| Gustav III of Sweden | ... edish War against Sweden, a conflict instigated by Catherine's cousin, King | , who expected to simply overtake the Russian armies still engaged in war ... |
| Gustaf Vasa | ... h a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King | . This flag was a swallow-tailed (double-tailed), and the first legal desc ... |
| Henry Tudor | ... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against | at Bosworth Field |
| Augustus | ... ndar. The calendar reforms were completed during the reign of his successor | . Quintilis was renamed Iulius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar in 44 BC ... |
| Netanyahu | ... mon Peres) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the | government of 1996–1999 and supported it from the outside |
| Sigismund I the Old | ... ge was granted the title "Duke of Prussia" by his new feudal overlord, King | of Poland, who was also his uncle. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, ... |
| Edward V of England | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to | and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the onl ... |
| GDRT | ... E, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another. | of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs, signing an alliance ... |
| John III's | ... banners. Prior to this, a similar flag appeared in the Coat of Arms of King | duchy, which is today Finland Proper. The same coat of arms is still used ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | The department was established on September 9, 1965, when | signed the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It st ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for | at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ... |
| Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York | The Princes in the Tower is a term which refers to Edward V of England and | . The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabet ... |
| Domitian | ... he Jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius | (between 1.9.93 and 14.3.94, cf. AJ X.267). In expounding Jewish history, ... |
| Louis XIV of France | ... rial army. The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of | , was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and an ... |
| Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... he omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that the being cannot lift it?" | 's Reason addresses the topics of original sin, theodicy and several other ... |
| St Edward the Martyr | ... he solemn translation of the relics of King Eadward II, soon to be known as | , from their grave at Wareham to a shrine at Shaftesbury Abbey. In 984, in ... |
| John Tukey | ... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as | , condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ... |
| Stanley Jackson | ... uropean club in Chittagong in 1932, while Bina Das attempted to assassinate | , the Governor of Bengal inside the convocation hall of Calcutta Universit ... |
| Edward IV of England | ... ard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of | and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their father's death. Sometim ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | In 1916, Baruch left Wall Street to advise president | on national defense and terms of peace. He served on the Advisory Commissi ... |
| Herod Antipas | ... ore precise than Mark in the titles he gives to rulers, and initially gives | the correct title of "tetrarch", yet he lapses into calling him "king" at ... |
| President | ... s in the White House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first | Coolidge in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 193 ... |
| President | ... more people than ever before will be able to witness the swearing-in of the | from a vantage point in sight of the Capitol." The Committee made this arr ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Seville in Spain. During his papacy, he purported to canonize Generalissimo | and Christopher Columbus as saints. According to his supporters, Pope Greg ... |
| John I of Castile | ... erdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married king | , but popular sentiment was against an arrangement in which Portugal would ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... beth, and in the French TV mini-series, Le Grand Charles, about the life of | |
| Ma Ying-jeou | In the 2008 presidential election, KMT candidate | defeated DPP candidate Hsieh with 58.48% of the vote. The party also retai ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... nce and central Europe. In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when | Francis II kept Francis I of Austria as his only official title. These ach ... |
| Indiana Jones | Although some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for | , neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confi ... |
| Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dhu Nuwas | ... d the Sabaean kingdom. They traded from the port of al-Muza on the Red Sea. | , a Himyarite king, changed the state religion to Judaism in the beginning ... |
| Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ntil Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, | , in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d'Este, the exiled male li ... |
| Magnus Birgersson's | ... a combination of King Albert of Mecklenburg's coat of arms of 1364 and King | coat of arms of 1275, and is blue divided quarterly by a golden cross patt ... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... "S" on the duchy's coat of arms represented Albert's sovereign, Sigismund. | , and Pope Clement VII objected to the Prussian Homage, which was derided ... |
| Honorius | ... was the famous magister militum Stilicho, the chief minister of the Emperor | |
| Gordon Campbell | ... , but failed to meet the required "supermajority" threshold of 60%. Premier | announced due to the large support shown for electoral reform a second ref ... |
| Alfonso X of Castile | ... rst with the Old Fuero (Charter) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by | in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339. On the other hand, the town of ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... authority had collapsed in the face of rebellion. Two former rebel leaders, | (d. 202 BCE) of Chu and Liu Bang (d. 195 BCE) of Han, engaged in a war to ... |
| Henry III | Leiden was sacked in 1047 by Emperor | . Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she w ... |
| Caracalla | ... atterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by Septimius Severus and | , who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. The city was th ... |
| Alexander the Great | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias: Drawing inspiration from | , Veidt was once the superhero Ozymandias, but has since retired to devote ... |
| Egyptian President | ... ul Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third | Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David A ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n sporting cologne), his serious work made him the trusted eyes and ears of | 's army and inspired Southern morale |
| Richard | ... sumed killed) within a year of Edward's death. The king's youngest brother, | , (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at ... |
| Gustaf Vasa | ... 20, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King | , who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish ... |
| Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... his advisors went about arranging a marriage for him. Their eyes fell upon | , the eldest child of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. She w ... |
| Louis the German | ... ildren, but one illegitimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, | and Charles the Bald, agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 8 ... |
| Zach Taylor | ... inch (76 mm) rifled gun and was purchased for $155 on June 25, 1892, by the | Post No. 42 of the Grand Army of the Republic |
| Christian II | ... ho successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King | in 1521 |
| Offa of Mercia | ... ounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon King | was buried in the town in 796. In 886 it became a boundary town separating ... |
| Theodor Heuss | ... aced by a simpler Greek cross. On 1 October 1956, the President of Germany, | , gave directions to use the Iron Cross as the official emblem of West Ger ... |
| Edward I | ... tagonist, a fictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of | and Kublai Khan. Costain's narration includes technology such as the compa ... |
| Justin I | ... the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Emperor | invaded and annexed Yemen. About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan ask ... |
| Guillermo Rodríguez | ... rthrew the government of Velasco Ibarra. The coup d'état was led by General | and executed by navy commander Jorge Queirolo G. The new president exiled ... |
| Augustus | ... ius Caesar in 44 BC and Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) in honour of | in 8 BC |
| William Henry Harrison | ... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governor | of the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace |
| Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
| Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
| Duke of Halland | ... went on a private visit to Wuppertal, Germany; at the same time, H.R.H. the | was on a private visit to Sainte-Maxime, France. The Government therefore ... |
| Shah Jahan | ... ed the Mughal Emperor Jahangir that if the young and charismatic son Prince | , the newly instated as the Subedar of Gujarat had turned the English out ... |
| Louis XVIII | ... e island of Elba, and restored the French Bourbon monarchy in the person of | . They signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau (11 April 1814) and initiated th ... |
| Erichthonius | ... A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of Erechtheus/ | through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate that Erichtho ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... ecame a doctor, and served as a surgeon on the staff of Confederate general | during the American Civil War. He was a pioneer in physical therapy. His m ... |
| Sol Linowitz | ... position. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter reopened negotiations, appointing | as co-negotiator without Senate confirmation, and Helms and Strom Thurmond ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... a itself by Austrian troops; and, though the invasion of Bohemia in 1744 by | enabled him to return to Munich, at his death on 20 January 1745 it was le ... |
| Constantine | ... he popes and the church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors | and Theodosius, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western ... |
| Lew Grade | ... ly a child audience. Henson was finally able to convince British impresario | to finance the show, which would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndica ... |
| President | ... any credit the speech by Robert F. Kennedy, who was in town campaigning for | that night, for helping to calm the tensions. Racial tensions heightened i ... |
| Carl XVI Gustaf | Under H.M. | , the present King of Sweden since 1973, the plain triple-tailed flag has ... |
| another brother | ... d brother were killed at the Battle of Wakefield, while his grandfather and | were executed for treason. Edward's two sons were imprisoned and disappear ... |
| President | ... ear conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late | Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a str ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President | , and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974 |
| Horst Köhler | ... the Ministry of Defence to decide on the matter. On 6 March 2008, President | approved a proposal by Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung to institute a ... |
| Charles Gide | ... ty professor of law and died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist | |
| Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... t the Jewish religion." These were the charges brought by the government of | and Isabella I of Castile against the Jews. They constituted the grounds f ... |
| Hadrian | ... known to the Romans, and the foundation of the town refers to the emperor, | , with an inscription of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-consciou ... |
| Æthelred | ... accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her own son | to reign. Through the influence of Dunstan, Eadward was chosen and crowned ... |
| Theodosius | ... church of the line of emperors beginning with the Emperors Constantine and | , later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... d copies of the forbidden books but most of these were destroyed later when | burned the palaces of Xianyang in 206 BC |
| Pope Paul VI | ... op Thuc had the power to ordain he did not have the authority to do so from | , which is a requirement for licit episcopal holy orders in Roman Catholic ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... the cult of the Martyr King; however, no other eyewitness source, including | , records this. Henry's account was written during the Restoration, some 1 ... |
| Septimius Severus | ... ely rebuilt on Roman patterns of urbanism, during the preceding century, by | and Caracalla, who had already acknowledged its strategical importance. Th ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
| Caracalla | ... iption of somewhat doubtful authenticity. The bath-conscious Roman emperor, | , once came here to ease his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aure ... |
| Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... se were the charges brought by the government of Ferdinand II of Aragon and | against the Jews. They constituted the grounds for their expulsion and ban ... |
| Coolidge | ... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first President | in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ... |
| Gustavus Adolphus | ... ame coat of arms is still used by the province. Not until the reign of King | in the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... s figures by anti-Franco Anarchists. After the civil war was won by General | , Escrivá was able to return to Madrid. Escriva himself recounted that it ... |
| Sidgwick | ... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and | . Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ... |
| Nestor | As the battle turned against the Greeks, thanks to the influence of Zeus, | declared that the Trojans were winning because Agamemnon had angered Achil ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... ke of York. The two brothers were the only sons of Edward IV of England and | alive at the time of their father's death. Sometime around 1483, it is ass ... |
| George Washington | ... outing their choice to the clerk, as supporters cheered or booed. Candidate | spent L39 for treats for his supporters. The candidates knew they had to " ... |
| Charlemagne | ... or, he should rule in Aachen, the capital of the first Carolingian emperor, | , and in Rome, the ancient capital of emperors. Middle Francia (Latin Fran ... |
| Odin | ... e "-", anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, the son of god | |
| Premier | ... visive issue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta | Ralph Klein and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul ... |
| Drusus Germanicus | ... riot relays, the emperor Tiberius hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, | , who was dying of gangrene as a result of a fall from a horse |
| Titus | ... pression of the Jewish revolt, Josephus would have witnessed the marches of | 's triumphant legions leading their Jewish captives, and carrying treasure ... |
| Edward the Elder | ... rating Wessex and Danelaw. It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford. In 919 | built the town's first known fortress, on the south side of the River Ouse ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
| George W. Bush | ... lo, co-founder of Yahoo!, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President | ; from entertainment Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Mi ... |
| Omar Torrijos | ... oric American achievement", and warned that it would fall into the hands of | 's "communist friends". It had appeared as an issue in the 1976 presidenti ... |
| King Farouk I | ... ssador in Tehran. In the same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of | , married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then crown prince (later shah) of Ira ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... fantry regiment would include two companies of pikemen, a plan supported by | . Many pikes were produced but were never used in battle and the plan to i ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview | . Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ... |
| Frederick I of Denmark | On 1 March 1526 Albert married Princess Dorothea, daughter of King | , thereby establishing political ties between Lutheranism and Scandinavia. ... |
| Alexandre Pétion | ... th, Port-au-Prince was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of | . Henri Christophe renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassinatio ... |
| Henri Christophe | ... was the capital of the republic, under the leadership of Alexandre Pétion. | renamed the city Port-aux-Crimes after the assassination of Jacques I at P ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... m His sub-Vicar, with the automatic right of succession to the papacy after | . On August 6, 1978, Pope Paul died and Domínguez claimed the papacy, proc ... |
| Edward (II) "the Martyr" | ... ar died two years after his coronation, and was succeeded by his eldest son | . His accession was disputed by his stepmother, Ælfthryth, who wished her ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and | , and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ... |
| Shah Jahan | ... en he must expect we would do our justice upon the seas". Fearing the worst | sealed an official Firman allowing the English to trade in Gujarat in the ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... s of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin Dynasty the hegemon | appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named for its ... |
| Josep Sunyol | ... n the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising. On 6 August, | , the club president and representative of a pro-independence political pa ... |
| Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
| Harald I of Norway | ... tacks upon the Viking peoples. Another possible contributing factor is that | ("Harald Fairhair") had united Norway around this time, and the bulk of th ... |
| Henry VIII | ... e of Repeal Act (1553); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of | were repealed; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554. The ... |
| Terry Sanford | ... ch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro, compelled him to run. Lake lost to | , who ran as a racial moderate willing to implement the federal policy of ... |
| Claudius | The Emperor | paid a visit while Britain was being conquered and was honoured with the a ... |
| Ferdinand I | On the death of his half-brother | without a male heir in October 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure ... |
| Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
| Septimius Severus | ... ntury the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war. When the dust settled, | emerged as emperor, establishing the Severan dynasty. Unlike previous empe ... |
| Memnon | ... of Patroclus, Achilles' closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus. When | , king of Ethiopia slew Antilochus, Achilles once more obtained revenge on ... |
| Francisco Macías Nguema | ... ngomo-based Esangui clan. Obiang was a general when he overthrew his uncle, | |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Act of Incorporation, signed by President | on March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 ch ... |
| Kwame Nkrumah | ... lonialism, waged by the former colonial powers and other developed nations. | , who in 1957 became leader of newly independent Ghana, was one of the mos ... |
| Alton B. Parker | ... cated. The conservative wing of the party was ascendant and nominated Judge | instead. An opponent of the British Empire, Hearst opposed American involv ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | ... he Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history. | (possibly O'Brian) was president of Mexico during 1920-24 and Obregón city ... |
| Conan the Barbarian | ... nearly century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the | books |
| Elizabeth II | Queen | approved in Regina, Saskatchewan on July 4, 1973 a new badge for the RCMP, ... |
| Laius | ... of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth, | was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and became the tutor of Chrysippus, yo ... |
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | In July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president, | , the sale of a Barroso-class corvette to be constructed in Brazil was ann ... |
| Vicente Fox | ... 920-24 and Obregón city and airport are named in his honour. More recently, | served as President from 2000 to 2006. Mexico also has a large number of p ... |
| John II of France | ... mongst Edward's successes were the battles of Crécy and Poitiers where King | was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King David II of Scotland at Ne ... |
| Nick Fury | ... mics character Peacemaker, with elements of the Marvel Comics spy character | added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of Gordon Liddy chara ... |
| Numa Pompilius | | , the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, reformed the calendar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... y the railway system, which could have been used to transport artillery had | not used narrow-gauge tracks to repair bridges after the Spanish Civil War ... |
| George Washington | ... rtraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, | , and Abraham Lincoln. Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simpl ... |
| Cephalus | ... nal Orion could be made immortal, as well as an astronomical scene in which | is thought to stand in for Orion and his constellation, also reflecting th ... |
| Beatrice | ... ber 1383, strenuous efforts were made to secure the succession for Princess | , Ferdinand's only daughter. As heiress presumptive, Beatrice had married ... |
| Anote Tong | ... e in March 2003 by a no-confidence vote and replaced by a Council of State. | of the opposition party Boutokaan Te Koaua was elected to succeed Tito in ... |
| King John | ... meaning navel, because it was thought to be the navel of England. In 1203, | granted Naseby its market charter and the village became a flourishing mar ... |
| Annie Besant | ... Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and | . After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he g ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the 38th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo) by | |
| Henry VI | ... s royal motto was modus et ordo, or "method and order"). The latter days of | 's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as ... |
| GDRT | ... riod the Kingdom of Aksum began to interfere in South Arabian affairs. King | of Aksum acted by dispatching troops under his son, BYGT, sending them fro ... |
| Henry Bolingbroke | ... im after he promised that he had just come to reclaim his dukedom - just as | had done seventy years earlier. As he marched southwards he began to gathe ... |
| Ezra Taft Benson | ... urch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two Church presidents: | '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Ch ... |
| Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
| Captain Atom | ... insic Field Subtractor" in 1959. Doctor Manhattan was based upon Charlton's | , who in Moore's original proposal was surrounded by the shadow of nuclear ... |
| Alfonso VIII of Castile | In 1187, King | made the abbot of San Emeterio lord of the town, and in 1248 Santander par ... |
| Erichthonius | ... t she eluded him. His semen fell to the earth and impregnated the soil, and | was born from the Earth, Gaia. Athena then raised the baby as a foster mot ... |
| Salvador Allende | ... ent which led to a revolution in the popular music of his country under the | government. Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he was ar ... |
| King Hussein | ... yrian position deteriorated, Jordan sent an expeditionary force into Syria. | , who had come under intense pressure to enter the war, told Israel of his ... |
| Anote Tong | ... sappears due to global climate change. In June 2008, the Kiribati president | said that the country has reached "the point of no return"; he added: "To ... |
| Louis the Younger | ... n Lotharingia but was defeated near Andernach by Louis. In 879 Louis's son, | , was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed Louis ... |
| Warren G. Harding | ... gnised the Court's jurisdiction in, following a long and drawn out process. | had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three ... |
| Richard, Duke of Gloucester | ... VI, and Edward took refuge in Burgundy, accompanied by his younger brother | . The rulers of Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy ... |
| Polybus of Corinth | ... th, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless King | as if he were his own |
| King Charles I | ... oor a small distance north of the village the Royalist forces, commanded by | , battled the Roundhead army commanded by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax ... |
| Diocletian | ... These reforms were finally realized late in the century under the reign of | , one of them being to divide the empire into an eastern and western half, ... |
| Richard I | ... was elected Bishop of Salisbury shortly after the accession of Henry's son | to the throne of England |
| Monivong | ... amily. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court of King | . Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolution ... |
| Wen Jiabao | ... o the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and its Premier is | , who is also a senior member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee |
| Jacques Chirac | ... Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic called the war illegal. French President | commented on the statement of the ten Eastern European countries saying: " ... |
| Charles X Gustav | After | , the son of John Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded ... |
| Charles Tupper | ... ment until their deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and | , Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private ... |
| 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 ... |
| David II of Scotland | ... here King John II of France was taken prisoner, and the capture of the King | at Neville's Cross. During this period, the Tower of London held many nobl ... |
| Edward VI | In 1553, Mary I, a Roman Catholic, succeeded her Protestant half-brother, | , to the English throne. Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicis ... |
| Qin Er Shi | ... worked, and the younger son Huhai became the Second Emperor, later known as | or "Second Generation Qin. |
| Thomas S. Monson | ... atter-day Saints, including two Church presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and | '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. ... |
| Hadrian | ... in agony under the heel of the emperor. She appeared on coins issued under | , as a more regal-looking female figure. Britannia was soon personified as ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader | proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did n ... |
| President Bush | ... servative Republicans are not committed to improving public education. When | 's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, ... |
| Louis the Stammerer | ... Younger, was invited by a faction of the West Frankish nobility to succeed | , Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, C ... |
| Prince George, the new Prince of Wales | ... e of the Prince. Upon the Prince's death in 1751, the education of his son, | , became a priority and in 1755 Bute was appointed as his tutor. Bute arra ... |
| Paul Lazarsfeld | ... Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologist | and public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson |
| John F. Kennedy | ... to avoid inconveniencing the Chicago traveling public, including President | . In a common pattern, Air Force One would land at a larger area airport, ... |
| Shah Jahan | ... ab. He was succeeded by his third son, Prince Khurram who took the title of | . Jahangir's elegant mausoleum is located in the Shahdara locale of Lahore ... |
| Laius | ... t of religious pollution, caused because the murderer of their former King, | , had never been caught. Oedipus vows to find the murderer and curses him ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... dissertation was on the Dutch response to France's decision under President | to leave NATO's integrated command structure. During this period he receiv ... |
| Roger II of Sicily | ... n Castle, widely known as the Castello Svevo (Swabian Castle), was built by | around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by Frederick II of Hohensta ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... campaign was managed by Thomas F. Ellis, who would later be instrumental in | 's 1976 campaign and also become the chair of the National Congressional C ... |
| John | ... rd's death in 1199, Walter helped assure the elevation of Richard's brother | to the throne. Walter also served John as a diplomat, undertaking several ... |
| third wife | ... England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after King Henry VIII's | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported | 's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election |
| Edward | ... by Portuguese historians as the "illustrious generation" (Ínclita Geração): | , the future king, was a poet and a writer; Peter, the Duke of Coimbra, wa ... |
| Hu Jintao | ... has been described as a "rubber stamp" body. China's incumbent President is | , who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, and i ... |
| John Paul II | ... r 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Karol Józef Wojtyła, became Pope | , head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Catholics rejoiced at the elev ... |
| Joseph Banks | ... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir | (President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ... |
| King Henry VIII's | ... Hertfordshire, in England. She took on the stage name "Jane Seymour" after | third wife |
| Tim Rice | ... ay writers from Bucks include Terry Pratchett who was born in Beaconsfield, | who is from Amersham and who is from Aylesbury |
| Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... revolution. On 7 November, the revolution had reached Munich, causing King | to flee. Groener, a self-appointed military expert in the MSPD was sent to ... |
| Otto I | ... a bridgehead to Italy, which was re-affirmed during the Italian Campaign of | . In the years 1007 and 1027 the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire granted ... |
| Prince Frederick, the Prince of Wales | ... bellion of 1745, Bute moved to Westminster, London, and two years later met | there, soon becoming a close associate of the Prince. Upon the Prince's de ... |
| Cecrops | ... fered them the first domesticated olive tree. The Athenians (or their king, | ) accepted the olive tree and with it the patronage of Athena, for the oli ... |
| St Æthelberht | ... ce at Mass and the daily office. He visited the shrines of St Augustine and | , and there are reports of a vision of angels who sang to him heavenly can ... |
| Andrew Loog Oldham | ... little equipment and needed to borrow Alexis' gear to play. This was before | became their manager |
| Emperor | ... capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the | Valentinian I. Ambrose never married |
| Maria Theresa | ... an Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of | to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either ... |
| Qabus | ... ur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents. | , the generous ruler of Dailam and central Persia, himself a poet and a sc ... |
| Louis XIV | ... return to the stage in 1659. He wrote the play Oedipe, which was favored by | . In the next year, Corneille published Trois discours sur le poème dramat ... |
| Charles the Bald | ... itimate son, Hugh. The kings of East and West Francia, Louis the German and | , agreed to divided Lotharingia between them, and in 870 they came to an a ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... the disaffected. In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of | (1558) and its form has more than once been altered since. Up to the time ... |
| Henri Christophe | ... the Musée National is a museum featuring historical artifacts such as King | 's actual suicide pistol and a rusty anchor that museum operators claim wa ... |
| Queen Mary I | ... d-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from | , some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged. "Weaned off u ... |
| Neil L. Andersen | ... presidents:Ezra Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles ( | , D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 ... |
| Sleeper agent | ... g Cylon agents, either aware at start of the game or become aware later, as | s. Each of the 10 playable character has their own abilities and weaknesse ... |
| Attila | The few demonstrably historical characters mentioned in the poems, like | , provide a terminus post quem of sorts. The dating of the manuscripts the ... |
| Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Traianus (or, less frequently, year 851 Ab urbe condita). The denomina ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector | ;, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and Kim Campb ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zhang Zuolin | ... s under Japanese officers, as is charged." The Japanese had in their employ | (Chang Tso-lin), a famous Honghuzi leader who led his men against the Russ ... |
| Edward Heath | ... e existing A3T missile. This decision was made official late in 1973 by the | administration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline. The ... |
| U.S. President Abraham Lincoln | ... Carter was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by | to engage cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad line ... |
| Edvard Beneš | ... England. Many of these settled in Bucks as it is close to London. President | of Czechoslovakia lived at Aston Abbotts with his family while some of his ... |
| D. Todd Christofferson | ... Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, | '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54 ... |
| Peter | ... ration" (Ínclita Geração): Edward, the future king, was a poet and a writer | ;, the Duke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; a ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ter II. Incidentally, the papacy of Gregory XVII closely overlapped that of | . He died, aged only 58, a mere 11 days prior to the death of his "rival" ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by | , a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ... |
| Alexander I | ... eteran, Prince Mikhail Kutuzov, was made the new Commander-in-Chief by Tsar | . Finally, the two armies engaged in the Battle of Borodino on 7 September ... |
| David A. Bednar | ... S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, | '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876 ... |
| King Edward VIII | In 1920, the Prince of Wales (the future | ) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, he recommended the place in ... |
| St Louis | ... rchbishops, the two generals of the Carthusians and Cistercians, the king ( | ), and three of his sons, the queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and ... |
| Teburoro Tito | ... ts of the main island group would be resettled onto less-populated islands. | was elected president in 1994. Kiribati's 1995 act of moving the internati ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
| George Reid | ... known as the "three elevens". When the Deakin government resigned in 1904, | of the Free Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour takin ... |
| Henry VI | ... ated the Lancastrians in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian | and Queen Margaret of Anjou were campaigning in the north of England, Warw ... |
| Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
| Napoleon III | ... was then nicknamed the European summer capital and reached its zenith under | during the 1850s and 1860s. The Russian writer, Dostoevsky, wrote The Gamb ... |
| Antoninus Pius | ... at the edge of the (known) world. Similar coin types were also issued under | |
| George IV | ... e of Wellington, Richard Chamberlain as Byron, and Ralph Richardson as King | . The film is also notable because it is the last film in which Michael Wi ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
| Mike Huckabee | ... regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as John McCain, | , and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrogation technique ... |
| Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... te by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius, and their uncle | was crowned as Richard III. There are reports of the two princes being see ... |
| Hamani Diori | ... -Nguesso, of the Republic of the Congo, Idriss Déby, president of Chad, and | former president of Niger |
| Jehoiakim | ... Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with | . He brought Jehoahaz back to Egypt as his prisoner, where Jehoahaz ended ... |
| Donald Rumsfeld | ... 003, after a trip to Iraq, he was publicly questioning Secretary of Defense | , saying that more U.S. troops were needed; the following year, McCain ann ... |
| Thomas Telford | ... pment of the network, therefore, had to be left to other engineers, such as | |
| Ho Chi Minh | In 1930 | founded the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist ... |
| José Gustavo Guerrero | ... hi, Altamira, Anzilotti, Bustamante, Jonkheer van Eysinga, Henri Fromageot, | , Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, Frank B. Kellogg, Negulesco, Mich ... |
| Henry II | ... ddle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress. Incorporated first by | , a new charter was granted by Elizabeth in 1589. A high stone wall was bu ... |
| Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
| John of Lancaster | ... Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, at Greenwich in the 1430s, as well by his son, | at Fulbrook. The Pleasance was eventually dismantled by Henry VIII and par ... |
| Nabopolassar | ... lonian king was planning on reasserting his power in Syria. In 609 BC, King | captured Kumukh, which cut off the Egyptian army, then based at Carchemish ... |
| Philippa of Lancaster | John I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 | , daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Blanche of Lancaste ... |
| Henry VI | ... it is an honorary title and a royal style. The Dukedom became extinct after | , as the original charter restricted it to 'heirs male'. Despite this, app ... |
| Alaric | ... negotiation to Leo. Priscus reports that superstitious fear of the fate of | —who died shortly after sacking Rome in 410—gave him pause |
| Menahem | ... ssume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his father | 's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III, as is rec ... |
| Edward the Confessor | ... there and was a regular visitor himself. Other medieval residents included | , who had a palace at Brill, and John Wycliffe who lived in |
| James I of England | ... piritual matters. The theory came to the fore in England under the reign of | (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). Louis XIV of France (164 ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... ong them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President | . Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' disposable incom ... |
| Ahaz | ... began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successor | began to reign in his 17th year, 735 BC |
| Frederick I Barbarossa | The Hohenstaufen Emperor | created a Reichsvogtei (roughly "Imperial Bailiwick"), and in 1180 put Wet ... |
| Sheri L. Dew | ... FO Gary Crittenden '76, former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins '84, Deseret Book CEO | , and Matthew K. McCauley, CEO of children's clothing company Gymboree |
| Acting President | ... of the Polish presidential election on July 4, 2010, Bronisław Komorowski, | , Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, defeated Jarosław K ... |
| President of Ghana | ... on's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first | and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocat ... |
| Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales | The third creation was on 10 November 1399, for | , eldest son of the new king. In 1413, the 1st Duke ascended the throne as ... |
| Henry VIII | ... ongside population growth, inflation was a major reason for enclosure. When | became King in 1509, the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the p ... |
| Akbar | ... verge of conversion," a notion which proved to be very false. Instead, both | and Jahangir studied this artwork very closely and replicated and adapted ... |
| Louis XIV of France | ... ign of James I of England (1603–1625, also James VI of Scotland 1567–1625). | (1643–1715), though Catholic, strongly promoted the theory as well |
| Pekahiah | ... year of Azariah (Uzziah) of Judah, i.e. in 740 BC. Also, Pekah assassinated | to assume the throne , and Pekahiah's two-year reign was preceded by his f ... |
| Charles the Bold | ... oyed an extremely refined court culture in his lands; she was the mother of | |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ieval period Roger of Wendover was, as the name suggests, from Wendover and | also owned property in the same town. It is said that King Henry VIII made ... |
| Blanche of Lancaster | ... Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and | . From that marriage were born several famous princes and princesses of Po ... |
| Francisco José Urrutia | ... 30, with 14 candidates receiving a majority on the first ballot and a 15th, | , receiving a majority on the second. The full court was Urrutia, Mineichi ... |
| Charlemagne | The Kingdom of the Franks under | was particularly hard-hit by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine wi ... |
| Walter Scott | ... atchewan on 23 May 1906, by the first provincial government, led by Premier | ; the monumental Saskatchewan Legislative Building was built between 1908 ... |
| U.S. Presidents | ... sultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising | Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a ... |
| Emperor Meiji | ... most famous such incident was his refusal to bow deeply to the portrait of | and the Imperial Rescript on Education in the formal ceremony held at the ... |
| Juan Pujol | On 16 June 1944, British double agent Garbo ( | ) was requested by his German controllers to give information on the sites ... |
| Jotham of Judah | ... d by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of | . (; ; compare ; ; ) Tiglath-Pileser in an inscription mentions the slayin ... |
| Zhou Enlai | ... olicy is reportedly based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence of | —non-interference in other states' affairs, non-aggression, peaceful coexi ... |
| Lynn Thorndike | ... stantially modified. Starting with works of Pierre Duhem, Raoul Carton, and | , Bacon's advocacy of scientia experimentalis has been argued to differ fr ... |
| Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani | ... crisis in which the main candidates were Abdullah bin Jassim's eldest son, | , and Hamad bin Abdullah's teenage son, Khalifa ibn Hamad Al Thani |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... s of Hungary and Bohemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by | Maximilian I in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by ... |
| President | ... itution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and | Jacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998 |
| Henry VI | ... hey did not secure their independence nor become "abbeys" till the reign of | . The Cluniac revival, with all its brilliancy, was but short-lived. The c ... |
| Odin | In Baldrs draumar, | rides to the edge of Hel to investigate nightmares Baldr has had. He bring ... |
| Charles the Bold | ... ing with the astonishing battlefield victories of the Swiss cantons against | of Burgundy in the Burgundian Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 147 ... |
| Edward VI | ... tion (and therefore enclosures) until the Duke of Somerset was Protector of | . Until then enclosures were seen as the cause of inflation, not the outco ... |
| Shah of Iran | ... traits of Jagger in 1975. One of these was owned by Farah Diba, wife of the | . It hung on a wall inside the royal palace in Teheran. In 1967, Cecil Bea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cao Pi | ... cracy and military governors to become warlords and divide the empire. When | , King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty cease ... |
| Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
| Abdoulaye Wade | ... cently Mourides have become more involved in the highest level of politics. | who is the current president of Senegal is also a devout Mouride. The day ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... onsumption and extends serious penalties to offenders pursuant to President | 's policy of enacting Shari`a as national law. Despite this, there exists ... |
| Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... n 2 September 1967 in Saint Jacob's Church in The Hague. His godparents are | , Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra, and Queen |
| Ronald Reagan | ... V specials as the Timex All-Star Jazz Show and The Swingin' Years hosted by | . She recorded infrequently after the expiration of her Verve contract in ... |
| Walter Scott | In the early 19th century, | wrote of Wallace in , and Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wal ... |
| Alexander I | ... n and many soldiers of allies or subject areas). He aimed to compel Emperor | to remain in the Continental System and to remove the imminent threat of a ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, by | in the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ... |
| Jotham of Judah | ... is starting date in 752 BC. This date is consistent with the statement that | began to reign in Pekah's second year, 750 BC , and that Jotham's successo ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
| Sigismund II Augustus | ... llern with the Prussian dukedom. So he tried for gaining his brother-in-law | of Poland and finally succeeded, including the then usual expenses |
| Rudolph I | ... ad already died, in Italy in 1250) came to Wetzlar. When the rightful king, | heard of this and came to Wetzlar, the city leaders seized Tile Kolup and ... |
| Justina | ... ved a formidable task for Ambrose. In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother | , along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially militar ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
| Charles II | ... seventeenth century Guildhall, built shortly after the restoration of King | , is supported by columns, to provide an open ground floor for the butter ... |
| Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
| Hoshea | Soon after this Pekah was assassinated by | , the son of Elah, who took the throne, in the twentieth year of Jotham of ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... governments, both Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of | , Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The proje ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... aw," and was able to retain his seat in the Senate despite Dukakis' loss to | . The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al ... |
| Graham Greene | ... than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against | for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul ... |
| John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster | ... hn I married in Porto on 2 February 1387 Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of | and Blanche of Lancaster. From that marriage were born several famous prin ... |
| Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
| Charles the Simple | In 911, French King | was able to make an agreement with the Viking warleader Rollo, a chieftain ... |
| Claudius | It would seem that in the reign of | (41-54 AD) the quaestors had become responsible for the paving of the stre ... |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... y campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against Richard Nixon and | , and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry Southern states. Accordin ... |
| Henry VII | ... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought by | made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ... |
| Marie-Louise | ... impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to besieged Cadiz. Napoleon married | , an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance ... |
| Charles III of Spain | ... s father considered other possibilities (such as marrying her to the future | ) before announcing the engagement of the couple. France demanded that Mar ... |
| Dushyanta | ... o sees Eastern parallels in the figures of Aqhat, Attis, Dumuzi, Gilgamesh, | , and Prajapati (as pursuer of Ushas) |
| Conradine | ... latter case, most likely referring to wooden defences around the town). The | Gebhard, Count in the Wetterau, and as of 904 Duke of Lorraine, had a Chur ... |
| Sali Berisha | ... greeted by many appreciative fans, including the then President of Albania, | . During this trip, Wisdom was filmed by Newsnight as he visited a childre ... |
| Conan the Barbarian | The pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of the character | among others, lived in Cross Plains from the age of 13 until his death by ... |
| Guy III of Spoleto | ... Arnulf their king, possibly under coercion. Arnful was initially opposed by | , who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by Rudolph of Auxerre, wh ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
| President | ... Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The current | of the ECB is Mario Draghi, former governor of the Bank of Italy |
| Augustus | ... Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of | and Saturninus (or, less frequently, year 794 Ab urbe condita). The denomi ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by | . In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
| Marshal Bernadotte | ... rians at Wagram, on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that | was stripped of his command after retreating contrary to Napoleon's orders ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
| Yu Shyi-kun | ... ulted into President Chen resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier | resigned, and Frank Hsieh assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
| Edward I | ... d. The Scots king William the Lion was imprisoned in Newcastle in 1174, and | brought the Stone of Scone and William Wallace south through the town. New ... |
| Constantius II | About the same time, he wrote to Emperor | a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to ... |
| King George V | ... s of the Manor. In the 20th century the hall hosted the Duke of York, later | , with the Duchess of York, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) and a ... |
| Gratian | ... e as heads of the pagan priesthood, as would his Christian successors on to | (r. 375–83). According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when ... |
| Premier of the Republic of China | ... etropolis. Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of | in 2005. The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted i ... |
| Sigismund III Vasa | ... am, was successfully invested with the duchy in 1623 by the king of Poland, | , thus the personal union Brandenburg-Prussia was confirmed. Many of the P ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, | . The Sovereign is styled as Duke of Lancaster, regardless of gender, alth ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... lliam Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen | for most of her reign. The country house, with a park laid out by Lancelot ... |
| Gnassingbé Eyadéma | ... sident of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of Côte d'Ivoire, | , former president of Togo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, of the Republic of the C ... |
| Arnulf of Carinthia | When in November 887 | called a council of the East Frankish nobility to depose Charles the Fat, ... |
| Frank Hsieh | ... resigning as DPP chairman. The cabinet of Premier Yu Shyi-kun resigned, and | assumed premiership on 25 January 2005 |
| Frank B. Kellogg | ... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, | , Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui |
| Zwentibold | ... ent himself with a rump state. In 895 Arnulf appointed his illegitimate son | King of Lotharingia. He ruled independently until he was overthrown and ki ... |
| Peter IV | ... his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future | |
| Friedrich Ebert | ... t modernising its form, including a reduction of the heads from two to one. | initially declared the official German coat of arms to be a design by Emil ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and | . Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ... |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Tilak opposed the moderate views of | , and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Ben ... |
| Ashur-dan III | ... . He succeeded his father Adad-nirari III, and was succeeded by his brother | . Very little information about his reign has survived |
| Robert E. Lee | ... of stagecoaches and military roads prior to the Civil War. It is said that | and U.S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on th ... |
| Richard III | ... idence is ambiguous, and has led people to various conflicting conclusions. | had eliminated the princes from the succession. However, his hold on the m ... |
| Frank Porter Graham | ... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal | . Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ... |
| Anna Pavlovna of Russia | ... King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen | |
| Charles the Bold | ... brésis to the states of Burgundy was made impossible by the sudden death of | in 1477. Louis XI immediately seized the opportunity to take control of Ca ... |
| Henry the Fowler | ... t elect a replacement until 925, when under Gilbert's leadership they chose | , the East Frankish king. In 930 Gilbert's decision was rewarded and he re ... |
| Akbar | ... hem various books, engravings, and paintings and, when they saw the delight | held for them, sent for more and more of the same to be given to the Mugha ... |
| Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | ... therlands, and the first grandchild of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and | . From birth Willem-Alexander has the titles Prince of the Netherlands , P ... |
| Theodosius I | ... e powerful adversaries. The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens' successor | (who accepted them once more as allies), were to remain as a distinct enti ... |
| Cephalus | ... ss; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of Oenomaus), | , Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also sees Easte ... |
| Charles V | ... e was eagerly solicited by the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor | ) and by those of Francis I, King of France, and he appears to have receiv ... |
| James II | ... Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of | and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urg ... |
| Peter III of Russia | ... 761), Peter, the Grand Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, succeeded to the throne as | , and Catherine became Empress Consort of Russia. The imperial couple move ... |
| John Dudley | ... s one of the few parts of the castle to remain intact. The stables built by | in the 1550s also survive and lie along the east side of the base court. T ... |
| Emperor Ferdinand I | ... d of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later | |
| Sadyattes | ... –560 BC), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of | , of the house of the Mermnadae |
| Richard Nixon | ... outcomes of real-world events such as the Vietnam War and the presidency of | . In keeping with the realism of the series, although the costumed crimefi ... |
| Galerius | ... rship whichever deity they chose. A similar edict had been issued in 311 by | , then senior emperor of the Tetrarchy; Galerius' edict granted Christians ... |
| Ion Iliescu | ... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian President | called Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ... |
| Francis I | ... the partisans of Charles (afterwards the emperor Charles V) and by those of | , King of France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money ... |
| Tiglath-Pileser III | ... s preceded by his father Menahem's ten-year reign . Menahem gave tribute to | , as is recorded in (where Pul = Tiglath-Pileser) and also in Tiglath-Pile ... |
| Charles II | ... ng it unlikely that the skeletons belonged to the princes. On the orders of | the remains were reburied in Westminster Abbey. In 1933, the grave was ope ... |
| John the Fearless | ... arts by Burgundy's possessions and John of Burgundy, an illegitimate son of | , was made bishop. However what looked like an impending annexation of Cam ... |
| Emperor Wilhelm II | ... ied propaganda referred to Germans as the "Huns", based on a 1900 speech by | praising Attila the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of W ... |
| William II of the Netherlands | ... he Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King | and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia |
| Juliana of the Netherlands | ... ands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, and the first grandchild of Queen | and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. From birth Willem-Alexander has ... |
| Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ... mentioned are the recently deceased Omar Bongo, former president of Gabon, | , former president of Côte d'Ivoire, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, former president ... |
| Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under | , defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ... |
| Adad-nirari III | Shalmaneser IV was king of Assyria (783 - 773 BC). He succeeded his father | , and was succeeded by his brother Ashur-dan III. Very little information ... |
| Henry Dodge | ... as a private in an independent company that was taken into federal service. | , a Michigan territorial militia colonel who would prove to be one of the ... |
| Charles V | ... to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, then a governor on behalf of his brother | , and later Emperor Ferdinand I |
| Helgi Hundingsbani | ... seen as a whole in the Edda, but they consist of three layers, the story of | , the story of the Nibelungs and the story of Jörmunrekkr, king of the Got ... |
| John Buchan | ... itics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and | . Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the D ... |
| Emperor Xuanzong | The Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. Chinese | brings the Tang Dynasty to its pinnacle. Nara period in Japan |
| Blanche of Anjou | ... Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and | . His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens ... |
| Philip IV of France | ... , but there is some evidence that he left on a mission to the court of King | to plead the case for assistance in the Scottish struggle for independence ... |
| Archduke Charles | ... — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Austrian commander, | , failed to follow up on his indecisive victory, allowing Napoleon to prep ... |
| Rurik | ... along coastlines and along the major river valleys of north-western Europe. | also expanded to the east and in 859 became ruler either by conquest or in ... |
