blamed for this, ... |
Aidan Kelly | ... Goddess and the God during the winter months. The name Mabon was coined by | around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh myth ... |
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 ... |
Rafael Benítez | In April 2009 Liverpool manager | invited Dalglish to take up a role at the club's youth academy. The appoin ... |
Gerald Gardner | ... anuary 1880 – 12 January 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by | as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into ... |
Andrei Sakharov | ... n the amount of matter and antimatter in the universe; it thus forms one of | 's three conditions for baryogenesis |
Augustine of Canterbury | ... his arrival is disputed. He was consecrated archbishop by his predecessor, | , during Augustine's lifetime, in order to ensure continuity in the office ... |
Joseph Blake | ... orida, understood the threat posed by the French arrival on the coast. Both | , Carolina's governor until his death in 1700, and James Moore, who succee ... |
Bibb Graves | ... ck, ten Republicans and six Democrats voted against Black. Alabama Governor | appointed his own wife, Dixie B. Graves, to fill Black's vacated seat |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | ... oundland; and Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, | crossed the Isthmus of Panama and led the first European expedition to see ... |
Roy Hodgson | ... e 2010, Dalglish was asked to help find a replacement, and in July Fulham's | was appointed manager. However, a poor series of results at the start of t ... |
Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
Marcus Lurius | ... from the left wing of the fleet, Lucius Arruntius commanding the centre and | commanding from the right. Titus Statilius Taurus commanded Octavian's arm ... |
Titus Statilius Taurus | ... rruntius commanding the centre and Marcus Lurius commanding from the right. | commanded Octavian's armies, who observed the battle from shore to the nor ... |
Harry Bennett | ... of his property to Ford employees. Ford's controversial personnel director, | , built the famous "Pagoda House" on West River in 1939. Grosse Ile reside ... |
Vincent Sheheen | ... ict 27 and represented by Democrat, and former 2010 candidate for governor, | |
Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
Pope Alexander VI | ... many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is better known as | |
Derek Jacobi | ... portrayed in the movie by Rutger Hauer, Goebbels by Ian Holm, and Hitler by | , a role for which he was nominated for an Emmy. The miniseries did win 2 ... |
Mayor of New York City | ... a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran unsuccessfully for | in 1905 and 1909, for Governor of New York in 1906, and for Lieutenant Gov ... |
Jesus | ... pels, one account of the Acts of the Apostles, Epistles and an Apocalypse). | is its central figure. The New Testament presupposes the inspiration of th ... |
Martin Bormann | ... , including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, | and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Nancy Walker | ... s; he was unflinchingly loyal to women like Elizabeth Taylor, Libby Holman, | and Ann Lincoln |
John Diefenbaker | ... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by | , in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ... |
Paul | Pavlovsk Palace was built by Catherine the Great’s son | . The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francophiles, w ... |
Karl Barth | ... ter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, | and Samson Raphael Hirsch |
Reginald Heber | ... Ford – Roy Fuller – Robert Graves – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – | – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – George Herbert – Ralph Hodgson ... |
Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
Rudolf Hess | ... azi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, | , Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
Stephen Harper | ... ugh Parliament in July 2005 without holding a plebiscite. In December 2006, | 's government introduced a motion to re-open the marriage debate, which lo ... |
Gerhard von Scharnhorst | ... away to the northwest, after having secured 34 cannon in co-operation with | . At the Battle of Lübeck his force was defeated by two French corps on 6 ... |
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 ... |
Rod Hamilton | ... epublican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican | |
Abe Fortas | Black later clashed with fellow Justice | during the 1960s. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the mo ... |
Doug Magnus | ... t Lake Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Marie Feodorovna | ... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, | , were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ... |
Johnny Depp | ... died, outside the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room, which was co-owned by | at the time. Joaquin's call to 911 to save his brother was recorded and re ... |
Karl Barth | ... century, typically (though not without challenge) seen to be spearheaded by | , was in many ways an attempt to challenge his influence |
Friz Freleng | Alfred Hitchcock Presents was parodied by | 's 1961 cartoon The Last Hungry Cat, which contains a plot similar to Blac ... |
Parmenides's | ... een devised by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 - 430 BC) to support | doctrine that "all is one" and that, contrary to the evidence of our sense ... |
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 ... |
Rose Mary Woods | ... of one recorded tape had been erased. Nixon's longtime personal secretary, | , said she had accidentally erased the tape by pushing the wrong foot peda ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