| Valentinian I | ... igh in the imperial favour, as heterodox. Summoned to appear before Emperor | at Milan and there maintain his charges, Hilary was mortified to hear the ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Howard was the great-grandfather of | and Catherine Howard, the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, o ... |
| Archduke Ferdinand of Austria | ... ted by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne was married to | , then a governor on behalf of his brother Charles V, and later Emperor Fe ... |
| Sam Davis | ... e major events of the war for the town involved the Confederate States hero | who after being charged with spying gave up his life instead of giving any ... |
| Jack Straw | ... dinance preventing resettlement unlawful. In 2004, the Privy Council, under | 's tenure, overturned the ruling. In 2006 the High Court of Justice found ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... n the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and | , records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many yea ... |
| Oenomaus | ... vine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, Leucippus (son of | ), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. Fontenrose also ... |
| Grand Duke Constantine | ... Allies was confirmed by the decision to send in the Russian Imperial Guard | ;, Tsar Alexander's brother, commanded the Guard and counterattacked in Va ... |
| Augustus | ... all days after the Ides, and had some odd effects. For example, the emperor | was born in 63 BC on the 23rd day of September. In the pre-Julian calendar ... |
| Omar Bongo | ... nch control in Africa. Those most often mentioned are the recently deceased | , former president of Gabon, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, former president of C ... |
| Akbar | ... ngir did not seem to have anything against Christianity. He wrote fondly of | 's reign, when "Sunnis and Shias met in one mosque, and Franks and Jews in ... |
| Tiglath-Pileser III | ... his from the Assyrian side, Stanley Rosenbaum maintains that the records of | demonstrate that the Assyrian king distinguished between two kingdoms in t ... |
| Maximilian I of Bavaria | ... came a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. Consequently, King | introduced far reaching economic, religious and administrative reforms. Wh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... e helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding | 's quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidate ... |
| John Major | ... ct and misleading information given at the time Railtrack was created, when | was Conservative . An increased offer of up to 262p per share was enough t ... |
| Maximilian I | ... s II was married to Mary of Habsburg, a Habsburg princess, granddaughter of | , as stipulated by the First Congress of Vienna in 1515. His sister Anne w ... |
| Cyaxares | ... d Babylonians. On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against | , king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities ... |
| Edward III | ... he became dissatisfied with Richard's treatment of him. As a descendant of | , through John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Thomas of Woodstock, 1s ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
| Robert Mugabe | | | |Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Fron |
| Maximilian | ... ath Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1515. When | I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal guardian, his cousin Georg v ... |
| President for Life | ... 972 Macias took complete control of the government and assumed the title of | . The Macias regime was characterized by abandonment of all government fun ... |
| Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d on liaisons with Sergei Saltykov, Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734–1783), | , Alexander Vasilchikov, and others. She became friends with Princess Ekat ... |
| Aurelius Severus | ... his arthritic aches. Baden was also known as Aurelia Aquensis, in honour of | , during whose reign Baden would seem to have been well known. Fragments o ... |
| Pope Pius XII | ... king and precedent-setting case quotes extensively from an address given by | to medical professionals on the matter of preservation of life |
| Emperor Wu of Han | ... rtner. When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders, | (r. 141–87 BCE) launched several military campaigns against them. The ulti ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
| Henry Tudor | ... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of | (later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ... |
| Francisco Macías Nguema | In September 1968, | was elected first president of Equatorial Guinea, and independence was gra ... |
| Philip V of Spain | ... to defend from foreign aggression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised | 's son, Don Carlos, as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of T ... |
| Maximilian I | ... hemia. Upon his father's death Louis had been adopted by Holy Roman Emperor | in 1515. When Maximilian I died in 1519, Louis was raised by his legal gua ... |
| Frank Hsieh | ... ds the Pan-Green Coalition since late 1990s, and Kaohsiung is no exception. | of the Democratic Progressive Party was reelected twice as Mayor of Kaohsi ... |
| Norodom Sihanouk | ... Khmer Rouge", French for "Red Khmer," was coined by Cambodian head of state | and was later adopted by English speakers. It was used to refer to a succe ... |
| Archduke Charles' | After | Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, the Armist ... |
| Nyerere | ... d Nkrumah therefore rejects the idea of an "African socialism" in the sense | , one of the "ideology of continuity" (Hountondji left) was arrested from |
| Henry III of England | ... . His family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of | , their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driv ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | On the orders of allied leaders | , Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ... |
| Zhou Enlai | On 6 April 1936, Zhang Xueliang met with | to plan the end of the Chinese Civil War. In the Xi'an incident (12 Decemb ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... is success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents | and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
| Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
| Catherine Howard | Howard was the great-grandfather of Anne Boleyn and | , the second and fifth Queens consort, respectively, of King Henry VIII. T ... |
| Ghanima | ... urner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and | . Paul disappears into the desert, in accordance with Fremen custom for th ... |
| Georges Pompidou | ... taff for African matters for president Charles de Gaulle (1958–69) and then | (1969–1974), is claimed to be the leading exponent of Françafrique. The te ... |
| William Laud | Archbishop | described Charles as "A mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be, o ... |
| Walter Wild | ... in a meeting at the Gimnasio Solé on 29 November. Eleven players attended— | (the first director of the club), Lluís d'Ossó, Bartomeu Terradas, Otto Ku ... |
| Hu Jintao | ... 2006. The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President | |
| Uncle Claudius | ... film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by Liev Schreiber, | by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e sanctifying value of work, and its fidelity to Catholic beliefs. In 2002, | canonized Escrivá, and called him "the saint of ordinary life. |
| James Madison | In the Federalist No. 39, | argued that the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based a ... |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
| Louis Bonaparte | ... unst-Gallerij). In 1808 the museum moved to Amsterdam on the orders of king | , brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as ... |
| Eleazar Wheelock | ... of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas. The College's founder | designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal ... |
| Kenneth Clarke | ... ity of their MPs rebelled against the party line, including figures such as | . The Liberal Democrats opposed the war, and their MPs were visibly unanim ... |
| Albert of Mecklenburg's | ... arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coat of arms is a combination of King | coat of arms of 1364 and King Magnus Birgersson's coat of arms of 1275, an ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... Foccart, who from 1960 was chief of staff for African matters for president | (1958–69) and then Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), is claimed to be the lead ... |
| George W. Bush | ... same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both Bill Clinton and | asserted that free trade would gradually open China to democratic reform. ... |
| Astyages | ... eded by his son Croesus. His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of | , King of Media |
| Shimon Peres | ... strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and | ) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanya ... |
| Louis William | ... French, who pillaged it in 1643 and left it in ashes in 1689. The margrave | , popularly known as Türkenlouis, moved to Rastatt in 1705 |
| James I | ... he remains of Queen Mary were later removed to Westminster Abbey by her son | when he became King of England |
| Ho Chi Minh | ... litical lyrics "I'm goin' to Paris to stop this war" and "I had a chat with | " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace ... |
| Obama | ... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos of | and Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony |
| Al Gore | ... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after | lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ... |
| Madeleine Albright | ... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State | |
| Charles Knutsson | ... rding to this theory, the Swedish flag was created during the reign of King | , who also introduced the Coat of arms of Sweden in 1442. The national coa ... |
| Andrew Dickson White | ... ters of the period carried this account further. For instance, according to | , Bacon was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned because of the opposition ... |
| Mount Cithaeron | It emerges that this messenger was formerly a shepherd on | , and that he was given a baby, which the childless Polybus then adopted. ... |
| Louis XIV | ... y (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of | (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, | 's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by Ma ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both | and George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ... |
| Pope Pius XII | ... priest St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei was given final approval in 1950 by | . In 1982, by decision of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church made it i ... |
| Oedipus | ... sent forms). Orion's blinding is therefore parallel to that of Aegypius and | |
| Numa Pompilius | ... he calendar year was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to | . Varro states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), ... |
| Croesus | He was succeeded by his son | . His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Med ... |
| Edward Heath | ... th Labour and Conservative. This included the governments of Harold Wilson, | , Harold Wilson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally ... |
| Philippa of Lancaster | On 11 February 1387, John I married | , daughter of John of Gaunt, who had proved to be a worthy ally, consolida ... |
| Thomas Telford | ... ty of some turnpike trust. New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, | and John Macadam. The major turnpikes radiated from London and were the me ... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | In 1543 Cambrai was conquered by | , and annexed to his already vast possessions. He had the medieval monaste ... |
| Augustus | ... description of the road system, after the death of Julius Caesar and during | tenure, is as follows |
| Rex E. Lee | ... osition of Solicitor General of the United States, but the position went to | , to Scalia's great disappointment. Scalia was offered a seat on the Chica ... |
| King Talal | ... in, among them Muammar Gaddafi, who mocked him and his schizophrenic father | . The attempt to establish a peace agreement between the two sides failed. ... |
| Hadingus | ... what has often been interpreted as a trip to Hel. While having dinner, King | is visited by a woman bearing stalks of hemlock who asks him if he knows w ... |
| Eric the Holy | According to the mythology, the 12th century Swedish king | saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland during the First Swe ... |
| Joachim Murat | ... ari was wakened from its provincial somnolence by Napoleon's brother-in-law | . As Napoleonic King of Naples, Murat ordered the building in 1808 of a ne ... |
| Félix Houphouët-Boigny | ... ormer African colonies. It was first used by president of the Côte d'Ivoire | , who appears to have used it in a positive sense, to refer to good relati ... |
| Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands | ... has two younger brothers: Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, born in 1968, and | , born in 1969. He lived with his family at the castle Drakesteijn in the ... |
| Ronald Reagan | When | was elected President in November 1980, Scalia hoped for a major position ... |
| Henry the Navigator | ... uke of Coimbra, was one of the most learned princes of his time; and Prince | , the duke of Viseu, invested heavily in science and the development of na ... |
| French President | ... tably come under intense criticism since the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as | . Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible to political influen ... |
| Konrad I of Masovia | Upon the invitation of Duke | , the Teutonic Knights took possession of Prussia in the 13th century and ... |
| Peleus | Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and | , the king of the Myrmidons. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the han ... |
| Henry Tudor | ... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of | and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ... |
| Magnus Birgersson's | ... flag. Blue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since king | royal coat of arms of 1275 |
| Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau | He has two younger brothers: | , born in 1968, and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, born in 1969. H ... |
| Liliuokalani | ... irst order of business for the Provisional Government after the deposing of | was to form an interim government while Lorrin A. Thurston was in Washingt ... |
| Stefan Nemanja | The medieval Serbian state is formed by | and continued by the Nemanjić dynasty. By the end of the century, both the ... |
| James Bryce | ... n T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau, Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, | , Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fritjof Nansen, Fayez el H ... |
| George W. Bush | ... went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to | . In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President and was re-elected U.S. ... |
| Eleazar Wheelock | It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to | in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created "for the education and ... |
| Polybus | ... pherd on Mount Cithaeron, and that he was given a baby, which the childless | then adopted. The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd from ... |
| Aurelian | ... enerable day of the sun, referencing the esoteric eastern sun-worship which | had helped introduce, and his coinage still carried the symbols of the sun ... |
| Bona Sforza | ... ged the castle, which she made her residence, 1499–1524. After the death of | , Queen of Poland, Bari came to be included in the Kingdom of Naples and i ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... ree recall motions votes in the Legislative Yuan aimed at ousting President | . All of them had failed since the Pan-Blue Coalition lacked the two third ... |
| Henry VII | ... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party. | (Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ... |
| Leopold II of Belgium | ... r husband Albert, Prince Consort, Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother | . These last two, Leopold and Carlota, were also first cousins of Ferdinan ... |
| Septimius Severus | ... s Heliopolis (there was another Heliopolis in Egypt), was made a colonia by | in 193, having been part of the territory of Berytus on the Phoenician coa ... |
| Hu Jintao | ... development gap between urban and rural areas. As a result, under President | and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC government initiated policies to address t ... |
| Ezra Taft Benson | ... include former Secretary of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, | '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under Pres ... |
| Kublai Khan | ... urney to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from | 's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return. The Venice Library was lost ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... May 1846. The first battle of the war occurred on 8 May 1846, when General | received word of the siege of the fort. They rushed to help, but were inte ... |
| Lorenzo Snow | ... was 245 at the 2010 census. The town received its name from Mormon apostle | . He named it Portage after his birth place of Portage County, Ohio |
| Rugila | The death of | (also known as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, A ... |
| Philip II | In 1561, King | made Madrid the capital of the empire. The surrounding territories became ... |
| 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 ... |
| Manuel I Komnenos | Bari was occupied by | between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground; Frede ... |
| Menahem | ... on is consistent with evidence of the Assyrian chronicles, which agree with | being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and Hoshea being king from 732 BC |
| Amélie of Leuchtenberg | ... diately went to the Janelas Verdes palace, where he met with his stepmother | . The two had not seen each other in forty years, and the meeting was emot ... |
| Charles the Bald | ... lemagne’s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and | declared their fiefs to be hereditary. The period of chaos in the 9th and ... |
| Ian Fleming | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in | 's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 Mar ... |
| Spaak, Paul-Henri | ... ) - Sonian Forest - Southeast Limburgish dialect - South Tower (Brussels) - | - Speaker of the Flemish Parliament - Special law - Spiere-Helkijn - Spiri ... |
| Rex E. Lee | ... of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and | '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan ... |
| Peter II of Aragon | In 1213, forces led by King | , came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September ... |
| John II of Portugal | ... pe the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed (by King | ) the Cape of Good Hope (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because it represented the ... |
| Beatrice of Savoy | ... , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, and | |
| 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 ... |
| Wen Jiabao | ... n urban and rural areas. As a result, under President Hu Jintao and Premier | , the PRC government initiated policies to address these issues of equitab ... |
| Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
| Duke Magnus | The house became extinct when | died in 1106 without sons; the family's property was divided between his t ... |
| Septimius Severus | ... gest religious building in the entire Roman empire, dates from the reign of | (193-211 CE), whose coins first show the two temples. In commemoration, no ... |
| James Bond | Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's | series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959. Goldf ... |
| Asif Ali Zardari | ... cy on 18 August 2008 when threatened with impeachment, and was succeeded by | , the current President. By its own estimates, Pakistan's involvement in t ... |
| Theodosius II | ... thers' accession, the Hun tribes were bargaining with Eastern Roman Emperor | 's envoys for the return of several s (possibly Hunnic nobles who disagree ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... een seven executions within the castle on Tower Green; as was the case with | , this was reserved for prisoners for whom public execution was considered ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... ich Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and | took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to strengthen the friendship betwe ... |
| Hummay | ... African traders, Berbers and Arabs, brought the new religion. Towards 1068, | , a member of the Sayfawa establishment, who was already a Muslim, discard ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President | . Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presid ... |
| Pêro da Covilhã | ... , it is likely that they received valuable information from a secret agent, | , who had been sent overland to India and returned with reports useful to ... |
| Philip V | ... the region was not solved despite the several attempts. During the reign of | , the intendencia was created as a policial and administrative division. N ... |
| Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
| Bleda | ... own as Rua or Ruga) in 434 left the sons of his brother Mundzuk, Attila and | (Buda), in control of the united Hun tribes. At the time of two brothers' ... |
| Maximian | ... he Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of | , AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanc ... |
| Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... omnenos between 1155–1158. In 1246, Bari was sacked and razed to the ground | ;and King of Sicily, repaired the fortress of Baris but it was subsequentl ... |
| Léopold Clément's | ... ews reached Vienna that he had died of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. | younger brother, Francis Stephen, was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa ... |
| Hoshea | ... ian chronicles, which agree with Menahem being king in 743 BC or 742 BC and | being king from 732 BC |
| Emperor Gaozu of Han | ... 280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as | . It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former re ... |
| The Wind in the Willows | He also adapted Kenneth Grahame's novel | for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. The title was an implicit admission th ... |
| John George Kemeny | In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science | became president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ... |
| Henry Cowell | By the middle decades of the 20th century, however, composers like | , Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and George Crumb, re-introduced im ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | American President | offered to mediate, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his effort. Sergius ... |
| José Manuel Barroso | ... r a candidate from its own ranks. In the end, the EPP candidate was chosen: | . On the same basis, the EPP endorsed again Barroso for a second term duri ... |
| Joanna of Castile | On 21 June 1511, queen | ordered the creation of the Consulate of Bilbao. This would become the mos ... |
| Daniel arap Moi | At Kenyatta's death (August 22, 1978), Vice President | became interim President. On October 14, Moi became President formally aft ... |
| Alfonso XI of Castile | ... er James, who had refused to consummate the marriage. She was the sister of | . Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last y ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... n was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan since | about 93 years earlier. He turned the themes of Christian redemption to pu ... |
| Cnut the Great | ... York. The Viking presence continued throughout the reign of the Danish King | (1016–1035), after which a series of inheritance arguments weakened power ... |
| Benito Juárez | ... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor | , the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ... |
| Santiago Bernabéu | ... cribed with the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco supporter | . In preparation for the 1992 Summer Games two tiers of seating were insta ... |
| Francis Stephen | ... of smallpox, which upset Maria Theresa. Léopold Clément's younger brother, | , was invited to Vienna, but Maria Theresa's father considered other possi ... |
| Teresa d'Entença | By | |
| Witch-king | ... terial derived from them) name the eight other than Khamûl; Er-Murazor (the | , of Númenórean race), Dwar of Waw, Ji Indur Dawndeath, Akhorahil (Númenór ... |
| Hugh X of Lusignan | ... English Queen mother Isabelle, Countess of Angoulême and her second husband | from supporting the English side. Pierre Mauclerc did support the English ... |
| Valentinian I | ... in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor | . Ambrose never married |
| Philip the Arab | ... entury BCE (reign of Augustus) and over a period of two centuries (reign of | ), the Romans had built a temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three te ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to | , which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of American presidents include former Secretary of Agriculture to President | , Ezra Taft Benson '26 and Rex E. Lee '60, who was United States Solicitor ... |
| Wang Mang | ... t was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9–23 CE) of the former regent | . This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (20 ... |
| Margaret of Provence | ... e same year, he was married, and Blanche became Queen mother. Louis married | , who was the eldest of the four daughters of Ramon, count of Provence, an ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... e last months of the Roosevelt administration) and 10 June, and in 1925 (by | ) expanded the National Forest. An early supervisor of the forest was Will ... |
| Ahaz | When Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram to attack | , the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Ass ... |
| Kim B. Clark | BYU alumni in academia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School | and Michael K. Young '73, current President of the University of Washingto ... |
| Richard III of England | He was appointed Lord High Steward and walked in front of King | , carrying the crown at his coronation. However, John was the eldest (alth ... |
| Prince Edward | ... Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, | , was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Keni ... |
| Valentinian II | ... stern Emperor Gratian held orthodox belief in the Nicene creed, the younger | , who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed. Ambr ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
| Philip II of Macedon | ... the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, | , and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1938, Wyman co-starred with | in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). They ... |
| Ernest Fox Nichols | ... ng "refounded Dartmouth" and bringing it into national prestige. Presidents | (1909–16) and Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... om of branding a criminal with the sign (fleurdeliser). During the reign of | , known as the Elizabethan era, it was a standard name for an iris, a usag ... |
| Charles II of Spain | ... in as Charles III following the death of its ruler, and Charles's relative, | , in 1700. He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by wh ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... thod described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of | 's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated ... |
| Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ith Rezin, king of Aram to attack Ahaz, the king of Judah, Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. This the Assyrian king obliged, but Judah ... |
| Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel | ... its ruler, and Charles's relative, Charles II of Spain, in 1700. He married | , by whom he had his two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habs ... |
| George Washington | ... Thomas Jefferson, and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. | , Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to ha ... |
| James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ... |
| Theodosius I | ... eed. Ambrose did not sway the young prince's position. In the East, Emperor | likewise professed the Nicene creed; but there were many adherents of Aria ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ons. After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President | , then assumed the post of President at Columbia University |
| Saddam Hussein | ... for Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 4th Infantry Division was able to capture | in December 2003. The 1st Cavalry Division will follow on the heels of the ... |
| Quintin Hogg | Announcing his support for right of return legislation in Britain, MP | stated that, "All the great nations of the earth have what the Jews call a ... |
| Philip IV of France | ... n Friday 13 October 1307 the Knights Templar were ordered to be arrested by | . It was suggested, in the book Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemas ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ffluent Teton and college county Albany. In the 2004 presidential election, | won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice Presiden ... |
| Princess Margriet | ... lhelmina went to Canada in 1943 to attend the christening of her grandchild | on 29 June 1943 in Ottawa and stayed awhile with her family before returni ... |
| Augustus | ... r divination. Starting in the last quarter of the 1st century BCE (reign of | ) and over a period of two centuries (reign of Philip the Arab), the Roman ... |
| 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 ... |
| Odin | ... n the Poetic Edda, Brynhildr's trip to Hel after her death is described and | , while alive, also visits Hel upon his horse Sleipnir. In Snorri Sturluso ... |
| Yu the Great | ... of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. | , the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the ki ... |
| George W. Bush | After | (March 26, 2003) mentioned Warsaw's contribution prominently in a speech, ... |
| Albert Frederick | On 19 July 1569, when | rendered King Sigismund II homage and was in return enfeoffed as Duke of P ... |
| Henry VIII | ... yed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King | . The king also destroyed Becket's bones and ordered that all mention of h ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... velopment of distributist theory were Catholic authors G. K. Chesterton and | , two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents |
| Charles Martel | ... Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord | , which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, ... |
| Albert Frederick | When Albert died in 1568, his teenage son (exact age is unknown) | inherited the duchy. Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, who had co ... |
| Michael K. Young | ... cademia include former Dean of the Harvard Business School Kim B. Clark and | '73, current President of the University of Washington. The University als ... |
| Ernest Martin Hopkins | ... ging it into national prestige. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–16) and | (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving cam ... |
| Rinaldo d'Este | ... rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke | , the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747 |
| Trajan | ... when the sanctuary of the Heliopolitan Jupiter-Baal was a pilgrimage site. | 's biographer records that the emperor consulted the oracle there. Trajan ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan. | , former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 Republican Presidential Candid ... |
| William IV | ... y coin between 1797 and 1970, occasional issues such as the fourpence under | between 1836 and 1837, and on the 50 pence coin between 1969 and 2008. See ... |
| Juliana | ... gn of 57 years and 286 days, Wilhelmina abdicated in favour of her daughter | , because of advancing age and illness which had already caused two regenc ... |
| Jiang Zemin | President | and Premier Zhu Rongji, both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997; her Oscar-winning turn as | in Shakespeare in Love in 1998; for Chocolat in 2000; for the lead role of ... |
| Simon de Montfort | Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to | , Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War ( ... |
| Joanna of Castile | Philip and | had six children |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... ereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as | , King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia (Charles III), Archduk ... |
| Edward IV of England | ... prowess on the field during the Battle of Towton, he won the admiration of | who made him Constable of Norwich Castle, High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suff ... |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | ... ed by both sides throughout this period. Cuba, the Soviet bloc, Egypt under | , and some governments of newly independent African states, charged the Un ... |
| Franz Joseph I of Austria | ... of his Catholic Austrian relatives, particularly that of his uncle, Emperor | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and | . Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
| John Adams | ... Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and | are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. On one occasio ... |
| Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani | In February 1972, the Heir Apparent, Sheikh | , deposed his cousin, Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, and assumed power. Key membe ... |
| 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 ... |
| Zhu Rongji | President Jiang Zemin and Premier | , both former mayors of Shanghai, led the nation in the 1990s. Under Jiang ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by | 's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect |
| John Sloan Dickey | ... roving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s. | , serving as president from 1945 until 1970, strongly emphasized the liber ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ated to serve". The leader for the Republican nomination was Texas Governor | , who had the political and financial support of most of the party establi ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... nt college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter in 1592 under | and was closed to Roman Catholics until Catholic Emancipation. The Catholi ... |
| Cedric Belfrage | ... oup held a conference and concert at St Pancras Town Hall, London headed by | , on May 26, 1957 with Robeson singing direct from New York over a telepho ... |
| Roger II of Sicily | ... moald increased the cult of St Nicholas in his city. He later did homage to | , but rebelled and was defeated in 1132 |
| George H. W. Bush | ... at the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with President | in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by President George H ... |
| Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | ... gainst the Roman Catholic rule of the Teutonic Knights, whose Grand Master, | , a member of a cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern, lacked the mili ... |
| Bagsecg | ... 0 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led by a Viking leader called | and his Five Earls. Aided by the Great Heathen Army (which had already ove ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senator | helped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ... |
| Telephus | ... left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King | . In the resulting battle, Achilles gave Telephus a wound that would not h ... |
| Manuel I of Portugal | ... rgaret of Austria. The succession thereby passed to Queen Isabella and King | . She died in 1498, while giving birth to a son, the Infante Miguel, to wh ... |
| Julian | ... ave reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor | |
| Joséphine | ... anyone about the upcoming battle because he did not want to disturb Empress | . According to Frederick C. Schneid, the main concern of Napoleon was not ... |
| Charlemagne | ... ce as a mounted warrior. Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor | , from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its ... |
| Tiglath-Pileser III | ... ed with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) Ahaz appealed to | , the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dread" of Rezin and Pekah, "Son o ... |
| Lord Curzon | Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by | to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged a boycott, regarded a ... |
| Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | ... Howard of Wiggenhall, Norfolk and Alice Tendring; by whom he descended from | , through his illegitimate daughter Joan of Cornwall |
| Ahaz | ... 2 BCE, Pekah allied with Rezin, king of Aram and threatened Jerusalem. (; ) | appealed to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria, for help. Ahaz's "dr ... |
| Paul Kruger | ... e of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship to South Africa to rescue | , the embattled President of the Transvaal |
| Erechtheus | ... Parthenos. A remnant of archaic myth depicts her as the adoptive mother of | /Erichthonius through the foiled rape by Hephaestus. Other variants relate ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of | . There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ... |
| Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... hich an exact date is known, however, occurred on 7 January 1605, at Court. | saw a Henry V in 1664—but it was written by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrer ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
| U.S. President | ... a joined the group at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and | Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Uni ... |
| Isabel II | ... Letras (Liberal Arts) and Medicina (Medicine). In 1836, during the reign of | , the University was moved to Madrid, where it took the name of Central Un ... |
| Henry III | ... a Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, President | signed a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ... |
| John of Gaunt, 1st Earl of Richmond | The second creation was on 13 November 1362, for | , who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edwar ... |
| George H.W. Bush | ... modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidents | and Bill Clinton, stated that Arafat's "walking-around money" financed a v ... |
| Ramiro I of Aragon | ... or his own scribes, but by the notaries of his half-brother, the petty king | , whose notaries were also calling Ferdinand's predecessor as king of León ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... ning, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included Charlie Chaplin, | , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's ... |
| Athelstan | ... mous author of the earliest Life places Dunstan's birth during the reign of | , while Osbern fixed it at "the first year of the reign of King Æthelstan" ... |
| David | ... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero | , a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ... |
| Gratian | ... atiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum, confident of numbers, prevailed upon | to call a general council from all parts of the empire. This request appea ... |
| Joan Gamper | Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by | , the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence th ... |
| Alexander III | The reforms of | replaced many of the traditional privileges of the German nobility with el ... |
| Grand Duke's | ... uchy of Tuscany; Charles had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent | daughter, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine |
| Constantine I | ... ylvester II, alluding to Pope Sylvester I (314–335), the advisor to Emperor | (324–337). Soon after he was elected Pope, Sylvester II confirmed the posi ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause". | later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... d theories strongly influenced the thinking of current Venezuelan president | |
| Earl Bathurst | ... of discipline caused an enraged Wellington to write in a famous dispatch to | , "We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers" |
| Rogge, Jacques | ... n - Retie - Rexism - Riemst - Rijkevorsel - Rivers of Belgium - Roeselare - | - Rogier, Charles - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic ... |
| Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
| Henry the Lion | ... an be found in the town of Rerik (which still bears a Slavic name). In 1160 | conquered the region; afterwards German monks, peasants and traders arrive ... |
| Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester | ... This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 | (brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts ... |
| Alfonso | ... rdinand I in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, | . The title is currently carried by Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias, the ... |
| Ashur-uballit II | ... ed around a general holding out at Harran, who had taken the throne name of | . Necho attempted to assist this remnant immediately upon his coronation, ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve was established by | in a presidential proclamation of 20 August 1902. Another presidential pro ... |
| James Larkin | ... ipation 60 years earlier. On his return to Ireland he was right hand man to | in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. He stood twice for the W ... |
| Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
| John, Prince of Asturias | Philip's sister Margaret married | , only son of Ferdinand and Isabella and successor to the unified crowns o ... |
| Hezekiah | ... is recorded in the Immanuel prophecy in where the birth of a son (possibly | ) is a sign of the defeat of both kings by the King of Assyria before the ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... of John B. Anderson, and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating | as his preferred candidate. At the convention, Helms toyed with the idea o ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
| Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | She also arranged the marriage of her daughter Juliana to | , a German aristocrat. Although it was claimed that he was initially a sup ... |
| President McKinley | ... l equipment and is still a going concern. In 1900 Spalding was appointed by | as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, af ... |
| Robert of Courtenay | ... o fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under | . With French forces defeated at Lincoln in May 1217 and then routed on th ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... River. Black Hawk rejected the messages advising him to turn back. Colonel | , a regular army officer who served under Atkinson, later stated that Atki ... |
| Henry V of England | ... y, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (brother of | ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insuffi ... |
| John Adams | ... ters in the elections of 1796 and 1800. In 1796, Federalist Party candidate | won the presidential election; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Re ... |
| Henry the Lion | ... s desire to restore peace to Germany, persuaded Henry to give up Bavaria to | , duke of Saxony and son of Henry the Proud. In return, Austria was elevat ... |
| Ferdinand I | ... of Aragon gave the title of Duke to his first-born son, John. In 1414, King | in turn gave the title of Prince of Girona to his first-born son, Alfonso. ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like | as you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ... |
| Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster | The first creation was on 6 March 1351, for | , a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Ea ... |
| Shah of Iran | ... f a dozen royal families for Mardas, and had close contact with the deposed | , who had moved to Mexico. The Shah was one of the first customers for the ... |
| Barack Obama | ... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of | . He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ... |
| Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine | ... s had prior endorsed the succession of the incumbent Grand Duke's daughter, | |
| Friedrich Ebert | ... s of this treaty. The Republic's first Reichspräsident ("Reich President"), | of the SPD, signed the new German constitution into law on 11 August 1919 |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... . Among the best known Roman Stoics were philosopher Seneca and the emperor | . Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern co ... |
| Pedro II | ... Black, Brazil opted for an abstract design instead of a portrait of Emperor | , so that his image would be not be disfigured by a postmark. In 1845 some ... |
| Léopold Clément of Lorraine | ... e was raised early in her childhood. She was first engaged to be married to | , who was supposed to come to Vienna and meet Maria Theresa in 1723. Inste ... |
| Khosrau I | The Persian king | , sent troops under the command of Vahriz, who helped Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan t ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
| Sophie of Württemberg | King William III had three sons with his first wife, | . However, when Wilhelmina was born, William had already outlived two of t ... |
| Pauline Green | ... cess, against the spirit of consultation that the new EU treaty brought in. | MEP, leader of the Socialist group, stated that her group thought "Parliam ... |
| Don Carlos | ... throne, however, Charles was obliged to surrender the Kingdom of Naples to | of Spain, in exchange for the minuscule Duchy of Parma |
| Duke of York and Albany | ... nglish conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English | , the future King James II. Stuyvesant and his council negotiated with the ... |
| Conradin | ... owerful prince in southern Germany. He served as the guardian of his nephew | of Hohenstaufen, and after Conradin's execution in Italy in 1268, Louis an ... |
| James O. Freedman | During the 1990s, the College saw a major academic overhaul under President | and a controversial (and ultimately unsuccessful) 1999 initiative to encou ... |
| Nicholas I of Russia | ... carried 14 passengers at 3 mph. It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor | on the Neva River |
| Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford | ... ke of this creation died on 4 February 1399, the Dukedom passed to his son, | . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England fro ... |
| Henry | ... uring the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, | , backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenil ... |
| Blanche of Castile | ... in November and was succeeded by the child king Louis IX. But Queen regent | allowed the crusade to continue under Humbert de Beaujeu. Labécède fell in ... |
| Prince Juan Carlos | In 1974, Mardas held an expensive party for the then Spanish heir, | , which secured Mardas a contract. After the assassination of Admiral Carr ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... . The Lebor Gabála synchronises Conn's reign with that of the Roman emperor | (161-180). The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn date ... |
| Richard III of England | ... t Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King | with whom he died in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
| Prince of Wales | In 1920, the | (the future King Edward VIII) visited the area. Impressed by what he saw, ... |
| Richard II | ... . Later that same year, the new 2nd Duke usurped the throne of England from | , ascending the throne as Henry IV, at which point the Dukedom merged in t ... |
| Prince Frederick of the Netherlands | ... ed two of them and only the childless Prince Alexander and the King's uncle | were alive, so under the Semi-Salic system of inheritance that was in plac ... |
| Richard Nixon | File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President | doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Go-Toba | ... a shogunate completely excluded those of the imperial family descended from | from the Chrysanthemum throne, thus forcing Emperor Chūkyō to abdicate. Af ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which General | took over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ... |
| Henry VII of England | ... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests of | but were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... a post office was established. The town was named Burkburnett by President | , who visited the area for a wolf hunt that was hosted by the wealthy ranc ... |
| Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | ... rm in the United States House of Representatives. Archibald was a cousin of | . Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a stric ... |
| Richard I | Henry's successor, | , paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John signi ... |
| Anne Boleyn | Among those held and executed at the Tower was | . Although the Yeoman Warders were once the Royal Bodyguard, by the 16th a ... |
| Jim Yong Kim | ... ebruary 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician | on July 1, 2009 |
| Prince Shōtoku | Spying in Japan dates as far back as | (572–622), although the origins of spying and assassination date much earl ... |
| Henry II | ... rs of the Anarchy (1135–54), delayed any further development of the castle. | succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of ... |
| Emperor of Austria | ... an admirer of German Emperor Wilhelm II (his second cousin once removed) or | Franz Josef I whom he described as "that idiot, that old dotard of a Franc ... |
| Conaire Cóem | ... riors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara. His son-in-law | succeeded him as High King, and Conn's son Art would later succeed him. Th ... |
| William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | ... ime period, Wilhelmina's heir presumptive was her first cousin once removed | , and next in line was his aunt (and Wilhelmina's cousin) Princess Marie A ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... tter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice | , Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice ... |
| Ernest Bevin | On February 14, 1947, | announced that the Jews and Arabs would not be able to agree on any Britis ... |
| Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... enthroned on 6 September 1898. On 7 February 1901 in The Hague, she married | |
| Augustus of Saxony | ... 733–1738), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between | , the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński. Austria suppor ... |
| Victoria of the United Kingdom | In 1895, Queen Wilhelmina visited Queen | , who penned an evaluation in her diary |
| Robert II, Duke of Normandy | ... called Pons Aelius, though it owes its name to the castle built in 1080, by | , the eldest son of William the Conqueror. The city grew as an important c ... |
| Agnes of Merania | ... and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife | . Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young | . Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying: "Th ... |
| King Edward III | ... of Richmond, who was both the 1st Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of | . John had married Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster, daught ... |
| Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ruled by Catherine's former lover, king | , was eventually partitioned, with the Russian Empire gaining the largest ... |
| Charles the Fat | ... t a sovereign, joined the other East Frankish lands in deposing their king, | , in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king Louis IV ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... ry a legend appeared in various chronicles according to which the Pope, the | , and the King of France demanded a tribute from Ferdinand. In certain ver ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary, | 's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Shijō | ... n 1232, he began his own cloistered rule, abdicating to his 1-year-old son, | . However, being of a weak constitution, his cloistered rule lasted just u ... |
| Blanche of Lancaster, 6th Countess of Lancaster | ... Duke's son-in-law and also fourth son of King Edward III. John had married | , daughter of the 1st Duke of the first creation. When John of Gaunt, the ... |
| 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 | |
| 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 ... |
| John II of Portugal | ... d sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). King | appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around th ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
| Josiah | ... lley, but here he found his passage blocked by the Judean army. Their king, | , sided with the Babylonians and attempted to block his advance at Megiddo ... |
| Armando Guebuza | ... bility and maintaining a local staff. After contacting Mozambican president | to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple dec ... |
| Pope John XXIII | In 1960, | commented that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, ... |
| President's | ... ergy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the | Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The positio ... |
| emperor | (March 22, 1212 – August 31, 1234) was the 86th | of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This reign spa ... |
| Archduke Charles | | , brother of the Austrian Emperor, had started to reform the Austrian army ... |
| Valentinian III | ... attack the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse by making an alliance with Emperor | . He had previously been on good terms with the Western Roman Empire and i ... |
| Empress Carlota of Mexico | ... also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Consort, | and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These last two, Leopold and Carlota ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... ed that Opus Dei opens up "unsuspected horizons of ". Furthermore, in 1964, | praised the organization in a handwritten letter to Escrivá, saying |
| Francis I | ... ine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano - sailing in service of the French king | - was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City ... |
| William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
| George Washington | ... vernment through the war that raised an army to fight the British and named | its commander, made treaties, declared independence, and instructed the co ... |
| Theodosius I | ... ricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded. | , the emperor of the East, espoused the cause of Justina, and regained the ... |
| Zhengde Emperor | ... between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the | . The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of Chin ... |
| Lugh | ... , and war and continued oppression followed. When the youthful and vigorous | joined Nuada's court, the king realised the multi-talented youth could lea ... |
| Prince Alexander | ... a was born, William had already outlived two of them and only the childless | and the King's uncle Prince Frederick of the Netherlands were alive, so un ... |
| Philip II of Savoy | Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by | , at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes. Through ... |
| Jacques Delors | The Presidential system had started to develop since | and has since been cemented, a strong President with competent mandarins i ... |
| H. H. Kung | ... ie Soong, father of the Shanghai-born Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of | (once China's richest man); Soong Ching-ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soo ... |
| Josiah Bartlet | ... 006), his role as The Illusive Man in the Mass Effect trilogy and President | in the television series The West Wing |
| Eadwig | In 955, Eadred died, and the situation was at once changed. | , the elder son of Edmund, who then came to the throne, was a headstrong y ... |
| Emperor | ... ment was entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against | Tewodros II of Ethiopia, to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defea ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... of France, and the Black Sea coasts. Greeks founded more than 400 colonies. | 's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenist ... |
| Leopold I | ... , Ferdinand was a grandnephew of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and of | , first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of Ferdina ... |
| Cathair Mór | ... ding to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took power after killing his predecessor | . In other sources his predecessor is Dáire Doimthech. The Lia Fáil, the c ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... ustry (then state-owned since nationalisation by the post-war government of | ) over the closure of pits whose uneconomic operation accounted for the co ... |
| Maria Feodorovna | ... nd a note from Pope Leo XIII. Because of support from Russian tsarist widow | and other donations, his financial situation improved remarkably |
| Benito Juárez | ... certain national holidays, such as Natalicio de Benito Juárez (birthdate of | ) and Día de la Revolución, which are meant to be dry nationally. The same ... |
| Valentinian II | In 385 Ambrose, backed by Milan's populace, refused | 's imperial request to hand over the Portian basilica for the use of Arian ... |
| King William III | ... born on 31 August 1880 in The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of | and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Her childhood was charac ... |
| Christina of Sweden | ... hn Casimir, count palatine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, succeeded his cousin Queen | on the Swedish throne, Pfalz-Zweibrücken was in personal union with Sweden ... |
| King Henry VII | ... dfather of Elizabeth I. His titles were declared forfeit after his death by | , but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke (the ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... ling, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President | |
| Licinius | ... tary superiority over his rivals in the crumbling Tetrarchy. In 313, he met | in Milan to secure their alliance by the marriage of Licinius and Constant ... |
| Guthrum | ... Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking | , arrived in East Anglia. They proceeded to cross England into Northumbria ... |
| Henry | ... custom of wearing a leek as an “ancient tradition” in Henry V. In the play, | tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, good c ... |
| Władysław I the Elbow-high | ... hts and then with the German Prussian state. The Kingdom was restored under | , strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great. The western ... |
| Frederik Pohl | ... nd society. Amis was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of | and C. M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell coined the term "comic infern ... |
| Frederick, Prince of Wales | ... l stage Buckinghamshire has been home to Nancy Astor who lived in Cliveden, | who also lived in Cliveden, Baron Carrington who lives in Bledlow, Benjami ... |
| Emperor Go-Toba | In 1221, because of the Jōkyū Incident, an unsuccessful attempt by | to seize real power, the Kamakura shogunate completely excluded those of t ... |
| Casimir III the Great | ... ored under Władysław I the Elbow-high, strengthened and expanded by his son | . The western provinces of Silesia and Pomerania were lost after the fragm ... |
| Manuel I of Portugal | ... d Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of | , which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Mi ... |
| Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
| Pope Pius XI | ... itical) should perform a function which can be performed by a smaller unit. | , in Quadragesimo Anno, provided the classical statement of the principle: ... |
| Pedro II | On 6 September 1850 the emperor, | , sanctioned a law authorizing steam navigation on the Amazon, and gave th ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... y Gómez (May 23, 1946 – March 22, 2005) was a self-proclaimed successor of | , and was recognised as Pope Gregory XVII by supporters of the Palmarian C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Magnus Maximus | ... nciples of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor. When | usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy ... |
| Barack Obama | ... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for | , along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ... |
| Bolesław II the Bold | ... y a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's son | became fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, a ... |
| Bres | ... that their king must be physically perfect, and he was replaced as king by | , a half-Fomorian prince renowned for his beauty and intellect. The Fomori ... |
| President Clinton | ... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then | for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ... |
| Emperor Horikawa | This 13th century sovereign was named after the 10th century | and go- (後), translates literally as "later;" and thus, he is sometimes ca ... |
| King Arthur | ... ks he must complete before he can win her hand. With the help of his cousin | , Culhwch succeeds and the giant dies, allowing Olwen to marry her suitor |
| Soong Ching-ling | ... Soong sisters: Soong Ai-ling, wife of H. H. Kung (once China's richest man) | ;, wife of Sun Yat-Sen; and Soong Mei-ling, wife of former ROC President C ... |
| Donna Shalala | That same year, President George W. Bush appointed Dole and | co-chairs of a commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medi ... |
| Michael Wilding | ... ne Dietrich. Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including | , Richard Todd, and Alastair Sim. This was Hitchcock's first production fo ... |
| Pope John Paul I | ... denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature, Moncada stated. | , a few years before his election, wrote that Escrivá was more radical tha ... |
| Miguel Alemán Valdés | ... ommercial wharf and warehouses has been built. In the early 1950s President | upgraded the port’s infrastructure, installing electrical lines, drainage ... |
| Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ... Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Roberto I of Parma and | , on 20 April 1893 at the Villa Pianore in Lucca in Italy, producing four ... |
| Leopold I | ... f Brandenburg to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor | . The government of de facto collectively ruled Brandenburg-Prussia, seate ... |
| Juliana | ... onal and economic", according to one contemporary publication. The birth of | , on 30 April 1909, was met with great relief after eight years of childle ... |
| Eadred | ... stan's appointment, in 946, King Edmund was assassinated. His successor was | . The policy of the new government was supported by the Queen Mother, Eadg ... |
| Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... echt, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to | was Mug Nuadat ("Nuada's Slave"). The Delbhna, a people of early Ireland, ... |
| Bolesław I Chrobry | Mieszko's son | established a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and wa ... |
| Norodom Sihanouk | ... e returned to the WPK's liberated areas. Despite friendly relations between | and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot's visit a secret from Sihanouk. I ... |
| Valentinian II | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, | and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p. ... |
| Louis XVIII of France | ... , lived at Iver and King Zog of Albania lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King | lived in exile at from 1809 to 1814 |
| Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... ing able to exercise his rule in Catalonia, until the death of his brother, | ; he returned to Vienna to assume the imperial crown. Not wanting to see A ... |
| Justinian I | ... cally a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Theodosius I and | ) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came under the administr ... |
| Paul Wolfowitz | ... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... rsonification of Britain, in imagery that was developed during the reign of | . With the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish ... |
| Rajendra Prasad | ... ic of India was officially proclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. | as the first President of India, taking over from Governor General Rajgopa ... |
| Lugaid Riab nDerg | ... st time since Cúchulainn split it with his sword when it failed to roar for | . In the saga Baile in Scáil ("The Phantom's Ecstatic Vision"), Conn tread ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
| Peter the Great | ... 18,000 of them were Nemtsy, which means either German or western foreigner. | was greatly influenced by the international community located in the Germa ... |
| Nuadu Necht | ... haracters of the same name include the later High Kings Nuadu Finn Fáil and | , and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill. A rival to Co ... |
| Constance | ... an in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married | , who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the k ... |
| Albert, Duke of Prussia | ... tonic Knights, Albert, secularized the order's Prussian territory, becoming | . His duchy, which had its capital in Königsberg (Polish: Królewiec), was ... |
| Edmund | ... f great influence, and on the death of King Æthelstan in 940, the new King, | , summoned him to his court at Cheddar and made him a minister |
| Stanislaus II of Poland | ... cember 1757 – 8 March 1758), fathered by Catherine's lover, the future King | #Elizabeth Alexandrovna Alexeeva (1761–1844), married to Friedrich Maximil ... |
| Gratian | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors | , Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism. Ma ... |
| Richard I | ... s a leader involved in the massacre of the Jews at Cliffords Tower in York. | dismissed the sheriff and constable of York and imposed severe penalties o ... |
| Robert Zoellick | ... 007, US President George W. Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state | to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank Group. The Execut ... |
| Jotham | ... king of Judah, and he reigned twenty years. In the second year of his reign | became king of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded ... |
| Nia Segamain | ... ated with the eagle or hawk. The name of the legendary High King of Ireland | , which translates as "sister's son or champion of Segamon", may be relate ... |
| Mathieu Kérékou | ... about many changes of government. The last of these brought to power Major | as the head of a regime professing strict Marxist-Leninist principles. The ... |
| Aelia Eudocia | ... tine direction, and is said to have been built at the behest of the Empress | . This pool, having been somewhat abandoned and left to ruin, partly survi ... |
| Alexander I | ... lexander (whom she greatly favored, and who subsequently became the emperor | in 1801). Her harshness towards Paul probably stemmed as much from politic ... |
| Theodosius I | ... nius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors | and Justinian I) after Emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy (when they came unde ... |
| Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of furusiyya. | (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last ... |
| Nuadu Finn Fáil | ... bly Nechtan. Other characters of the same name include the later High Kings | and Nuadu Necht, and Nuada, the maternal grandfather of Fionn mac Cumhaill ... |
| Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
| Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
| 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, ... |
| William II | ... e received the area's submission. This fortress was destroyed by the Danes. | gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong c ... |
| Idi Amin | ... omplaining of the inconsistency of lifting them on Uganda immediately after | 's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after Ian Smith's. Helms hosted Mu ... |
| Henry IV of Castile | ... city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King | . He was a protector of the conversos. Together with prominent conversos F ... |
| Pope Pius XII | ... population of about 50,000. In 1958, The Diocese of Acapulco was created by | . It would become an archdiocese in 1983 |
| President of the European Parliament | ... als in technical matters such as the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The | meanwhile articulates the EU's values |
| Edward III | ... aster inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of | ; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in ... |
| Kyril | ... d by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, under which his sole surviving son, | , was executed. On hearing of his son's death he said, "Everything is coll ... |
| Peter I | John was the natural son of | by a woman named Teresa, who, according to Fernão Lopes, was a noble Galic ... |
| George Washington | ... is the debate over the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and | |
| Nero | ... the 2nd millennium BCE. The leek was the favourite vegetable of the Emperor | , who consumed it in soup or in oil, believing it beneficial to the qualit ... |
| Galla Placidia | When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of his mother | convinced him to exile, rather than kill, Honoria. He also wrote to Attila ... |
| Valentinian II | In 392, after the death of | and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the p ... |
| George W. Bush | On 30 May 2007, US President | nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed Paul ... |
| James Bond | ... ht him to laugh." He calls their three seasons together (1990 to 1992) "the | years" since, as biographer Tom Rubython notes, "money, success, and girls ... |
| James Madison | ... r notable Founding Fathers may have been more directly deist. These include | , possibly Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen |
| Dáire Doimthech | ... er killing his predecessor Cathair Mór. In other sources his predecessor is | . The Lia Fáil, the coronation stone at Tara which was said to roar when t ... |
| President of India | ... oclaimed. The Constituent Assembly elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as the first | , taking over from Governor General Rajgopalachari. Subsequently India inv ... |
| Desta Damtew | ... ork married Dejazmatch Beyene Merid. Princess Tenagnework first married Ras | , and after she was widowed later married Ras Andargachew Messai. Princess ... |
| 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. |
| Agamemnon | ... . It begins with Achilles' withdrawal from battle after he is dishonored by | , the commander of the Achaean forces. Agamemnon had taken a woman named C ... |
| Charles VIII | ... ession of several Italian princes—all instigated by Lorenzo de' Medici—King | had him released, and the Pope was persuaded to allow Pico to move to Flor ... |
| King Richard III | ... , someone had left John Howard a note attached to his tent warning him that | , his "master," was going to be double-crossed (which he was) |
| Vasili III | The earliest German settlement in Russia dates back to the reign of | in the 16th century. A handful of German and Dutch craftsmen and traders w ... |
| Alla Amidas | ... be supported by the die-links between his coins and those of his successor, | . An inscription of Sumyafa' Ashwa' also mentions two kings (nagaśt) of Ak ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... contains at least one potential historical error: It apparently claims that | intended Alexandria to be the capital of his empire. Actually, he built it ... |
| Ethan Allen | ... e directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly Alexander Hamilton, | |
| Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
| Banshee | ... neration X, featuring Jubilee and other teenage mutants led and schooled by | and former villainess Emma Frost at her Massachusetts Academy. In 1998, Ex ... |
| Claudius | ... en a crossing of the River Thames at Staines since Roman times. The emperor | sent the Romans into Britain in 43 A.D and they settled in Staines the sam ... |
| Wen Jiabao | ... the name Unihub. It is owned by Wen Yunsong, son of China's prime minister | . Unihib was a re-branding of PCCW's Business eSolutions division, from 1 ... |
| Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster | ... nued to use Kenilworth as a royal castle until her fall from power in 1330. | , inherited the castle from his father in 1345 and remodelled the great ha ... |
| Kebek | ... e 11 day caravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans | and Qazan built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. ... |
| Princess Zenebework | ... children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, | , Prince Makonnen, and Prince Sahle Selassie |
| Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... rm their way into organs of political authority and usurp important posts." | , chairman of the People's Republic of China, was reviled for his persecut ... |
| Peter III | ... spicious of Catherine upon her accession because she had annulled an act by | that had essentially freed the serfs belonging to the Orthodox Church. Nat ... |
| Stephen I of Hungary | The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to | by Sylvester in the year 1000 (hence the reign title 'Apostolic King') is ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... press as a short list vice-presidential running mate for Republican nominee | , and was named chairman of Veterans for Bush |
| Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
| Michael Heseltine | ... o address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, | , formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop ... |
| Yayi Boni | ... this was not changed and he stood down after the election of his successor, | |
| President | ... (PNA)—the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords. Arafat became the | and Prime Minister of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of ... |
| Emperor Joseph II | In 1780, the son of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, | , toyed with the idea of determining whether or not to enter an alliance w ... |
| Princess Tenagnework | By Menen Asfaw, Haile Selassie had six children: | , Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince ... |
| Hilaire Belloc | ... jection of this new program was due to the direct influence of the ideas of | over American distributists |
| Cyrus the Great | ... es of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of | shortly after 550 BC. The Persians found the Ionians difficult to rule, ev ... |
| Ivar the Boneless | ... r encampment. The following year the Great Heathen Army led by the Brothers | , Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and also by another Viking Guthrum, arrived ... |
| Francisco Solano López | Meanwhile, in December 1864 the dictator of Paraguay, | took advantage of the situation to establish his country as a regional pow ... |
| Emperor Zhao's | ... ilitary. The minimum age for the military draft was reduced to twenty after | (r. 87–74 BCE) reign. Conscripted soldiers underwent one year of training ... |
| Henry II | Bedford traces its borough charter in 1166 by | and elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons |
| Henry Frederick | ... manual on the powers of a king, was written to edify his four-year-old son | king "acknowledgeth himself ordained for his people, having received from ... |
| Alexander II | The decline of the Russian German community started with the reforms of | . In 1871, he repealed the open-door immigration policy of his ancestors, ... |
| Alexander the Great | After | conquered the Near East in 334 BCE, the existing settlement was named Heli ... |
| Menen Asfaw | By | , Haile Selassie had six children: Princess Tenagnework, Crown Prince Asfa ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ins unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted Pope John Paul I (1978) and | (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Paul VI. Pope Gregory XVII is g ... |
| Henry VIII | ... seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King | during the Dissolution of the Monasteries to pray for his soul. In 2006, 3 ... |
| Charles II of Spain | Following the death of | , in 1700, without any ostensible heir, Charles declared himself King of S ... |
| James I of Scotland | ... d many distinguished prisoners. The heir to the Scottish throne, later King | , was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and | , and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story f ... |
| Black Canary | ... oore was not impressed by the character and drew more from heroines such as | and Phantom Lady |
| Yayi Boni | | | |Independen |
| Sigismund III | Following King | 's Prussian regency contract (1605) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | In 1469 Queen | and King Ferdinand of Aragon were married in the city; by the 15th century ... |
| Lugh | ... see a phantom, a tall beautiful man, on a throne, who introduces himself as | . The woman is the sovereignty of Ireland, and she serves Conn a meal cons ... |
| Hadrian | ... iginally the Shrine of the Four Nymphs (Tetranymphon), a nymphaeum built by | during the construction of Aelia Capitolina in 135, and mentioned in Byzan ... |
| Pope John Paul I | ... of the Catholic Church remains unaccepted by Roman Catholics, who accepted | (1978) and Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) as the true successors of Pope Pa ... |
| Medferiashwork Abebe | ... Princess Wolete Israel Seyoum and then following their divorce to Princess | . Prince Makonnen was married to Princess Sara Gizaw. Prince Sahle Selassi ... |
| José María Arizmendiarrieta | ... in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father | , who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and econom ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and | , the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ... |
| Van Rompuy, Herman | ... , Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - | - Van Rompuy I Government - Van Zeeland, Paul - Verdinaso - Emile Verhaere ... |
| Kaleb of Axum | ... e capital, killing many and destroying the church there. The Christian King | learned of Dhu Nuwas's persecutions of Christians and Aksumites, and, acco ... |
| Princess Fawzia | ... asha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran. In the same year, | of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ... |
| Jehoahaz | On his return march to Egypt in 608 BC, Necho found that | had been selected to succeed his father, Josiah. Necho deposed Jehoahaz, w ... |
| Gordon Campbell | ... e effectively portrayed the BC Liberals' new leader, former Vancouver mayor | , as a pawn of big business and a dangerous right-wing extremist. Clark wa ... |
| Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
| Bruno Amoussou | ... president) 27.1%, Adrien Houngbédji (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and | (Minister of State) 8.6%. The second round balloting, originally scheduled ... |
| James VI of Scotland | ... the death of Elizabeth in 1603 came the succession of her Scottish cousin, | , to the English throne. He became James I of England, and so brought unde ... |
| Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi | ... rivate minting of coins. This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow | (d. 180 BCE), who abolished private minting. In 182 BCE, Lü Zhi issued a b ... |
| Charles the Bald | ... 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown sons. A fourth son, | , was born to Louis's second wife, Judith of Bavaria, in 823. When Louis t ... |
| Gustav IV Adolph | ... esses, they ended with two failures. Her Swedish cousin (once removed) King | visited her in September 1796, the empress's intention being that her gran ... |
| Santiago Bernabeu | ... pressive centralism and the fascist regime at management level and beyond ( | , the former club president for whom the Merengues stadium is named, fough ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
| Genghis Khan | ... The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and Qazan built palaces here on the site of | 's summer pasture. In 1364, Timur also built a fortified palace with moats ... |
| Prince Makonnen | ... nagnework, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, | , and Prince Sahle Selassie |
| Bill Clinton | ... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the | Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ... |
| Prince Sahle Selassie | ... ce Asfaw Wossen, Princess Tsehai, Princess Zenebework, Prince Makonnen, and | |
| George Washington | ... rea that would lie between the Capitol building and an equestrian statue of | to be placed directly south of the White House (see L'Enfant Plan). The Na ... |
| Theodosius I | Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and | carried on a persecution of Paganism. MacMullen (1984) p.100 quote: See al ... |
| Adrien Houngbédji | ... athieu Kérékou (incumbent) 45.4%, Nicephore Soglo (former president) 27.1%, | (National Assembly Speaker) 12.6%, and Bruno Amoussou (Minister of State) ... |
| Jehoahaz | ... urned to Egypt. On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected | to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiak ... |
| Queen Beatrix | ... ouse of Orange dynasty, the later royal family of the Netherlands. In fact, | is Countess of Buren. Also, the royals have been known to use the name Van ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir | , and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ... |
| Frederick III of Brandenburg | Ducal Prussia's full sovereignty allowed Elector | to become "king in Prussia" in 1701 without offending Emperor Leopold I. T ... |
| Margaret Beckett | ... he entered the news after it emerged that he had managed to get through to | whilst impersonating Gordon Brown, with her revealing "embarrassing indisc ... |
| Tewodros II of Ethiopia | ... entered into by Dejazmach Agew Niguse of Tigray, in revolt against Emperor | , to cede Zula to the French. Agew Niguse was defeated by Emperor Tewodros ... |
| Queen Beatrix | ... a status retained by her daughter, Queen Juliana, and by her granddaughter, | |
| Sargon of Akkad | ... empires succeeded the last, and conquerors grew in stature until the great | pushed his empire to the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. It would not be ... |
| George Washington | ... ss takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing | commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 2 ... |
| Charles I | ... o held their tenure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), | and Charles II |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, President | authorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ... |
| Pekahiah | ... kh; "open-eyed"; ) was king of Israel. He was a captain in the army of king | of Israel, whom he killed to become king. Pekah was the son of Remaliah (; ... |
| Pope Pius XI | ... ans of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies. | further stated, again in Quadragesimo Anno, "every social activity ought o ... |
| Henry Cowell | The idea of the event began in | 's philosophy of music. Cowell, a teacher to John Cage and later to Dick H ... |
| Demetrius Vikelas | ... irikos, Kostas Karyotakis, Gregorios Xenopoulos, Constantine P. Cavafy, and | . Two Greek authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Georg ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f the navy, lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of | , Britannia had been renewed. Still depicted as a young woman with brown o ... |
| Louis XIV of France | ... anish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, | 's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for almost 14 years. The Ki ... |
| Crispus | ... le of Mardia in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons | and Constantine II, and Licinius' son Licinianus were made caesars |
| Holy Roman Emperor Francis II | ... ecisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I and | , after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting. The battle took place nea ... |
| Edward II | ... many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to | . War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the Battle of Borou ... |
| Joseph Lyons | ... President of the Admiral Arthur Phillip Memorial. Australian Prime Minister | described the section of keel as "intimately associated with the discovery ... |
| Henry VI of England | ... France, and made his England bleed" – a reminder of the tumultuous reign of | , which Shakespeare had previously brought to the stage in a trilogy of pl ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... age productions. Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as | in the film Shakespeare in Love |
| Louis the Pious | ... awn up for a division of the Carolingian Empire on the death of the emperor | . Unforeseen in 817 was a further claimant besides Louis's three grown son ... |
| George W. Bush | ... few left of them, so the once massive tributes are growing thin. President | was the first American president who visited the cemetery, on 8 May 2005. ... |
| Arianna Huffington | ... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with | , and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ... |
| 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 |
| Maria Theresa | ... h the agency of Prince Henry), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under | ) began preparing the ground for the partitions of Poland. In the first pa ... |
| King Arthur | ... early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by | to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the pr ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... sile submarines, later reduced to four by the incoming Labour government of | , with 16 missiles to be carried on each ship. The Polaris Sales Agreement ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... in 1601, was charged with supporting Essex's ill-fated insurrection against | , but he was acquitted of those charges. He succeeded his father as Baron ... |
| Arthurian legends | ... tiltyard in an event called "the Round Table", in imitation of the popular | |
| Prince Henry | Prussia (through the agency of | ), Russia (under Catherine), and Austria (under Maria Theresa) began prepa ... |
| Emperor of China | ... e Zhengde Emperor. The handover of Macau (Macao) to Portugal in 1557 by the | (as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the So ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... at heroes of Chinese history". Ma compared him with the contemporary leader | and saw many parallels in the careers and policies of the two men, both of ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
| King Cadwaladr | ... "Peter's Leek," Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David’s Day. According to one legend, | of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vege ... |
| Catherine of Valois | ... lowing the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, | . This is difficult because he does not speak French well and she does not ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... s of the National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) to parliament and NaRC candidate | (b. 1931) to the presidency. Voters rejected the Kenya African National Un ... |
| Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... om Great Hampden and is revered in Aylesbury to this day and Prime Minister | who lived at Mentmore. Also worthy of note are William Penn who believed h ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... also traveled to Chile where he met with its military junta ruler, General | |
| Frank Graham | ... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member | , president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ... |
| Dunama Dabbalemi | Kanem's expansion peaked during the long and energetic reign of Mai | (ca. 1203–1242), also of the Sayfawa dynasty. Dabbalemi initiated diplomat ... |
| Paul Revere | ... gement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after | 's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps ... |
| Tsar Alexander I | ... Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by | and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, after nearly nine hours of difficult fi ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president | , was elected President by a large majority |
| Henry III | ... d game. El Pardo was a region visited frequently by kings since the time of | , in the 14th century. The Catholic Monarchs started the construction of t ... |
| Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but | soon found out and had Columbus put into chains |
| Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
| Ferdinand IV of Castile | ... unicipal charter dated in Valladolid on June 15, 1300 and confirmed by king | in Burgos, on January 4, 1301. Diego López stablished the new town on the ... |
| Grigory Potemkin | | had had involvement in the coup d'état of 1762. In 1772, Catherine's close ... |
| Wolverine | ... ishop, and Gambit — who became one of the most popular X-Men (rivaling even | in size of fanbase), but many of the later additions to the team came and ... |
| King Hussein of Jordan | ... ardas set up various companies offering these products to royalty and VIPs. | bought a fleet of cars that Mardas had customised, but the cars proved to ... |
| George Washington | ... . stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting Benjamin Franklin and | . A few other countries issued stamps in the late 1840s. Many others, such ... |
| James Bond | In 1995, she took over the role of M ( | 's boss) with the James Bond film series, starting with GoldenEye replacin ... |
| Charles II | ... enure at the pleasure of James I of England (VI of Scotland), Charles I and | |
| Lionel Hampton | In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman hired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraphonist | and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. An early 1940s style ... |
| George Washington | ... l carved nobs of wood shaped to look like nutmeg to unsuspecting customers. | gave Connecticut the title of "The Provisions State" because of the materi ... |
| Alfonso XI | ... th the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by | in 1339. On the other hand, the town of Buitrago de Lozoya, Alcalá de Hena ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... letter was issued immediately before the Florida primary. Dole has endorsed | for the Republican nomination |
| King Charles II | During the reign of | , Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 16 ... |
| Licinius | In the year 320, | reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan in 313 and ... |
| Ferdinand II of Portugal | ... Leopold I, first king of the Belgians. His father Augustus was a brother of | , and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband Albert, Prince Co ... |
| Jack Hylton | ... , most notably in Hoylake in 1940, the prize for which was an audition with | . Also present was another young talent named Ernest Wiseman, already a fa ... |
| Manasseh | During the long reign of | (c. 687/686 - 643/642 BC), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennach ... |
| King Edward V | For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of | in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 14 ... |
| Justin I | ... rding to Procopius, was further encouraged by his ally and fellow Christian | of Byzantium, who requested Aksum's help to cut off silk supplies as part ... |
| Ahaz | ... g of Judah, and reigned for sixteen years. Jotham was succeeded by his son, | in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. William F. Albright has dated hi ... |
| German Emperor Wilhelm II | ... outbreak of the First World War, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful | , who boasted to the Queen of a relatively small country, "my guards are s ... |
| Malcolm IV | ... Crown came to his youngest son, David. David was succeeded by his grandsons | , and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before ... |
| Theodoric I | ... vitus, and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king | (Theodorid) to ally with the Romans. The combined armies reached Orléans a ... |
| Persi Diaconis | Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like | a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ... |
| Van Rompuy | Since the creation of the European Council presidency, President | and Commission President Barroso have begun to compete with each other as ... |
| Lindsay Thompson | ... being John Cain (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was | (1981–82), on 16 July 2008 |
| Tony Rundle | As of 24 January 2011, seven former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ... |
| Alfredo Poveda | ... oved by another military government. That military junta was led by Admiral | , who was declared chairman of the Supreme Council. The Supreme Council in ... |
| Gunderic | ... taces. The remainder of his people subsequently appealed to the Vandal king | to accept the Alan crown. Later Vandal kings in North Africa styled themse ... |
| Dian Parkinson | ... eauties included Kathleen Bradley (1990–2000), Holly Hallstrom (1977–1995), | (1975–1993) and Janice Pennington (1972–2000). Pennington and Bradley were ... |
| Justinian I | ... for the founding of the Justinian Dynasty that included his eminent nephew | and for the enactment of laws that de-emphasized the influence of the old ... |
| Theodosius I | ... ed at Sarigüzel, near Istanbul, in the 1930s, and attributed to the time of | (379-395) |
| former President Lyndon Johnson | ... ular bluebonnets, some planted in an effort by "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of | |
| Donna Shalala | ... sion to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with | , a former member of the Clinton cabinet. Dole is married to former U.S. c ... |
| Amr Moussa | ... f the League is traditionally an Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister | is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. Egyptian Deputy Prime ... |
| Walter Scott | ... e of poems had widespread influence on such writers as Goethe and the young | , but there was controversy from the outset about Macpherson's claims to h ... |
| King David | ... uel as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with | ; scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage ... |
| King of Italy | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the | and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, ... |
| Jaime Roldós Aguilera | Elections were held on April 29, 1979, under a new constitution. | was elected president, garnering over one million votes, the most in Ecuad ... |
| Lothair | ... re for the benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, | , Pepin, and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punct ... |
| Barroso | ... European Council presidency, President Van Rompuy and Commission President | have begun to compete with each other as Van Rompuy has benefited from the ... |
| Hosni Mubarak | ... n of one's first name was common; notable Egyptians such as Anwar Sadat and | did so. However, Arafat also dropped Abdel Rahman and Abdel Raouf from his ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... d of November 1967, earlier than had been planned by British Prime Minister | and without an agreement on the succeeding governance. Their enemies, the ... |
| Constans | ... ceeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, Constantius II and | . A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably C ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Wyman was the first wife of | . They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public ... |
| Philip II of France | ... he spent little time in England, instead concentrating on the war with King | , which began with Philip's attempts to acquire Richard's possessions on t ... |
| Christina of Sweden | ... ite of the city of Wilmington, which they named Fort Christina, after Queen | |
| Abul Kalam Azad | ... 47, the nationalist leaders of British India—including Jawaharlal Nehru and | representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, and Mast ... |
| Jim Bacon | ... (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was | (1998–2004), on 20 June 2004 |
| Malcolm | ... tle at the hands of Macbeth, who was killed himself in 1057 by Duncan's son | . The following year, after killing Macbeth's stepson Lulach, Malcolm asce ... |
| Maximilian III | The Administrator of Prussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order | , son of emperor Maximilian II died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 161 ... |
| Peter III of Russia | ... 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husband, Emperor | , but claimed by Catherine to be the son of her lover, Count Serge Saltyko |
| Anwar El Sadat | ... fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty. | , President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently becam ... |
| Pope John X | Pope Leo VI, a Roman, succeeded | (914–928) as Pope in 928. He reigned a little over seven months; the exact ... |
| Odoacer | ... avenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror Romulus Augustulus was deposed by | ; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule of Odoacer, but soon ... |
| Lothair I | ... was the King of Italy and Roman Emperor from 844, co-ruling with his father | until 855, after which he ruled alone. Louis's usual title was imperator a ... |
| Paul I of Russia | #Emperor | (1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801), officially fathered by Catherine's husba ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including President | , the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. (Note: He ... |
| Lothair | ... for his succession, but Hugh Capet appointed Arnulf, an illegitimate son of | instead. Arnulf was deposed in 991 for alleged treason against the King, a ... |
| Richard III | ... t, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1483, as | , both Elizabeth and her mother Alice were appointed ladies-in-waiting to ... |
| Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | ... the monarchy), Richard III is described as "the undoubted son and heir" of | , and "born in this land" — an oblique reference to his brother's birth at ... |
| Tipu Sultan | ... the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War broke out in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, | . Arthur's brother Richard ordered that an armed force be sent to capture ... |
| Charles II | The principal advisor to | , the Earl of Clarendon remarked on the matter, "and from those contestati ... |
| Euphemia | ... emphasized the influence of the old Roman nobility. His consort was Empress | |
| Pepin | ... e benefit of Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, | , and Louis. A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated b ... |
| Constantius II | ... s there. He was succeeded by his three sons born of Fausta, Constantine II, | and Constans. A number of relatives were killed by followers of Constantiu ... |
| Maximilian II | ... ussia, the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order Maximilian III, son of emperor | died in 1618. Albert's line died out in 1618, and the Duchy of Prussia pas ... |
| King Abdullah | ... ian revolution in 1935 which led him and his followers in rebellion against | of Jordan. And later at 1937, when they were forced to leave Jordan, Princ ... |
| Dave Barrett | The NDP first won election in 1972 under | , who served as Premier for three years. The NDP passed a great deal of le ... |
| John Cain | As of December 2010, five former premiers are alive, the oldest being | (1982–1990, born 1931). The most recent premier to die was Lindsay Thompso ... |
| Philip II of France | ... 's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King | . Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some ei ... |
| David | ... s successively became king. Eventually, the Crown came to his youngest son, | . David was succeeded by his grandsons Malcolm IV, and then by William the ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... in India. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders of British India—including | and Abul Kalam Azad representing the Congress, Jinnah representing the Mus ... |
| George V | ... rincipally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as | put it in the first-ever , the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... asting peace." The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to | , as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer ... |
| Jacques Chirac | In 1996, | , then French President, granted the former French members of the Internat ... |
| Louis VII of France | ... aimed at all his friends and supporters as well as Becket himself; but King | offered Becket protection. He spent nearly two years in the Cistercian abb ... |
| Ranjit Singh | Undivided Punjab was ruled by a Sikh dynasty founded by Maharaja | for 50 years from 1799 to 1849 AD, before its conquest by the British. Bef ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... mer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as | in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden. On 31 July 2010, Dame Ju ... |
| Charles II | ... stic office despite the changes through the course of several monarchs from | to George I. A comic opera covers a later period in 18th century history, ... |
| Claudia Jordan | ... and the show. Following the departures of Nikki Ziering, Heather Kozar and | in the 2000s (decade), producers decided to use a rotating cast of models ... |
| Anastasius I | ... s ability, rose through the ranks to become a general and under the Emperor | ; by the time of Anastasius' death in 518, he held the influential positio ... |
| Franz von Papen | Hindenburg then appointed | as new Reichskanzler. Von Papen lifted the ban on the NSDAP's SA paramilit ... |
| Charles I | ... ntury history, while a film set in Bray, County Wicklow, in Ireland, covers | , the English Civil War, the Commonwealth of England, The Protectorate, an ... |
| George Washington Baines | Johnson was maternally descended from a pioneer Baptist clergyman, | , who pastored some eight churches in Texas as well as others in Arkansas ... |
| Romulus Augustulus | ... tal was moved from Mediolanum to Ravenna. In 476, the last Western Empreror | was deposed by Odoacer; for a few years Italy stayed united under the rule ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
| Alexander III | ... s succeeded by his son Alexander II. Alexander II, as well as his successor | , attempted to take over the Western Isles, which were still under the ove ... |
| François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
| Alcide De Gasperi | ... facsimile wartime letters from resistance leader and former Prime Minister | requesting the Allies to bomb the outskirts of Rome in order to demoralize ... |
| Habibullah Khan | ... -Afghan War of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler | . His son and successor Amanullah declared full independence and attacked ... |
| Justin II | ... ssimus and had Praejecta (b. ca 520), married to the senator Areobindus and | (b. ca 520) |
| Akbar | ... ed Sheykhu Baba, he was the third and eldest surviving son of Mogul Emperor | . Akbar's twin sons, Hasan and Hussain, died in infancy. His mother was th ... |
| Rodrigo Borja Cevallos | ... as followed in 1984 by León Febres Cordero from the Social Christian Party. | of the Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática or ID) party won the preside ... |
| Maria Clementina Sobieska | ... e female bust bears a resemblance to the Jacobite Queen and Polish Princess | , wife of James the Old Pretender. The two putti with reddish hair who acc ... |
| Frederick II | ... had several times mediated between the Lombards and the Holy Roman Emperor | reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending parties. In the n ... |
| Oren B. Cheney | ... ar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College | , founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first pro ... |
| Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach | The Teutonic Order lost eastern Prussia when Grand Master | converted to Lutheranism and secularized the Prussian branch of the Teuton ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of | and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite fa ... |
| Henry VIII | The chief minister of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Rom ... |
| Yan Xishan | ... of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and | . As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchuria and even extended his inf ... |
| Philander Chase | ... Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College | , first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of U ... |
| Wolverine | In the aftermath of the Schism series, the fallout between | and Cyclops will lead to the revival and rebuilding of the original X-Mans ... |
| Robin Cook MP | ... ng personal attack on the Prime Minister, calling his behaviour 'reckless'. | and a few other government ministers resigned to the backbenches over the ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... e end of his term in 2000. That year Democratic Progressive Party candidate | won the national election with 39% of the vote in a three-way race. Chen's ... |
| Cadmus | ... ugh no classical source explicitly connects the two, Ino is the daughter of | of Tyre. Lewis Farnell thought not, referring in 1916 to "the accidental r ... |
| Albert Frederick | ... viate of Brandenburg became co-regents with Albert's son, the feeble-minded | |
| Saud | ## | (12 January 1902 – 23 February 1969); reigned 1953–196 |
| Sir Angus Bethune | ... being Tony Rundle (1996–98, born 1939). The most recent premier to die was | (1969–72), on 27 August 2004. The most recently-serving premier to die was ... |
| Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... ave had their births recorded). Furthermore, the christening celebration of | , the second son of Richard and Cecily, was a lavish and expensive affair ... |
| Henrietta Maria | ... r, Richard Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen | at the trial of the Earl of Strafford earlier that year; referring to John ... |
| Otto I | ... erbert with him. There Gerbert met Pope John XIII (965–972) and the Emperor | , surnamed the Great (936–973). The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerber ... |
| Rurik | ... al relation with the Varagians defending the cities that they ruled. Led by | and his brothers Truvor and Sineus, the invited Varangians (called Rus') s ... |
| Abdalá Bucaram | ... D) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against | (brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Pa ... |
| Louis | ... f Charles he met with the opposition of his adult sons, Lothair, Pepin, and | . A decade of civil war and fluctuating alliances, punctuated by brief per ... |
| Charlemagne | ... of the Frankish Kingdom. On conquering the Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 774, | had himself crowned King of the Lombards. Consequently, Tyrol came to be o ... |
| Alexander II | ... needed for the Crusades. William died in 1214, and was succeeded by his son | . Alexander II, as well as his successor Alexander III, attempted to take ... |
| Charles II | ... tability (some would say amorality) over half a century, from the reigns of | to George I. Over this period, he embraced whichever form of liturgy, Prot ... |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | ... ine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and | |
| Harold Wilson | In 1964, the new British government under | announced their intention to hand over power to the Federation of South Ar ... |
| Ludwig III of Bavaria | ... A year later, Ludwig deposed his cousin, Otto, and proclaimed himself King | . During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince Rupprecht, ... |
| Akbar | In 1600, when | was away from the capital on an expedition, Salim broke into an open rebel ... |
| León Febres Cordero | ... ely succeeded by Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado who was followed in 1984 by | from the Social Christian Party. Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic ... |
| Pharaoh | ... f Jehoiakim, he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah. . Nebuchadnez ... |
| Dalmatius | ... ives were killed by followers of Constantius, notably Constantine's nephews | (who held the rank of Caesar) and Hannibalianus, presumably to eliminate p ... |
| Andrew Huxley | ... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with | and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
| Mohammed Nadir Shah | ... cated under pressure. The individual who most benefited from the crisis was | , who reigned from 1929 to 1933. Both the Soviets and the British played t ... |
| Ermengarde of Tours | He was the eldest son of the Emperor Lothair I and | . He was designated King of Italy in 839 and took up his residence in that ... |
| Alp Arslan | ... manus IV, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (reigned 1068–1071), faced Sultan | of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of Manzikert. The ba ... |
| Avitus | ... troops from among the Franks, the Burgundians, and the Celts. A mission by | , and Attila's continued westward advance, convinced the Visigoth king The ... |
| Bob Bartlett | ... avel. In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat | , Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate. Since Gravel ... |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... icher asked for new elections. On 28 January, von Papen described Hitler to | as only a minority part of an alternative, von Papen-arranged government. ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
| Louis II | ... ed his kingdom between his three sons in the Treaty of Prüm. To the eldest, | , went Italy, with the imperial title. To the youngest, Charles, still a m ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... d to England to raise the king's ransom. Richard wrote to his mother, Queen | , that Walter should be chosen for the see of Canterbury, as well as to th ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ong live for the 2004 Republican National Convention, saying that President | , whom he said is a fan and a family friend, had asked him to write a song ... |
| Dennis Silk | ... ster and J. R. Ackerley. One of his closest friends was the young cricketer | . He formed a close friendship with Vivien Hancock, headmistress of Greenw ... |
| Frank Capra | ... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), | on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ... |
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| Henry VIII | ... nerations down to Catherine's sister, Anne, who would serve all six of King | 's |
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| Henry VIII | ... ority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under | and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I |
| Frederick II | ... ssia, was merged with the former Duchy of Prussia. On 31 January 1773, King | announced that the newly annexed lands were to be known as the Province of ... |
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| Augusto Pinochet | ... neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by | took place in 1973 |
| Bill Clinton | ... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President | and other world leaders |
| Eloy Alfaro | ... rorist group, "¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo!" ("Alfaro Lives, Dammit!") named after | . However, continuing economic problems undermined the popularity of the I ... |
| George W. Bush | ... tiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President | for another summit on Middle East peace process. Another summit was conven ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
| Kwame Nkrumah | ... r II, nationalist movements arose across West Africa. In 1957, Ghana, under | , became the first sub-Saharan colony to achieve its independence, followe ... |
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| President of India | The Constitution envisages a scheme of affairs in which the | is the head of the executive in terms of Article 53 with office of the Pri ... |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | The last living person to be officially proclaimed president for life was | of Turkmenistan |
| Edward VI | ... the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542. Henry VIII's son and successor, the young | , continued with further religious reforms but his early death in 1553 pre ... |
| Augustus | ... ond century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of | ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor. The Areopag ... |
| Augustus | ... to the revival of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from | to Trajan, which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Afri ... |
| Jacques Diouf | ... future survival." The head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), | , has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form ... |
| James Buchanan | ... th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since | in 1856. Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th ... |
| Lucio Gutiérrez | ... e political capital, as illustrated by the most recent removal of President | from office by Congress in April 2005. Vice President Alfredo Palacio took ... |
| Alexander III | ... of government ministers of Russia who were personally appointed by the Tsar | and by his son, Tsar Nicholas II. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway w ... |
| Eglon | ... om which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put | king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is r ... |
| Trajan | ... val of the clean shaven face fashion of the Roman emperors from Augustus to | , which was originally introduced among the Romans by Scipio Africanus. Th ... |
| Liu Yu | The dynasty was founded by | 劉裕 (363–422), whose surname together with "Song" forms the most commonly u ... |
| Anne Boleyn | The ghost of | , beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the ch ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... . They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to | , turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in hi ... |
| Art Rooney | Prior to the 1970 season, Rosenbloom, Art Modell of the Browns, and | of the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to have their teams join the ten AFL tea ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by | and Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ... |
| Graham Greene | ... erious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon (1950) and | 's Brighton Rock (1947), both with Roy producing and John directing. They ... |
| Nicolae Ceauşescu | ... ut they have not proclaimed themselves as President for Life. For instance, | of Romania, who ruled until his execution (see Romanian revolution) |
| Edward IV | ... or Woodville), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King | consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the Duke of Gloucester became King in 1 ... |
| Charles II | ... ore the restoration of the monarchy, the Protector's Council was abolished. | restored the royal Privy Council, but he, like previous Stuart monarchs, c ... |
| Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
| Liu Shao | ... which at least partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include | , Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emper ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by | . |
| Peleus | ... ds and goddesses as well as various mortals were invited to the marriage of | and Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles). Only Eris, goddess of disco ... |
| King Charles I | ... n applauded the English people for having the courage to depose and execute | . In his poem, however, he takes the side of 'Heav'n's awful Monarch' (iv ... |
| Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
| William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
| Henry Tudor | ... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by | , in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| Lothair II | ... ll a minor, went Provence. To the second eldest and namesake of his father, | , went the remaining territories to the north of Provence, a kingdom which ... |
| Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
| Amel-Marduk | ... reign, and they also give the accession year of Nebuchadnezzar's successor | (Evil Merodach) as 562/561 BC, which was the 37th year of Jehoiachin's cap ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War. | , later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ... |
| François Duvalier | ... hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and | died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic af ... |
| Gunderic | ... ozen, to invade Gaul, which they devastated terribly. Under Godigisel's son | , the Vandals plundered their way westward and southward through Aquitaine |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... "higher authority" by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President | (Attorney General William Henry Moody: "They say a billionaire from Scotla ... |
| Henry VIII's | ... ishment except death, without being bound by normal court procedure. During | reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact l ... |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... Brüning was appointed as successor of Chancellor Müller by Reichspräsident | on 29 March 1930, after months of political lobbying by General Kurt von S ... |
| Mullah Omar | ... gious force, reportedly in opposition to the tyranny of the local governor. | started his movement with fewer than 50 armed madrassah students in his ho ... |
| Philip II | ... the Kingdom of Spain until 1561, when the city was destroyed by a fire and | , born here, moved the capital to Madrid, starting a period of decadence f ... |
| President of India | ... me Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, chief advisor to the | , head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Josiah | Zedekiah was the third son of | , and his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, thus he w ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, | , Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January 1816, a sentry o ... |
| President | ... cing the war himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of | George W. Bush and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, w ... |
| Emperor Xiaowu | ... east partially led to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, | , Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was espe ... |
| Alexander the Great | Ashkelon was soon rebuilt. Until the conquest of | , Ashkelon's inhabitants were influenced by the dominant Persian culture. ... |
| David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
| Achilles | ... were invited to the marriage of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of | ). Only Eris, goddess of discord, was not invited. She was annoyed at this ... |
| Charles Augustus Aiken | ... fessor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College | . Nine of Dartmouth's 17 presidents were alumni of the College |
| Philip III | ... him. It was made the capital of the kingdom again between 1601 and 1606 by | . The city was again damaged by a flood of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers |
| Aurelian | ... , Constantine had reoccupied most of the long-lost province of Dacia, which | had been forced to abandon in 271. At the time of his death, he was planni ... |
| Henry VIII | ... agued previous monarchs came to an end. The reign of the second Tudor king, | , was one of great political change. Religious upheaval and disputes with ... |
| Li Zongren | ... d supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as | , Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan. As a reward, Zhang remained ruler of Manchu ... |
| Hosni Mubarak | This support has continued to the present, with President | often intervening personally to promote peace negotiations. In 1996, he ho ... |
| Og | In a similar way the Israelites took the country of | , and these two victories gave them possession of the complete country eas ... |