David Pleat | ... display in terms of discipline and spirit" and a "defensive masterplan" by | , Henry Winter wrote, "it can only be a matter of time before he [Dalglish ... |
Alicia Keys | ... rned some mainstream recognition through the work of D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, | , and Lauryn Hill. D'Angelo's critically acclaimed album (2000) has been r ... |
CIA Director | ... Syrian forces caught the United States by surprise. According to the future | and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he was briefing a US arms negotiator o ... |
Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
John C. Frémont | ... his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in 1838.). | of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Cars ... |
Konrad Adenauer | ... drich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Sam ... |
Tony Richardson | Along with Karel Reisz, | , and others, he secured funding from a variety of sources (including Ford ... |
C. D. Howe | ... t. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister | , who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant. Western Canadians felt p ... |
Plutarch | ... inspiration. However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by | , who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that ... |
Lord Carrington | ... ancaster House Agreement a few months before the 1980 elections, chaired by | , institutionalizes majority rule and protection of minority rights. Since ... |
Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
Fred M. Vinson | ... they would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief. Truman ultimately chose | for the position |
Walt Disney | Along with | , Hitchcock was among the first prominent motion picture producers to full ... |
Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen | ... the retreat of the broken armies he commanded the rearguard of the army of | . Upon the capitulation of the main body after the Battle of Prenzlau on 2 ... |
Stephen Harper | ... orm in his plan for the next Parliament. So far Conservative Prime Minister | has not made any moves towards reform of the electoral system |
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 ... |
Heinrich Himmler | ... nalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, | , Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself |
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 ... |
Doug Magnus | ... e level, Dundee is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Robert Dinwiddie | ... resources for their preservation. The historic hotel was named for Governor | , who was the administrative head of the Colony of Virginia during the tim ... |
Steven Spielberg | ... ation. In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of | 's Jurassic Park were retrained in the use of computer input devices. By 1 ... |
Doug Magnus | ... vel, Round Lake is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton |
Abraham | ... children of Noah, (i.e. all humanity, ten generations prior to the birth of | and the origin of Judaism). According to Jewish law, to be considered mora ... |
Pope Pius II | ... Catholics and Utraquists. It would only last for a short period of time, as | declared the Basel Compacts to be invalid in 1462 |
Sofia Coppola | In | 's independent film The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst played the role of t ... |
Hermann Göring | ... scribe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, | , Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitl ... |
Ascanio Sforza | Alexander asked Giovanni's uncle, Cardinal | , to persuade Giovanni to agree to a divorce. Giovanni refused and accused ... |
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 ... |
William the Conqueror | ... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, | , spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime of | as its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ... |
Ralph Klein | ... ssue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premier | and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul Martin's Li ... |
Joseph Goebbels | ... er was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including | , Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of co ... |
Jack London | ... most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain and | . A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municip ... |
Heracles | ... labrys. Omphale, daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom | was required to serve for a time. His adventures in Lydia are the adventur ... |
Sebastian Shaw | ... s used in the 2004 DVD release of , where he was inserted in place of actor | as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial c ... |
Dick Martin | ... California. He was 59 years old. His wife, Judith, and his longtime friend, | , were by his side. His ashes are at Kliban's Maui estate. A week after hi ... |
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 ... |
Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua | ... ning in 1503, Lucrezia enjoyed a long relationship with her brother-in-law, | as well as a love affair with the poet Pietro Bembo. Francesco's wife was ... |
Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
Henry H. Spalding | ... Reverend Jason Lee just east of Mount Hood on the Columbia River. In 1836, | and Marcus Whitman traveled west to establish the Whitman Mission near mod ... |
William Shirley | ... raiding on the northernmost communities of Massachusetts prompted Governor | to order the construction of a chain of frontier outposts stretching all t ... |