| Og | ... bedstead (translated as "sarcophagus" in NIV Archaeological Study Bible) of | wa |
| Edward VII | ... es from 1403. The office was raised to the dignity of lord mayor in 1910 by | "in view of the position occupied by that city as the chief city of East A ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | During the 2004 Presidential campaign, President | publicly campaigned with Lee Teng-hui and developed a campaign platform, i ... |
| Frederick III | ... supporting Emperor Leopold I in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector | was allowed to crown himself "King in Prussia" in 1701. The new kingdom ru ... |
| Rafael Correa | ... ce and remained in office until the presidential election of 2006, in which | gained the presidency |
| Haakon IV of Norway | ... age proper in Scotland is generally considered to be in 1266. In 1263, King | , in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | President | was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Me ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ed president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by Gerald Ford and | . He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, who had died in ... |
| Puyi | ... y 1932, and renamed to Manchukuo. The Japanese military commander appointed | as regent (reign name Datong) for the time being and would become Emperor ... |
| Emperor Qianfei | ... ed to many military revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, | , Emperor Ming, and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, m ... |
| Sangara | ... hat Shamgar may actually have been a Hittite, a similar name occurring with | , a Hittite king of Carchemish; it is also the case that Anath is the name ... |
| Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting | , and the Catholic League against the Protestants--to the tune of a millio ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... ho did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, | and Herbert Hoover. |
| Alexandre Pétion | ... in fact successfully serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like | , Rafael Carrera, Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Ki ... |
| Duke of Gloucester | ... arl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville. When the | became King in 1483, as Richard III, both Elizabeth and her mother Alice w ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President | , Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ... |
| Malcolm II | ... ven consecutive monarchs were either murdered or killed in battle. In 1005, | ascended the throne having killed many rivals. He continued to ruthlessly ... |
| Carloman II | ... rer, Charles's son, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, | and Louis III, ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the ... |
| Sarpedon | ... d. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthus, and | , the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworld when they di ... |
| Engelberga | ... joint emperor at Rome by Pope Leo IV, and soon afterwards, in 851, married | and undertook the independent government of Italy. He marched into the sou ... |
| Luise of Prussia | ... composer, writing an operetta called Die Maske and sending a copy to Queen | . The official reply advised to him to write to the director of the Royal ... |
| Lord John Russell | ... he Corn Laws. His colleagues resisted this. Soon afterwards the Whig leader | declared in favour of repeal. On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared ... |
| Rafael Carrera | ... lly serve a life term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, | , Josip Broz Tito and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was na ... |
| Mahmoud Abbas | ... ustody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President | |
| Rafael Correa | ... elected President, for a four year term. The current president of Ecuador, | , exercises his power from the presidential Palacio de Carondelet in Quito ... |
| Alfonso VIII | ... grew rapidly, thanks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings | and Alfonso X, as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconq ... |
| Josip Broz Tito | ... term. On the other hand, presidents like Alexandre Pétion, Rafael Carrera, | and François Duvalier died in office. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal Presid ... |
| Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
| Edward III | ... l lion was, according to Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "said to have been granted by | ". By the 19th century the city corporation had added supporters, two ange ... |
| Aleus | ... nt Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by | , Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric an ... |
| Valentinian III | Emperor | sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Triget ... |
| James Larkin | Connolly's fellow labor leader | said of him that |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
| Duncan I | ... nate opposition, and when he died in 1034 he was succeeded by his grandson, | , instead of a cousin, as had been usual. In 1040, Duncan suffered defeat ... |
| Emperor of China | ... become Emperor of Manchukuo but that he could not reign using the title of | . Manchukuo was proclaimed a monarchy on 1 March 1934, with Puyi assuming ... |
| Sigismund III Vasa | ... against the Protestants--to the tune of a million gold ducats)--as well as | , King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire. ... |
| Sparta | In | , Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical ... |
| Charlemagne | ... ty over much of central Italy, thus estabilishing the Papal States. In 800, | was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope in Saint Peter's ... |
| Milton S. Eisenhower | ... 942 with Executive Order 9102 and officially ceased to exist June 30, 1946. | , then an official of the Department of Agriculture, was chosen to head th ... |
| Alfonso X | ... nks also to the commercial privileges granted by the kings Alfonso VIII and | , as well as to the repopulation of the area after the Reconquista |
| Julian the Apostate | ... him with praise. When the last of his sons died in 361, however, his nephew | wrote the satire Symposium, or the Saturnalia, which denigrated Constantin ... |
| Frederick William I | ... East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions. Crown Prince | led the rebuilding of East Prussia, founding numerous towns. Thousands of ... |
| Minos | ... cluding Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: | , Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of ... |
| Emperor Ming | ... ry revolts. These rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, | , and Emperor Houfei. Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a lar ... |
| Jacob Zuma | ... ith the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president | states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other coun ... |
| Chandragupta Maurya | ... E, Alexander the Great's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by | and extended by Ashoka the Great until 185 BCE. The Indo-Greek Kingdom fou ... |
| Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
| President | ... ather. His daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of | Josiah Bartlet's (Sheen) secretaries |
| Louis III | ... on, on the throne. In response, Louis the Stammerer's sons, Carloman II and | , ceded western Lotharingia to Louis. The border between the two kingdoms ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... residency. (The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were | , Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
| Cleopatra VII | ... fell in 63 BC, and the area was incorporated into the Roman Republic. Queen | used Ashkelon as her place of refuge when her brother and sister exiled he ... |
| King George VI | ... x years after he stepped down as prime minister, elevated to the peerage by | as the Viscount Bennett of Mickleham in the County of Surrey and of Calgar ... |
| Phocas | ... Scipio Africanus. This new Roman imperial fashion lasted until the reign of | |
| Prince Faisal | His last words to his two sons, the future king Saud and the next in line | , who were already battling each other, were: 'You are brothers, unite! |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... self the basis for the story: when she found out about Edward's marriage to | in 1464, Cecily flew into a rage. Mancini reported that the Duchess, in he ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for | and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ... |
| Robert II, Duke of Burgundy | He was married to Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of | and Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy. They had a daughter, Joan (Giova ... |
| Christian IV of Denmark | Bishop Brynjólfur sent the Codex Regius as a present to King | , hence the name Codex Regius. For centuries it was stored in the Royal Li ... |
| Sandy Alderson | ... Pillsbury, founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, | (San Diego Padres), John Donahoe (eBay), Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (IBM), Cha ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... spapermen and lobbyists. Johnson's friends soon included aides to President | , as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President John Nance Garner. He be ... |
| Gustav Vasa | ... stemming from the early 16th century. All regents of Sweden, beginning with | , have had their own motto during their respective periods of reign. The S ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... heretics. She died in 1558, and was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister | . England returned to Protestantism, and continued its growth into a major ... |
| Zhang Zuolin | Zhang Xueliang, known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of | , warlord of Manchuria in northeast China. For sometime prior to the Kuomi ... |
| Alfredo Palacio | ... ident Lucio Gutiérrez from office by Congress in April 2005. Vice President | took his place and remained in office until the presidential election of 2 ... |
| James III of Scotland | ... pledged them as security on the dowry of his daughter, who was betrothed to | . Although attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem ... |
| French President | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then- | , Charles de Gaulle, who was sceptical of the rising supranational power o ... |
| David | ... en each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king | . Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of his family line ... |
| Emperor Houfei | ... rulers include Liu Shao, Emperor Xiaowu, Emperor Qianfei, Emperor Ming, and | . Emperor Ming was especially vicious, murdering a large number of his bro ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, | , William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover. |
| Sparta | ... going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites. At | , however, youths each sacrificed a puppy to Enyalios before engaging in r ... |
| Leopold I | ... masters under jurisdiction of the Emperor. In return for supporting Emperor | in the War of the Spanish Succession, Elector Frederick III was allowed to ... |
| President for Life | ... nda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example. | is a title assumed by some dictators to try to ensure that their authority ... |
| Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | ... o Blanche (Bianca) of Burgundy, daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy and | . They had a daughter, Joan (Giovanna), who married to John III the Good, ... |
| George III | ... esponsible for Lady Sarah Lennox's embarrassing rejection by the young King | , as well as her disastrous marriage to Sir Charles Bunbury soon afterward ... |
| George W. Bush | ... t Chen, leading to a public rebuke of Chen from the United States President | in December 2003. It is believed that this rebuke in part was intended to ... |
| Rhadamanthus | ... Phoenix as a third. After arriving in Crete, Europa had three sons: Minos, | , and Sarpedon, the three of whom became the three judges of the Underworl ... |
| Charlemagne | ... carried the name. Monumental Constantinian forms were used at the court of | to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal. Constantine acqu ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... other Hollywood figures, including her own star-recruit to the reform camp, | . Ironically, given her role in galvanizing Hollywood resistance to Soviet ... |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power." | compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ... |
| Jean Rey | ... rojects of the day, such as the European Monetary Union. In 1970, President | secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President Roy ... |
| John of Gaunt | ... mily, the Neville's, were already established at court being descendants of | 's daughter Lady Joan Beaufort and her second husband, Ralph Neville, 1st ... |
| Shimon Peres | ... 994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and | , for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant ... |
| Elizabeth of York | ... from the throne and replaced by Richard of Gloucester, Edward IV's daughter | later became the Queen consort of Henry VII of England. The grounds for Ti ... |
| President John F. Kennedy | ... ll, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city. In a telephone conference with | , the President informed the HRC that after the Birmingham church bombing ... |
| Shah Jahan | In 1622, Khurram ( | ), younger brother of Khusrau Mirza, had murdered Khusrau in a conspiracy ... |
| Gratian | ... of Lucca and Cardinal Deusdedit inserted it in their collections of canons | ;excluded it from his Decretum, but it was soon added to it as Palea; the ... |
| Abraham Pierson | ... 1745–1766). Modern custom omits the use of the term "rector" and identifies | as the first Yale president (1701–1707). Clap is construed to have been th ... |
| George Washington | ... uccess of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by | 's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Mono ... |
| Rehoboam | E. R. Thiele offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the | article, Thiele's chronology for the first kings of Judah contained an int ... |
| Septimius Severus | The Roman Emperor | was a native of Lepcis Magna in North Africa, an originally Phoenician cit ... |
| Ramiro I of Aragon | ... ave been William VII of Aquitaine), she may have previously been married to | . They had two daughters, Agnes, d.after1110; m.1080 Ct Friedrich von Luet ... |
| Edgar of Scotland | ... odred Crovan was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King | agreed a treaty. The islands would be controlled by Norway, but mainland t ... |
| Diziet Sma | ... ide of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent | to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations. The no ... |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | As a skilled technocrat, Lee soon caught the eye of President | as a strong candidate to serve as Vice President. Chiang sought to move mo ... |
| Richard, Duke of York | ... House of York, so called because its head, a descendant of Edward III, was | . Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son Edward ... |
| Claudius | ... st extent; the most notable being the conquest of Britain, begun by emperor | (47), and emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia (101-102, 105-106). In the 1s ... |
| Thomas Spring-Rice | ... icability". He submitted a copy of this to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | , on 4 January 1837. This first edition was marked "private and confidenti ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
| Bill Polian | ... r assuming control from his father by firing Coach Lindy Infante and hiring | to run the organization. Polian in turn hired Jim E. Mora to coach the tea ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, | , Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years ... |
| Romano Prodi | ... os and being able to force the resignation of Commissioners. When President | took office with the new powers of the Treaty of Amsterdam, he was dubbed ... |
| Rudolph of Auxerre | ... ed by Guy III of Spoleto, who eventually made himself king in Italy, and by | , who had been elected king in the south of Lotharingia, in Transjurane Bu ... |
| Jeroboam | According to , Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of | , and reigned for three years |
| Norodom Sihanouk | ... Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference. It was a derogatory term used by | , dismissing the Cambodian leftists who had been organizing pro-independen ... |
| Seyyedeh Khatun | ... the last Buwayhid emir, was nominal ruler under the regency of his mother ( | ). About thirty of Ibn Sina's shorter works are said to have been composed ... |
| Thomas Clap | ... to become Yale University was termed the "rector". As head of Yale College, | was both the last to be called "rector" (1740–1745) and the first to be re ... |
| Cadmus | ... unding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by | , for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung ... |
| Louis XVI | ... 9 April 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss birth and finance minister of | , a post he held in the lead-up to the French Revolution in 1789 |
| Godigisel | ... 00 or 401, possibly because of attacks by the Huns, the Vandals, under king | , along with their allies (the Sarmatian Alans and Germanic Suebians) move ... |
| Jacques Delors | However the Commission began to recover under President | ' Commission. He is seen as the most successful President, being credited ... |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and Benazir Bhutto, daughter of | , was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was foll ... |
| Henry VI | ... e. Although he was victorious, his sudden death in 1422 left his infant son | on the throne, and gave the French an opportunity to overthrow English rul ... |
| Bette Davis | ... MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (film) | ;screams about it in All About Eve; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt a ... |
| Godred Crovan | ... Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde. In 1095, the King of Mann and the Isles | was killed by Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway. Magnus and King Edgar of Sc ... |
| Sparta | According to Pausanias, local inhabitants of Therapne, | , recognized Thero "feral, savage" as a nurse of Ares |
| Hammurabi | ... d Testament, vol II (1888), pp 299ff) this king was usually associated with | , who ruled in Babylon from 1792 BC until his death in 1750 BC. However, a ... |
| Edward V of England | ... and the Marches, a body that had originally been set up to help the future | in his duties as Prince of Wales. The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... Boston, and who also served in the Invasion of Canada (1775) under Colonel | . Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, ... |
| Porfirio Díaz | ... mber 20, 1910 when Francisco I. Madero planned an uprising against dictator | 's 31-year-long iron rule. Article 74 of the Mexican labor law (Ley Federa ... |
| Decius | ... Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by Roman Emperor | in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 479, the ... |
| Emperor John VIII | In 1428 Gemistos was consulted by | on the issue of unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and advised that bo ... |
| William F. Buckley, Jr. | ... ch as Robert Robb and Matthew Continetti have used a formulation devised by | to describe McCain as "conservative" but not "a conservative", meaning tha ... |
| George W. Bush | Rossum, writing in 2006, before | appointees Roberts and Alito had time to make an impact, said that Scalia ... |
| Charlemagne | ... ). A popular, but ultimately unconfirmed, attempt tries to relate Attila to | |
| U.S. President | Sheen has played | John F. Kennedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Atto ... |
| Cycnus | There are accounts of a son of Ares, | (Κύκνος) of Macedonia, who was so murderous that he tried to build a templ ... |
| new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
| Vicente Fox | ... n the country would eventually lead to the end of the one party system when | was elected president in 2000. PAN has since dominated most of the north o ... |
| Mubarak | ... o those that formed the backdrop to the overthrow of ben-Ali in Tunisia and | in Egypt earlier in the year. "The remarkable spread of the 2011 Arab revo ... |
| Cassander | ... Antipater died in 319 BC, he gave the regentship to Polyperchon, excluding | , his son. Antigonus and the other dynasts refused to recognize Polypercho ... |
| Henry V | ... ns; his success was partly due to the military skill of his son, the future | . Henry V's own reign, which began in 1413, was largely free from domestic ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... s who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations (民族自決) proposed by | after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( ... |
| Charles II of England | ... ox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, a legitimate descendant of an illegitimate son of | . In 1744, Lady Caroline eloped with Henry Fox, a politician who was eight ... |
| Augustus III of Poland | King | died in 1763, and therefore Poland needed to elect a new ruler. Catherine ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... documents have led some to question the Church's commitment to ecumenism . | personally endorsed Dominus Iesus, and ratified and confirmed it "with sur ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to gain statehood for Nevada before the next presidential election so that | would have enough votes to win. They rushed to send the entire state const ... |
| Henry VIII | Since | broke with Rome, the Archbishops of Canterbury have been selected by the E ... |
| Queen Ranavalona | ... ing adventurer. It notes encounters with the "White Rajah" of Sarawak, with | of Madagascar, and with Emperor Maximilian of Mexico; and service as a Uni ... |
| Glen Clark | ... rtheless and the party was led into the 1996 provincial general election by | |
| D.H. Hill | ... tening Turner's Gap, and required assistance from the infantry of Maj. Gen. | to defend the South Mountain passes in the Battle of South Mountain. His h ... |
| king | ... n London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the | . The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in ... |
| Barney Frank | ... ves, many liberals dislike his views. In March 2009, openly gay Congressman | described Scalia as a "homophobe". Maureen Dowd described Scalia in a 2003 ... |
| Humphry Davy | ... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir | and independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ... |
| Hugh Capet | ... attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) by supporting | (987–996). Capet became King of France, ending the Carolingian line of Kin ... |
| Prince of Wales | Edward IV's eldest son was invested with the title of | at the age of seven months. At the age of three, he was sent by his father ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | | died in January 1988 and Lee succeeded him as President. The "Palace Facti ... |
| Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia | ... im a daughter named Anna Petrovna in December 1757 (not to be confused with | , the daughter of Peter I's second marriage) |
| George Washington | ... ating a war with Native Americans, which angered colonial land speculators. | was given of wild land in the Ohio region for his services in the French a ... |
| Edward VIII | ... due at least in part to the constitutional crisis of that year surrounding | and his relationship with Wallis Simpson |
| Louis the German | ... ry outside Italy, aroused his discontent, and in 857 he allied himself with | against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King Charles the ... |
| Henry Bolingbroke | ... in his own hands. In 1399, while he was campaigning in Ireland, his cousin | seized power. Richard was deposed, imprisoned, and eventually murdered, pr ... |
| Somerled | ... m of Man and the Isles", but the Inner Hebrides came under the influence of | , a Gaelic speaker, who was styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was ... |
| Bảo Đại | ... ệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor | , eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. Presid ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... is, Lycia, a port on the Pamphylian Gulf. The city was visited in 333 BC by | , who envisioned himself as the new Achilles and carried the Iliad with hi ... |
| Benito Juárez | This day commemorates President | 's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ... |
| Lothair of France | ... olitics of his time. In 985, with the support of his archbishop, he opposed | 's (954–986) attempt to take the Lorraine from Emperor Otto III (983–1002) ... |
| Odin | ... sword Gram out of the tree Barnstokkr where it is embedded by the Norse god | |
| William the Conqueror | ... towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. | ordered the construction of a castle, to dominate the town and the nearby ... |
| George W. Bush | ... onal friends with several prominent Republicans, including former President | |
| Chief Martial Law Administrator | ... stan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as | . Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 1977. During this period Pakistan beg ... |
| Lee Huan | ... headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister | , was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui and sought to block his accession ... |
| Antonio José de Sucre | The icons of the Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall | and Gral. Eloy Alfaro. The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) ... |
| Benedict XVI | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now | ), who was prefect of the CDF at the time when the Instructions were issue ... |
| Yu Kuo-hwa | ... a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General Hau Pei-tsun, Premier | , and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrustful of Lee Teng-hui ... |
| Ellac | His sons | (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and Ernakh fought over the division ... |
| President of the United States | ... August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th | (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice Pres ... |
| Cadmus | ... n, the "sun-red" Phoenix. It is generally agreed that she had two brothers, | , who brought the alphabet to mainland Greece, and Cilix who gave his name ... |
| Whittaker Chambers | ... amously remarked that he was "standing athwart history yelling 'stop!'" and | was convinced that capitalism was bound to fall to communism, though he wa ... |
| Pat Riley | ... of the streak, Hearn was paired with several different color men, including | , Keith Erickson, and Stu Lantz |
| Roy Jenkins | ... Rey secured the Community's own financial resources and in 1977, President | became the first Commission President to attend a G7 summit on behalf of t ... |
| Simón Bolívar | ... anish vicerroyalty. Once the Gran Colombia was dissolved after the death of | in 1830, Ecuador inherited the same border disputes and had the need of cr ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II's | He is the only president serving during | reign to have never met her |
| President of the Republic | ... -creation of the Grito de Dolores by all executive office-holders (from the | down to municipal presidents) and lasts through the night |
| 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 ... |
| Richard III | ... d intermittently during his reign and those of his son Edward V and brother | . Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Richard. Ultimately, the co ... |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | With Pakistan's defeat in the war, Yahya Khan was replaced by | as Chief Martial Law Administrator. Civilian rule resumed from 1972 to 197 ... |
| John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
| Philip II | ... n during the 1550s, sheep husbandry was discouraged in certain provinces by | due to the harmful effects of fires used in transhumance. As early as the ... |
| Joy MacPhail | ... ared in the administration as Attorney-General Dosanjh and Finance Minister | challenged Clark's legitimacy. The party and province endured a few chaoti ... |
| Hau Pei-tsun | ... Faction" of the KMT, a group of conservative mainlanders headed by General | , Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, and Education Minister Lee Huan, was deeply distrust ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | Following President | 's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... tion (PLO) to the West Bank and Gaza and in the event of a victory promised | that he would be given control of them. Hussein still saw the West Bank as ... |
| Kukrit Pramoj | ... Don Camillo was taken and adapted by the famous Thai writer and politician, | , into his own 1954 novel, Phai Daeng (Red Bamboo) |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader | termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question" |
| Jacques Delors | ... il refused to renew his term, despite being the most 'dynamic' leader until | |
| Charles the Bald | ... s the German against his own brother Lothair, King of Lotharingia, and King | . But after Louis had secured the election of Pope Nicholas I in 858, he b ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | When Otto II became | in 973 (he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967), he appointed Gerbert the ... |
| Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... pope Gregory IX who had several times mediated between the Lombards and the | Frederick II reasserted his right to arbitrate between the contending part ... |
| Saul | ... ars in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of David and | 's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an is conc ... |
| Lord Salisbury | Curzon became Assistant Private Secretary to | in 1885, and in 1886 entered Parliament as Member for Southport in south-w ... |
| Francisco I. Madero | ... commemorates the Mexican Revolution which started on November 20, 1910 when | planned an uprising against dictator Porfirio Díaz's 31-year-long iron rul ... |
| Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | ... lpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, | on 6 April 1882. Today, it features on the 2007 series of £5 notes issued ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | In reaction to Hallstein's proposals and actions, then-French President, | , who was sceptical of the rising supranational power of the Commission, a ... |
| Rhys ap Gruffydd | ... xpanded into Welsh territory in 1195, causing a concern that the Welsh lord | would strike back across the border. In 1196, Walter quickly suppressed a ... |
| Henry VII of England | ... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of | . The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ... |
| Ernakh | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), Dengizich, and | fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which vassal kings wo ... |
| Robert Andrews Millikan | In 1909, | began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by ... |
| Franco | ... . Before the second leg, Barcelona's players had a changing room visit from | 's director of state security. He "reminded" them that they were only play ... |
| 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 ... |
| Roman Emperor | ... es that these Christian saints were Ephesians from Asia Minor, walled up by | Decius in a cave for their faith in 250 CE. Found by masons in the year 47 ... |
| Shade, the Changing Man | ... ths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and | . He was a recurring supporting character in both Swamp Thing and The Book ... |
| Richard the Lionheart | ... orwich received a royal charter from Henry II in 1158, and another one from | in 1194. Following a riot in the city in 1274, Norwich has the distinction ... |
| Edward V | ... evertheless, continued intermittently during his reign and those of his son | and brother Richard III. Edward V disappeared, presumably murdered by Rich ... |
| James Bond | In 1985, Walken played a | villain, Max Zorin, in A View to a Kill. Walken dyed his hair blond to bef ... |
| Rudolph | ... tried to swap Lotharingian allegiance to the West Franks, since their king, | , was weak and would interfere less in aristocratic matters. In 939 Henry' ... |
| Ashoka | Emperor | the Great erected the capital to mark the spot where Gautama Buddha first ... |
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... e same year, Princess Fawzia of Egypt, the sister of King Farouk I, married | , the then crown prince (later shah) of Iran. However, since the 1979 Isla ... |
| Cleopatra VII | ... after betraying Octavian in Sicily. Antony settled in Egypt with his lover, | . Mark Antony's affair with Cleopatra was seen as an act of treason, since ... |
| Henry II | Norwich received a royal charter from | in 1158, and another one from Richard the Lionheart in 1194. Following a r ... |
| James II | ... 1687. Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with | , and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on ... |
| Jeroboam | ... by bringing Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against King | of Israel in the mountains of Ephraim. gives the sizes of the two armies a ... |
| Nees von Esenbeck | ... r Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden was | from 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum, some 2.74 m h ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... on, the sister of John Simpson of Ohio. John Simpson was the grandfather of | who became President of the United States. This family bond meant that man ... |
| David | ... liath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of | and Saul's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an ... |
| President | ... ips to large number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. | Pervez Musharraf studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
| Charles V | ... elders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor | . As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of ... |
| Dengizich | His sons Ellac (his appointed successor), | , and Ernakh fought over the division of his legacy, specifically which va ... |
| Edward IV | ... e of York. Although the Duke of York died in battle in 1460, his eldest son | led the Yorkists to victory in 1461. The Wars of the Roses, nevertheless, ... |
| Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
| Greco-Bactrian kingdom | ... of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new | . Some eastern parts of the country were controlled by the Indian Maurya E ... |
| King Charles I | ... the English Civil War. Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against | and his supporters, the Cavaliers (Royalists), who claimed absolute power ... |
| Akbar | ... kbar had to hastily return to Agra and restore order. There was a time when | thought of putting his eldest grandson Khusrau Mirza on the throne instead ... |
| Louis XVI of France | ... cant impact throughout Europe, which only increased with the arrest of King | in 1792 and his execution in January 1793 for "crimes of tyranny" against ... |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | ... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 and | in 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
| Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president, | , pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | ... chy-era identity documents. During the 2007 presidential election, however, | was polled on the issue and stated that he favoured the collection of data ... |
| Franklin Roosevelt | ... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and | . She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ... |
| President of the Republic | The | exercises the administrative function, in collaboration with several Minis ... |
| Captain Atom | ... o editorial mandate, such as "Gregori Eilovotich Rasputin" in Firestorm and | (who refers to Constantine as "an impertinent bumbler in England") and "Am ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... ing even a limited defeat on the Israelis, the status quo could be altered. | , the leader of Syria, had a different view. He had little interest in neg ... |
| Harold Brown | ... awrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by Edward Teller and | . The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in July 1960. On May ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate | , Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
| Jehoiakim | ... uch ben Neriah and his other family and advisors, as well as the example of | , he revolted against Babylon, and entered into an alliance with Pharaoh H ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... 13. Luo himself was a member of the Tongmenghui, an organization founded by | and was the precursor to the Kuomintang |
| John A. Macdonald | ... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( | in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ... |
| Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) | ... rsian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire. In 330 BC, | invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gau ... |
| Lien Chan | ... received Ph.D.s in the United States. Prominent among the appointments were | as foreign minister, and Shirley Kuo as finance minister |
| James III of Scotland | ... backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King | , to take the Scottish throne in 1482. Gloucester led an invasion of Scotl ... |
| Reagan | ... 1989, Dole was presented with the Presidential Citizens Medal by President | . Then, on January 17, 1997, President Clinton awarded him the Presidentia ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... his mother, but he had good relations with the Papacy and, for a time, the | |
| Neleus | ... up by a stripling, the youngest in his family (Nestor is the twelfth son of | , David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse). In each case an older and mor ... |
| Mullah Omar | ... ystematic and they all lead back to the [Taliban] Ministry of Defense or to | himself. |
| Walter Hallstein | ... and the Commission of Euratom in 1967. The Commission's first president was | (see Hallstein Commission) who started consolidating European law and bega ... |
| Edward II | ... However, gains in Scotland were reversed during the reign of his successor, | , who also faced conflict with the nobility. Edward II was, in 1311, force ... |
| Edward IV | ... enhanced their standing. Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King | 's court. William held the office of comptroller of the household from 147 ... |
| Basil I | ... o the lack of a fleet. So in 869 he made alliance with the eastern emperor, | , who sent him ships to assist in the capture of Bari, capital of a local ... |
| Augustus | ... ereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal (corn) supply. Under | the office lost much of its importance, its judicial functions and the car ... |
| He Yingqin | ... along the Great Wall in 1933. Then in 1935, under the accord signed between | , the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umez ... |
| Theodosius I | ... nded the legions attention on several occasions. After the death of Emperor | (395), the Empire was divided into an Eastern and a Western Roman Empire. ... |
| President of Argentina | Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto | was Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish |
| George of Poděbrady | Pope Paul rejected King | of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in fa ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
| Sparta | ... rotector of not only Athens but also of many other cities, including Argos, | , Gortyn, Lindos, and Larisa |
| Conn of the Hundred Battles | ... e after her father refused him her hand, so Tadg appealed to the High King, | , who outlawed him. The Battle of Cnucha was fought between Conn and Cumha ... |
| Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
| Charles Scott Sherrington | ... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under | at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ve Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Vice-President under | . Wallace was running on an anti-lynching, pro-civil rights platform and h ... |
| Hosni Mubarak | ... protests took center stage, McCain urged that embattled Egyptian President | step down and thought the U.S. should push for democratic reforms in the r ... |
| Alberto Fujimori | ... orted radical right-wing governments, such as those of Augusto Pinochet and | of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimori's ministries and pr ... |
| Emperor of Japan | ... ther argued that all people of Japanese heritage were loyal subjects of the | ; Japanese language schools, furthermore, according to the manifesto, were ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... hat a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh community. | reiterated Gandhi's assurance to the Sikhs at the All India Congress Commi ... |
| Yahya Khan | ... economic downfall and internal instability. Ayub Khan's successor, General | (President from 1969 to 1971), had to deal with a devastating cyclone whic ... |
| Zhang Zuolin | During the warlord period in China, the warlord | established himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later, the J ... |
| Emperor | ... f the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the | Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD ... |
| Jeconiah | ... zzar II, king of Babylon, after a siege of Jerusalem to succeed his nephew, | , who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten da ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... of primus inter pares but had an increasing impact on the Community. Under | it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force ... |
| Eloy Alfaro | ... Ecuadorian military forces are the Marshall Antonio José de Sucre and Gral. | . The Military Academy "Gral. Eloy Alfaro" (c. 1838) graduates the army of ... |
| Diomedes | ... hrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans. During the war, | fought with and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called fo ... |
| Simon de Montfort | ... aving the Crown to his nine-year-old son Henry III. Later in Henry's reign, | led the barons in another rebellion, beginning the Second Barons' War. The ... |
| Áed mac Boanta | ... king of the Picts, his brother Bran and the king of the Scots of Dál Riata, | , along with many members of the Pictish aristocracy in battle. The sophis ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... the organisation supported radical right-wing governments, such as those of | and Alberto Fujimori of Peru during the 1990s. Both Pinochet's and Fujimor ... |
| Millard Fillmore | ... ain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830-1832, the birthplace of President | 's mother, Phoebe, and home to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 196 |
| Louis Bonaparte | ... were killed, over 2000 were injured and some 220 homes were destroyed. King | personally visited the city to provide assistance to the victims. Although ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... e region. Later counts would hold much of their territory directly from the | . The Meinhardinger family, originating in Gorizia, held not only Tyrol an ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | Edward IV had ten legitimate children by | , seven of whom survived him. They were declared illegitimate by Parliamen ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat | . Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republican | was elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ... |
| Chester A. Arthur | ... ng newspapers, and their numbers included five future U.S. presidents, from | to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all ... |
| Emperor Kimmei | ... ficient material available for further verification and study. The reign of | (509–571), the 29th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... the United States began to campaign for the overthrow of Iraq's President, | . The United States, under the administration of George W. Bush, argued th ... |
| Brian Boru | ... on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king | 's army and for the Viking-led army opposing him. Irish and Viking literat ... |
| David | ... hence reflecting the changing tribal boundaries. claims that by the time of | , the town was under the control of Philistines, but subsequently was give ... |
| Chris Ballew | ... My Own Planet, on CD and vinyl in 1998. It is essentially a solo effort by | (ex-Presidents of the United States of America), recorded in Ballew's base ... |
| George Westinghouse | ... Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, | , Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electri ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was | 's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and w ... |
| King of Kings | ... ium Dei/Domini) the Divine is held to have a superior imperium, as ultimate | , above all earthly powers. Whenever a society accepts this Divine will to ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess, | 's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ... |
| José Manuel Barroso | ... s responsible to Parliament which can censure him. The current President is | , who took office in October 2004. He is a member of the European People's ... |
| Levon Ter-Petrossian | ... al between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-President | occurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election. The events resulte ... |
| Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | ... e was then called, was in the midst of arid and featureless grassland. When | , and her husband, the then Governor General of Canada, passed through the ... |
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| 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 ... |
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| Gamal Abdel Nasser | President | of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat. In 1971, ... |
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| Pope John XXIII | On 15 December 1958, Luciani was appointed Bishop of Vittorio Veneto by | . He received his episcopal consecration on the following 27 December from ... |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner | ... id-Atlantic region, including Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. | wrote in 1893 about the important role the Mid-Atlantic or "Middle region" ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... ing for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of | , writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands. ... |
| William (now Lord) Rees-Mogg | ... cle appeared in The Times, written by its traditionally conservative editor | , but the Rolling Stones continued to face legal battles for the next deca ... |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
| Jacques I | ... French revolution imposed on them". It was later renamed Port-au-Prince by | , emperor of Haïti. When Haiti was divided between a kingdom in the north ... |
| Hans Kamper | On 22 October 1899, | placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a footb ... |
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| Edward VIII | ... married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of | . Mosley exercised a strange fascination for the Curzon women: Irene had a ... |
| William II | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: | , then Henry I. Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter M ... |
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| Charles II of England | ... e Edward Morgan was Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica after the Restoration of | in 1660. Henry Morgan married his uncle's daughter Mary, a cousin. Morgan ... |
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| King Edward III | ... rr, Lord of the Manor of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), descendant of | , and the former Maud Green (1492 –1531), daughter and co-heiress of Sir T ... |
| Charles XIV John | ... mself with the liberal opposition critical of the conservative rule of King | |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... re defeated and forced to flee to France. There, they made an alliance with | , and Warwick agreed to restore Henry VI in return for French support in a ... |
| President of the United States | ... nally used during the Cold War, to describe either the United States or the | . The term implies that the US is the principal democratic superpower of t ... |
| Lysimachos of Thrace | ... sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, Philip II of Macedon in 350 BC; later by | , the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, and again by the Macedonians. In 170 BC th ... |
| Henry VII | ... sion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of | following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lincoln took the oath of allegianc ... |
| Margaret of York | ... Burgundy were his brother-in-law Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and his sister | . Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, th ... |
| Charles Theodore | ... is residence to nearby Mannheim. The court remained there until the Elector | became Elector of Bavaria in 1777 and established his court in Munich. In ... |
| Louis XVIII | ... circumstances considerably. After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, | , the brother of Louis XVI, was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled ... |
| Saul | ... h Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of kings in | , under the inspiration of God |
| Frederick Barbarossa | ... r the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army across Anatolia, but ... |
| Richard The Lionheart | In 1194 King | returned from being held captive in Austria, and set about summoning a fle ... |
| Hyder Ali | ... sore for 300,000 rupees. After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759, | , Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto r ... |
| Liu Zixun | ... ce, to commit suicide. However, his claim to the throne was not accepted by | , one of his nephews, who then rose against him |
| James II of Cyprus | ... ptember 1467. Five were candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively | , Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary a ... |
| Dowager Empress Maria | ... Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the | in the 1986 miniseries |
| Valens | ... man Empire. Hoping that they would become farmers and soldiers, the emperor | allowed them to establish themselves in the Empire as allies (foederati). ... |
| Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | ... nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, | , led a successful coup d'état; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed. ... |
| President | ... icians, among them Jo Byrns, Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably | Woodrow Wilson. Although the Great Depression destroyed many Americans' di ... |
| Henry I | William I was succeeded by two of his sons: William II, then | . Henry made a controversial decision to name his daughter Matilda (his on ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of | . The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most i ... |
| Belus on the Euphrates | ... climactic burst of syncretism, Dionysus identifies the Tyrian Heracles with | , Ammon in Libya, Apis by the Nile, Arabian Cronus, Assyrian Zeus, Serapis ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President | . It was established on 1 June 1998 |
| Wim Duisenberg | The first President of the Bank was | , the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
| Louis XI of France | ... by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, | , Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able ... |
| Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... as the ninth country in the world to have television, introduced in 1952 by | . By 1963 a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure risi ... |
| Pierre Werner | ... was the final institution needed for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of | and President Jacques Delors. It was established on 1 June 1998 |
| Lothair I | ... 29 September. Coins that bear both the image of Benedict III and of Emperor | , who died 28 September 855, exist; therefore, Benedict must have been rec ... |
| Edward IV of England | ... ere candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, | , Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Napl ... |
| Stephen | ... as his heir. Following Henry's death in 1135 one of William I's grandsons, | , laid claim to the throne, and took power with the support of most of the ... |
| George W. Bush | President | made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed ... |
| Louis XVI | ... After Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo, a Bourbon, Louis XVIII, the brother of | , was restored to power. In 1814, Vigny enrolled in one of the privileged ... |
| Christian IV of Denmark | ... ercial relations with their former homes. Some migrated as far as Scotland. | invited some New Christian families to settle at Glückstadt about 1626, gr ... |
| Ronald Reagan | In 1988, Congress passed and President | signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U. ... |
| Abbas I of Persia | ... Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with | after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar. Khan Alam soon retur ... |
| Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
| Integer BASIC | ... an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the | programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 4 ... |
| Henry III | ... and hospice. During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by | and Edward I as a base for attacks against France |
| Liu Ruyi | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore Emperor Gaozu a son | , who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prin ... |
| Matthias Corvinus of Hungary | ... respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, | and Ferdinand I of Naples; one was the able administrator of the Francisca ... |
| James Wickersham | ... didates for the seat of Territorial Delegate. (Labor won in 1908, but Judge | won the Ester precinct in 1910.) By 1909 Ester City had a baseball field, ... |
| Lady of the Mercians | ... was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the | ), and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succ ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded by his son | . When the younger Chiang came to power he began to liberalize the system. ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... d by the halfpenny later the same year. The figure of Britannia was said by | to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Rich ... |
| King Henry VIII | ... as was Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Master of the Wards, and Comptroller to | . Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King Henry VIII. Her mothe ... |
| the Queen | ... her ministers in cabinet, is appointed by the governor general on behalf of | . However, by the conventions of responsible government, designed to maint ... |
| Hadrian | ... eeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks , is dedicated to the Emperor | , though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 AD has be ... |
| Harald Fairhair | The family of | , who was most likely the first king of the whole Norway, is said to have ... |
| Henry | ... ecarious hold on power but agreed to a compromise under which Matilda's son | would succeed him. Henry accordingly became the first monarch of the Angev ... |
| Olivia Floyd | ... ccount of the Blue Dog legend dates back to 1897. His house's former owner, | , told the Port Tobacco Times that she had seen the ghost of the Blue Dog |
| Edward | ... ter, and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. He left two sons, the elder named | , who was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused w ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... a the Hun's military prowess, according to the Glimpses of World History by | |
| Hadrian | ... eld first appeared on Roman bronze coins of the 1st century AD struck under | , Britannia's first appearance on British coinage was on the farthing in 1 ... |
| Charlemagne | ... s, later the Eastern Roman emperors, and finally the Western Roman emperor, | and his successors, the Catholic Holy Roman Emperors |
| JFK | ... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of | , who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ... |
| Daniel arap Moi | Kenyatta was succeeded by | , who ruled until 2002. Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-par ... |
| Philip II | ... and satrap under Alexander the Great. During his early life he served under | , and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... esuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century. In 1583, Queen | granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florid ... |
| Sparta | ... , who had been driven from Naupactus, Zacynthus, and the Peloponnese by the | ns after the close of the Peloponnesian War. These had at first been estab ... |
| Maximilian | ... who was subsequently executed for these actions. Edmund sought the help of | , the Roman-German king. In 1506, Maximilian's son, Phillip of Burgundy, w ... |
| Richard I | ... nobility. Henry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs | and John. Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected | , a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ... |
| Marie Antoinette | ... ed in both French and English. Seymour appeared as the doomed French queen, | ; the actress's two children, Katherine and Sean, appeared as the queen's ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... rnher von Braun was MSFC's initial Director. On September 8, U.S. President | formally dedicated the MSFC |
| President of the United States | On October 25, 2010, the 44th | , Barack Obama, visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small ... |
| Paul von Hindenburg | ... lternatives to this policy during the Great Depression is an open question. | became Reichspräsident in 1925 |
| Antoninus Pius | # The First Apology addressed to | , his sons, and the Roman Senat |
| Porfirio Díaz | During the regime of | from the 1800s to the 1900s, major economic changes occurred. These change ... |
| Harihara I | ... erritories of the Hoysala empire were merged with the areas administered by | in the Tungabhadra region. This new Hindu kingdom resisted the northern in ... |
| Ferdinand I of Naples | ... Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and | ; one was the able administrator of the Franciscans; and the last two elev ... |
| Charles the Bald | ... nded to have contradictory politics, which had severe consequences. In 867, | signed the Treaty of Compiègne, by which he agreed to yield the Cotentin P ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... idate in last 48 years. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. The Republican candidate has won by more than 13% in every Presid ... |
| Jean-Claude Trichet | ... gium) just before the ECB came into existence, the French government wanted | , former head of the French central bank, to be the ECB's first president |
| Caracalla | ... b of Achilles at Achilleion while passing Troy. In AD 216 the Roman Emperor | , while on his way to war against Parthia, emulated Alexander by holding g ... |
| Sebastianus | ... ft Antioch for Constantinople, and arrived on the 30th of May. He appointed | , newly arrived from Italy, to reorganize the Roman armies already in Thra ... |
| George W. Bush | ... at least one 'rapid reaction' battalion. When Kabila visited U.S. President | in Washington D.C., he also asked the U.S. Government to train a battalion ... |
| Æthelred | ... te son by Æthelflæd (not to be confused with the Lady of the Mercians), and | , the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. He was succeeded by Edward ... |
| Frederick William IV | ... hein University was thus nameless until 1840, when the new King of Prussia, | gave it the official name Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität |
| Eisenhower | ... eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. President | |
| Trajan | ... is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for | , and the date 106 AD has been assigned to it. It is a handbook of Greek, ... |
| Henry VIII | ... ller to King Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Parr was also a close companion of King | . Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catheri ... |
| Integer BASIC | ... capabilities and one of two built-in BASIC programming languages (initially | , later Applesoft BASIC). The Apple II was targeted for the masses rather ... |
| Empress Lü Zhi | ... Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother | . Because of this, Lü Zhi hated Qi deeply. Nevertheless Gaozu ordered Liu ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... help pass measures favored by the Democrats. Johnson, Rayburn and President | worked smoothly together in passing Eisenhower's domestic and foreign agen ... |
| John Adams | ... hington. Its name is in honor of the second President of the United States, | . As of 2010, the population is 18,728. The county seat is at Ritzville, a ... |
| Richard I of England | ... strategic importance to the Christians, but the leader of the Crusade, King | , constructed a citadel upon the ruins. Ashkelon subsequently remained par ... |
| Emperor Gaozu | ... h day of the eighth lunar month every year, Qi would play a weiqi game with | in the bamboo forest on the north side of the palace. The winner would mak ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son, Neoptolemus. | , son of the Epirote princess Olympias, could therefore also claim this de ... |
| John | ... ry II faced rebellions from his own sons, the future monarchs Richard I and | . Nevertheless, Henry managed to expand his kingdom. Upon Henry's death, h ... |
| Lord Kelvin | ... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and | , electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ... |
| Edmund I of England | ... Peaceable, was a king of England (r. 959–75). Edgar was the younger son of | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | In March 2011 media outlets reveled that French president | has started using a £10,000 armor-plated umbrella to protect him from atta ... |
| Frederick William III | ... ersity professor in Bonn, was banned from teaching. Only after the death of | in 1840 was he reinstated in his professorship. Another consequence of the ... |
| Eugène de Beauharnais | ... for this accession of dignity was the marriage of his daughter Augusta with | . On March 15, 1806 he ceded the Duchy of Berg to Napoleon |
| Liu Ying | ... who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that the crown prince | (his eldest son) was an unsuitable heir to his throne. He tried several ti ... |
| Prince of Wales | ... Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster, | , was killed on the battlefield. A few days later, on the night that Edwar ... |
| Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
| Bảo Đại | ... ognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor | , and the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought ... |
| Henry | Like the family of King | 's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a ... |
| Amalric I | ... kuh's troops camped outside of Cairo, Egypt's sultan, Shawar called on King | of Jerusalem for assistance. In response, Amalric sent an army into Egypt ... |
| Sakthan Thampuran | ... is a major financial and commercial hub of Kerala. Historians say that King | had invited several Syrian Christian families and Brahmins to settle in Th ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Dole ran for the 1980 Republican Presidential nomination, eventually won by | . Despite Dole's fame from the '76 campaign, he was viewed as a lower tier ... |
| Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York | His mother was the second surviving daughter of | and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England ... |
| Herod Antipas | A tragedy, it tells the story of Salome, the stepdaughter of the tetrarch | , who, to her stepfather's dismay but mother's delight, requests the head ... |
| Anne Neville | ... r (later King Richard III of England), were married to Isabella Neville and | . They were both daughters of Warwick by Anne Beauchamp and rival heirs to ... |
| Asopus | He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god | . He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been ... |
| Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
| Margaret of York | ... ard IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to | , George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England |
| Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
| Aurelian | ... ttacked the Romans in the lower Danube area. In about 271 the Roman Emperor | was obliged to protect the middle course of the Danube against them. They ... |
| Frederick William III | ... ofessorship. Another consequence of the Carlsbad Decrees was the refusal by | to confer the chain of office, the official seal and an official name to t ... |
| Timothy Geithner | ... ry of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretary of the Treasury | . C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General of the United States under Presi ... |
| Richard III of England | ... hers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later King | ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville. They were both daugh ... |
| second wife | Like the family of King Henry's | , the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of roy ... |
| Edward IV of England | ... enet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to | and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry III | ... upt end after John died in 1216, leaving the Crown to his nine-year-old son | . Later in Henry's reign, Simon de Montfort led the barons in another rebe ... |
| Pope Pius XII | ... s doctoral studies; the situation was resolved by a special dispensation of | himself, on 27 March 1941. His thesis (The origin of the human soul accord ... |
| Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa | ... alifa assumed the throne in March 1999 upon the death of his father, Shaikh | , the ruler of Bahrain since 1961. He continued to implement democratic re ... |
| Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... d Cecily Neville. She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England and | as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Du ... |
| Karol Wojtyła | Cardinal | was elected John Paul I's successor as Supreme Pontiff on Monday, 16 Octob ... |
| George Washington | ... bout historic figures, such as those surrounding Pocahontas and John Smith, | 's childhood, or the plantation elite in the slave society of the antebell ... |
| Wen Jiabao | ... n favor of reforms, while others remain more conservative. In 2010, Premier | stated that China needs "to gradually improve the democratic election syst ... |
| Ahab | ... in the Tanach, whose worship was prominently introduced into Israel by King | and largely eradicated by King Jehu. In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there ... |
| Hubert Humphrey | ... ennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and | , Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic conventi ... |
| Emperor Gaozu | Qi was born in Dingtao, Shandong. She bore | a son Liu Ruyi, who was later instated as Prince of Zhao. Gaozu felt that ... |
| Veera Ballala III | ... influence spread over Pandya kingdom also. Toward the end of 13th century, | recaptured territory in the Tamil country which had been lost to the Pandy ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts. | 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. S ... |
| Baldwin IV | Amalric also died in 1174, leaving Jerusalem to his 13-year old son, | . Although Baldwin suffered from leprosy, he was an effective and active m ... |
| Titus | ... mpanions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius Vespasian and his son | , both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to surrender, but they ... |
| Henry II of France | ... together. King Henry III of France confirmed the privileges granted them by | , and protected them against such slanders and accusations as those which ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... es, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley. However, President | , the Republican incumbent, had already won an absolute majority of electo ... |
| George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence | ... and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, | and Richard III of England |
| Edmund, Earl of Rutland | ... the eldest of the four sons who survived to adulthood. His younger brother | , died along with his father fighting for the Yorkist cause. The Duke of Y ... |
| Sybilla | ... ing year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother Princess | , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy of Lusi ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents | and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
| Chanyu | ... BCE) and Emperor Wen (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the | 's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raid ... |
| Philip II of Macedon | ... valuable prize, the city was repeatedly sacked: by the Triballi in 376 BC, | in 350 BC; later by Lysimachos of Thrace, the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, an ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... s a minister in French governments, 1945–1958. He was minister of supply in | 's government (1945) and minister of public works (1947–1950) in various g ... |
| Richard III of England | ... er sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and | |
| Adolfo de la Huerta | ... 920 to the early 1930s, four Sonorans came to occupy the Mexican presidency | , Obregón, Calles and Rodríguez |
| Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa | ... irsty, undisciplined, unwashed (literally). The leader of the Third Crusade | openly plotted with the Serbs, Bulgars, Byzantine traitors, and even the M ... |
| Huayna Capac | ... Spanish conquistadors arrived from the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by | , who had two sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of th ... |
| James Bond | ... ymour achieved international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire in the | film Live and Let Die. IGN ranked her as 10th in a Top 10 Bond Babes list. ... |
| Reagan's | ... Dole, a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as | Transportation Secretary (which at that time included the Coast Guard), H. ... |
| Elihu Thomson | ... e metric pattern of a base unit and prefixed units. James Clerk Maxwell and | (through the British Association for the Advancement of Science - BAAS) in ... |
| Khosrau I | ... the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successor, | , in 540 and his destruction of Antioch and the transportation of its inha ... |
| Genghis Khan | ... at Bamian and the rock-cut topes of Haibak. The district was devastated by | , and has never since fully recovered its prosperity. For about a century ... |
| Louis XIII of France | Under | the conversos of Bayonne were assigned to the suburb of St. Esprit. At St. ... |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | ... ously. The 8 electoral votes that Sherman would have received were cast for | |
| Artaxerxes III | After | of Persia and all of his sons were killed by the vizier Bagoas, the vizier ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. President | initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ... |
| Jehu | ... minently introduced into Israel by King Ahab and largely eradicated by King | . In 1 Kings 18.27 it is possible there is a mocking reference to legendar ... |
| Arthur of Brittany | ... 's choice was John, but Walter initially leaned towards John's young nephew | . When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the ... |
| Frederick V | ... e. In November 1619, the royal crown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, | . (He was married to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James I and VI of Engla ... |
| Atahualpa | ... rom the north, the Inca Empire was ruled by Huayna Capac, who had two sons: | , being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and Huáscar, seated ... |
| Frederick I Barbarossa | The elderly Holy Roman Emperor | responded to the call immediately. He took up the Cross at Mainz Cathedral ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
| Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
| President | ... Canadian province of Quebec, the Speaker of the National Assembly is termed | since 196 |
| Hamid Karzai | ... llowing year, he was named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President | . The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday kn ... |
| Rehoboam | ... he House of David and the second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of | , the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler ... |
| Arthur Conolly | The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to | (1807–1842), an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's S ... |
| Louis the Pious | ... intered in Scandinavia. Several coastal areas were lost during the reign of | (814–840). But the Vikings took advantage of the quarrels in the royal fam ... |
| Elizabeth | ... rown of Bohemia was offered to the Elector, Frederick V. (He was married to | , eldest daughter of James I and VI of England and Scotland). He became kn ... |
| Nero | ... Prior to this, in his early twenties, he traveled to negotiate with Emperor | for the release of several Jewish priests. Upon his return to Jerusalem, h ... |
| King George VI | ... e B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by | . The office and its functions are instead governed by constitutional conv ... |
| Chanyu | ... jority that a limited engagement at Mayi involving the assassination of the | would throw the Xiongnu realm into chaos and benefit the Han. When this pl ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years. | spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ... |
| Vira Narasimha II | ... an politics that began a period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. | 's son Vira Someshwara earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pand ... |
| Huáscar | ... o sons: Atahualpa, being in charge of the northern parts of the empire, and | , seated in the Incan capital Cusco. Upon Huayna Capac's death in 1525, th ... |
| Solomon | ... second of the Kingdom of Judah. He was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of | and the great-grandson of David. The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ... |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | ... d the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel | , and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli inva ... |
| Henry III of France | ... pt the Sabbath and feast-days as best they could, and prayed together. King | confirmed the privileges granted them by Henry II of France, and protected ... |
| Achilles | ... ge of the god, and never polled them afresh until the vow was fulfilled. So | consecrated his hair to the river Spercheus and vowed not to cut it until ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County after shooting President | . He was on his way to Virginia |
| Plutarco Elías Calles | ... regón’s and his allies’ (primarily Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Benjamín Hill and | ) resistance to Carranza. This movement soon came to dominate the politica ... |
| Xiang Yu | ... fall of the Qin Dynasty, however, civil war broke out between two warlords, | and Liu Bang; the Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight side-by-side ... |
| David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
| Vira Someshwara | ... period of Hoysala hegemony in the southern Deccan. Vira Narasimha II's son | earned the honorific "uncle" (Mamadi) from the Pandyas and Cholas. The Hoy ... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | ... independence has notably come under intense criticism since the election of | as French President. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible t ... |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot | ... September 187316 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of | , President of the French Third Republic |
| Vespasian | ... e with forty of his companions in July 67. The Romans (commanded by Flavius | and his son Titus, both subsequently Roman emperors) asked the group to su ... |
| Alexander the Great | In 334 BC, | began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Per ... |
| Emperor Gaozu | ... ine Qi (died 194 BC), also known as Lady Qi or Consort Qi, was a consort of | , founder of the Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, but Taiwanese ... |
| 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 |
| Alexander the Great | ... ning the Silk Road between the East and the West came with the expansion of | 's empire into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergan ... |
| Veera Ballala II | ... yphal, though popular, anecdote recounts that the 11th century Hoysala king | , while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hun ... |
| Margaret of Anjou | ... ns in a succession of battles. And while the Lancastrian Henry VI and Queen | were campaigning in the north of England, Warwick gained control of the ca ... |
| Augustus | ... ivine Augustus") is a remarkable account to the Roman people of the Emperor | ' stewardship. It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which enco ... |
| Joseph Ratzinger | ... legel, the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, the theologians Karl Barth and | and the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt |
| Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
| Pius XII | ... his sermons mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of | or Paul VI. Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact t ... |
| Vespasian | ... vius from his patrons. This was standard practice for "new" Roman citizens. | arranged for the widower Josephus to marry a captured Jewish woman, who ul ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... f Philip from Elimeia, was a Macedonian nobleman, general, and satrap under | . During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figu ... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... he belligerent victory of the Icamiaba “women” over the Spanish invaders to | , who, recalling the of Greek mythology, baptized the river Amazonas, the ... |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | ... t President by the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation | ;was a signer of the United States Constitution; and Thomas Stone was one ... |
| Coty | ... a short time in 1948. Pineau was designated as prime minister by president | after the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the Natio ... |
| Bill Amerson | ... dles and was deeply afraid of them. Both his first wife, Sharon, as well as | , separately confirmed later that Holmes could not have contracted HIV fro ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... Cold War". After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government of | in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Bu ... |
| David | ... e the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid. | , bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Saul has promised to re ... |
| Brychan | ... emi-legendary. Saints associated with kistvaens include Callwen daughter of | , Geraint, Begnet, and Melangell. Foundation remains of stone slab- or gab ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... , Israel, India, and undemocratic anti-communist states such as Spain under | , South Africa under apartheid, Greece under the military junta (1967–74), ... |
| Thomas Telford | The road was re-paved in the early 19th century by | who brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches br ... |
| Joe Ghiz | ... pitals; the then-governing Prince Edward Island Liberal Party under Premier | acquiesced and the ban was upheld. The Government of Prince Edward Island ... |
| Stephen | ... ing royal action was the aftermath of the disastrous civil war between King | and the Empress Maud. The two competing factions had hired mercenary soldi ... |
| Riccardo Schicchi | ... Roman Empress (originally released in Italy as Carne Bollente) for director | . The film starred Holmes, the later Italian Parliament member Ilona 'Cicc ... |
| Paul VI | ... mentioning Pinocchio to the learned intellectual discourses of Pius XII or | . Visitors spoke of his isolation and loneliness, and the fact that he was ... |
| Asopus | ... colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the | . Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his jus ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President | 's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ... |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez | ... a Prieta which was signed to formalize Obregón’s and his allies’ (primarily | , Benjamín Hill and Plutarco Elías Calles) resistance to Carranza. This mo ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... e and started his own school. Tatian was one of his pupils. In the reign of | , after disputing with the cynic philosopher Crescens, he was denounced by ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President | , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Re ... |
| George V | ... o under the British Raj (1857–1920). British had captured Delhi by 1803 and | announced in 1911 that the capital of British controlled parts of India wo ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against | and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ... |
| Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... lah in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of | . Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud returned to the role ... |
| Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ... ministration of the Seleucid Empire, and then with the establishment of the | in Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
| Barack Obama | ... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, | carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ... |
| Richard I | Henry II of England died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son | (Lionheart) and Philip II. Richard inherited the crown and immediately beg ... |
| King Henry VI | ... oners in 1876. The Bridge Fair, as it is now known, granted to the abbey by | , survives. Prayers for the opening of the fair were once said at the morn ... |
| Venustiano Carranza | ... n began in earnest, and Díaz was quickly deposed. The governor of Coahuila, | , sought refuge in Sonora, and became one of the principal political leade ... |
| Elizabeth Woodville | ... a major European power. Edward then alienated Warwick by secretly marrying | , the widow of a Lancastrian sympathiser, in 1464 |
| Boudica | ... D between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Briton leader | |
| Mahmoud Abbas | ... hborhoods built over the Green Line. The Palestinian position, according to | , at that time Arafat's chief negotiator: "All of East Jerusalem should be ... |
| Amalasuntha | ... Ostrogothic king Athalaric, the grandson of Theodoric through his daughter | . Both were unable to settle disputes among Gothic elites. Theodahad, cous ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... arked the end of the Kuomintang's status as the ruling party. DPP candidate | won a three way race that saw the Pan-Blue vote split by independent James ... |
| Pius XI | ... as the first pope in decades not to have had either a diplomatic role (like | and John XXIII) or role (like Pius XII and Paul VI) in the Church |
| Antoninus Pius | ... s of a philosopher himself and traveled about teaching. During the reign of | (138-161), he arrived in Rome and started his own school. Tatian was one o ... |
| Diana, Princess of Wales | ... high that television cameras were blown over. The audience, which included | , was on the second evening soaked by rain and wind |
| Henry Cowell | ... Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, | , Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzys ... |
| Charles X Gustav of Sweden | ... o territorially connect his two fiefs. Yet, during the Second Northern War, | invaded Ducal Prussia and dictated the Treaty of Königsberg (January 1656) ... |
| Jacquetta of Luxembourg | Elizabeth's mother was | , widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her f ... |
| Leo VI the Wise | ... nd later on the Arabs, (who translated the text for their own use). Emperor | incorporated much of Aelian's text in his own work on the military art (Τέ ... |
| Arsames | ... i and was serving at the time as a royal courier. Codomannus was the son of | , son of Ostanes, one of Artaxerxes's brothers, and Sisygambis, daughter o ... |
| Edward | ... hree children and was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and | , both of whom became English monarchs. She was influential in Henry's pas ... |
| Álvaro Obregón | ... orfirian elite. After Díaz was deposed, Carranza competed for power against | and others. The Yaquis joined with Álvaro Obregón’s forces after 1913 |
| Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
| Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | ... ow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, | , was a new-minted baron. Elizabeth's marriage to Edward IV made the unmar ... |
| Hafez al-Assad | ... rown out of the window of a three-story building and Syrian police loyal to | (Assad and Orabi were "close friends"), suspected Arafat was involved in t ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
| Pope John Paul II | On Sunday, October 9, 1979, | celebrated Mass on the National Mall during a visit to Washington. The cel ... |
| King Arthur | ... is epic to be based on a legendary English or Saxon king like the legend of | |
| Annie Besant | ... mbraced Christianity and natural science. The split became irrevocable when | , then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child J ... |
| William IV | ... eat, death, or resignation. The last monarch to remove a Prime Minister was | , who dismissed Lord Melbourne in 1834. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 201 ... |
| Arthurian legend | ... ted. Jenkins' run is more traditionally English in its themes, with Albion, | , and old English battles all featuring, and even an appearance by Samuel ... |
| Kavadh I | ... (roughly modern-day Georgia). It details the campaigns of the Sasanian Shah | , the 'Nika' revolt in Constantinople in 532, the war by Kavadh's successo ... |
| Louis XIV | ... iage of his daughter Liselotte to Philip I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of | , king of France. In 1685, after the death of Charles Louis' son Elector C ... |
| Theobald IV | ... Champagne. He received an education befitting a young noble at the court of | , count of Champagne: reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin. On the ... |
| Lopez Arellano | ... anti-Salvadoran. This group put pressure on the Honduran president, General | , to protect the property rights of wealthy landowners |
| Ali Abdullah Saleh | ... ion of Yemen. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for President | to resign |
| Æthelred the Unready | ... sinated at Corfe Castle, possibly at the instigation of his stepmother, and | became king. His coronation on Low Sunday 31 March, 978, was the last stat ... |
| Karol Wojtyla | ... his papal name. This legacy was so remarkable that his successor, Cardinal | , chose the same name |
| Lien Chan | ... dependent James Soong (formerly of the Kuomintang) and Kuomintang candidate | . Chen garnered 39% of the vote. After the election, Soong formed the Peop ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | A World War II French Resistance leader and a close ally of | , Pineau was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and survived Buchenwald conce ... |
| Justinian I | ... Ostrogothic position in Italy now showed itself. The Eastern Roman Emperor | always strove to restore as much of the Western Roman Empire as he could a ... |
| Henry II of England | ... g control of the city. In response to Strongbow's successful invasion, King | reaffirmed his sovereignty by mounting a larger invasion in 1171 and prono ... |
| Emperor Wen | ... ouse sponsored many literary works, and many wrote themselves. The court of | was especially active in literary circles, with Liu supporting the compila ... |
| Anote Tong | ... jing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President | to change his mind. With relations first established with the PRC in 1980, ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under President | sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ... |
| Fidel | ... the President of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until | and Raúl Castro leave power and a prescribed course of transition is follo ... |
| Henry Tudor | ... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of | , who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485 |
| Vicente Rocafuerte | ... who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as | ; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Ar ... |
| Edward VII | Since the reign of | a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Chu ... |
| John of England | ... reland, was founded in 1204 as a major defensive work on the orders of King | . Following the appointment of the first Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1229, the ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... ies such as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and General | . He had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over question ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ry furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Robeson was one of four hosts who gave speeches to welcome | to Kingsway Hall to support his efforts in the Indian independence movemen ... |
| Peter III | ... alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, | , Paul I, and Alexander II |
| Bill Clinton | ... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating that | was in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ... |
| Nestor | ... similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, where the young | fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion. Each giant wields a distinctive ... |
| Veera Ballala III | ... ith such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, Veera Ballala II and later | . During this time, peninsular India saw a four way struggle for hegemony ... |
| Numitor | ... ded from the Trojan prince Aeneas and who were grandsons of the Latin King, | of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, Am ... |
| Veera Ballala II | ... r own empire in Karnataka with such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, | and later Veera Ballala III. During this time, peninsular India saw a four ... |
| Laius | ... he King. In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told to | before the birth of Oedipus. Namely |
| Indira Gandhi | ... dollars. On 12 April 1980, he held a meeting with the Indian prime minister | before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anan ... |
| John | ... d peers attempted to undo Henry's reforms by the Magna Carta forced on King | , but by that time the reforms had progressed too far — and their superior ... |
| Juan José Flores | ... uccession of rulers. The first president of Ecuador was the Venezuelan-born | , who was ultimately deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such ... |
| Edward I of England | ... not permitted to live in Wales between the 1290 Edict of Expulsion—given by | —and the 17th century. A Welsh Jewish community was re-established in the ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | From the 1930s onward a civil war was underway in mainland China between | 's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong. When ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ... |
| Mohammed Daoud Khan | The government of | increasingly distanced itself from the Afghan communists and the Soviet Un ... |
| Perseus | ... similarities to Oedipus can for example be seen in the myth of the birth of | |
| Ivan VI | ... n Russia alone, four emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: | , Peter III, Paul I, and Alexander II |
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| Louis IV | ... es the Fat, in 887. Under a series of dukes that began under the child king | in 903, the Lotharingians frequently swapped allegiance between the East a ... |
| 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 ... |
| President of The United States of America | ... urpose design meant to serve as Air Force One, the secure transport for the | . These models were in operational use from 1962 to 1990. The two aircraft ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... n of Sharpsburg, where they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General | at the Battle of Antietam |
| Daniel Defoe | ... escribes an umbrella as a "screen commonly used by women to keep off rain." | 's Robinson Crusoe constructs his own umbrella in imitation of the ones he ... |
| President | ... nited States diplomats to vote in favor of sanctions on Cuba, stripping the | of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and Raú ... |
| Gylfi | ... n chapter 53 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells Gangleri (king | in disguise) that two people, Líf and Lífþrasir, will lie hid in Hoddmímis ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... ust before the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo | , the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Mars ... |
| Alyattes | ... me “Goliath” itself is non-Semitic and has been linked with the Lydian king | , which also fits the Philistine context of the biblical Goliath story. , ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... Hampshire primary on January 8, defeating former Governor of Massachusetts | in a close contest, to once again become one of the front-runners in the r ... |
| Simón Bolívar | ... t the Battle of Pichincha, near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined | 's Republic of Gran Colombia – joining with modern day Colombia and Venezu ... |
| Isa Gambar | ... been observing and monitoring the election directly or indirectly declared | winner in the October 15 election. Another view shared by many internation ... |
| Baroness Catherine Ashton | ... further five years. His vice president, as of 2010, is High Representative | |
| Mahmoud Abbas | ... lestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as Qatar (where he met | in 1961). These businessmen and oil workers contributed generously to the ... |
| Vishnuvardhana | ... transformation into a strong subordinate of the Western Chalukyas. Through | 's expansive military conquests, the Hoysalas achieved the status of a rea ... |
| Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... e of about a million at his home city of Lyon, in celebration of a visit by | . Watching from Lyon Cathedral, the Pope began the concert with a good-nig ... |
| Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
| Emperor Wen | ... Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the reign of its third emperor, | , is known for its political stability and capable administration, not onl ... |
| Robert I of Scotland | ... 3th century. Dublin prospered as a trade centre, despite an attempt by King | to capture the city in 1317. It remained a relatively small walled medieva ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
| Amulius | ... tor of Alba Longa. King Numitor was deposed from his throne by his brother, | , while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth to the twins. Because ... |
| Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... influence that became especially evident after the coup d'état that brought | to power in 1973: the coup was orchestrated by the Parcham faction of the ... |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... s. In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President | , introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch. Since ... |
| Hailsham | ... ial act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons; in 1963 Lords Home and | were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting the ... |
| Demetrius Zvonimir | ... by assassins. High medieval sources also mention the assassination of king | (1089), dying at the hands of his own people who objected to a proposition ... |
| The Wind in the Willows | ... one image that is strikingly similar to one of Rackham's illustrations for | . On the other hand, she sees also in Stardust clear references and struct ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various | s and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'H ... |
| Prince of Wales | ... irm received further warrants from Edward as king and from George V both as | and as king |
| Jacques Chirac | ... ttempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Paris | and placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard. Durin ... |
| José Joaquín de Olmedo | ... deposed, followed by many authoritarian leaders such as Vicente Rocafuerte | ;; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásub ... |
| Guillermo Rodríguez Lara | ... cial government. It was made a province by presidential decree by President | on 18 February 1973. The province is divided into cantons, each covering c ... |
| Emperor Wu | ... stability eventually led to the dynasty's destruction. However, its founder | was considered one of the greatest generals during the Southern and Northe ... |
| James Madison | ... d Hughes bought a section of the grant and began subdividing lots for sale. | , the fourth U.S. President, appointed Hughes postmaster of the developing ... |
| President of the United States | The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the | , Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the So ... |
| King George III | On 16 February 1768, the Royal Society petitioned | to finance a scientific expedition to the Pacific to study and observe the ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, | and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon ... |
| Astyages | ... mbyses I, who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of | , a Median king |
| George W. Bush | ... r's abstention did not change who won that year's presidential election, as | received a majority (271) of the electoral votes |
| James I of England | ... her Scottish cousin, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne. He became | , and so brought under his personal rule the Kingdoms of England (and the ... |
| Genseric | The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe who in 429 under king | entered Africa and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman A ... |
| Idi Amin | ... ted and/or military-backed leaders. Such is the case in many African states | ;in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for ... |
| Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
| Mao Zedong | ... . To propel the country towards a modern, industrialized communist society, | instituted the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s, although this had de ... |
| George V | ... he idea received the support of the Dean of Westminster and later from King | , responding to a wave of public support. At the same time, there was a si ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... nd kingdoms ruled the region: the Persian Achaemenid Empire around 519 BCE, | 's empire in 326 BCE and the Maurya Empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... liticians. John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where | permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a ... |
| Christopher Marlowe | ... and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and | |
| Julie B. Beck | ... Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents ( | '73 and '20) |
| Odin | In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god | poses a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will s ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ined a King's Scholarship, Gielgud trained briefly at RADA and understudied | in Coward's The Vortex at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead under the dire ... |
| Manuel de Ascásubi | ... osé Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta | ;; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among others. The conservat ... |
| Henry IV | ... Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings Henry III (1589) and | (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieval sources also menti ... |
| Philip III of Spain | ... he Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and | in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate of Montferrat. In Septe ... |
| Karol Józef Wojtyła | In October 1978, the Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal | , became Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church. Polish Cath ... |
| Isa Gambar | ... 15, 2003, an official release of the Central Election Committee (CEC) gave | — leader of the largest opposition bloc, Bizim Azerbaycan ("Our Azerbaijan ... |
| Æthelberht of Kent | ... y sited for communication with the Continent. In the late 6th century, King | married a Christian Frankish princess named Bertha, possibly before becomi ... |
| Henry the Fowler | ... s through which the imperial authority could be exercised. By the reigns of | and especially of Otto the Great, comites palatini were sent into all part ... |
| George V | ... of Commons, but in private admitted that he was prejudiced against Curzon. | , who shared this prejudice, was grateful for the advice and authorised St ... |
| Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... ch of the Jamiat-i Islami ("Islamic Society"), whose chairman was professor | . This Islamist organization opposed the rising communist and Soviet influ ... |
| King George II | ... n South Carolina. In 1730, Camden became part of a township plan ordered by | . Kershaw County’s official web site states, “Originally laid out in 1732 ... |
| Roman Emperor | ... as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the | Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Goth ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... trative rule in Ireland. Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen | established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ... |
| Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
| Henry III | ... (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the French kings | (1589) and Henry IV (1610) lives were all ended by assassins. High medieva ... |
| Puyi | ... ented a controversial portrait of Manchukuo through the memories of Emperor | , during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China |
| Herman De Croo | ... is 56.46 km² which gives a population density of 243 per km². The mayor is | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... 1980, when U.S. President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against | , the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rat ... |
| Harold II | ... he petty kingdoms of early medieval Britain. The last Anglo-Saxon monarch ( | ) was defeated and killed in the Norman invasion of 1066 and the English m ... |
| Pedro José de Arteta | ... Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina; Diego Noboa | ;; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio Flores Jijón, among o ... |
| premier | ... he would later seek to take revenge on Zhang. As Chiang was the legitimate | of China at the time, Zhang’s actions could be characterized as treasonous ... |
| Julian the Apostate | ... the poor had to cope with ever-degrading bronze pieces. Later emperors like | tried to present themselves as advocates of the humiles by insisting on tr ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | After | failed in his attempt to stop the spread of Roman hegemony in 282 BC, the ... |
| Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy | ... 1616 the pope sent him as nuncio to the Duchy of Savoy, to mediate between | and Philip III of Spain in their dispute concerning the Gonzaga Marquisate ... |
| Ilham Aliyev | President | 's ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party got a majority of 73 out of 125 seats. The ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
| Diego Noboa | ... aders such as Vicente Rocafuerte; José Joaquín de Olmedo; José María Urbina | ;; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, Antonio ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... empire, as they are not mentioned as one of the ancient Iranian tribes that | and Darius I had fought with. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ... |
| Raúl Castro | ... st Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By meeting President | to discuss "mutual friendship and cooperation", he became the first Pacifi ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
| Eloy Alfaro | The coast-based Liberal Revolution of 1895 under | reduced the power of the clergy and the conservative land owners of the hi ... |
| David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... e Curtiss-Wright Corporation. His character is also an oblique reference to | , in that his ambitions lie not only in Hollywood, but also the Presidency ... |
| Eglon | ... ral hundred years. Another example may have been the murder of Moabite King | , by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Ma ... |
| Cambyses I | ... th. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ancestry as his father was | , who is believed to have married Mandane of Media, the daughter of Astyag ... |
| Peleus | ... of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid. By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and | (father of Achilles), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to ... |
| President | ... rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under | James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company t ... |
| 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 ... |
| David | ... d as a giant Philistine warrior, he is famous for his combat with the young | , the future king of Israel. The fight between them is described in the He ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... en Chiang Kai-shek's ROC government and the Communist Party of China led by | . When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from ... |
| Dallin H. Oaks | ... Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, | '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Juli ... |
| Anote Tong | In September 2008, President | attended the first Cuba-Pacific Islands ministerial meeting in Havana. By ... |
| Philip II | ... . The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir | . Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the ... |
| Justinian I | ... ity of Rome. Their kingdom collapsed in the Vandalic War of 533–4, in which | managed to reconquer the Africa province for the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... l times for the permanent representative of the Frankish king, later of the | , in a palatial domain of the crown (pfalz). Grafio is probably from the G ... |
| first emperor | ... n securely identified as belonging to the Liu Song: the Chuning Tomb of the | of the dynasty. Two qilin statues of this tomb survive in the appropriatel ... |
| Alexander Severus | ... the Roman Emperor Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of | . It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for C ... |
| Augustus | The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, | prepared a rationarium (account) which listed public revenues, the amounts ... |
| Laius | ... e Theban Cycle recounted the sequence of tragedies that befell the house of | , of which the story of Oedipus is a part |
| Otto I | ... nce between the East and West Frankish kings. In 939 the East Frankish king | brought the reigning duke Gilbert to heel and incorporated Lotharingia int ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
| Alexander | ... er made use of assassinations against some of his enemies, including two of | 's generals Nicanor and Philip. Another famous example come from the Thugg ... |
| principality of Wales | ... sh monarchy passed to the Norman conquerors. In the thirteenth century, the | was absorbed by England, and Magna Carta began the process of reducing the ... |
| Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
| Nathan Hale | ... ovember 19, 1778, at which the Reverend Enoch Hale, brother of American spy | , was chosen to be the town's first ministe |
| Antonio Flores Jijón | ... iego Noboa; Pedro José de Arteta; Manuel de Ascásubi; and Flores's own son, | , among others. The conservative Gabriel Garcia Moreno unified the country ... |
| Henry II of England | The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of | that began the transformation of English law from such systems for decidin ... |
| Charles V | ... nd was known as het Sticht. The Bishops ceded the Oversticht to the Emperor | in 1528, who styled himself Lord of Overijssel, thereby giving the provinc ... |
| Jeffrey R. Holland | ... postles (Neil L. Andersen, D. Todd Christofferson '69, David A. Bednar '76, | '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and Reed Smoot 1876), and two General Relie ... |
| Crispus | On some date between 15 May and 17 June 326, Constantine had his eldest son | , by Minervina, seized and put to death by "cold poison" at Pola (Pula, Cr ... |
| Roman Emperor | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the | Elagabalus' assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus ... |
| Louis XIV | ... held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the times of | . In its place, the United Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful cou ... |
| Robert Gates | ... tes by surprise. According to the future CIA Director and Defense Secretary | , he was briefing a US arms negotiator on the improbability of armed confl ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | ... pound at a rate of 2 kwacha = 1 pound (10 shillings = 1 kwacha). During the | regime the value of the currency was fixed at a rate of approximately 1.2 ... |
| Elagabalus' | Urban ascended to the Chair of Saint Peter in the year of the Roman Emperor | assassination and served during the reign of Alexander Severus. It is beli ... |
| Fausta | ... on" at Pola (Pula, Croatia). In July, Constantine had his wife, the Empress | , killed at the behest of his mother, Helena. Fausta was left to die in an ... |
| President | ... uino, Jr. triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of | Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the pol ... |
| Shah Jahan | ... t Gosain and Princess Manmati, who gave birth to Prince Khurram, the future | , Jahangir's successor to the throne. The total number of wives in his har ... |
| Decian | Following the | persecution of 250–251, there was disagreement about how to treat those wh ... |
| Henry VIII | ... k. In 1527, with some of the money from the dissolution of the monasteries, | built Southsea Castle and decreed that Portsmouth be home of the Royal Nav ... |
| Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | ... on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. The task was given to | , at the time a colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with F ... |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | ... ril 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while his son | succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (opting to take the title "C ... |
| Babrak Karmal | This expansion prompted | to demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | ... ckel 5, 10 and 20 ngwee were introduced. These coins all depicted president | on the obverse and flora and fauna on the reverse. A twelve sided 50 ngwee ... |
| Ho Chi Minh | ... Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist Viet Minh forces led by | . The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to ... |
| William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
| King of Bahrain | ... r term. The upper house, the Shura Council, has 40 members appointed by the | . Among the members of the current Shura Council are representatives of Ba ... |
| José María Velasco Ibarra | ... tability and emergence of populist politicians, such as five-time President | |
| Jezebel | ... ten erratic behavior related to those problems earned her the nickname "The | of Jazz" |
| Grover Cleveland | ... te: nine votes for Republican Benjamin Harrison and five votes for Democrat | . Once the Republican party regained control of the state legislature, the ... |
| Getúlio Vargas | ... arge tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was President | , with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II provid ... |
| François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
| Henry VII | ... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426. | rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ... |
| Richard of Gloucester | Although his son was quickly barred from the throne and replaced by | , Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... t by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. | traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus |
| Queen Wilhelmina | ... e to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to | regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention f ... |
| Yen Chia-kan | Chiang Kai-shek died in April 1975, and was succeeded to the presidency by | while his son Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuominta ... |
| King Charles II | By 1681, then-acting governor Morgan had fallen out of favour with | , who was intent on weakening the semi-autonomous Jamaican Council, and wa ... |
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| Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler's introduction in | 's continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, ... |
| Henry III | King | had a palace here. The spot is still marked on modern maps as "Cippenham M ... |
| George V | ... al Warrant. The firm received further warrants from Edward as king and from | both as Prince of Wales and as king |
| Valerian | ... 354 speaks of Pope Stephen I as not a martyr. In the year 258, the emperor | began persecuting Christians, and Stephen was sitting on his pontifical th ... |
| Richard III | Prior to his succession, on 22 June 1483, | declared that Edward V was illegitimate, and three days later the matter w ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by | . Widely reported electoral fraud on Kibaki's side in the 2007 elections r ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republican | and five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ... |
| Roman Emperor | Louis II the Younger (825 – Ghedi 12 August 875) was the King of Italy and | from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ru ... |
| Fritigern | ... gs as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by | . The battle took place about north of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Europe ... |
| Pope Pius XII | ... since 1928, had strong connections to the Vatican Secretary of State, later | . In return for pledging his support for the act, Kaas would use his conne ... |
| President | ... r Hersh that the US policy to remove Saddam Hussein from power started with | George H. W. Bush in August 1990. Ritter concludes from public remarks by ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... .. did not feel that the group attracted the wrong element". Vice President | said of The Beach Boys, "They're my friends and I like their music". When ... |
| Lucius Verus | ... e poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders | and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one ... |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | ... ach church's entries for the poor churches in the Third World. The visit of | , president of the Argentine junta, to the Vatican caused considerable con ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
| President | In 1988, Congress passed and | Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on be ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ress taking positions in support of the U.S. Republican Party and President | on topics such as the validity of the 2000 Presidential Election results i ... |
| Valens | ... of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor | and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alan ... |
| Sparta | ... ve been urged. It is also stated that they had common meals, resembling the | n system, at which they met in companies of ten |
| Charles Aznavour | ... night. The city has played host to many world-famous musical acts including | , Cher, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep P ... |
| President Bartlet | ... olden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for playing the lead role of | in The West Wing, and an Emmy for guest acting in the sitcom Murphy Brown |
| Adolphus Frederick | ... named Point Adolphus (today a well-known humpback whale feeding area) after | , seventh son of King George III. In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a c ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... tween Ratzinger and some of the bishops. As mentioned above, Ratzinger (now | ) issued official condemnations of certain elements of liberation theology ... |
| Hadrian | Rufinus borrows from his Latin original of | 's letter |
| Edward VII | In the 1880s, Prince Edward (later | ) purchased his country seat of Sandringham House in Norfolk and asked Tho ... |
| Emperor Napoleon III | ... e. She and her family left France due to her husband's public opposition to | and settled in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1870, however, Johannes Brahms per ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... mi-presidential system, developed at the beginning of the Fifth Republic by | , are used in France, Finland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka and several post ... |
| Jeremy Thorpe | ... umming-up by Mr Justice Cantley in the trial of former Liberal Party leader | – a summary condemned for alleged bias in favour of Thorpe. Cook performed ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... ition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, | , and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
| Georges Pompidou | ... nductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President | , after whom another controversial museum was named. In an attempt to soot ... |
| Liu Chuyu | ... himself emperor Ming. He ordered Liu Ziye's brother Liu Zishang and sister | , who were reputed to have participated in the late emperor's sexual immor ... |
| Akbar | In the year 1594 Jahangir's was dispatched by his father the Mughal Emperor | , alongside Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak to defeat the ... |
| George W. Bush | On December 13, 2001, | gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in ac ... |
| Frederick William III | ... ein-Universität) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by the Prussian king | . It was the sixth Prussian University, founded after the universities in ... |
| Baldwin III of Jerusalem | ... er a five-month siege, the city was captured by a Crusader army led by King | . It was then added to the County of Jaffa to form the County of Jaffa and ... |
| Queen Victoria | ... f the town's popularity, Leamington was granted a "Royal" prefix in 1838 by | , who visited the town as a Princess in 1830 and as Queen in 1858. A statu ... |
| Daniel Defoe | ... er, these three statues were later speculatively 'identified' by the writer | (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and Pompey (106–48 BC) responsible for t ... |
| Esarhaddon | ... ole in the development of the Silk Road. Scythians accompanied the Assyrian | on his invasion of Egypt, and their distinctive triangular arrowheads have ... |
| Madeleine Albright | ... rom the option of returning to Israel. According to U.S. Secretary of State | , some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a ... |
| Lucius Verus | ... from the fact that it was addressed to Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, and | his adopted sons, must fall between 147 and 161 |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... hy of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories. The present monarch, | , has reigned since 6 February 1952. She and her immediate family undertak ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
| Ali Nasir Muhammad | ... president Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. His successor, | , took a less interventionist stance toward both North Yemen and neighbour ... |
| Agrippa II | ... lots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and | , John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long dispu ... |