Pope Sylvester II | ... Pomerania) to help convert the local population into Christianity. In 1003 | appointed Bruno, at the age of 33, to head a mission amongst the pagan peo ... |
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 ... |
Robert H. Jackson | ... e mid-1940s, Justice Black became involved in a bitter dispute with Justice | as a result of Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local 6167, United Mine Workers ... |
Doug Magnus | ... Plain Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Rob Reiner | ... ket. I do have platonic (women) friends, but not best, best, best friends." | initially envisioned actress Susan Dey for the role of Sally Albright. Whe ... |
Alexander Cartwright | ... City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded. The club members, led by | , formulated the "Knickerbocker Rules", which in large part dealt with org ... |
Jesus | ... te human being was particularly absurd. Moreover, the original teachings of | , which were aimed at aiding the poor and downtrodden, had slowly been per ... |
Spike Lee | ... Day. It has been said that a biographical film is in the works about Brown | ;has signed on to direct, with Brian Grazer producing and Jez and John-Hen ... |
John Hancock | The most famous signature on the engrossed copy is that of | , who, as President of Congress, presumably signed first. Hancock's large, ... |
Prime Minister | ... i-presidential republic, whereby the President is the head of state and the | is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government. ... |
Luis A. Ferré | ... home to the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP), founded in 1959 by fellow ponceño | . The museum was operated by Ferré until his death at the age of 99, and i ... |
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 |
Albrecht von Wallenstein | ... ion. In order to muster an imperial army to continue the war, he applied to | , one of the richest men in Bohemia: the latter accepted on condition that ... |
Adam's | ... ces say four) just south of La Haye Sainte, for a last stand. A charge from | Brigade and the Hanoverian Landwehr Osnabrück Battalion, plus Vivian's and ... |
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 ... |
Doug Magnus | ... te level, Fulda is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican | , and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker |
Duke of Normandy | Victorious at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading | , William the Conqueror, spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, ... |
Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
Lew Wasserman | ... ylor, who was in Paris, sent flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Myrna Loy, and | |
Joseph Schumpeter | ... ch Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, | , Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, K ... |
Antwerp | ... loyed in attacks against strategic points in Belgium, primarily the port of | |
Franz von Weyrother | ... llied officers, including the Tsar's aides and the Austrian Chieff of Staff | , strongly supported the idea of attacking immediately and appeared to be ... |
Pietro Bembo | ... cesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua as well as a love affair with the poet | . Francesco's wife was the cultured intellectual , the sister of Alfonso, ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
Hugenberg | ... and landowners declared themselves in favour of his opponents — Hitler and | . By late 1931, conservatism as a movement was dead, and the time was comi ... |
Clodoald | ... Île-de-France, near Paris), which was named for the 6th-century French monk | |
Martin Bormann | ... ity. In Hitler's reticence, Speer claimed that Hitler's personal secretary, | , took advantage of the vacuum and controlled all information going to Hit ... |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher | |
Karl Hanke | ... ity, and how she in turn had had an affair with one of Speer's old friends, | . Personally meeting with Göring on his estate, Speer wrote how the by-the ... |
Max Weber | ... e existence of this class is often linked to the Protestant work ethic (see | ) and the particular status of the Baptists and the dissenting Protestant ... |
Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
William Belton Murrah | ... Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $50,000. Dr. | was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of th ... |
Jan Hus | During the ecumenical Council of Constance in 1415, | , the rector of Charles University and a prominent reformer and religious ... |
Charles Laughton | ... . MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred (1932) starring | |
Guardian of Scotland | ... defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, and was | , serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk. In 1305, Wallace was ... |
George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
Ross Nichols | ... when he returned, since they were now more in line with the Neo-druidism of | , a friend of Gardner's and founder of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Drui ... |
John Hancock | ... was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Congress, and signed by | , President of the Congress, on July 4, 1776. On August 2, 1776 a parchmen ... |
Joseph Caldwell | ... the grass of McCorkle Place out of respect for the unknown resting place of | , the university's first president |
Elia Kazan | ... oncert music," the 1950s saw the rise of the modernist film score. Director | was open to the idea of jazz influences and dissonant scoring and worked w ... |