| Euric | ... successors. Among the Visigothic written laws had already been put forth by | . Alaric II put forth a Breviarium of Roman law for his Roman subjects; bu ... |
| Walter Wanger | ... spondent (1940), based on Vincent Sheean's Personal History and produced by | , was nominated for Best Picture that year. Hitchcock and many other Engli ... |
| Emperor Kammu | ... wned that day. The Japanese general Ki no Asami Kosami was "rebuked" by the | when he returned to Kyoto |
| Abdul Fattah Ismail | In 1980, PDRY president | resigned and went into exile. His successor, Ali Nasir Muhammad, took a le ... |
| Pope Paul VI | On 15 December 1969, he was appointed Patriarch of Venice by | and took possession of the archdiocese on 3 February 1970. Pope Paul creat ... |
| George Washington | During the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, | and the Continental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 de ... |
| Martin Van Buren | ... Iowa Territory. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833. President | on July 4, 1838, signed the U.S. Congress laws establishing the Territory ... |
| King George III | ... known humpback whale feeding area) after Adolphus Frederick, seventh son of | . In 1878, W.H. Dall, while working on a coastal survey, saw "Adolphus" on ... |
| Conrad Weiser | ... e from attacks. Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser (son of | , the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose fam ... |
| Emperor Joseph II | ... cademy had schools for theology, law, pharmacy and general studies. In 1784 | granted the academy the right to award academic degrees (Licentiat and Ph. ... |
| Henry II of England | ... lanvill, who helped him become a clerk of the Exchequer. Walter served King | in many ways, not just in financial administration, but also including dip ... |
| John Adams | According to US President | , Ponet's work contained "all the essential principles of liberty, which w ... |
| Agrippa I | ... us and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, | and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centur ... |
| Edward I | ... During the thirteenth century Portsmouth was commonly used by Henry III and | as a base for attacks against France |
| Antoninus Pius | ... e date of composition of the latter, from the fact that it was addressed to | , Marcus Aurelius, and Lucius Verus his adopted sons, must fall between 14 ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China, first-in-the-line of successio ... |
| Valens | ... and the Breviarium of Eutropius, a handbook compiled in 369 for the Emperor | , which has Constantine dying in a nameless state villa in Nicomedia. From ... |
| Alexander II | ... re assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, and | |
| Marie Antoinette | ... n (1982), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), the ill-fated queen | in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, and the American t ... |
| Sixto Durán Ballén | ... try blamed the other for the onset of hostilities, known as the Cenepa War. | , the Ecuadorian president, famously declared that he would not give up a ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... out the decisions of voters in other time zones. In 1980, NBC News declared | to be the winner of the presidential race on the basis of the exit polls s ... |
| Henry V | ... mouth as a threat, the French again sacked the city in 1369, 1377 and 1380. | built the first permanent fortifications of Portsmouth. In 1418 he ordered ... |
| Justin I | ... the reign of Justinian in 518, which was actually the start of the reign of | , Justinian’s predecessor and uncle. This discrepancy can be seen as part ... |
| Fulk of Jerusalem | ... as constantly unstable. In response to these incursions into Outremer, King | constructed a number of Christian settlements around the city during the 1 ... |
| Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
| Mohammed Daoud Khan | ... DPA, حزب دیموکراتیک خلق افغانستان) orchestrated a bloody coup assassinating | , his family and bodyguards and consequently assuming power. The PDPA soon ... |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | ... mony in Italy came when Tarentum, a major Greek colony, enlisted the aid of | in 281 BC, but this effort failed as well. In the 3rd century BC Rome had ... |
| King Arthur | Excalibur is the legendary sword of | , sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful ... |
| John of Gaunt | ... ough his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of Edward III through | and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan Beaufort, Countess of ... |
| Louis XV | ... ravelling around the Cape of Good Hope. The Port is named in honour of King | . The first Governor was Count Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais |
| Josip Broz Tito | ... schar (1st Croatian), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight | 's Yugoslav Partisans. This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Divi ... |
| Philip III of Spain | ... f the Inquisition. The New Christians of Portugal breathed more freely when | came to the throne. By the law of April 4, 1601, he granted them the privi ... |
| Edward III | ... m to the throne through his mother Cecily, who was a great-granddaughter of | through John of Gaunt and his illegitimate daughter (Cecily's mother) Joan ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
| Edward III | ... roying much of the town, with only the local church and hospital surviving. | gave the town exemption from national taxes to aid reconstruction. Only te ... |
| King Louis XIII | ... 'Ancre, a historical drama recounting the events leading up to the reign of | . Frequenting the theater, he met the great actress Marie Dorval, and beca ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
| Ronald Reagan | The treaty was undisturbed until | announced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on March 23, 1983. On the ... |
| President | ... solution's language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean | Augusto Pinochet, who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands confli ... |
| Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | ... schal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by | , and later sacked by the Normans. This also agrees with the earliest know ... |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president | , a leader of the Free Officers Movement, agreed to allow the United Natio ... |
| Kenneth Kaunda | Until 1991, all Zambian banknotes featured a portrait of President | on the obverse. Since 1992, all notes have instead featured a fish eagle o ... |
| Paul I | ... emperors were assassinated within less than 200 years: Ivan VI, Peter III, | , and Alexander II |
| Lluís Companys | Under its two presidents, Francesc Macià (1931–1933) and | (1934–1939), the republican Generalitat carried out a considerable task, d ... |
| James Bond | ... February 1951) is an English actress best known for her performances in the | film Live and Let Die (1973), Somewhere In Time (1980), East of Eden (1982 ... |
| Philip II of Spain | Finally, after several years her pleadings by letter with King | secured relief. As a result, in 1579, the processes before the inquisition ... |
| Licinia Eudoxia | ... acidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife | , thus creating a bond between a member of the senatorial aristocracy and ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President | , proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ... |
| James Madison | ... was an American political party founded around 1791 by Thomas Jefferson and | |
| President of the United States of America | ... 0 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after James Monroe, fifth | . Its county seat is the city of Rochester |
| Eudocia | The margin of the Empress | 's copy of the Iliad has a note summarizing a Hellenistic poet who tells a ... |
| Jeconiah | ... em. Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his son | at an age of either eight or eighteen. The city fell about three months la ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... n 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed by | , proved unexpectedly capable of holding its own against the mujahideen. B ... |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | ... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels. | formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... , and it set term limits to the presidency of two terms. It stipulated that | , the incumbent at the time, would not be affected by the amendment. In 19 ... |
| Yazdegerd III | ... ned the official religion of Persia until the defeat of the Sassanian ruler | —over a thousand years after its founding—by Muslim Arabs. In what is toda ... |
| Peter III | ... came to power following a coup d'état and the assassination of her husband, | , at the end of the Seven Years' War. Russia was revitalized under her rei ... |
| Amlaíb Cuarán | ... new lands for long, dying just two years later in 941. He was succeeded by | |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
| Valentinian III | Olybrius married Placidia, younger daughter of Western Emperor | and of his wife Licinia Eudoxia, thus creating a bond between a member of ... |
| Croesus | ... sits in the river Pactolus that were the source of the proverbial wealth of | (Lydia's last historical king) were said to have been left there when the ... |
| R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... se afterwards was known “Gandhi Mandiram” in Chembukkavu. In the mean time, | , the controversial Diwan of Cochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941, was develop ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... bert Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President | 's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's r ... |
| Tim Johnson | ... n County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect | to office. The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage ... |
| John Adams | ... rance, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President | . Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heigh ... |
| Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | The third Druk Gyalpo, | , was enthroned in 1952. Earlier he had married the European-educated cous ... |
| United States President | Three | s were elected following a process that selected them as a national nomine ... |
| Placidia | Olybrius married | , younger daughter of Western Emperor Valentinian III and of his wife Lici ... |
| Albert II of Belgium | ... r Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, | , Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Count of Paris and the c ... |
| Jigme Wangchuck | Ugyen Wangchuck died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, | (reigned 1926–52). The second Druk Gyalpo continued his father's centraliz ... |
| Ugyen Wangchuck | | died in 1926 and was succeeded by his son, Jigme Wangchuck (reigned 1926–5 ... |
| Juan Carlos I of Spain | ... uchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestress of | , Albert II of Belgium, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, as well as the Co ... |
| Hadrian | ... rebellion. The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor | , including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem; a new Rom ... |
| Conan the Barbarian | ... Barry Smith for "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "The Song of Red Sonja" in | issues 23 and 24 (1973), she did not have as full a figure and dressed a l ... |
| Guy of Lusignan | ... ncess Sybilla, sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, | , king |
| Ulpia Severina | Aurelian was married to | , about whom little is known. Like Aurelian she was from Dacia. They are k ... |
| Frederick Jackson Turner | ... of American regions. It has been called "the typically American" region by | . Religious pluralism and ethnic diversity have been important elements of ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... nomic activity. In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister | , Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become know ... |
| Odin | ... the bird emblem perhaps represents the raven associated with the battle-god | . Noted in Richard Hall, Viking Age Archaeology 1995:25 and fig. 9. He did ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Best Actor. Co-star Jane Wyman fell in love with Ayres and left her husband | for him, albeit unsuccessfully |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
| Sir Isaac Newton | ... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of | and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
| George Washington | ... elphia in 1793. During his flight, Blanchard carried a personal letter from | to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to la ... |
| Islam Karimov | ... d replaces provincial governors. Under terms of a December 1995 referendum, | 's first term was extended. Another national referendum was held January 2 ... |
| James Madison | ... ted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by Thomas Jefferson and | , which were foundational to the states rights theory that helped lead to ... |
| Kingdom of Cochin | ... 7, when India gained independence from the British rule, Thrissur was under | . Thrissur district was formed on July 1, 1949, with the headquarters at T ... |
| Midas | ... historical king) were said to have been left there when the legendary king | of Phrygia washed away the "Midas touch" in its waters |
| Wang Mang | ... acter long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98% after the usurping | banned all two-character names outright. Although his Xin Dynasty was shor ... |
| Arthur Balfour | ... nstitute. A new building was begun in 1895 and opened by the Prime Minister | in October 1902. On the site previously had been cheap crowded inner-city ... |
| Diana, Princess of Wales | ... s of the Bavaria, Brazil, Parma, Saxony and the Two Sicilies. The late Lady | (1961-1997) is a descendant of Lucrezia |
| George Stevens | ... outsiders, often "victim-heroes," - examples include the social climber in | 's A Place in the Sun, the anguished Catholic priest in Hitchcock's I Conf ... |
| Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
| Islam Karimov | | | |
| Branch Rickey | ... a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It happened mainly due to General Manager | 's efforts. The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
| Heydar Aliyev | The National Council conferred presidential powers upon its new speaker, | , former First Secretary of the Azerbaijani Communist Party (1969–81) and ... |
| Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | ... Lucrezia is the ancestress of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II of Belgium, | , as well as the Count of Paris and the claimants to the Thrones of the Ba ... |
| William Henry Harrison | ... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of President | in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ... |
| Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
| King James II | ... y the 1689 English Declaration of Rights, which formally ended the reign of | . During the American Revolution, Jefferson and other Americans looked to ... |
| Richard III of England | ... y ship coming to an English port had to bring four bowstaves for every tun. | increased this to ten for every tun. This stimulated a vast network of ext ... |
| Emperor Maximilian | ... y of Leuven. His grandfather, Everard van Wesel, was the Royal Physician of | , while his father, Anders van Wesel, went on to serve as apothecary to Ma ... |
| Jehoiakim | ... d been king for only three months, and replaced him with his older brother, | . Necho imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver (about 3 3/ ... |
| Emperor Wu | ... of the Great Wall for additional goods. In a court conference assembled by | (r. 141–87 BCE) in 135 BCE, the majority consensus of the ministers was to ... |
| Gundobad | ... sted in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew | |
| Hadrian | ... nd 985 villages razed. Yet so costly was the Roman victory that the Emperor | , when reporting to the Roman Senate, did not see fit to begin with the cu ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of | , which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ... |
| Napoleon III | ... 314. In all, thirty-four sovereigns, from Louis VI, the Fat, (1081–1137) to | (1808–1873), spent time at Fontainebleau |
| Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of | but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The re ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... ary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, | , at the party's leadership convention in 1958 |
| Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
| José Bustamante y Rivero | ... that his parents had separated. During the government of Peruvian President | , Vargas Llosa's maternal grandfather obtained a diplomatic post in the Pe ... |
| President of Ireland | ... lsion from Fianna Fáil. Lynch also declined to accept nominations to become | , a position he had little interest in. In 1992 he suffered a severe healt ... |
| Raymond Poincaré | ... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister | of France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ... |
| Romulus Augustulus | ... overthrow of the rebellious magister militum Orestes and his pretender son | in 476. In the East Theodosius II also barred the eunuchs from holding it, ... |
| Al Gore | ... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with | for their dissemination of the effects of climate change |
| Gallienus | ... is successes as a cavalry commander ultimately made him a member of emperor | ' entourage. In 268, Aurelian and his cavalry participated in general Clau ... |
| George W. Bush | ... mber 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki, and President | vowed to rebuild the World Trade Center site. On the day of the attacks, G ... |
| Samuel Eliot Morison | ... worst vice presidents in American history in a 2008 Time Magazine article. | wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the ... |
| Owen I of Strathclyde | ... aíb married the daughter of Causantín mac Áeda. He also allied himself with | . In 937, Amlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of Eng ... |
| US President | ... the air America/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then | Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly ... |
| Isabella of France | ... , including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the crown. Edward and his wife, | , spent Christmas 1323 at Kenilworth, amidst major celebrations |
| George W. Bush | ... istered voters participating. In the 2004 presidential election, Republican | received 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
| Henry VI | ... st force. The Tower was damaged by artillery fire but only surrendered when | was captured at the Battle of Northampton. With the help of Richard Nevill ... |
| Sam Houston | Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the | peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ... |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | ... lso used, especially in the Middle East and Balkans (the initial attempt on | 's life was with a grenade). With heavy weapons, the rocket-propelled gren ... |
| Sisyphus | ... he absurd. In the titular book, Camus uses the analogy of the Greek myth of | to demonstrate the futility of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is condemn ... |
| Edward V | ... ent is one of the most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. | 's uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester was declared Lord Protector while the ... |
| Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... and in 1510 the Venetians obtained sixteen pounds per hundred. In 1507 the | asked the Duke of Bavaria to stop cutting yew, but the trade was profitabl ... |
| Blanche of Lancaster | ... nd remodelled the great hall with a grander interior and roof. On his death | inherited the castle. Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edwa ... |
| Athelstan of England | ... m 934 to 941. Gofraid ua Ímair, his father, held both Dublin and York until | expelled him from York in 927 |
| James Monroe | ... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and | (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ... |
| Justinian I | ... it, although this restriction had been overturned by the 6th century. Under | (r. 527-565), the title proliferated and was consequently somewhat devalue ... |
| Petronius Maximus | ... lavius Anicius Probus (suggested by Settipani) or, according to some clues, | |
| Sakthan Thampuran | ... r the Srirangapattanam war. In the meantime, Rama Varma X, the successor of | signed a treaty with East Indian Company, and made Cochin a subsidiary of ... |
| King George V | ... viour of both groups immediately became controversial (one major critic was | ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and pris ... |
| James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
| George Washington | ... d tyrants. It is its natural manure." In contrast to Jefferson's sentiments | , who had been calling for constitutional reform for many years, wrote in ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... Many Austrians and Germans regarded this as hypocrisy since U.S. president | had proclaimed in his famous "Fourteen Points" the "right of self-determin ... |
| King Gylfi | ... nning, where it is described partially in euhemerized form. In the chapter, | sets out to Asgard in the guise of an old man going by the name of Gangler ... |
| Jean Hersholt | ... roval and resistance of the committee, Davis resigned, and was succeeded by | , who implemented the changes she had suggested. Davis starred in three mo ... |
| Alexandre Millerand | ... even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to President | and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King George V of the Uni ... |
| Theodore Laskaris | ... uccessor states, the most notable of these being the Empire of Nicaea under | (a relative of Alexios III), the Empire of Trebizond, and the Despotate of ... |
| Anna d'Este | ... dern Europe including that of the United Kingdom. Through her granddaughter | , Duchess of Guise and later Duchess of Nemours, Lucrezia is the ancestres ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
| Charles V | ... as apothecary to Maximillian, and later a valet de chambre to his successor | . Anders encouraged his son to continue in the family tradition, and enrol ... |
| Walter Scott | In contrast Lord Byron and | achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiti ... |
| James Madison | The presidents selected by the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), | (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated ... |
| Rafael Correa | ... ti-partisan National Assembly on August 4, 2010 but vetoed by the president | , who wanted to keep the law strictly as it was originally redacted by his ... |
| 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 ... |
| George Washington | ... anklin, was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused | of incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippl ... |
| Gregory Peck | ... cting the 1944 film, which was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred | , among other luminaries |
| Theodosius II | ... ilitum Orestes and his pretender son Romulus Augustulus in 476. In the East | also barred the eunuchs from holding it, although this restriction had bee ... |
| Edward IV | ... Kingmaker") Henry recaptured the throne for a short time in 1470. However, | soon regained control and Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, ... |
| Emperor Wen | ... the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu (r. 174–160 BCE) and | (r. 180–157 BCE) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu su ... |
| Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
| King of Bahrain | ... ework of a constitutional monarchy where the government is appointed by the | , King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The head of the government since 1971 is ... |
| Charles XIII | ... Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and | . In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the ruling dynasties of ... |
| Alexander II | ... Russian Empire was reconfirmed by all Russian Tsars from Peter the Great to | |
| Ranavalona III | ... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen | of Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ... |
| Baldwin of Flanders | ... married to Maria Komnene, empress in the 1170s and 80s. Instead they placed | on the throne. Boniface went on to found the Kingdom of Thessalonica, a va ... |
| Elizabeth I of England | ... r only color film made during the height of her career. To play the elderly | , Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited o ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... nership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the shares of his co-owners, | and the John L. Smith. Before long he was working to buy new land in Brook ... |
| Quintillus | When Claudius died, his brother | seized power with support of the Senate. With an act typical of the Crisis ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... onoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland | , Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and ... |
| Heraclius | ... ncreasingly influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century, when Emperor | (AD 575 - 641) decided to make Greek the empire's official language. Certa ... |
| Boudica | ... ll) in Staffordshire, Manduessedum (modern day Mancetter - possible site of | 's last battle), Tripontium (modern day Newton and Biggin), Venonis (moder ... |
| Karl-Heinz Kurras | The police officer who shot Ohnesorg, | , was revealed in 2009 to be an undercover Stasi (East German State Securi ... |
| Juhi Chawla | ... artially successful. In 1997, he co-starred alongside Ajay Devgn, Kajol and | in Ishq, which performed well at the box office. The following year, Khan ... |
| Maximilian Joseph | ... s annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia. In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, | , the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zwei ... |
| Louis the German | ... to Lotharingia, and Alemannia (the eastern part) to the eastern kingdom of | which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Hyder Ali | However, during 1750-60 | from Mysore attacked Thrissur and was forced to become tributary of Mysore ... |
| Hákon Hákonarson | ... s Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King | at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was sub ... |
| Afonso V | ... na"), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of | , St. Joana, who died in 1490. The presence of this royal personage, beati ... |
| Richard Duke of Gloucester | ... most infamous events associated with the Tower of London. Edward V's uncle | was declared Lord Protector while the prince was too young to rule. The 12 ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... ritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President | and the ruling National Congress Party (NCO) |
| Louis XIII of France | ... eneralitat, Pau Claris, declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of | . This allowed French troops to draw that much closer to the heartland of ... |
| Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | The choice of Sophia as wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar | , resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which Count Lestoc ... |
| Rædwald of East Anglia | ... the church beyond Kent encountered difficulties due to the attitude of King | , who had become the leading king in the south after Æthelberht's death. R ... |
| President of Ireland | ... e age of 82. He was honoured with a state funeral which was attended by the | Mary McAleese, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert ... |
| Agis II | ... began his kingship after the end of the Peloponnesian war after his brother | died and was left without an heir. (Agis’ son Leotychidas was rumored to b ... |
| President | | | |İlham Aliye |
| Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | ... a leading figure in the 2005 Mauritanian coup d'état that deposed President | . In August 2008 General Ould Abdel Aziz led the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'é ... |
| Charles VII | ... burg on 23 September, Bavarian troops, for the first time since the days of | , fought side by side with the French, and by the Treaty of Pressburg, sig ... |
| Gustav III | ... n") in Stettin, Pomerania, two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: | and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing in the rul ... |
| Constantius III | ... to the powerful magistri militum who dominated the state, such as Stilicho, | , Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to Odoacer to legitimize ... |
| Procopius Anthemius | ... s were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor Leo I the Thracian chose the noble | . His association with Gaiseric did not harm Olybrius' career: in 464 the ... |
| Queen Mary | ... ngdom's dynasty as the future "House of Mountbatten", whereupon the Dowager | reportedly refused to have anything to do with "that Battenberg nonsense." ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
| Conan the Barbarian | ... magazine. Buscema drew her again in this costume in issues 43, 44 and 48 of | (1974) and Dick Giordano in the first issue of Marvel Feature (1975) befor ... |
| Louis XIV | ... to 150 million today. And if one starts the comparison at the time of King | (the Sun King), then France would in fact have the same population as the ... |
| Hugh Hefner | ... e "Best Small Towns in America" on numerous lists during the last 50 years. | built his first Playboy resort, which was much larger than any Playboy Clu ... |
| Justinian | ... Procopius writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of | , who had not yet come to the throne", noting that Hilderic and Justinian ... |
| Walter O'Malley | Real estate businessman | had acquired majority ownership of the Dodgers in 1950, when he bought the ... |
| King Vanlandi | ... the 10th century skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir describing that, upon his death, | went to Valhalla |
| Alexander the Great | ... Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, | , and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, ... |
| Joseph Lyons | ... of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under | and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies |
| The Wind in the Willows | In 1908 Kenneth Grahame wrote | from his retired position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved to ... |
| Odoacer | ... tilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. Zeno granted it to | to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his overthrow of the rebelli ... |
| Augustus | ... imen of shameless adulation. The few allusions to Caesar's murderers and to | hardly pass beyond the conventional style of the writer's day. The only pa ... |
| Robert the Bruce | ... ted chevauchée raids over the enemy territory to damage its infrastructure. | counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English King Ed ... |
| Richard | ... d Edward was confined to the Tower of London along with his younger brother | . The Duke of Gloucester was proclaimed King Richard III in July. The prin ... |
| Calydonian Oeneus | ... mably the eponym of Hyria. He is also called Oeneus, although he is not the | . Other ancient scholia say, as Hesiod does, that Orion was the son of Pos ... |
| James Madison | ... s, its population was 13,664. Its seat is Madisonville, and it is named for | , the fourth president of the United States |
| President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
| Philip V of Spain | ... between 1700 and 1720. After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714, | briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assi ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... n principles of guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of | and Che Guevara. His forces were considered the most effective of all the ... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... raphic recuperation and some measure of economic recuperation. The reign of | as Charles I of Spain was a harmonious period, during which Catalonia gene ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... ke down. The party split between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent President | . What began as Jackson's ideas of democracy ("Jacksonian democracy") lead ... |
| King Edward's | ... he Bruce counselled using these operational methods to hold off the English | forces when the English invaded Scotland, according to an anonymous 14th-c ... |
| Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
| Germanicus | ... also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of the imperial family, | |
| Alexios V | ... rangled to death in January 1204. Alexios Doukas took the throne himself as | ; Isaac also died in January 1204, probably of natural causes |
| Croesus | In 547 BC, the Lydian king | besieged and captured the Persian city of Pteria in Cappadocia and enslave ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... es in the 1954 election. He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader | in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas. Joe Mar ... |
| Julian | In the year AD 363, the Emperor | 's invasion of Persia was turned back by a scorched earth policy |
| Alexander III | ... e defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to | . Godwinson was subsequently defeated within a month by another Viking des ... |
| Emperor Charles V | ... ter publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of | . He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, w ... |
| Joseph Lyons | Founding leader | began his political career as an Australian Labor Party politician and ser ... |
| James I of England | ... able shipbuilding location by John Wood, a shipbuilder, who petitioned King | for a land grant. The surrounding area was soon settled as a plantation co ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split between | and the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to | and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ... |
| Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | ... nal monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King | . The head of the government since 1971 is Prime Minister Prince Khalifa b ... |
| President of Sri Lanka | ... framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the | is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. ... |
| Henry VIII | ... ders have been the Royal Bodyguard since at least 1509. During the reign of | , the Tower was assessed as needing considerable work on its defences. In ... |
| Lady Jane Grey | ... ilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place | on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tilty ... |
| Peter I of Russia | During the war, | had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish ... |
| Arthur Goldberg | ... nd British were supporting Israel in the conflict, United States Ambassador | announced that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict. A ... |
| James Bond | ... e his complete office was on the top level of a double-decker bus. (Several | films of the 1970s would make use of a similar gimmick for Bond's briefing ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ebruary 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Gen. | sent two wooden gunboats (timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one la ... |
| Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frederick William III of Prussia | King | appointed an Immediate Commission for the investigation of political dissi ... |
| James Bond | Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent | . He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the ... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tiberius | ... thor of a collection of historical anecdotes. He worked during the reign of | (14 AD to 37 AD) |
| Zachary Taylor | ... egimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of | , although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities, ... |
| Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
| Princess of Wales | ... te the Book", aided by a music video featuring lookalikes of the Prince and | undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home. The song became Costello's ... |
| Pharaoh | ... chadnezzar, ceasing to pay tribute to him and entered into an alliance with | Hophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again ... |
| Sigurd the Crusader | ... National Theatre, Bjørnson received an ovation, and his saga-drama of King | was performed at the opening of Nationaltheatret in Oslo |
| Wang Anshi | ... action at court, resolutely opposed to the reformist policies of Chancellor | . Sima presented increasingly critical memorials to the throne until 1070, ... |
| Charles IV | On 29 October 1807, Manuel Godoy, chancellor to the Spanish king, | and Napoleon signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau, which authorized the pass ... |
| Anastasio Somoza Debayle | ... lebrated the left-wing rebels who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot | , and the album was filled with songs driven by other political issues ext ... |
| Augustus | ... he king” (Félibien, 1674). Accordingly, one finds scenes of the exploits of | , Alexander the Great, and Cyrus alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Light ... |
| Ted Theodore | ... dvocated orthodox fiscal management. When Labor reinstated the more radical | as Treasurer in 1931, Lyons and Fenton resigned from Cabinet |
| Sakthan Thampuran | ... and started the most spectacular cultural festival called Thrissur Pooram. | laid the modern foundation stone of Thrissur and made the city in to a maj ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
| John William Draper | The story begins in late April 1839, as | had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ... |
| Walter Scott | The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir | wrote Kenilworth in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Ve ... |
| President | ... omy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of | Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal |
| Andrew Jackson | ... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President | , and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ... |
| 7th Earl of Shaftesbury | ... red William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the | . She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir Ernest ... |
| Mary Stuart | ... opular comedy of De Nygifte (The Newly Married) and his romantic tragedy of | in Scotland. In 1870 he published Poems and Songs and the epic cycle Arnlj ... |
| Constantine the Great | The First Council of Nicea was convened by | upon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Córdoba in the Easter ... |
| President of Azerbaijan | ... f Azerbaijan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, with the | as the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan as head of gove ... |
| Surendranath Banerjee | ... ial levels. Dadabhai Naoroji formed the East India Association in 1867, and | founded the Indian National Association in 1876 |
| Beatrix of the Netherlands | ... ng over 90 stores and including parking for 2,300 cars, was opened by Queen | in 1982. 34 miles (55 km) of urban roads were planned and a network of hig ... |
| Nixon Administration | ... 1), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the | 's contention that publication would have security implications. In his co ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... ish contingent under the command of Richard Lionheart instead). The elderly | Frederick Barbarossa responded to the call to arms, and led a massive army ... |
| Alyattes II | ... ginning of the reign of King Alyattes (sometimes incorrectly referred to as | ), who ruled Lydia c. 610-550 BC. The first coins were made of electrum, a ... |
| Louis XIV | ... United States. While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of | or Napoleon, the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 re ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
| Wang Mang | ... oldest reference to a collapsible umbrella dates to the year 21 A.D., when | (r. 9–23) had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage. The 2nd ... |
| Desta Damtew | ... Shum of Sidamo Province by Birru Wolde Gabriel who himself was replaced by | |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Erskine Bowles | ... Richard Burr, who, like Elizabeth Dole two years earlier, defeated Democrat | to win the other North Carolina Senate seat. In September 2005, Random Hou ... |
| Tarquinius Superbus | ... Roman colony at an early date—according to some authorities in the time of | ,—but more probably about 390 BC. The existence of a previous population, ... |
| Manuel A. Odría | In 1953, during the government of | , Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the o ... |
| Ferdinand VII of Spain | ... and Spain, assemblies called juntas were established to rule in the name of | |
| King Mohamed VI | Policies associated with foreign relations are determined by the king, | , and his advisors, despite the fact that Morocco has a constitutional mon ... |
| Charles V of France | ... ose to the original. It is found in the inventory of 1373 of the library of | . Furthermore, according to the illuminations, it can be dated to the year ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | ... c of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when | , then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted ... |
| Charlemagne | ... terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) as well as | 's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is called helmikuu, meaning ... |
| Joan Enric Vives Sicília | ... twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 has been | . This role carries with it the position of joint head of state of Andorra |
| John Adams | ... of foreign debt payments. Even comparatively conservative commentators like | observed that these levies were "heavier than the People could bear. |
| Pope Paul VI | ... s canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by | . Her books, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus, ... |
| Leucippus | ... nt lover of the Divine Huntress; other heroes of the same type are Actaeon, | (son of Oenomaus), Cephalus, Teiresias, and Zeus as the lover of Callisto. ... |
| Edward of Portugal | ... the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King | , whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power |
| King Philip II's | ... y, the Knights Hospitaller based in Malta, and others, under the command of | illegitimate half brother, John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman flee ... |
| Sakthan Thampuran | ... when he was collector of Thrissur district. He is also known as the second | of Thrissur by shifting the Municipal Stand near the M.O. Road to Shaktan ... |
| Edward III | ... Tower and release the prisoners held there. For three years he ruled while | was too young to do so himself; in 1330, Edward and his supporters capture ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... yphal account, because he threw "a beer bottle into the window of Professor | ," future president of the United States). He spent several years at sea, ... |
| Chandragupta Maurya | ... in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. The founder of the empire, | , confronted a Macedonian invasion force led by Seleucus I in 305 BC and f ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned | as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married ... |
| Princess Alexandra of Kent | ... Prince's godparents were: The Duke of Gloucester (his maternal granduncle) | ;(his 1st cousin once removed); the Earl of Euston; the Lord Elphinstone ( ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | 's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the spring 1865. Here the ... |
| Louis X of France | ... 1309 to her son, Louis, king of Navarre and count of Champagne, the future | |
| President of Russia | ... emlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the | , from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. As major streets ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, | and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventu ... |
| Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
| Alpha Oumar Konaré | ... t, National Assembly, and municipal councils were elected. On June 8, 1992, | , the candidate of ADEMA, was inaugurated as the president of Mali's Third ... |
| Henry III | ... ant political services to his relative Conrad II, and afterwards to Emperor | . He became widely known as an earnest and reforming ecclesiastic by the z ... |
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
| James Madison | ... esolutions. Though the resolutions followed the "interposition" approach of | , Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
| Conrad II | ... mily was of noble rank, and his father, Count Hugh, was a cousin of Emperor | (1024–1039). He was educated at Toul, where he successively became canon a ... |
| Emperor Yingzong of Song | In 1064, Sima presented to | a book of five volumes , the Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"). I ... |
| Philip II of France | ... pture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, Henry II of England and | ended their conflict with each other to lead a new crusade (although Henry ... |
| Ming | ... emi-legendary account of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor | (58–75 CE). Extensive contacts however started in the 2nd century CE, prob ... |
| Teucer | ... ean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where | is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor. Ar ... |
| Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
| Henry the Fowler | ... ford; she was a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind. In Herford she met | , who later became king of Germany |
| Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
| Alexander I | In 1812 Czar | was able to render Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Russia useless by util ... |
| Leonard Smithers | ... ssed, his reputation destroyed in England. In 1898, when no-one else would, | agreed with Wilde to publish the two final plays. Wilde proved to be a dil ... |
| Mao Zedong | ... ones are included, they are noted via tone marks. In pinyin, 毛泽东 is written | |
| James II of Scotland | ... mer Throw and Caber Toss in 1440. His temper while playing golf resulted in | outlawing the sport |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
| Charles I | In 1649, the English Civil War raged and King | was beheaded in Whitehall, London. The execution resulted in the outbreak ... |
| Clinton Thomas Dent | In 1885, | , president of the Alpine Club, suggested that climbing Mount Everest was ... |
| President of Finland | Kyösti Kallio (, April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth | (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and served ... |
| James K. Polk | ... Place is named after North Carolina native and university alumnus President | , and McCorkle Place is named in honor of Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, the or ... |
| James Buchanan | ... idge. The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U.S. President | , but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of ... |
| Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... 3, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell, against the king | |
| James Madison | ... eir fate at the hands of the Indians, including John Madison, the cousin of | the future president, who was killed on a surveying trip in the area in 17 ... |
| Ferdinand I of Aragon | ... Ferdinand of Antequera, who after the Compromise of Caspe (1412), was named | |
| Robert Stigwood | Producer | said in a recent interview on "The Inside Story: Saturday Night Fever", ab ... |
| Isabella | To support | 's claim to the Spanish throne against her uncle, the French government de ... |
| President of Finland | Lauri Kristian Relander (May 31, 1883 – February 9, 1942) was the second | (1925–1931). A prominent member of the Agrarian League, he served as a mem ... |
| George W. Bush | ... between its north and south. While the north (Oak Harbor) is conservative - | received almost 65 percent of the 2004 vote and carried all precincts - al ... |
| Princess Beatrice | ... itish or Commonwealth realms monarch since Queen Victoria's youngest child, | , was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter Bea ... |
| Boniface of Montferrat | | , meanwhile, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his ... |
| Isaac Stevens | ... ly formed Washington Territorial Government and signed into law by Governor | |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | ... ir own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified by | , who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British ... |
| Constantine I | ... ed in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor | in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort to attain co ... |
| Ian Fleming | ... persuading Cubby that Sean Connery was the right man. James Bond's creator, | , originally doubted Connery's casting, saying, "He's not what I envisione ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... 4, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and | as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son Maximilia ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... s is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and a Commonwealth realm with | as head of state (represented by a Governor-General) |
| Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
| Emperor Shenzong of Song | ... n 1067, Sima was invited to the palace to introduce his work in progress to | . The new emperor not only confirmed the interest his father had shown, bu ... |
| Philip IV of France | Jeanne of Navarre, wife of | (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), asked Joinville to write Louis' ... |
| Alexios Angelos | ... id excommunication, or he may have wanted to meet with the Byzantine prince | , Philip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine em ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of | 's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ... |
| George Washington | ... Robert Rutherford, a Revolutionary War financier and an intimate friend of | . In 1799, Rutherford sold his Forks of Buffalo holdings to James Brown of ... |
| The emperor | ... the lost revenue was recouped through heavily taxing private entrepreneurs. | was at the pinnacle of Han society. He presided over the Han government bu ... |
| Henry II of England | ... stian states and to recapture Jerusalem in 1187. Spurred by religious zeal, | and Philip II of France ended their conflict with each other to lead a new ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when | fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ... |
| Ray Lyman Wilbur | ... years earlier Ely had been executive assistant to Secretary of the Interior | during the Hoover administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm ... |
| President of the United States | ... of the United States twice, in Advise & Consent and The Man, as well as the | in the made-for-TV Earth II |
| Beatrice | ... trice, was born in 1857 (incidentally Andrew also named his eldest daughter | ). As the child of the sovereign, Prince Andrew was styled from birth as H ... |
| Pharaoh | ... circumcision" (Type III) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the | s, and "fibula" (in "infibulation") refers to the Roman practice of pierci ... |
| James Madison | ... ing trip in the area in 1783. Although not necessarily as a result of this, | did procure, as an investment, some land on Brush Run and Pyles Fork just ... |
| King Charles I | ... in earnest during the 1630s by the various investors who had contracts with | to do so. The leader of one of these syndicates was the Earl of Bedford, w ... |
| Charles the Bold | ... nfederation's power and wealth increased significantly, with victories over | of Burgundy during the 1470s and the success of Swiss mercenaries |
| Marshal Mannerheim | On the eve of the Winter War, when | once again threatened to resign from his post as chairman of Finland's Def ... |
| Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
| Fidel Castro | ... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of | , they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans |
| Aurangzeb | The Mughal power in northern India had been declining since the reign of | , who died in 1707; In 1751-52, Ahamdiya treaty was signed between the Mar ... |
| Sarah Ferguson | In 1986, Prince Andrew married | ; the couple's marriage, subsequent separation and eventual divorce in 199 ... |
| President of Uzbekistan | ... zbekistan take place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the | is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised ... |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | ... lving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term. | was nominated the SLFP candidate and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes ... |
| President Svinhufvud | ... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure that | would not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ... |
| Robert May | ... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist | , in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ... |
| Maximilian | ... urgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick's son | . With the inheritance of Burgundy, the House of Habsburg began to rise to ... |
| Richard Crossman | In March 1946, British Labour Party MP | gave the following description of activity at the hotel: "private detectiv ... |
| George W. Bush | ... e Jeremy Deller won the prize with his film Memory Bucket, documenting both | 's hometown Crawford, Texas – and the siege in nearby Waco. The prize mone ... |
| Roman Emperor | Aurelian (; 9 September 214 or 215 – September or October 275), was | from 270 to 275. During his reign, he defeated the Alamanni after a devast ... |
| Magnus the Good | ... ising the Baltic. As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... pular in New York during the 1930s. As a New Dealer, he supported President | , a Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off pa ... |
| The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e, has been associated with the Democratic Party since the 1932 campaign of | . Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, ... |
| Eleanor of Portugal | Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with | |
| The Queen | ... of Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of | and The Duke of Edinburgh, and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Que ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... District Attorney, and ran unopposed in 2005. Although Suffolk voters gave | a victory here in 1992, the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and cont ... |
| Ferdinand II of Aragon | ... ties of Roussillon and Cerdanya, which it had occupied during the conflict. | ("Ferdinand the Catholic") finally resolved the major grievances of the re ... |
| Duchess of Kent | ... s only just breaking free from the domineering influence of her mother, the | , and her mother's advisor, John Conroy. Over the next four years Melbourn ... |
| Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
| Charlemagne | The town was founded in 789 by | in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre river. A century later, ... |
| U.S. President | ... inent. In recognition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 | George W. Bush designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | ... y, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore, and | , as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Nivedita, spread the pas ... |
| President of Sri Lanka | ... Commonwealth of Nations, with the last Governor General becoming the first | . Under the first republican Constitution, the unicameral legislature was ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
| Gustavus Adolphus | ... hirty Years' War. Forced to retreat from the advancing Swedish army of King | , Conti ordered his troops to burn houses, destroy villages and generally ... |
| The Duke of Gloucester | ... en Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, the Prince's godparents were: | (his maternal granduncle); Princess Alexandra of Kent (his 1st cousin once ... |
| Tetricus | ... Aurelian won this campaign largely through diplomacy; the "Gallic Emperor" | was willing to abandon his throne and allow Gaul and Britain to return to ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ca/I modelled shirts by Van Heusen", a clear reference to then US President | , who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 (briefly reviving the ... |
| George W. Bush | ... f that group's votes. In Webb County, Kerry received 23,654 (57 percent) to | 's 17,753 (42 percent). Nearly 57,000 registered voters in Webb County did ... |
| Amalric of Lusignan | ... accidental fall in 1197. Queen Isabella then married for a fourth time, to | , who had succeeded his brother Guy, positioned as King of Cyprus. After t ... |
| King George II | Created by Royal Charter of | , "Reading" Township was formed July 15, 1730 from portions of Amwell Town ... |
| Raúl Castro | ... dent of the option of ending the embargo by executive order until Fidel and | leave power and a prescribed course of transition is followed. The bill al ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | Ferdinand's 1469 marriage to | brought about a dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon with Castile. In 151 ... |
| Edward I of England | ... e battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King | (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, ... |
| Constantine | ... nciple of "one god, one empire", that was later adopted to a full extent by | . On some coins, he appears with the title deus et dominus natus ("God and ... |
| Emma Peel | New female partner Mrs. | (Diana Rigg) debuted in this series, in October 1965. The name of the char ... |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | | | |Freedom Part |
| George Washington | ... 1784, the name "Charlotte County" was changed to Washington County to honor | , the American Revolutionary War general and later President of the United ... |
| Al Gore | ... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by giving | an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ... |
| Charles I | ... l Assemblies, moreover, met only at times and places approved by the crown. | inherited a settlement in Scotland based on a balanced compromise between ... |
| Robert Owen | ... subjectively better attributes. Examples of this form of socialism include | 's New Harmony community |
| Daniel Defoe | ... ous attention; this prejudice has held considereable influence to this day. | pursued a more journalistic type of satire, being famous for his The True- ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s were, in some scholars' opinions, united under the banner of Philip's and | 's pan-Hellenic ideals, though others might generally opt, rather, for an ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ." The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of | to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish s ... |
| Eleanor | ... e Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta | , daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate ... |
| Henry II | ... own, he entered the household of Henri d'Angoulême, the illegitimate son of | , governor of Provence. He served this prince as secretary in Provence, an ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed | for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ... |
| Louis Philippe | The French Foreign Legion was created by | , the King of the French, on 10 March 1831. The direct reason was that for ... |
| President | The village was named after | Grover Cleveland |
| Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
| Charles II | Fuller's last promotion was that of Chaplain Extraordinary to | . In the summer of 1661 he visited the West in connexion with the business ... |
| Ugyen Wangchuck | | 's emergence as the national leader coincided with the realization that th ... |