JoBeth Williams | ... Kill the Wizard) with his sister Summer Phoenix. In 1985, he appeared with | in the CBS television movie Kids Don't Tell. He made his big-screen debut ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cecil Rhodes | The company was founded by | , who was financed by Alfred Beit and N M Rothschild & Sons. In 1927, Erne ... |
Penny Marshall | ... end at the time) return to single life after divorcing comedienne/filmmaker | and in the process was unconsciously doing research for the role of Harry |
Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
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 ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... e, the current Prince of Wales). However, due to a misunderstanding between | (guest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to ... |
Nancy Walker | ... es Church attended by 150 guests including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra and | , Clift was buried in the Quaker Cemetery, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New Yo ... |
MP | ... lower house of the Parliament of India, once every five years. The current | is P. C. Chacko. The Lok Sabha seat has been held by the Indian National C ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Haig | ... ime to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff, | . Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only ... |
Claude Chabrol | In the late 1950s, French New Wave critics, especially Éric Rohmer, | and François Truffaut, were among the first to see and promote Hitchcock's ... |
Charles Betts Galloway | ... 00. Dr. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop | of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising ... |
George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
Dave Grohl | Many notable rock drummers have been influenced by Keith Moon, including | , Neil Peart, Tommy Lee, Peter Criss, and Brad Wilk |
Richard Sharples | ... below, and Politics of Bermuda). On 10 March 1973, then-Governor of Bermuda | was assassinated by local Black Power militants during a period of civil u ... |
Heinrich Heine | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, | , Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Aug ... |
Governor Peter Hansborough Bell | ... ian water supplies. Texas Commissioner Robert Simpson Neighbors was sent by | in 1850 to organize El Paso |
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 ... |
Prime Minister of Canada | ... s the first Prime Minister to live in the present official residence of the | : 24 Sussex Drive, from 1951 to the end of his term in office |
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 |
Sir William McAlpine | ... Southern Railway". This was re-erected at the private Fawley Hill Museum of | , whose company built Waterloo International. Waterloo International close ... |
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 ... |
Mathilde Kschessinska | When the prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Theaters | was pregnant in 1901, she coached Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayad ... |
Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
Anwar al-Awlaki | ... such as Al-Qaeda and Hamas. In early 2010, with President Obama's approval, | became the first U.S. citizen to be publicly approved for targeted killing ... |
Hilarion Alfeyev | Bishop | commented that the inter-Christian community is "bursting at the seams." H ... |
Christy Mathewson | ... to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, | , and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900–1919 i ... |
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 ... |
Alexander Haig | ... mes Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and White House Chief of Staff | . The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was so agitated an ... |
Jonathan Demme | ... Hours fits in well with popular low-budget "cult" films of the 1980s, e.g. | 's Something Wild and Alex Cox's Repo Man |
Mark Killilea | ... e "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, Seán Doherty, | and Albert Reynolds |
Patrick Tonyn | ... when he returned to Britain due to illness. He was replaced as governor by | |
William d'Aubigny | ... crown in 1102. King Henry II, who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed | as Earl of Arundel, with the honour and the castle of Arundel. Arundel Cas ... |
Todd Haynes | ... ne Lynch, Gael García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, | , Gus Van Sant, and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major par ... |
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 ... |
John Fisher | ... opponents to the Henrician Reformation, such as St. Thomas More and Bishop | , who were executed for their opposition. There was also a growing party o ... |
Ida of Lorraine | ... logne, successor to his father Count Eustace II of Boulogne. His mother was | |
Radosław Sikorski | Poland's foreign minister, | , delivered a speech on 28 November 2011 in Berlin, in which he emphatical ... |
Tim Mara | ... he counted among his friends and companions the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, | , Art Rooney, and George Preston Marshall, among others. Marshall met Bell ... |
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 ... |
Lord Dunmore | ... ed the Spanish to surrender on April 17, 1783, without a single shot fired. | governed the colony from 1787 to 1796 and oversaw the construction of Fort ... |
Clemente Mastella | ... opularity, was anyway sacked by the end of support from centrist MPs led by | |
Victor Anderson | ... e in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with | , founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest ... |
Peter Ryan | ... cost was described in some local media as excessive. National Party leader | said that the Labor government should win "gold (medal) for burning money" ... |
Cy Young | ... mes tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, | , Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the ... |
Oscar Goodman | ... rmer presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines), | (Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada), Harry Arista Mackey (Mayor of Philadelphia), ... |
Bettino Craxi | Italian Prime Minister | claimed Italian territorial rights over the NATO base. Italian Air Force p ... |
Henrik Ibsen | ... ay visit Hægstad Gård which contains woodcarvings, scenes from Peer Gynt by | , and in Geiranger the new Norwegian Fjord Centre shows local history and ... |
Member of the Legislative Assembly | ... ly, individuals with other specific qualifications, such as being a current | , commissioned officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or make act as ... |
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 ... |
Jay Hammond | ... n, established by Alaska in 1976, primarily by the efforts of then Governor | . Shortly after the oil from Alaska’s North Slope began flowing to market ... |
Joshua | ... ereafter, Hebron is said to have been wrested from the Canaanites by either | , Judah or Caleb. The town itself, with some contiguous pasture land, is t ... |
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 ... |
White House Chief of Staff | ... luding Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, CIA Director William Colby, and | Alexander Haig. The Watergate scandal had reached its apex, and Nixon was ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Schumpeter | | was an economist of the same age as Keynes and one of his main rivals. He ... |
Bishop of Winchester | ... on if he refused to dismiss his councillors, particularly Peter des Roches, | . Henry yielded, and the favourites were dismissed, Hubert de Burgh (whom ... |
Gene Robinson | ... ious blow to ecumenism. The decision by the U.S. Episcopal Church to ordain | , an openly gay, non-celibate priest who advocates same-sex blessings, as ... |
Uri Avnery | ... ded the ceremony. Also attending were at least one Israeli peace activist ( | , head of Gush Shalom) and a Christian minister. Arafat was buried in a st ... |
Janusz Palikot | ... The new element was the successful debut of the left-of-center movement of | , a maverick politician, which resulted in decreased electoral appeal of t ... |
Thorir Hund | ... e Viking Age and the Middle Ages. Among the more famous chieftains you find | , who killed Norway's Patron Saint, Saint Olav in the Battle of Stiklestad ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | The Skin Game was adapted and directed by | in 1931. It starred C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, Jo ... |
Silvio Berlusconi | In 2001 the centre-right formed the government and | was able to regain power and keep it for a complete five-year mandate, bec ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... litical organization, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which influenced | to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays an ... |
Raul Roco | ... hairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U.S. Ambassador to Sweden), | (former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippin ... |
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 ... |
Chief of Staff in the White House | ... ilitary aides-de-camp, a Secretary to the President (somewhat equivalent to | , except it is a permanent civil service position) and a press office. In ... |
Pogus Caesar | ... hortly before the tenth anniversary of Aaliyah's death. The documentary, by | , contained previously unseen footage shot of her career beginnings in 199 ... |
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 ... |
Colin Powell | ... d on the island until Morocco, after mediation by the United States, led by | , agreed to return to the status quo ante which existed prior to the Moroc ... |
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 ... |
Seán Doherty | ... p, known as the "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, Tom McEllistrim, | , Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
William Colby | ... nior officials, including Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, CIA Director | , and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. The Watergate scandal had ... |
Walter Johnson | ... this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as | , Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the exten ... |
Tom McEllistrim | ... arise. This group, known as the "gang of five," consisted of Jackie Fahey, | , Seán Doherty, Mark Killilea and Albert Reynolds |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
Patrick T. Powers | ... gues negotiated a plan to maintain their independence. On September 5, 1901 | , president of the Eastern League announced the formation of the second Na ... |
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 ... |
Daniel Lapin | ... an Orthodox Jewish ceremony conducted at the Pacific Jewish Center by Rabbi | . After the marriage with Marlowe also ended in divorce, Horowitz married ... |
Malcolm X | ... ivists felt it presented an inaccurate, sanitized pageant of racial harmony | ;called it the "Farce on Washington," and the Nation of Islam forbade its ... |
Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
Henry of Anjou | ... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young | . According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ... |
Catherine the Great | ... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia and | of Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ... |