| Peter III of Aragon | ... ulture expanded into the islands of the Western Mediterranean. The reign of | ("the Great") included the conquest of Sicily and the successful defense a ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the decisive Battle of Gaugamela in 330 BC against the advancing armies of | . The Achaemenids were decisively defeated by Alexander and retreated from ... |
| Ibrahim Nasir | In 1957, however, the new prime minister, | , called for a review of the agreement in the interest of shortening the l ... |
| King Emeric | ... enice throughout the 12th century, but had rebelled in 1181 and allied with | of Hungary and . Subsequent Venetian attacks were repulsed, and by 1202 th ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed | . Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ... |
| Augustus | ... to being "a son of god", "a son of a god" or "son of Heaven". Roman Emperor | referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... ka as "Mykians" who were also previously involved in several conquests with | and after the conquest of Egypt with Cambyses, they went to Sindh in comma ... |
| Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | ... oligarchies, in part through miscegenation with the local elites. In 1532, | imposed a vice-king to Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, in order to prevent Cor ... |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
| President Johnson | ... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state, | fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ... |
| King Charles II | In 1670 | granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented ... |
| Ludwig I | ... ll his death as a model constitutional monarch. On 13 October 1825, his son | succeeded him |
| Jacques Chirac | ... l for a non-French armed forces, at the invitation of then French President | |
| Elizabeth II | ... l officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of | ). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General ... |
| Stan Kasten | ... ncluding former Los Angeles Lakers player Magic Johnson, baseball executive | and film mogul Peter Guber, was announced on March 27, 2012. The total sal ... |
| Richard Helms | ... akes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director | , who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
| William Henry Harrison | ... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign of | was the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ... |
| Richard II | When | was crowned in 1377, he led a procession from the Tower to Westminster Abb ... |
| Agamemnon | In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as | . The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the scr ... |
| Emperor Gaozu | ... eror" (huangdi) at the urging of his followers and is known posthumously as | (r. 202–195 BCE). Chang'an was chosen as the new capital of the reunified ... |
| Gregory Peck | ... red psychoanalysis and featured a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí. | plays amnesiac Dr. Anthony Edwardes under the treatment of analyst Dr. Pet ... |
| Kaiser | ... became one of the most prominent critics of German expansionism and of the | 's war policies. He publicly attacked the Belgian annexation policy and un ... |
| Tiberius | ... tory of Pliny, by Pliny the Elder (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor | had the cucumber on his table daily during summer and winter. The Romans r ... |
| Domitian | ... of the Third Century, earning him the title Restorer of the World. Although | was the first Emperor who had demanded to be officially hailed as dominus ... |
| President | ... pollution), a meticulously planned terrorist attack was staged against the | and the Congress, which was afterwards referred to as "the President's Day ... |
| James II of Majorca | ... d Roussillon and the city of Montpellier were left as a kingdom for his son | as the Kingdom of Majorca. This division began a period of struggle that e ... |
| Warren G. Harding | ... evelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of | and Calvin Coolidge. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge i ... |
| Kanishka I | ... i.e. master and god. Outside the Roman Empire, the 2nd century Kushan King | used the title devaputra meaning "son of God" |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | ... him. Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Katzav, and later, | - who was present at his funeral - also paid visits and sought advice, alo ... |
| Sparta | ... . The Peloponnesian War, the large scale Greek civil war between Athens and | and their allies, is a case in point |
| German king | In 1440 he was elected | as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by ... |
| William, Duke of Nassau | ... rrounded by several outstanding buildings. The ducal palace was begun under | . Its foundations were laid in 1837 and it was completed in November 1841 ... |
| Atahualpa | ... tage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor | and Huáscar, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated ... |
| German King | ... was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as | as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 14 ... |
| Constantius | ... singly repressed, often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors | and Constans declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in t ... |
| Ugyen Wangchuck | ... ntial Russian advances in Lhasa, wanted to open trade relations with Tibet. | , on the advice of his closest adviser Ugyen Dorji, saw the opportunity to ... |
| President's | ... of the Department of Defense. The Secretary of the Navy was a member of the | Cabinet until 1947, when the Navy, Army, and newly created Air Force were ... |
| Maximilian II | ... ng the force of public opinion against him, abdicated in favour of his son, | |
| Alexander the Great | ... ty (c. 1000 B.C.) in China to Jimmu Tenno of Japan (perhaps c. 600 B.C.) to | (c. 360 BC) have assumed titles that reflect a filial relationship with de ... |
| Kyösti Kallio | ... e sabotaged the prospects of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival | , so that Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Relander's former Prime Minister, was ele ... |
| Maximilian I | ... an Emperor as Frederick III from 1452. In 1493, he was succeeded by his son | after ten years of joint rule |
| John F. Kennedy | ... endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat | . He told friends, "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair an ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... t, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and | . On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge in which he offered ... |
| Henry Bolingbroke | ... as in the security of the Tower rather than Windsor as was more usual. When | returned from exile in 1399, Richard was imprisoned in the White Tower. He ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
| R. K. Shanmukham Chetty | ... city had been a breeding ground of famous politicians and bureaucrats like | , P.C. Rao, C. Achutha Menon, K. Karunakaran, Joseph Mundassery, Vinod Rai ... |
| Emperor of the French | ... eaty of Fontainebleau stripped Napoleon of his powers (but not his title as | ) and sent him into exile on Elba |
| John Adams | ... s down in those communities in September and October. James Warren wrote to | on October 22, "We are now in a state of Anarchy and Confusion bordering o ... |
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... soon fell a prey to the Achaemenian Dynasty during the reign of Achaemenid, | (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to Pliny's evide ... |
| Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... er Chiang Ching-kuo. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, | , which culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. ... |
| Jeanne of Navarre | At the request of | , the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he comple ... |
| Huáscar | ... nt civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor Atahualpa and | , and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated, such as t ... |
| Barbara Boxer | ... the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat | . Bono and Herschensohn became close friends after the campaign. Bono was ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... had joined the FBI and in the 1960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate | using Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the P ... |
| Risto Ryti | ... Continuation War. On August 27 he suffered a serious stroke. Prime Minister | took over his duties. Kallio's heart became weak while he knowingly took r ... |
| Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother | The Comet was a hit with passengers including | and Princess Margaret, who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 ... |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. In 2000, | was elected the president, becoming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. ... |
| Augustus | ... the divine one) was specially, but not exclusively, associated with Emperor | (as adopted son of Julius Caesar). Later, it was also used to refer to Dom ... |
| Vladimir Putin | ... Mahendr Dosieah, who presented his Letters of Credence to Russian President | on 25 July 2006 |
| Jeanne of Navarre | | , wife of Philip IV of France (and granddaughter of Count Theobald IV), as ... |
| Kyösti Kallio | ... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and | , declined to stand |
| Ugyen Wangchuck | ... the anti-British, pro-Tibetan ponlop of Paro—resulted in the ascendancy of | , the Ponlop of Tongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangc ... |
| William I of the Netherlands | ... next became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1830), and | founded a new university in 1816 in Leuven as a state university |
| Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
| Princess Margaret | ... t was a hit with passengers including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and | , who were guests on a special flight on 30 June 1953 hosted by Sir Geoffr ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President | , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ... |
| Charles I | ... f Arms Hotel. The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of | . Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel. From 1803, the Cardiff Arm ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Valley Days under the title Trails West; the series' original host had been | . He also turned in an appearance as a hand surgeon in the Night Gallery e ... |
| Louis IX | In 1241, he accompanied Theobald to the court of the king of France, | (the future Saint Louis). In 1244, when Louis organized the Seventh Crusad ... |
| Frederik Pohl | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by Arthur C. Clarke and | , Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subramanian to solve F ... |
| Prince Charles | ... a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and | , called Jacob's Vow. The spirit of Fuller's preaching, characterized by c ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
| George Washington | ... he site was purchased by William Dobson and was called Dobson's Crossroads. | was served breakfast at Dobson's tavern on June 2, 1791. Joseph Kerner bou ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... the Achaemenid Persian Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to | . The period under Persian rule after the construction of the second Templ ... |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... all things British. The moderates led by leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji and | on the other hand wanted reform within the framework of British rule. Tila ... |
| Henry V | ... pped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower. The reign of | (1413–1422) renewed England's fortune in the Hundred Years' War against Fr ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, | and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ... |
| Diocletian | Under the tetrarchy reform of Emperor | in 296 AD, Lydia was revived as the name of a separate Roman province, muc ... |
| Risto Ryti | ... f the electoral college, defeating the National Progressive Party candidate | by 172 votes to 109. He was elected largely due to the fact that he attrac ... |
| Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
| Domitian | ... sar as "son of a god" via the term divi filius which was later also used by | and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament |
| Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
| president's | ... wyer of the U.S. government. The attorney general serves as a member of the | cabinet, and is one of only two cabinet department heads who are not given ... |
| Ma Ying-jeou | ... oming the first non-KMT president on Taiwan. The 2008 election of President | marked the second peaceful transfer of power, this time back to the KMT |
| Bud Selig | | , the Commissioner of Baseball, announced on April 20, 2011, that MLB woul ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... nton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman | . Ultimately, it was an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a "final status ... |
| George W. Bush | In late 2005 President | visited Kernersville's Deere-Hitachi plant to give a speech about the Amer ... |
| Islam Karimov | ... ratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU), but the party leadership, under President | , remained in place. Independence brought a series of institutional change ... |
| James Madison | Jefferson and | also secretly drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denouncing the ... |
| Omar al-Bashir | In December 1999, a power struggle climaxed between president | and NIF founder, Islamist ideologue, and then speaker of parliament Hassan ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and | , left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, Eisenhower was ent ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | to cut Robert E. Lee's final supply line—the South Side Railroad—in the sp ... |
| Frederick William IV | ... my, not Austria. In refusing to agree to the offer of the imperial crown to | , Maximilian had the support of his parliament. In withholding his assent ... |
| Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | ... ckname of Reissu-Lasse ('Travelling Larry'). He was continually compared to | and his performance as president |
| Grover Cleveland | The village was named after President | |
| Zalman Shazar | ... nt to visit him and they were grandly received. One of Israel's presidents, | , who was of Lubavitch ancestry, would visit Schneerson and corresponded e ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican | against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ... |
| Christopher Wren | ... ry tilt yard tower — the only surviving example of the five original towers | ;'s Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-ce ... |
| John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford | ... irst as Souhegan East, then as Bedford in 1750. The town was named for Lord | , Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1748–1751), and a close ... |
| Kim Dae-jung | ... dress. . Donga.com. Retrieved March 8, 2007. In 2001, then President | announced a plan for building up a Strategic Mobile Fleet. . Kim Dae-ju ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length.’ | wrote in his diary on September 22, 1663: “this day Sir W. Batten tells me ... |
| Peter O'Malley | ... ayers from Asia; mainly, Japan, Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Taiwan. Former owner | began reaching out in 1980 by starting clinics in China and Korea, buildin ... |
| King George III | ... me a member of the Company of Surgeons. In 1776 he was appointed surgeon to | |
| Alexios III Angelos | ... Isaac II Angelos was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as | , the new emperor had his brother blinded (a traditional punishment for tr ... |
| Fernando Belaúnde Terry | ... Sendero Luminoso uprising, Vargas Llosa was asked by the Peruvian President | to join the Investigatory Commission, a task force to inquire into the mas ... |
| Joseph | ... João V died on July 31, 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince | |
| Charles V | ... ng of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the emperor | obtained the help of the duke during the war of the league of Schmalkalden ... |
| King Henry VIII | ... dover and Anne Boleyn also owned property in the same town. It is said that | made Aylesbury the county town in preference to Buckingham because Boleyn' ... |
| Haakon IV of Norway | ... attle of Largs in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King | . The Norwegian forces were defeated by the victorious Scots |
| Óengus mac Fergusa | ... ship, which had been stable for more than a hundred years since the time of | (The accession of Cináed mac Ailpín as king of both Picts and Scots can be ... |
| Michelle Yeoh | # The Touch (Hong Kong, 2002) featuring | |
| Henry VI of England | After defeat at the Battle of Towton, | crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Q ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... scribed in the Book of Judges. Philip II of Macedon (336 BC), the father of | , and Roman consul Julius Caesar (44 BC) are famous victims. Emperors of R ... |
| Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... th a broom, and her bad temper, much to the shame of the current president, | , and the fear of the soldiers. From 1902 till 1930, she and Matilda ran S ... |
| Stanley Rous | ... rst to run the full length of the pitch. It was opened on 23 August 1961 by | , secretary of the Football Association. The 10,008 capacity all-seater st ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... ntinued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President | ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and th ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
| Isaac II Angelos | It was also in 1195 that | was deposed by his brother in a palace coup. Ascending as Alexios III Ange ... |
| Francis I | ... f Dreux and of Rethel, governor of Champagne (d. 1524), who was employed by | in many diplomatic negotiations, more particularly in his intrigues to get ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... f only included one small paragraph about the Liberty in his autobiography, | , Vantage Point, p.300–301 We learned that the ship had been attacked in e ... |
| Hans Sloane | ... ney to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir | , their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner. At Mount ... |
| King Charles I | ... med by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of | , in 1634. The county was largely composed of farms and undeveloped land u ... |
| Philip II of Macedon | ... oabite King Eglon, by Ehud around 1337 BC, described in the Book of Judges. | (336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, and Roman consul Julius Caesa ... |
| George W. Bush | ... % of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and | all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama won Klickitat Coun ... |
| Mihály Károlyi | In October 1918, | established the Hungarian Democratic Republic, and Polanyi became Secretar ... |
| John Davenant | ... e, he was born at his father's rectory and was baptised on 19 June 1608. Dr | , bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to John Aubr ... |
| Alexander III of Scotland | ... Clan Ross by tradition fought at the Battle of Largs in 1263 in support of | against King Haakon IV of Norway. The Norwegian forces were defeated by th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henry IV | ... , who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of | , king of France |
| Pope Paul VI | ... or the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172). It was established by | on 15 August 1967. Its current President is Archbishop Domenico Calcagno s ... |
| Peter II of Aragon | ... erritory (the "Reconquista"); to the east, in 1213, the defeat and death of | ("Peter the Catholic") in the Battle of Muret put an end to the project of ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, | , and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ... |
| Ferdinand | ... of opposition to the Habsburgs until in 1534 he made a treaty at Linz with | , king of Hungary and Bohemia. This link strengthened in 1546, when the em ... |
| Queen Mary II | ... in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for King William III and | of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of the few counties in ... |
| Noël Coward | ... ic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with | , Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Gu ... |
| 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 ... |
| Menen Asfaw | On 3 August he married | of Ambassel, niece of heir to the throne Lij Iyasu |
| Mohamed Nasheed | ... r. Waheed opposed the arrest order and supported the opposition that forced | to resign. A day later, Nasheed stated that he was forced to resign at gun ... |
| Shah Alam II | ... athas under Mahadji Shinde recaptured Delhi and restored the Mughal Emperor | to the throne in 1772 |
| Patrick Hillery | ... h its nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom and Denmark, on 1 January 1973. | became Ireland's first European Commissioner. In appointing Hillery Europe ... |
| Puyi | ... Mukden Incident and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with | , the last Qing emperor, installed as the nominal regent and emperor. Manc ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted by | , who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political phi ... |
| Muryeong of Baekje | ... rean King. Kim has theorized that Emperor Keitai may have been a brother of | , and they may be sons of Konchi of Baekje (곤지, 昆支). If so, then this lege ... |
| Pierre Nkurunziza | ... lections in June and July, on 19 August 2005, the good governance minister, | , became the first post-transitional president |
| known posthumously | ... e Three Kingdoms (220–280 CE). It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, | as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (9– ... |
| Henry the Fowler | ... ed the Magyars in their 915 campaign against the Duchy of Saxony under Duke | |
| François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
| Francis I | ... 550 before he was born in 1553. By his wife Margaret d'Angoulême, sister of | , he had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthon ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... n the county courts of Franconia. They received their jurisdiction from the | , from whom they also received the capacity to pronounce capital punishmen ... |
| Roh Moo-hyun | ... rch 12, 2007. As a part of "Defense Reform 2020," which was proposed by the | Administration, the ROK Navy is required to reform the organizations under ... |
| Pope Pius XI | ... Ratti's expulsion climaxed in Warsaw. Two years later, Achille Ratti became | , shaping Vatican policies towards Poland with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio ... |
| James Monroe | ... party unity was greatly diminished and the party's organization faded away. | ran under the party's banner in the 1820 election and built support by con ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
| King William III | ... ounty was established in 1691 from New Kent County. The county is named for | and Queen Mary II of England. King and Queen County is notable as one of t ... |
| Gia Long | ... h century a rebellion overthrew the Nguyễn, but one of its members, Emperor | , by the aid of a French force, in 1801 acquired sway over the whole of pr ... |
| Marcos Pérez Jiménez | ... , though not yet cohesive. Already under the government of Division General | , the American influence (cultural, political and military) became more pr ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... arrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), | , Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democ ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
| Mohamed Nasheed | | won the 2008 Presidential election, resulting in Gayoom having to step dow ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. | (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... 4, 2010, a report by the New York Times cited the Fr. Murphy case to accuse | of a cover-up while he was head of the CDF in 1996.However Father Thomas B ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | # | biography film Road to Dawn (China, 2007) featuring Winston Chao and Angel ... |
| Lê Lợi | In 1428, a Vietnamese general named | founded an independent dynasty in Vietnam which lasted till the end of the ... |
| Isaías Medina Angarita | ... lf), were the General in Chief Eleazar López Contreras and Division General | |
| George W. Bush | ... ewers by television executives), the Iraq War and other foreign policies of | and Tony Blair, British cuisine, and organic farming. He supports Britain' ... |
| James I of Aragon | ... to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. His successor | did not fully consolidate his power until 1227; once he consolidated his i ... |
| President of Ireland | ... h century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. The residence of the | (Áras an Uachtaráin), which was built in 1754, is located in the park. The ... |
| William Ewart Gladstone | ... al to Peel were known as the Peelites and included the Earl of Aberdeen and | . During 1859 the Peelites merged with the Whigs and the Radicals to form ... |
| Oenopion | ... otia, his visit to Chios where he met Merope and was blinded by her father, | , the recovery of his sight at Lemnos, his hunting with Artemis on Crete, ... |
| Domitien Ndayizeye | ... ational human rights groups claimed that the current government was framing | by torturing him into false confessions of a coup plot. Along with these a ... |
| Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | ... ersy continued to dog the National Coalition when the President of Ireland, | , resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minis ... |
| William V | The succeeding duke, Albert's son, | (called the Pious), had received a Jesuit education and showed keen attach ... |
| William McKinley | After the two terms of Democrat Grover Cleveland, the election of | in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence of Republican dominance and is some ... |
| George III | ... rd (1987) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of | , and finally Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) in 1917, set in the trenches of ... |
| Henry the Lion | ... of importance only after the division of the duchy of Saxony on the fall of | , when the archbishop of Cologne, duke of Westphalia from 1180 onwards, pl ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
| Arthur Twining Hadley | ... ed in 1927 at Scollay Square, near the site of Yale's birth. Yale president | penned the inscription, which reads: "On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of ... |
| Maria of Montferrat | ... sitioned as King of Cyprus. After their deaths in 1205, her eldest daughter | (born after her father's murder) succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem |
| Richard II | ... Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), rebelled against King | and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and ... |
| Qin Shi Huang | ... o well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King | (227 BC). In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, w ... |
| Érimón | ... and was the wife of Míl, that is Milesius, and the mother of Éber Donn and | . Míl had given Neferhotep military aid against ancient Ethiopia and was g ... |
| Emperor Ninken | Empress: Kasuga no Yamada no Himemiko (春日山田皇女), daughter of | Satehime (紗手媛), daughter of Kose no Ohito no Ōomi (許勢男人大臣 |
| Domitien Ndayizeye | Former President | and his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed | to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival |
| Grover Cleveland | After the two terms of Democrat | , the election of William McKinley in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence ... |
| Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Elected to replace Nasir for a five-year presidential term in 1978 was | , a former university lecturer and Maldivian ambassador to the United Nati ... |
| Zeno | ... he state, such as Stilicho, Constantius III, Aëtius, Boniface, and Ricimer. | granted it to Odoacer to legitimize the later's rule in Italy after his ov ... |
| President of Ireland | Controversy continued to dog the National Coalition when the | , Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering d ... |
| George W. Bush | ... in an internal e-mail message that reporters should not "artificially hold | and John Kerry 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that com ... |
| King Harald Fairhair | In 875, | led a fleet from Norway to Scotland. In his attempt to unite Norway, he fo ... |
| Henry IV | ... ent, turned. He was presented by his countryman, the Cardinal Du Perron, to | ; and, though that economical prince did not at first show any great eager ... |
| King of Burma | ... of the white elephant, and Lord of the twenty-four umbrellas." In 1855 the | directed a letter to the Marquis of Dalhousie in which he styles himself " ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... ones. In addition to emperors, successful courtiers and politicians such as | also occasionally received posthumous titles |
| Defoe | Don Quixotes influence can be seen in the work of Smollett, | , Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the classic 19th-century novelists S ... |
| Jacques Chirac | On 12 July 2006, President | held an official state ceremony marking the centenary of Dreyfus's officia ... |
| Richard I of England | ... away Byzantine province of Cyprus. But rather than return it to the Empire, | sold the island to the Knights Templa |
| Albert V | ... many. William, whose death occurred in March 1550, was succeeded by his son | , who had married a daughter of Ferdinand of Habsburg, afterwards the empe ... |
| Emperor Ōjin | ... etsu died without a successor, at which time a fifth generation grandson of | , Keitai, came and ascended the throne |
| Imru Haile Selassie | Ras Makonnen arranged for Tafari as well as his first cousin, Ras | to receive instruction in Harar from Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin, an Ethiopian ... |
| Robert Owen | ... e system based on some form of social ownership. Utopian socialists such as | (1771–1858) tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a ca ... |
| Émile Loubet | ... euil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the President of France, | , was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Albert de Dion, own ... |
| Lord of the Isles | ... female line, and that later led to dispute between two rival claimants—the | and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw 1411, where ... |
| Emperor Buretsu | If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then | would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan |
| Camille Chamoun | ... The deployment came in response to the urgent request of Lebanese president | after sectarian violence had erupted in the country. Washington considered ... |
| King James I | ... first permanent English settlement in the "New World", Jamestown. Named for | , it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport. In 1619, colonists to ... |
| President of France | ... reyfusards at the Auteuil racetrack in Paris in 1899. In this incident, the | , Émile Loubet, was struck on the head with a walking stick by Count Alber ... |
| Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
| Anne of Brittany | ... incourt in 1415. Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry | , and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeate ... |
| Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
| President's | ... ment of Homeland Security. The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of the | Cabinet, and since the Clinton Administration, has been a member of the U. ... |
| President of the United States | ... S. medal, for his actions. The Medal of Honor is generally presented by the | in the White House, but this time it was awarded at the Washington Navy Ya ... |
| Ibrahim Nasir | The Second Republic was proclaimed in November 1968 under the presidency of | , who had increasingly dominated the political scene. Under the new consti ... |
| Philip II of Spain | ... lii suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, and dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
| Simón Bolívar | ... al times; Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (born in Guayaquil), famous for his ode to | titled Victoria de Junin; Juan Montalvo, a prominent essayist and novelist ... |
| Louis XIII | ... , elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses - the odes to Marie de' Medici and to | , are the best-remembered of his works |
| King Edward | ... de according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held against | until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-c ... |
| Louis XIV | ... effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of | entered the city |
| President of Ireland | ... comeback by securing the election of its candidate, Erskine H. Childers, as | in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's Tom O'H ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Henry IV | ... ng Richard II and helped dethrone him. The earl later rebelled against King | and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased ... |
| J. William Fulbright | ... ining more information about the attack, as expressed by Committee Chairman | : "We asked for [the attack investigation report] about 2 weeks ago and ha ... |
| Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
| Genghis Khan | In The Earth Is the Lord's (1941), she fictionalized | ; in The Arm and the Darkness (1943), Cardinal Richelieu; in A Pillar of I ... |
| Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark | ... f Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were | (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and ... |
| Charles II | ... he was one of the commissioners sent to Holland for the purpose of inviting | to Scotland, and of settling the terms of his admission to the government. ... |
| Bette Davis | De Havilland was good friends with | with whom she starred in Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Private L ... |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
| Warren G. Harding | ... o the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests. | , Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 19 ... |
| Chandragupta Maurya | ... ssassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra. His student | , the founder of the Maurya Empire, later made use of assassinations again ... |
| Orestes | The story is an update of the Greek myth of | to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. Agamemnon i ... |
| Emperor Sujin | Jien records that Suinin was the third son of | , and that he ruled from the palace of Tamaki-no-miya at Makimuku in what ... |
| Queen Elizabeth | ... ull 552 but when launched, on 27 September 1938, she was named in honour of | , who was then Queen Consort and in 1952 became the Queen Mother. With a d ... |
| Emperor Ling | ... rban Rebellion and the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Following the death of | (r. 168–189 CE), the palace eunuchs suffered wholesale massacre by militar ... |
| Constantine | ... known in the Republic, ceased to have meaning in everyday life. The Emperor | reintroduced the term as the empire's senior honorific title, not tied to ... |
| Timothy Geithner | ... Secretary of the Treasury from January 20, 2009, until the confirmation of | , which occurred January 26, 2009 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill. | spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932 |
| Augustus | ... s the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur (modern Tivoli). The mythic meeting of | with the Sibyl, of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a go ... |
| James I of Scotland | The title reverted to the crown in 1424. King | restored the title to Margaret, whose son was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the I ... |
| Maximilian I | Whatever lustre the international position won by | might add to the ducal house, on Bavaria itself its effect during the next ... |
| Richard, Earl of Cornwall | ... diminished territories of Outremer throughout most of the 13th century and | reconstructed and refortified the citadel during 1240–41, as part of the C ... |
| Charles II | ... parliaments during the Interregnum, but reinstated with the restoration of | in 1660. 1 May 1707 was the day the Act of Union came into effect, joining ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of | . Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ... |
| Charles Sherrington | ... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942 | visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep |
| Prince Albert | ... nd led a further programme for a comprehensive restoration at the behest of | . Salvin was succeeded in the work by John Taylor. When a feature did not ... |
| Lordship of the Isles | ... styled 'King of the Hebrides'. His kingdom was to develop latterly into the | |
| Lew Wasserman | MCA head | , whose client list included James Stewart, Janet Leigh and other actors w ... |
| elder brother | ... s the Commonwealth realms; however, after the births of two children to his | , and an evolution of the Commonwealth, Prince Andrew is currently fourth ... |
| Lord Fitzwilliam | In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee | . He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the ... |
| President of Ireland | ... eventually nominated (without election) as Ó Dálaigh's successor and sixth | |
| President Lincoln | In April 1864, at Bancroft's request, | wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... party ticket of the Progressive Party and challenged his previous successor | . The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a p ... |
| Hugh Capet | ... the count Borrell II made official in 987 when he failed to swear fealty to | , the first Capetian monarch. In those years of the formation of the Catal ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... arpessus near the small town of Gergitha, during the lifetimes of Solon and | . Marpessus, according to Heraclides of Pontus, was formerly within the bo ... |
| Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... of Austria, Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of | and his third wife, Eleonore Magdalena of the Palatinate-Neuburg, thus str ... |
| Alan Hodgkin | ... igation of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by | , Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and ... |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... re cemented as the party of business, though mitigated by the succession of | who embraced trust busting. He later ran on a third party ticket of the Pr ... |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... stian Edward; born 19 February 1960), is the second son, and third child of | and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was sec ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... t about $450/person. Catching a fatal disease was a distinct possibility as | in 1852 learned when his unit of about 600 soldiers and some of their depe ... |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | ... the bombing. The conference was attended by past and future Prime Minister | and former members of Irgun. A plaque commemorating the bombing was unveil ... |
| Lord of the Isles | ... ty in England, restored it to the heiress of line, the mother of Alexander, | |
| Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor | ... standard from the walls of Acre. He was later transferred to the custody of | , and it took a ransom of one hundred fifty thousand marks to obtain his r ... |
| King Cole | ... ria Anglorum that Constantine's mother Helena was a Briton, the daughter of | of Colchester. Geoffrey of Monmouth expanded this story in his highly fict ... |
| Emperor Xian | ... ds and divide the empire. When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from | , the Han Dynasty ceased to exist |
| Maximilian I | ... the family for nearly 200 years. In 1597 he abdicated in favour of his son | , and retired into a monastery, where he died in 1626 |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party. | and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ... |
| Emperor Ingyō's | ... a grandson of Ohi no Kimi, a great-grandson of Ohohoto no Kimi (brother to | consort), a great-great-grandson of Wakanuke Futamata no Kimi, and a great ... |
| Alexander | It had taken | only six months to conquer Persia (Iran), but it took him nearly three yea ... |
| Jérôme Bonaparte | ... hey survived into the 19th century. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811. The last Freigraf died in 1835 |
| The Queen | ... ntended to be complete for the ship to enter service in the spring of 1940. | herself performed the launching ceremony on 27 September 1938 and the ship ... |
| Roosevelt | Democratic President | and especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ... |
| Robert McNamara | ... tements from several senators and responses from then Secretary of Defense, | , about the Liberty attack. For the most part, the senators were dismayed ... |
| Queen Louise of Sweden | ... s Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), | , and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven |
| Alfred the Great | During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by | and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in ... |
| Rutherford's | ... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering | atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ... |
| Emperor Ankan | When | died, he had no offspring; and succession passed to his youngest brother w ... |
| Emperor Keitai | According to the Kojiki Ankan was the elder son of | , who is considered to have ruled the country during the early-6th century ... |
| King William IV | ... t acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister. | 's opposition to the Whigs' reforming ways led him to dismiss Melbourne in ... |
| Lord of the Isles | ... was Alexander, 3rd Lord of the Isles. The earldom of Ross remained with the | until that lordship was forfeited to the crown in 1476 |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... had brought with them were required to alleviate many of India's problems. | , a veteran Congressman and Indian leader, became Gandhi's mentor. Gandhi' ... |
| Maria Anna of Austria | ... r 1708 he married his maternal first cousin Archduchess & Princess Imperial | , Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia (1683–1754), daughter of Leopold I ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
| Empress Jitō | ... believe this title was not introduced until the reigns of Emperor Tenmu and | . Rather, it was presumably Sumeramikoto or Amenoshita Shiroshimesu Ōkimi ... |
| Irving Fisher | ... asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, | , James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taus ... |
| George Washington | Robert Morris was the first person appointed Secretary of the Treasury by | , but Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasur ... |
| Habte Giyorgis | ... ing to the movement that deposed Iyasu were conservatives such as Fitawrari | , Menelik II's longtime Minister of War. The movement to depose Iyasu pref ... |
| Diocletian | ... AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor | issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... of the next three decades, excepting the two-term presidency of Republican | . African Americans moved into the Democratic Party during Roosevelt's tim ... |
| Theodosius II | ... nt Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by Pulcheria, sister of | , for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choice was a sign of the bond ... |
| President | ... a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to | Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cou ... |
| Emperor Yūryaku | Ninken married to | 's daughter Kasuga no Ōiratsume no Himemiko, a second cousin of him. Their ... |
| The Shah of Iran | ... I of Ethiopia had an SM, while Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had seven of them. | drove an SM. Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the ... |
| King Henry VIII | ... on period. Later, Buckinghamshire became an important political arena, with | intervening in local politics in the 16th century and just a century later ... |
| Valerian | ... ult was that the Empire could not endure the blow of the capture of Emperor | in 260. The eastern provinces found their protectors in the rulers of the ... |
| Emperor Seinei | ... s younger brother, Prince Woke, Oyoke was raised to greater prominence when | died without an heir. The two young princes were said to be grandsons of E ... |
| Alexander III | ... Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland Scotland to | , through the Treaty of Perth |
| Philip II of Spain | ... and the organization of the two books were quite varied. He dedicated it to | , son of the Emperor |
| Aisin-Gioro Puyi | | | 爱新觉罗溥仪 Àixīnjuéluó Pǔy |
| Manuel I Komnenos | ... nt. However, Myriocephalum's implications were initially limited, thanks to | ' holding on to power. The same could not be said of Romanos, whose enemie ... |
| Pulcheria | ... nearby church of Saint Euphemia, a famous church, which had been chosen by | , sister of Theodosius II, for the Council of Chalcedon in 451: this choic ... |
| James Bond | ... . The chess game between "Kronsteen" and "McAdams" in the early part of the | movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played betw ... |
| 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 ... |
| Timothy Geithner | The current Secretary of the Treasury is | . The Secretary of the Treasury earns $191,300 per year |
| Emperor Kammu | ... early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of | (737–806), the 50th sovereign of the Yamato dynasty. The name Suinin-tennō ... |
| President | ... ould make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under | Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a jou ... |
| Queen Anne of Great Britain | ... fluential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with | |
| Herbert Hoover | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and | were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ... |
| Henry VIII | ... the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King | . They were sold off or given away to the nobility and landed gentry. Gran ... |
| Mohammad Mosaddegh | ... ntral Intelligence Agency to help the Iranian army overthrow Prime Minister | . This resulted in an increased strategic control over Iranian oil by U.S. ... |
| Agamemnon | ... h of Orestes to the family of a Northern general in the American Civil War. | is now General Ezra Mannon, Clytemnestra is his second wife Christine, Ore ... |
| Peter I | ... antilist policies were imported by Philip V with some success. Russia under | (Peter the Great) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success ... |
| Magnus the Law-mender | ... attack that year. Haakon died overwintering in Orkney, and by 1266, his son | ceded the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, with all territories on mainland S ... |
| James Conant | ... d, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to | , chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation wa ... |
| James Monroe | ... York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after | , fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the ... |
| Visual Basic | ... ) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on | . It is designed as a “lightweight” language with a fast interpreter for u ... |
| Morcant Bulc | ... have been called Bryneich. John Morris surmised that the line of a certain | referred to these monarchs, chiefly because he identified this man as the ... |
| Grace Kelly | After I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift, three popular films starring | followed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Fred ... |
| Maximilian II Emanuel | His good work, however, was largely undone by his son | (1679–1726), whose far-reaching ambition set him warring against the Ottom ... |
| Harald I of Denmark | ... of the Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king | and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingd ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Owen | ... cal socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including Karl Marx, | and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour vouchers or l ... |
| Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | ... ife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. His maternal grandparents were | , and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Vi ... |
| Emperor Buretsu | Ninken was succeeded by his son, who would accede as | |
| Peter IV of Aragon | ... gon in a new state, this union later being confirmed in the 14th century by | ("Peter the Ceremonious"). Ramon Berenguer IV used "Aragon" as his primary ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums. | announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ... |
| Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
| Augustus | ... orous writing with little or no real mocking intent. When Horace criticized | , he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th cen ... |
| Joseph Bonaparte | ... nk the French lines, Wellington caught up with and smashed the army of King | in the Battle of Vitoria, for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 ... |
| Nebuchadnezzar | ... en this vast seaport, the last of the Philistine cities to hold out against | finally fell in 604 BC, burnt and destroyed and its people taken into exil ... |
| Helgi Hundingsbane | In stanza 38 of the poem Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, the hero | dies and goes to Valhalla. In stanza 38, Helgi's glory there is described |
| Ferdinand Maria | ... ts effect during the next two centuries was more dubious. Maximilian's son, | (1651–1679), who was a minor when he succeeded, did much indeed to repair ... |
| Zachary Taylor | ... after John Taylor of Caroline, while a minority believe it was named after | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. President | sent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ... |
| Philip V | ... coherent economic policy, but French mercantilist policies were imported by | with some success. Russia under Peter I (Peter the Great) attempted to pur ... |
| Flavius Constantius | ... his rank: he studied law. Before 421 he was sent to the powerful patricius | (shortly Emperor in 421), to ask for a tax reduction for his own country. ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
| resident officer | ... ssador to Manchukuo. He functioned in a manner similar to that of a British | in British overseas protectorates, with the power to veto decisions by the ... |
| Willis C. Hawley | ... ot was a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. | , a Republican from Oregon, was chairman of the House Ways and Means Commi ... |
| Rafael Trujillo | ... ence and the abuse of power on the individual. Based on the dictatorship of | , who governed the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in ... |
| Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
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| Blaise Compaoré | ... rriving at its current form, a semi-presidential republic. The president is | |
| James A. Garfield | ... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President | |
| Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
| Samuel Pepys | ... octor of Divinity at Cambridge. He resumed his lectures at the Savoy, where | heard him preach; but he preferred his conversation or his books to his se ... |
| Leo I the Thracian | ... ned by J.B. Bury. In 472 Olybrius was sent to Italy by the Eastern Emperor, | , ostensibly to mediate between Ricimer and the Western Emperor, Anthemius ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... by Sinn Féin and DUP politicians. The President of the Republic of Ireland, | , described the decommissioning as "a very positive milestone on the journ ... |
| Queen of Sheba | ... and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the | . Haile Selassie is a defining figure in both Ethiopian and African histor ... |
| Louis XV | ... g scale projects, with the team Gabriel father and son, architects for King | , under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-Franç ... |
| Mircea I of Wallachia | ... idely used in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Prince | used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince Stephen III of Moldavia sc ... |
| Pope Pius XII | | showed high regard for Benedict, who had consecrated him a Bishop on 13 Ma ... |
| Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
| Queen Anne | ... great contempt. This book offended Prince George of Denmark, the consort of | ; and the Danish Minister protested |
| Indira Gandhi | ... refront during the agitation against the emergency (1975–77) imposed by the | regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across Ind ... |
| Princess Elizabeth | ... e wrote and arranged three masques, "The Lords' Masque" for the marriage of | , an entertainment for the amusement of Queen Anne at Caversham House, and ... |
| Simón Bolívar | ... f Independence emerged. Among them were Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, | (Bolívar's own father had been Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the gene ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up). | , a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... validity of the Pragmatic Sanction which secured the Habsburg succession to | , allied himself with France, conquered Upper Austria, was crowned king of ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... ka is mentioned by Greek historian Herodotus as one of the early satraps of | , who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empi ... |
| Fernando Belaúnde Terry | ... of Peru's two principal conservative politicians at the time, ex-president | (of the Popular Action party) and Luis Bedoya Reyes (of the Partido Popula ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... a card game. He gives him a pocket knife and a small statue of Bucephalus, | 's horse, from the loot and tells him the story of how Alexander became Bu ... |
| George W. Bush | ... nition of its support for the War on Terrorism, in June 2004 U.S. President | designated Morocco as a major non-NATO ally |
| Pope Pius XII | ... mission for Latin America is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on 19 April 1958, it is charged with providing assistance to and examining ... |
| G. Wayne Clough | # | , 2008 |
| Maximilian | When he was twelve, his kinsman the emperor | placed him among his pages. He remained for seventeen years in the service ... |
| Samuel Roth | ... en, in 1957, the Supreme Court upheld the obscenity conviction of publisher | for distributing adult magazines. As late as 1953, books such as Tropic of ... |
| Gundobad | ... or was abandoned by his partisans, captured in a church and put to death by | , Ricimer's nephew. This version implies that Olybrius was secretly suppor ... |
| John Adams | ... e president. He was a consistent and strong opponent of the policies of the | administration. Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitut ... |
| Ottokar I | ... ould return to the title of duke. The title of king became hereditary under | (1198). His grandson Ottokar II (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-li ... |
| Numa Pompilius | ... Romans originally considered winter a monthless period. They were added by | about 713 BC. February remained the last month of the calendar year until ... |
| Queen Anne | ... r the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, an entertainment for the amusement of | at Caversham House, and a third for the marriage of the Earl of Somerset t ... |
| Francis I | ... e Palace of Fontainebleau. This was accomplished by the great builder-king, | (1494–1547), who, in the largest of his many construction projects, recons ... |
| Blaise Compaoré | ... arrest and subsequent efforts to bring about his release, directed by Capt. | . This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d'état on 4 Au ... |
| Robert the Bruce | ... supported Robert the Bruce of Scotland. The Clan Ross fought alongside King | when Earl Fearchar's grandson William led the clan against the English at ... |
| Leonard Carmichael | # | , 1953–196 |
| 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 ... |
| W. Somerset Maugham | ... n the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage (1934), a film adaptation of | 's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. Many actresses fe ... |
| Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor | John married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of | , his first cousin, in 1708. From that marriage were born six children, th ... |
| Charles Pelham Villiers | ... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MP | proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ... |
| Tullus Hostilius | ... f Alba Longa. The noble Alban families which settled at Rome in the time of | then formed the nucleus of the gentes minores; these included the Tulii, S ... |
| Joseph Bonaparte | ... aturely ended when he died of tuberculosis in 1830. Also worthy of note was | , the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose contributions on French t ... |
| Shun | ... t monuments, including the renowned graves of the ancient sage kings Yu and | . Places he visited include Shandong, Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Ji ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... and Sargent Shriver became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of | , and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunic ... |
| Jaromír of Bohemia | ... The jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted when | was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry II of the ... |
| Sakthan Thampuran | ... ter Rama Varma Kunhjipilla Thampuran or Rama Varma IX or popularly known as | ascended the throne of Kingdom of Cochin (1769 to 1805). He changed the ca ... |
| Francis I | From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, every monarch, from | to Louis XV, made important renovations at the Palace of Fontainebleau, in ... |
| Josiah | ... erusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king | and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians. The book is writt ... |
| Charles Albert | Untaught by Maximilian II Emmanuel's experience, his son, | (1726–1745), devoted all his energies to increasing the European prestige ... |
| Nolan Ryan | ... nd a homer), while stealing three more bases. On August 22, 1989, he became | 's 5,000th strikeout victim, but Henderson took an odd delight in the occu ... |
| Conrad of Montferrat | ... in 1189. He attempted to take command of the Christian forces at Tyre, but | held power there after his successful defence of the city from Muslim atta ... |
| John Adams | ... one (Kentucky) for Jefferson for Vice President in opposition to incumbent | as well as casting their votes for President Washington. (Before 1804 elec ... |
| Charlemagne | ... d the Pyrenean portion of Catalonia extending their power as far as Girona. | 's son Louis took Barcelona from the Moorish emir in 801, ultimately formi ... |
| Edward VI | ... olitical and historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of | , Mary I, and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronat ... |
| Félix Faure | ... 'Aurore on 13 January 1898. The letter was addressed to President of France | , and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of ... |
| King Charles II | He visited the City as a courtier to | in 1671 and described it thus |
| Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
| Charles VI | ... sing the European prestige and power of his house. The death of the emperor | proved his opportunity: he disputed the validity of the Pragmatic Sanction ... |
| Rudolph I of Habsburg | ... rritory south of the Rhine under their control, aiding their rise to power. | , who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1273, effectively revoked the status of ... |
| Leo I the Thracian | ... supporter, but once again his hopes were shattered, as the Eastern Emperor | chose the noble Procopius Anthemius. His association with Gaiseric did not ... |