Woodrow Wilson | ... rsity as undergraduate students, graduate students or were faculty members. | , who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was Hopkins' first affi ... |
Roger de Montgomery | ... ncestors for over 850 years is Arundel Castle. Built in the 11th Century by | , Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. King Henry ... |
Hastings Rashdall | ... ce the Reformation it has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, | and Paul Tillich. It remains the most popular view of atonement among libe ... |
Morris Birkbeck | Flower came to America in 1816. He and | , another Englishman, met and agreed to explore the western country with t ... |
Kim Il-sung | In April 1982, | announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ... |
Archbishop of Canterbury | ... all number of barons to pay homage to Eustace as their future king; but the | , Theobald of Bec, and the other bishops declined to perform the coronatio ... |
Richard of Chichester | ... edicated to him, St Edmund's Chapel, was consecrated in Dover by his friend | (making it the only chapel dedicated to one English saint by another) |
Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
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' ... |
Count of Flanders | ... he marriage of his son Alexander to Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, | , probably also in 1281. The treaty arranging the marriage, signed in Dece ... |
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 ... |
Nikolai Podgorny | ... "Who could have imagined the Americans would be so easily frightened," said | . "It is not reasonable to become engaged in a war with the United States ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
Joseph Andriacchi | ... arly-20th century including Tony Accardo (boss from about 1945 to 1992) and | . Although not as many famous persons have resided there as have in its ne ... |
Farouk Kaddoumi | ... . PLO Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas was selected Chairman of the PLO, and | became head of Fatah. The PNA and the leadership of Palestinian refugee ca ... |
Morta | Mindaugas and his wife | were crowned during the summer of 1253. Bishop Henry Heidenreich of Kulm p ... |
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 |
Émile Durkheim | ... olitical sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with Karl Marx and | , he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology. But ... |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... eighing just 1.4 kg (3 lb), Vanguard 1 was described by then-Soviet Premier | as, "The grapefruit satellite. |
Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
Tom McEllistrim | ... era, Dr Bill Loughnane, a noted hardline Republican backbencher, along with | , a member of Haughey's gang of five, at a parliamentary party meeting. Ly ... |
Neil MacGregor | ... it charges no admission fee. Since 2002 the director of the museum has been | |
Rawhi Fattouh | Upon Arafat's death, PLC Speaker | succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General Ma ... |
Gianfranco Fini | ... of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Berlusconi's party saw the splintering of | 's new faction, which formed a parliamentary group and voted against him i ... |
Karen Handel | | resides in Roswell as well as former Pittsburgh Steeler and current NBC Sp ... |
Piero Sraffa | ... han any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including Isaiah Berlin and | . Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewish friends, most ... |
Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
Winston Churchill | ... base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister | was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting ... |
Leopold II | ... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother, | , previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ... |
Mahmoud Abbas | ... ouh succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General | was selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah ... |
Vasili | ... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son | |
Tony Accardo | ... ous Italian organized crime families since the early-20th century including | (boss from about 1945 to 1992) and Joseph Andriacchi. Although not as many ... |
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 ... |
Rube Foster | ... each other independently, without an official league to organize the sport. | , a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920. A second ... |
Sheikh Taissir Tamimi | ... in East Jerusalem following the establishment of a Palestinian state. After | discovered that Arafat was buried improperly and in a coffin—which is not ... |
Vice President | ... ial debates, held between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and | Richard M. Nixon |
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 ... |
Honus Wagner | ... pite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being | , held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Det ... |
Plácido Domingo | ... times of day at which each act takes place. Featuring Catherine Malfitano, | and Ruggero Raimondi, the performance was broadcast live throughout Europe |
Walter Veltroni | ... f his previous Forza Italia party and of Fini's Alleanza Nazionale) against | of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Berlusconi's party saw the splintering o ... |
Stephen Langton | ... in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, Thomas Becket and | |
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 |
Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
Antonio Gramsci | In the Marxist tradition, the Italian writer | elaborated the role of cultural hegemony in ideology as a means of bolster ... |
Pontius Pilate | ... aborted 1983 version, Aidan Quinn was cast as Jesus, and Sting was cast as | . (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Daf ... |
Ty Cobb | ... d to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's | , the "Georgia Peach." Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive ... |
Artemisia I of Caria | ... iopian Apollo. In the early 5th century Halicarnassus was under the sway of | (also known as Artemesia of Halicarnassus ), who made herself famous as a ... |
Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
Bishop Hoadley | ... mesley and Tanfield in Durham. He married in 1715. It was the year in which | preached the famous sermon on 'The Kingdom of Christ', which gave rise to ... |
Prince Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz | ... odds on policy, and their quarrels were usually mediated by the chancellor, | (1711–94), who served nearly 40 years as the principal minister to Maria T ... |
Al Capone | ... , and other portions such as Austin were annexed into the city of Chicago . | built his criminal empire in Chicago before moving to Cicero to escape the ... |
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 ... |
Carabinieri | ... lian territorial rights over the NATO base. Italian Air Force personnel and | lined up facing the United States Navy SEALs who had arrived with two C-14 ... |
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 ... |
Gus Van Sant | ... l García Bernal, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Jim Jarmusch, Todd Haynes, | , and John Waters. Waters, a summer resident, is a major participant in th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Godfrey of Bouillon | He went on the First Crusade in 1096 with his brothers | (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and Baldwin of Boulogne. He soon returned to E ... |
Thomas Becket | ... ian Pontigny Abbey in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, | and Stephen Langton |
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 ... |
Dr. Dre | ... st rapper—but behind the scenes it was a group effort. Music was handled by | and DJ Yella; the lyrics were largely written by MC Ren, with contribution ... |
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 ... |
Mustafa Tlass | ... n a December 1973 address to the National Assembly, Syrian Defense Minister | stated that he had awarded one soldier the Medal of the Republic for killi ... |
Steven Chu | ... transition. In 1985, laser cooling was used to slow and manipulate atoms by | and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by Robert Four ... |
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | ... s was recorded by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir | in his diary entries of the 1/2 July 1940 |
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 ... |
Abraham | ... iddle Bronze Age. Hebron was originally a Canaanite royal city. Earlier, in | 's day, the city is said to be under Hittite control. In the narrative of ... |
Morris Dees | ... ould be the victims of lingering racism." Responding with an open letter to | , president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that "the slave ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... s the grandson of the original settler named Bodden who was probably one of | 's soldiers at the taking of Jamaica in 1655 |
Pope Clement XII | ... de was built in 1732–1734 by the architect Ferdinando Fuga on the orders of | Corsini, whose coat-of-arms, trumpeted by two Fames, still surmounts the r ... |
Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
Mike Huckabee | ... O'Brien accused his show of being the sole cause of presidential candidate | 's status in the polls, due to his use of the Walker Texas Ranger Lever wh ... |
Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk | ... ting with Roger Bigod from Normandy (died 1107). Their male line ended with | , who died without an heir in 1307, so their titles and estates reverted t ... |
Cardinal Richelieu | ... er Louis XIII. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of | , in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at ... |
United States Secretary of State | Park Ridge is the hometown of former First Lady & current | Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her ... |
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 ... |
Francis Drake | ... tly, in 1586 St. Augustine was attacked and burned by English privateer Sir | and the surviving Spanish settlers were driven into the wilderness. Howeve ... |
Franco Zeffirelli | ... Royal Opera House in 1964, with Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. This production, by | , remained in continuous use at Covent Garden for more than 40 years until ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Insull | ... chester was occupied by German farmers dating back to the mid 19th century. | purchased the land in 1924 with plans to recreate an English style town. A ... |
Oliver Cromwell | ... ugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and deserters from | 's army in Jamaica |
Irenaeus | ... he atonement is the recapitulation view, first comprehensively expressed by | . In it, Christ succeeds where Adam failed, undoing the wrong that Adam di ... |
Pope Innocent IV | ... ol over some lands in western Lithuania, in return for an acknowledgment by | as king. The Pope welcomed a Christian Lithuania as a bulwark against Mong ... |
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 ... |
James Knox Taylor | ... apel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lampert-Wildflower House, and the | designed Belvidere Post Office are listed on the National Registry of Hist ... |
Abdul Rash |