| King Edward II | In the 14th century Napton was granted a market charter by | and throughout the Middle Ages it was one of the largest settlements in Wa ... |
| King Henry II | ... en Jaromír of Bohemia was granted fief of the Kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor | of the Holy Roman Empire, with the promise that he hold it as a vassal onc ... |
| Willis C. Hawley | ... moot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative | , and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 2 ... |
| Kingdom of Cochin | ... ama Varma IX or popularly known as Sakthan Thampuran ascended the throne of | (1769 to 1805). He changed the capital of Cochin Royal Family to Thrissur ... |
| Mary I | ... d historic symbolism was considered useful, for instance each of Edward VI, | , and Elizabeth I briefly stayed at the Tower before their coronations |
| Shimon Peres | ... King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister | for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. ... |
| Clovis I | After the Franks under | defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac in 496, the Franks eventual ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and | in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ... |
| Odin | ... ain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god | . Chosen by Odin, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. | , meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ... |
| Charles Theodore | ... arian line of the Wittelsbachs became extinct, and the succession passed to | , the elector palatine. After a separation of four and a half centuries, t ... |
| Libius Severus | ... ed, because Ricimer, who had become the Magister militum of the West, chose | as new Emperor (461–465). However, Placidia was now free, and re-joined he ... |
| Cadwallon ap Cadfan | ... Hatfield Chase on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed by | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria again was divided into Bernici ... |
| Peter Bazalgette | ... Nigel Kennedy, Ben Elton and Jo Brand. His other pet hates include Endemol, | and Big Brother, and the general direction of Channel 4 since the 1990s |
| King Harald | ... It is the traditional location for the consecration of the King of Norway. | was consecrated at Nidaros Cathedral on June 23, 1991 |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... d in Poland. It was strongly opposed by the Polish government and president | . Current Polish prime minister Donald Tusk restricted his comments to a r ... |
| Minos | ... , Orion was likely the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of | , King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he w ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
| Edvard Beneš | ... membership in the European Union, since the authorisation decrees issued by | had not been formally renounced |
| Fidel Castro | ... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of | . He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ... |
| Henry II of England | | died on July 6, 1189 following a defeat by his son Richard I (Lionheart) a ... |
| Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... nst the Taliban. Most major leaders including the Islamic State's President | , Abdul Rashid Dostum, and others were living in exile. The Taliban repeat ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
| Blaise Compaoré | ... elections. The amendment also would have prevented the incumbent president, | , from being reelected |
| Tiberius | ... er a portrait of himself on a cloth, with which she later cured the Emperor | . The linking of this with the bearing of the cross in the Passion, and th ... |
| William the Conqueror | In the Harrying of the North, | 's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of England, William's men ... |
| Rafael Urdaneta | ... en Colonel of the Militia of Aragua), the general in chief Santiago Mariño, | , among many others. With the establishment of an independent captaincy ge ... |
| Solomon | ... beginning of 2 Chronicles (chapters 1–9) is a history of the reign of King | , son of David |
| Alfred Marshall | ... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including | , John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ... |
| President | ... e than 11,000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by | Theodore Roosevelt, who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a Whit ... |
| Rudolph II | ... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor | who made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ... |
| James I | ... Buchan and Ross, at that battle, the Earldom of Ross reverted to the crown. | on his return from his long captivity in England, restored it to the heire ... |
| William II of Sicily | ... consisted of 650 knights, 1,300 horses, and 1,300 squires to the Holy Land. | had died the previous year, and was replaced by Tancred, who placed Joan o ... |
| Saul | ... (chapters 1–10) mostly contains genealogical lists, including the House of | and Saul's rejection by God, which sets the stage for the rise of David |
| Emperor Ninken | Empress: Tashiraka no Himemiko (手白香皇女), daughter of | Menokohime (目子媛), daughter of Owari no Muraji Kusaka (尾張連草香 |
| Richard Crossman | ... . No remorse was expressed for the largest group of victims, the Arab dead. | , a British Labour Party MP, whose experience on the Anglo-American Commit ... |
| Gaston Tong Sang | ... (with 27 of 44 votes cast in Tahiti assembly). He replaced former President | , who lost a no-confidence vote in the 31 August parliament |
| Ferdinand | ... g Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke | of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent sta ... |
| Antonín Novotný | ... Ota Šik and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary | at a Central Committee meeting. Novotný faced a mutiny in the Central Comm ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB. | , as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... es. The office also settles labour issues which arise. It was instituted by | on 1 January 1989 by an apostolic letter in the form of a |
| Louis VII | This hamlet was endowed with a royal hunting lodge and a chapel by | in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, Louis IX, also call ... |
| Charles IV | ... he Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I of Bohemia in 1310. His son, | became King of Bohemia in 1346. He founded Charles University in Prague, c ... |
| Charles the Bald | ... the title of count). At the end of the 9th century, the Carolingian monarch | designated Wilfred the Hairy — a noble descendant of a family from Conflen ... |
| Chaim Weizmann | ... n the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympathetic to Zionism, visited | shortly after the attack. Weizmann's ambivalence towards Zionist violence ... |
| Queen Margaret | ... nd crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of | at Linlithgow. The town also successfully withstood a siege in 1547 from t ... |
| Vera Miles | ... store thief who is arrested and tried for robbery while his wife (newcomer | ) emotionally collapses under the strain. Hitchcock told Truffaut that his ... |
| Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
| Ottokar II | ... e. The title of king became hereditary under Ottokar I (1198). His grandson | (king from 1253–1278) conquered a short-lived empire which contained moder ... |
| James IV | ... thumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King | and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended i ... |
| Bob Carr | Actions taken by government ministers, including Premier of New South Wales | , who publicly identified the perpetrators' background, led to controversy ... |
| Emperor Kōkō | Nyōgo: Princess Chūshi/Tadako (忠子女王), daughter of Imperial Prince Tokiyasu( | later |
| Prince of Orange | ... the Duchess of Richmond's ball in Brussels, he received a dispatch from the | and was shocked by the speed of Napoleon's advance. He hastily ordered his ... |
| Louis IX | ... chapel by Louis VII in the middle of the twelfth century. A century later, | , also called Saint Louis, who held Fontainebleau in high esteem and refer ... |
| Ecgberht | ... hers Halfdan Ragnarsson and Ivar the Boneless, who installed an Englishman, | , as a puppet king. By 870 the "Great Summer Army" arrived in England, led ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. | was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ... |
| U.S. President | ... . The county seat is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after | James A. Garfield |
| Napoleon III | When Louis Napoleon ( | ) seized complete power in 1851, establishing an anti-parliamentary consti ... |
| Oenopion | ... to the island of Chios where he got drunk and attacked Merope, daughter of | , the ruler there. In vengeance, Oenopion blinded Orion and drove him away ... |
| Odin | ... event is described primarily in the Poetic Edda. In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, | poses the question to Vafþrúðnir as to who of mankind will survive the Fim ... |
| Sigismund of Luxembourg | ... s passed despite the fact that Hus was granted formal protection by Emperor | prior to the journey. Hus was invited to attend the council to defend hims ... |
| Philip the Fair | ... as "his wilderness", had a country house and a hospital constructed there. | was born there in 1268 and died there in 1314. In all, thirty-four soverei ... |
| Emperor of Ethiopia | ... st 1975), born Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and | from 1930 to 1974. He was the heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to ... |
| Emperor Montoku | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Seishi (源済子), daughter of | Nyōgo: Minamoto no Sadako (源貞子) (?–873 |
| 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 ... |
| Berengaria of Navarre | ... l out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry | , breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. P ... |
| Huneric | ... ybrius for the purple; the reason for this decision was that Gaiseric's son | and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III (Petronius' ... |
| Robert I of Scotland | ... connotation is still ethnic. This is how it is used, for instance, by King | and Domhnall Ua Néill during the Scottish Wars of Independence, when Irela ... |
| President of the Republic of China | ... politician of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan). He was the | and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He presided over m ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | | showed his own admiration for Benedict XV following his election to the Pa ... |
| Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh | ... ower. The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son | (who calls himself "The Black Adder") in his various attempts to increase ... |
| Emperor | ... ed Kingdom of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of | Napoleon was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Angl ... |
| Avitus | ... as a fast succession of Emperors. After Petronius, the Gallic-Roman senator | was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two ... |
| Wenceslaus | ... his wife Drahomíra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, | and Boleslaus, both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, ... |
| John Adams | ... emselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. | put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration ... |
| Irving Fisher | ... n mainstream neo-classical economics, NPV was formalized and popularized by | , in his 1907 The Rate of Interest and became included in textbooks from t ... |
| Theodoric II | ... the Gallic-Roman senator Avitus was proclaimed Emperor by the Visigoth king | and ruled for two years, then was deposed by Majorian, who ruled for four ... |
| Boleslaus | ... íra, a Hevellian princess, Vratislaus had at least two sons, Wenceslaus and | , both of whom succeeded him as Bohemian dukes. Střezislava, the wife of t ... |
| Titus | Jews led into captivity after the destruction of Jerusalem by | and Vespasian, and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew name into its l ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
| Cipriano Castro | ... portant at this stage are: Marshal Juan Crisóstomo Falcón, General in Chief | , Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual |
| Augustus | ... to Bohemia, where their king Maroboduus established a powerful kingdom that | perceived as a threat to Rome. Before he could act, however, the war in Il ... |
| Béla III of Hungary | ... f 2,000 men from the Hungarian prince Géza, the younger brother of the king | also went with Barbarossa to the Holy Land |
| Narai | ... as one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the East. The court of King | (1656–88) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose am ... |
| Emperor Kammu | ... rincess Hanshi (班子女王) (833–900), daughter of Imperial Prince Nakano (son of | |
| Benito Juárez | ... the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. He had also pleaded for | to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no av ... |
| David | ... ng it the final book of the Jewish bible). Chronicles largely parallels the | ic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings. In the Roman ... |
| William the Lion, King of Scotland | ... as described as "very strong". It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by | and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick. E ... |
| Napoleon | ... om of the Netherlands. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor | was defeated by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied ... |
| Melchior Ndadaye | ... t, non-ethnic government, and a parliament. Burundi's first Hutu president, | , of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi (FRODEBU) Party, wa ... |
| Frederick II | ... t of endless intrigues with the Austrian cabinet and the immediate cause of | 's League of Princes (Fürstenbund) of 1785, was to exchange Bavaria for th ... |
| Václav Havel | ... VPN) and the Civic Forum. On the night of 24 November, Dubček appeared with | on a balcony overlooking Wenceslas Square, He was greeted with uproarious ... |
| Emperor Maximilian | ... e, the functions of the Fehmic courts were superseded. By the action of the | and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more rest ... |
| Salvador Allende | ... o manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government of | in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridg ... |
| Louis XIV | ... rom great territorial nobles, some of whom were leaders of the Fronde. When | became king in 1643, he was only a child, and though Richelieu had died th ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
| Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... dren lived in Washington, D.C., where she struck up a close friendship with | . She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne |
| Governor Steve Beshear | ... oup". In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge | to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the st ... |
| Charles II of England | ... been made official by law. Virginia was given the title "Dominion" by King | at the time of The Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown ... |
| Wendell Corey | ... nwriter John Michael Hayes based on his own wife, and his policeman buddy ( | ) to his theory, and eventually succeeds. As with Lifeboat and Rope, the p ... |
| Emperor Ankan | Among his sons, | , Emperor Senka and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
| Majorian | ... the Visigoth king Theodoric II and ruled for two years, then was deposed by | , who ruled for four years, before being killed by his general Ricimer (46 ... |
| Louis XIV of France | ... East. The court of King Narai (1656–88) had strong links with that of King | , whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris |
| Emperor Montoku | Seiwa was the fourth son of | . His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Akirakeiko (明子), also called ... |
| Emperor Kimmei | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, Emperor Senka and | ascended to the throne |
| Conrad of Montferrat | ... in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang (227 BC). In 1192, | , the de facto King of Jerusalem, was assassinated by hashshashin |
| Maximilian I of Mexico | ... e had also pleaded for Benito Juárez to spare the recently captured emperor | but to no avail. His complete archives (published by Pauvert) show also th ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... f the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to | , the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son. The ... |
| Penda of Mercia | ... n which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria again was divided into Bernicia and Deira. Bernicia was then ... |
| Kingdom of Cochin | ... ains and left for Mecca to embrace Islam. This place was later ruled by the | (Perumpadapu Swaroopam). During the time of the Chera ruler, Kodungallur w ... |
| Charles I | ... they had moved to a position in the inner ward. Political tensions between | and Parliament in the second quarter of the 17th century led to an attempt ... |
| Stanley Baldwin | ... itain, and perhaps the world, who did not agree with British Prime Minister | 's 1932 declaration that "The bomber will always get through". He conceive ... |
| Emperor Senka | Among his sons, Emperor Ankan, | and Emperor Kimmei ascended to the throne |
| Michael Wilding | ... ee County co-star and close friend Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, | . Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the accident, Taylor rac ... |
| Joseph Gutnick | Soon after Rabbi Schneerson's death, philanthropist | of Melbourne, Australia established the Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch Center on Fr ... |
| R.A. Fisher | ... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by | . In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing with | pointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ... |
| Antoninus Pius | ... r Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of | , his successor and adoptive son. The Emperor meditates on his past, descr ... |
| Dowager Empress | ... reform in reviving monasticism; a negative example would be the role of the | in the subjugation of China to European interests). Within nationalist mov ... |
| Cyprien Ntaryamira | ... The Rwandan Genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor | , further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massac ... |
| Vespasian | and | , and, at a later date, translated its Hebrew nam |
| Malcolm IV of Scotland | Clan Ross is a Highland Scottish clan first named as such by King | in 1160. The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O'Beo ... |
| John | ... ord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert Fitzwalter against King | in 1212. In response, John ordered the demolition of Alnwick Castle and Ba ... |
| Saul | ... ic periods. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of | and David's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
| Alfred of Wessex | ... thern England, where Jorvic had become the centre of the Viking kingdom but | managed to keep them out of his country. Alfred and his successors continu ... |
| Pierre Buyoya | ... operated under a power-sharing political system until July 1996, when Tutsi | seized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ar himself. Nehemiah Clark, of the cast, expressed disapproval of President | and the Iraq War, coming into conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Ir ... |
| Pope John Paul II | The visit of | to Ireland in September proved to be a welcome break for Lynch from the da ... |
| Conrad of Montferrat | ... reduced by fever. Young Frederick had to ask the assistance of his kinsman | to lead him safely to Acre, by way of Tyre, where his father's bones were ... |
| Emperor Wu of Han | ... of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to | . His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography |
| David | ... s. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of Saul and | 's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
| King Richard III | ... Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that | won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and ... |
| Charles II, Duke of Zweibrücken | ... dren to the status of princes of the Empire. The protests of the next heir, | (Deux-Ponts), supported by the king of Prussia, led to the War of Bavarian ... |
| Juan Crisóstomo Falcón | ... political figures) of the Army's most important at this stage are: Marshal | , General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and ... |
| Oscar Temaru | On September 14, 2007, | , 63, was elected president of French Polynesia for the 3rd time in 3 year ... |
| Alexander II of Scotland | Ferquhard Ross helped King | (1214–1249) crush a rebellion in Moray and Ross-shire. When King Alexander ... |
| Alberto Fujimori | ... he vote, Vargas Llosa was defeated by a then-unknown agricultural engineer, | , in the subsequent run-off. Vargas Llosa included an account of his run f ... |
| Abba Eban | ... n. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister | , and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 48 hours, Israel offered to c ... |
| Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
| Pope Pius XI | ... was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in 1936 under its current name by | and is placed under the protection of the reigning Pope). Its aim is to pr ... |
| Gerald R. Ford, Jr. | ... mains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, President | , spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congres ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... 000 hands in a single day, breaking the record previously held by President | , who had set the record with 8,513 handshakes at a White House reception ... |
| Clement Attlee | British Prime Minister | commented in the House of Commons |
| Gabriel Narutowicz | ... governments changed frequently, corruption was commonplace. The open-minded | was constitutionally elected president by the National Assembly in 1922, b ... |
| Roman Emperor | ... ted the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the | Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of ... |
| David Geffen | ... es, plus the return of bassist Neil Murray in place of Hodgkinson, producer | insisted that the album be remixed for the US release. In addition to the ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ... |
| Augustus | ... d others) competing with Rome in the 1st century BC. By the time of Emperor | , present-day Italy was included in the Roman Italy (Italia) as a province ... |
| John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
| Henry II of England | ... ristians across Europe. The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. | and Philip II of France ended their war with each other, and both imposed ... |
| Munju of Baekje | ... 곤지, 昆支). If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from | |
| Francisco Franco | ... extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with | accepting the honorary patronage of the |
| Prince Edmund | ... der character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling | of the first series. To make the show more cost-effective, it was also sho ... |
| Jérôme Bonaparte | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were finally abolished by order of | , king of Westphalia, in 1811 |
| Walter O'Malley | ... ying at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan. After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner | decided to move the team to Los Angeles for financial reasons, among other ... |
| Philip II of France | ... The cry went up for a new crusade to the Holy Land. Henry II of England and | ended their war with each other, and both imposed a "Saladin tithe" on the ... |
| Eleazar López Contreras | ... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chief | and Division General Isaías Medina Angarita |
| Henry I | ... rt de Beaumont, Count of Meulan held the principal manor of Napton. In 1107 | made de Beaumont Earl of Leicester and de Beaumont's manor at Napton becam ... |
| Ranjit Singh | ... hem, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, | , as his governor in the Punjab. This "one-eyed" warrior would later becom ... |
| Sir Francis Bacon | The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by | . The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New ... |
| Charlemagne | ... first documented use of the name Wiesbaden is by Einhard, the biographer of | , whose writings mention "Wisabada" sometime between 828 and 830 |
| Hadrian | ... nd death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor | , who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antonin ... |
| Charles Theodore | ... ved with joy by the long-suppressed Liberals, and laid siege to Ingolstadt. | , who had done nothing to prevent wars or to resist the invasion, fled to ... |
| Emperor Yōzei | ... ototsune was influential in the process by Kōkō became emperor. At the time | was deposed, Prince Tokiaytsu was already Governor of Hitachi and Chief Mi ... |
| Babur | ... ntres of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. The autobiography of Mughal emperor | , Tuzk Babari was also written in Turkish |
| Emperor Ankan | ... hes of the Yamato, pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as | and Emperor Senka against those who were backers of the son who would beco ... |
| Maximilian IV | ... gain occupied the country, in preparation for renewing the war with France. | Joseph (of Zweibrücken) the new elector succeeded to a difficult inheritan ... |
| Bob McNamara | ... t difficult unless you want to 'kiss his behind' all the time. That is what | suggested to me...if I wanted to get along. |
| Emperor Wu of Han | ... logers. His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of | (Emperor "Han Wudi"). His main responsibilities were managing the imperial ... |
| Juan Domingo Perón | ... rk in fact existed, and in Argentina was largely run by Argentine President | , a Nazi sympathiser who had been impressed by Mussolini's reign in Italy ... |
| Prince George of Denmark | ... treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt. This book offended | , the consort of Queen Anne; and the Danish Minister protested |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
| Frank Lloyd | Russell approached director | for help changing her image; but, instead of helping her, Lloyd cast her a ... |
| Wu Sangui | ... oncurrently the last Ming pretender had been captured and killed by General | , extinguishing any hope Koxinga may have had of re-establishing the Ming ... |
| Sparta | The polis of | was the greatest military land power of classical Greek antiquity. During ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under | and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ... |
| Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... tter dated July 25, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee wrote to American President | : "I am sure you will agree that the inhuman crime committed in Jerusalem ... |
| Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual | ... ón, General in Chief Cipriano Castro, Brigadier General Ezequiel Zamora and | |
| Isaac Newton | ... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712, | , then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ... |
| John Adams | ... from a lack of leadership after the death of Hamilton and the retirement of | , quickly declined; it revived briefly in opposition to the War of 1812, b ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States President | admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ... |
| Emperor Zeno | ... meaning "table" or "board", was a game mentioned in an epigram of Byzantine | (AD 476–481). It was similar to modern backgammon in that the object of th ... |
| Menelik I | ... c traditions, which hold that all monarchs must trace their lineage back to | , who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the ... |
| Euric | ... alled themselves in Tarraconensis (410) and when in 475 the Visigothic king | formed the kingdom of Tolosa (modern Toulouse, France), he incorporated th ... |
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| Prince of Wales | ... as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the | and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen ... |
| Emperor Senka | ... pitting the supporters of sons who would become known as Emperor Ankan and | against those who were backers of the son who would become known as Empero ... |
| Emperor of Japan | ... ective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the | in pre-Meiji eras |
| Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
| Princess of Wales | ... e journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the | , and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the ... |
| Victoria of the United Kingdom | He convinced the government of Queen | to spare the lives of six Irish people convicted of terrorist activities a ... |
| Cheraman Perumal | ... of Kerala with their capital at Vanchi. Kodungallur was also the capital of | , the last Chera ruler in the 7th century A.D. The legend is that he abdic ... |
| Przemysł II | ... ical reasons—became more common again in Western Europe. The reigns of King | of Poland (1296), William the Silent of the Netherlands (1584), and the Fr ... |
| Queen of Sheba | ... I, who in the Ethiopian tradition was the offspring of King Solomon and the | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... on of Indians from within the Congress Party, including C. Rajagopalachari, | , Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- who would later on c ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | In 1976, Colonel | took power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ... |
| Louis IX | ... during the 11th Century and became a favorite pastime of gamblers. In 1254, | issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing. ... |
| Eric Bloodaxe | ... d in stanzas of an anonymous 10th century poem commemorating the death of a | known as Eiríksmál as compiled in Fagrskinna. Valhalla has inspired variou ... |
| Oscar Temaru | | | |Tavini Huiraatir |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... about a century later the magistrates of the town obtained permission from | , to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1 ... |
| Petronius Maximus | ... soldiers who had served under Aetius, probably instigated by the Patricius | , who succeeded to obtain the throne. Petronius, who was a high-ranking im ... |
| Emperor Kimmei | ... r Senka against those who were backers of the son who would become known as | |
| Bob Guccione | Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by | , combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials t ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | The elderly | Frederick I Barbarossa responded to the call immediately. He took up the C ... |
| Juan Vicente Gómez | ... first half of the 20th century, is the political figure of General in Chief | , who originally based on the plans of General in Chief Cipriano Castro, b ... |
| Pierre Buyoya | In 1987, Major | overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ... |
| George W. Bush | ... have its citizens pass a resolution endorsing the impeachment of President | , and in 2011 it was one of thirteen Vermont towns isolated by flooding ca ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
| Edwin of Northumbria | ... of Deira (632–633 or 633–634) in northern England. He was a cousin of king | , being the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the fat ... |
| Nicole Fontaine | In April 2001, the president of the European Parliament | (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ... |
| Sennacherib | ... syrian vassalage, (despite a disastrous rebellion against the Assyrian king | ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, ... |
| King Christian X | He was the son of | of Denmark and Queen Alexandrine, born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fou ... |
| David I | ... in the service of Walter fitz Alan, who had been appointed Steward by King | |
| Sancho III of Navarre | ... ain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of | and Mayor of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of ... |
| Æthelric of Deira | ... e was a cousin of king Edwin of Northumbria, being the son of Edwin's uncle | . Osric was also the father of Oswine |
| Pope John Paul II | With the changes in the canonization process introduced by | in 1983, a College of Relators was added to prepare the cases of those dec ... |
| Princess Märtha of Sweden | On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin | with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. ... |
| Sancho VII | ... lians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under Peter II, Navarrese under | , and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Narbonne all flocked to the ef ... |
| Jogaila | Beginning with the Lithuanian Grand Duke | (Władysław II Jagiełło), the Jagiellon dynasty (1386–1572) formed the Poli ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... 5th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess | with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who bec ... |
| Cyrus | ... gly, one finds scenes of the exploits of Augustus, Alexander the Great, and | alluding to the deeds of Louis XIV (Lighthart, 1997; Sabatier, 1999). For ... |
| Alexandrine | He was the son of King Christian X of Denmark and Queen | , born Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the fourth Danish monarch of the House ... |
| Cadwallon ap Cadfan | After Edwin was killed in battle against | of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfr ... |
| Alexander III | When Wallace was growing up, King | ruled Scotland. His reign had seen a period of peace and economic stabilit ... |
| Lucius Tarquinius Priscus | In the early 6th century BC, during the reign of Rome's fifth king | , the Sabines attacked Rome. Tarquinius had been preparing to construct a ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
| Charles VIII | ... war with the League of the Public Weal. The matter became more urgent after | 's invasion of Italy (known as the First Peninsular War) |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when President | thanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs |
| Mary Robinson | ... led the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future President of Ireland | . The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro Life Campaig ... |
| Pope Paul VI | On 8 May 1969, | issued the Apostolic Constitution Sacra Rituum Congregatio, dividing it in ... |
| Licinius | # The status of the lapsed in the persecution under | The council was formally opened May 20, in the central structure of the im ... |
| Oswald of Bernicia | ... paganism that it was decided to add that year to the reign of the Christian | , who defeated Cadwallon and came to rule both Bernicia and Deira, so as t ... |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | ... 9 May 2000, the Lagos Guardian newspaper reported that the now ex-president | commuted to retirement the dismissal of all military persons who fought fo ... |
| Al Gore | ... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nominee | were colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... eece played an important role in the art of the western world. In the East, | 's conquests initiated several centuries of exchange between Greek, Centra ... |
| Peter II | ... gainst the Almohads. Castilians under Alfonso, Aragonese and Catalans under | , Navarrese under Sancho VII, and Franks under the archbishop Arnold of Na ... |
| Alfred the Great | ... dorus Siculus. Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians (e.g. | ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruct ... |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... ilt by Roger II of Sicily around 1131. Destroyed in 1156, it was rebuilt by | . The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibition ... |
| Mayor of Castile | ... carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and | , and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, ... |
| Eleanor | ... cultural achievement. His marriage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with | (Leonora), daughter of Henry II of England and , brought him under the inf ... |
| Bernard Kouchner | ... ivilians being murdered and starved by the blockading forces. French doctor | also witnessed these events, particularly the huge number of starving chil ... |
| President | The | is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ex officio. The military aut ... |
| Mirabeau B. Lamar | ... mission to seek a site for a new capital to be named for Stephen F. Austin. | , second president of the newly formed Republic of Texas, advised the comm ... |
| Crown Prince Frederick | ... was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of | and Princess Louise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise) ... |
| David | ... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, | and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ... |
| García Sánchez III of Navarre | ... e, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, | . While Ferdinand inaugurated the rule of the Navarrese Jiménez dynasty ov ... |
| Alexios III Angelos | ... e delivered this ultimatum to the Lombard envoy who was sent by the Emperor | , who was the pretender's uncle and had seized the throne from the pretend ... |
| Penda of Mercia | After Edwin was killed in battle against Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd and | , Northumbria fell into disarray, with Eanfrith taking power in the sub-ki ... |
| King Christian IX | ... lace in Kongens Lyngby on Zealand during the reign of his great-grandfather | . His father was Prince Christian of Denmark (later King Christian X), the ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... a movie based on the book. The cast included Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, | and Betty Field. The suit worn by Ronald Reagan in the film is on display ... |
| Stanisław Poniatowski | In 1764 Catherine placed | , her former lover, on the Polish throne. Although the idea of partitionin ... |
| Hugh Hefner | ... s article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul | , claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, P ... |
| Saul | ... break-up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by | , David and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. Aft ... |
| Emperor Charles V | ... after the birth in Flanders of Joanna and Philip's second child (the future | ), the succession to the Castilian and Aragonese crowns was thrown into tu ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice President | said, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ... |
| Edward, the Black Prince | ... ar withdraws at the last minute after learning his true identity is that of | (who assumed another identity hoping he will get a rare chance to compete ... |
| Taytu Betul | ... rt. By the first days of January, Emperor Menelik, accompanied by his Queen | , had led large forces into Tigray, and besieged the Italians for 15 days ... |
| Queen Margaret | ... e Lancastrians and the Yorkists. With the mental collapse of King Henry VI, | used the Duchy of Lancaster lands in the Midlands, including Kenilworth, a ... |
| Prince Christian of Denmark | ... during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX. His father was | (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and Pri ... |
| Haakon VII of Norway | ... , Prince of Denmark. He was given the name Olav when his father became King | in 1905 |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... lizabeth would make him a Prince and Field Marshal on becoming Empress. The | would also make Razumovsky a Count of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Sir Hans Sloane | ... al museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist | (1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable ... |
| Edward III of England | ... ly associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), | sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and ... |
| John Adams | ... . On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of | of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of V ... |
| Charles, duke of Lorraine | ... le de Montpensier, while the archduke took more fortresses in Flanders, and | , with an army of plundering mercenaries, marched through Champagne to joi ... |
| Rehoboam | ... of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept | , the son of Solomon, as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah rem ... |
| Lech Wałęsa | ... 1946 address built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: | , Margaret Thatcher, Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, Geo ... |
| Ludwig I of Bavaria | ... mples of the latter include the Walhalla temple built by Leo von Klenze for | between 1830–1847 near Regensburg, Germany, and the Tresco Abbey Gardens V ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
| King George II | ... ot wishing to see his collection broken up after death, he bequeathed it to | , for the nation, for the princely sum of £20,000 |
| Edward, the Black Prince | ... ghthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, | , to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, ... |
| Frederick III | ... ties of the Franc (Flanders), nor Imperial support from Maximilian's father | proving decisive. Both sides came to terms in the Peace of Senlis in 1493, ... |
| Wilhelm II | ... elves at the front of the movement, and on 7 November, demanded that Kaiser | abdicate. When he refused, Prince Max of Baden simply announced that he ha ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... increasing grounds within the Congress leadership. Under the presidency of | at its historic Lahore session in December 1929, the Indian National Congr ... |
| McKinley | ... ed the first phones in Burke and his stables housed the horses of President | and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Produce from his farm was transport ... |
| Henry VII | ... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of | at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... ll but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democrat | over Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ... |
| Tiberius | ... dici, or veterinarians. Using these stations in chariot relays, the emperor | hastened in 24 hours to join his brother, Drusus Germanicus, who was dying ... |
| Solomon | ... United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, David and | , which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the northern tri ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... een chosen as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Commander, US General | , during D-Day |
| Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
| William, Prince of Orange | ... should the battle be lost. They were mostly composed of Dutch troops under | 's younger brother Prince Frederik of the Netherlands |
| Sterling Hayden | It starred | and Huston's personal friend, Sam Jaffe. It also became the first serious ... |
| Humayun | ... ammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan, an adversary of the Mughal emperor | , was content if Bengal was given to him in return of the emperor retainin ... |
| Motilal Nehru | ... esistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under | to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian Na ... |
| Augustus | ... der the empire, one public and one private. The Cursus publicus, founded by | , carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. ... |
| Alfred | Much of what is known about Asser comes from his biography of | , in particular a short section in which Asser recounts how Alfred recruit ... |
| Jehoash of Judah | ... ise had prophetic powers. And thinking a child of seven – the age of Joas ( | ) in the Second Book of Kings – too young to have the part given him in At ... |
| James Madison | ... the area was organized to form Madison County. The name was chosen to honor | , who had been the two-term President of the United States up until two ye ... |
| Tullus Hostilius | In the 7th century BC, during the reign of Rome's third king | , the Sabines and the Romans again warred. The pretexts for the war were, ... |
| Casimir IV Jagiellon | ... tle of Žalgiris) (1410) and in 1466 the milestone Peace of Thorn under King | ; the treaty created the future Duchy of Prussia. In the south, Poland con ... |
| Babur | The sovereign's name was also declared in khutbas during the Mughal rule | ;was styled 'Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad' during Friday khutbas. Sher Khan ... |
| George Washington | ... on. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who was a personal bodyguard to Gen. | at Valley Forge. He was also one of the pioneers at Fort Boonesborough in ... |
| John Major | ... lack of responsiveness in the quality of public services. The government of | sought to tackle this with a Citizen's Charter programme. This sought to e ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, | of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ... |
| Emperor Henry III | ... ed, in Juan de Mariana, who wrote that in 1055, at a synod in Florence, the | urged Victor II to prohibit under severe penalties the use of the imperial ... |
| Emilio Aguinaldo | In the hunt for the Guerrilla General | American troops also poisoned water wells to try to force out the Filipino ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... istic slab of stone.” James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under President | , initially refused to issue a building permit for the memorial due to the ... |
| Numa Pompilius | ... n customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by | , second king of Rome and a Sabine |
| Arthur Goldberg | ... eral wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, William Brennan, and | . They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congress. Yet while he oft ... |
| Solomon | ... te tribes. After the northern tribes refused to accept Rehoboam, the son of | , as their king. At first, only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the h ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, President | informed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ... |
| Haakon VII of Norway | ... nderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King | and Queen Maud of Norway. At birth Olav was given the names Alexander Edwa ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... eer among other animals, is located on property formerly owned by president | in the period between the Mexican War and the Civil War |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Count Roger I | Agrigento was captured by the Normans under | in 1087, who established a Latin bishopric there. The population declined ... |
| Isaiah Berlin | According to | , Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to bu ... |
| Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. The son of | , Philip inherited the greater part of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Burgu ... |
| Hezekiah | ... s that they failed to enforce worship of Yahweh alone. Of the "good" kings, | (727–698 BCE) is noted for his efforts at stamping out idolatry (in this c ... |
| William III of Orange | ... ampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for | . The maze covers a third of an acre and contains half a mile of paths. It ... |
| Thomas R. Pickering | ... squads' ... I'd repudiate him instantly." Helms opposed the appointment of | as Ambassador to El Salvador. alleged that the CIA had interfered in the S ... |
| Henry III | In 1585 Pasquier was appointed by | advocate-general at the Paris cours des comptes, an important body having ... |
| Louis XIII of France | ... ld at that point become overwhelming in the empire triggered France, led by | and Cardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's ... |
| Richard Holbrooke | ... In late 2009 Raphel was (again) appointed to the Af-Pak region as deputy to | , the US. Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, by the Obama ... |
| Mahinthrathirat | ... der in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's eldest son | installed as the vassal king. In 1568, Mahinthrathirat revolted when his f ... |
| Henry II | ... 16 against King John, it was Blanche's English ancestry as granddaughter to | that led to Louis being offered the throne of England as Louis I. However, ... |
| Andrés Manuel López Obrador | ... Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City. In 2000, PRD's | became the second democratically elected mayor of Mexico City. López Obrad ... |
| Ian Fleming | Amis became associated with | 's James Bond novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he ... |
| Leopold II | ... the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of Joseph II and | , who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise for the Czech ... |
| King George V | Guisborough has a King George's Field in memory of | , and the town's football team Guisborough Town FC plays on the King Georg ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... leaders at state events, such as the state funerals of John F. Kennedy and | , the summits of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the 1971 celebration of the ... |
| Harald V | ... died in the evening of a myocardial infarction. An interview given by King | , and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parl ... |
| Queen Margrethe II | He was succeeded by his eldest daughter, | . Queen Ingrid survived her husband by 28 years. She died on 7 November 20 ... |
| Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin | After her affair with her lover and adviser | ended in 1776, he allegedly selected a candidate-lover for her who had the ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... and his stables housed the horses of President McKinley and Vice President | . Produce from his farm was transported to Georgetown where it became part ... |
| Charles I | The sole reason | assembled Parliament in 1640 was to ask it to pass finance bills, since th ... |
| Maha Chakkraphat | ... but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King Bayinnaung forced King | to surrender in 1564. The royal family was taken to Pegu, with the king's ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... This made a perfect place to build an irrigation system. In 1902 President | signed the Reclamation Act, and in 1906 the Sun River Irrigation Project w ... |
| Hubert Humphrey | ... r assaulted. An invitation was extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President | , but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Hum ... |
| Gyges | ... hese in the Greek tradition are associated with Sardis, the capital city of | , constructed in the 7th century BC |
| Charles I | ... the higher proportion of Calvinists and other Reformed churches, as well as | 's refusal to take up the case of some Guernsey seamen who had been captur ... |
| George Washington | ... built the first water-works in America to pump water for public use. While | and his troops stayed in Valley Forge, Washington stored his personal effe ... |
| Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
| Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
| Urraca | ... of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and John of England, Blanche's sister | was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother Eleanor of Aquitai ... |
| Henry V of England | ... fe of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King | , focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt ... |
| Peter III | ... rts during the reign of Catherine. Under her leadership, she completed what | had started; the church’s lands were appropriated, and the budget of both ... |
| Joseph II | ... ace German as the language of administration. The enlightened absolutism of | and Leopold II, who introduced minor language concessions, showed promise ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... sville was the Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. | 's 1864 Overland Campaign. This was fought over the same ground as the Bat ... |
| Henry IV of France | ... ardinal Richelieu, to enter the war on the Protestant side. (Louis's father | had once been a Huguenot leader.) In 1635 Ferdinand signed his last import ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... 3, the emperor was among other heads of state, including France's President | , who traveled to Washington D.C. and attended the funeral of assassinated ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader | and his liberal outlook for the country. He felt differently about the Mus ... |
| Edward VI | ... o prominence under Henry VIII and became the leading political figure under | . Dudley was a patron of John Shute, an early exponent of classical archit ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... of Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands (as Philip IV) from his mother, | , and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen Jo ... |
| Isaac II Angelos | ... ilip's brother-in-law and the son of the recently deposed Byzantine emperor | . Alexios had recently fled to Philip in 1201 but it is unknown whether or ... |
| Queen Victoria | In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of | , the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The h ... |
| Bayinnaung | ... ith an invasion in 1548 but failed. The second Burmese invasion led by King | forced King Maha Chakkraphat to surrender in 1564. The royal family was ta ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ublican for President in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, | and John McCain swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 pe ... |
| Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | ... uise of Sweden (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was | , a daughter of Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ... |
| Achilles | Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of | |
| Alejandro Toledo | ... t in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for | (Peruvian former president 2001-2006). After cast his vote, he said his co ... |
| Ronald Reagan | McCain's politics at this point were mainly in line with President | , including support for Reaganomics, and he was active on Indian Affairs b ... |
| Raymond Gubbay | Many events are promoted by the Hall themselves, whilst | promotes over 70 events a year, having brought a range of events since the ... |
| Henry VIII | ... ntly and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son, | , decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He aband ... |
| Bill Richardson | ... e, Assistant Secretary of State Rick Indefurth and American U.N. Ambassador | flew to northern Afghanistan and tried to convince the leadership of the U ... |
| Henry | ... 1216, the barons changed their allegiance to John's son, the nine-year-old | |
| Alyattes | ... by Mysia, Caria, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of | and Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, whi ... |
| Brian Epstein | ... oined her and tried to kiss her until she (in her words) "pushed him away". | 's personal assistant, Peter Brown, maintains that Cynthia did sleep with ... |
| Uzziah | ... Kirjath-jearim to Mount Zion (1 Chr. 13; 15:2–24; 16:4–43; comp. 2 Sam. 6), | 's tzaraas (commonly translated as "leprosy") and its cause (2 Chr. 26:16– ... |
| Clement Attlee | ... egion and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to | appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... ed in that they are "doing God's work" by ridding the world of LGBT people. | , the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has stoked this sentiment as wel ... |
| Philip of Swabia | ... while, had left the fleet before it sailed from Venice, to visit his cousin | . The reasons for his visit are a matter of debate; he may have realized t ... |
| John Major | ... as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir | was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's hu ... |
| Ferdinand II of León | ... houses of Lara and Castro both claimed the regency, as did the boy's uncle, | . In 1159 the young Alfonso was put briefly in the custody of García Garcé ... |
| King Charles I | ... te. This unfortunate quarrel became the fruitful source of infinite evil to | and to his government. Two parties were formed in the cabinet, and through ... |
| Emperor Xiaowu of Liu Song | ... thematics. When he was only a youth his talent earned him much repute. When | heard of him, he was sent to an Academy, the Hualin Xuesheng (華林學省), and l ... |
| James Bond | Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's | novels, which he greatly admired, in the late 1960s, when he began composi ... |
| Marie-Louise | ... apartments were, however, arranged and decorated for the use of the empress | . The emperor chose to reside at the Grand Trianon. The château continued ... |
| Sir Hans Sloane | ... ed in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist | . The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu Hous ... |
| John Stockwell | ... i Kotoka and the National Liberation Council. Several commentators, such as | , have claimed the coup received support from the CIA |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
| Oswine | ... ng the son of Edwin's uncle Æthelric of Deira. Osric was also the father of | |
| Charles II | ... handed over to England, as promised, so flying the St George's Cross until | sold it to the king of France in 1662 |
| Josiah | ... E), revived idolatry, drawing down on the kingdom the anger of Yahweh. King | (640–609 BCE) returned to the worship of Yahweh alone, but his efforts wer ... |
| Sancho III of Castile | Alfonso was born to | and Blanche, daughter of García Ramírez of Navarre, in Soria on 11 Novembe ... |
| Zakir Hussain | Dr | the former President of India once told to Milad Mehfil in Monghyar on Nov ... |
| Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
| John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
| Louis VIII | ... arch 1188 – 26 November 1252), was a Queen consort of France as the wife of | . She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX |
| Charles Martel | ... 17, had achieved complete independence from the feeble Frankish kings. When | became the virtual ruler of the Frankish realm he brought the Bavarians in ... |
| Andrew Huxley | ... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, | , and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ... |
| Leopold I | ... the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
| Gregory Peck | ... r his father, Walter Huston. However, his father died in 1950, and he chose | to play the starring role of Captain Ahab. The movie was filmed over a thr ... |
| Ferdinand II | After Emperor | began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohem ... |
| Ragnhild | ... ncess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, Harald, and two daughters, | and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the R ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Carter, then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity | ;was elected as his successor using a specifically Christian discourse |
| Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark | ... holas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather | , the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) and hi ... |
| Cyrus the Great | The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of | , the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE; this sets an earliest ... |
| George I | ... five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Queen Anne and | ; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
| Solomonic dynasty | ... ts acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the | |
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| Queen Anne | ... example of the five original towers; Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for | and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls |
| Manasseh of Judah | ... erah, among other traditional Near Eastern divinities), but his successors, | (698–642 BCE) and Amon (642–640 BCE), revived idolatry, drawing down on th ... |
| Michael Heseltine | Meanwhile | had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( ... |
| Henry IV | ... d at Tours, working steadily at his great book, but he returned to Paris in | 's train in March 1594. He continued until 1604 at his work in the chambre ... |
| Naresuan | ... ated Burmese invasions (1584–1593), capped by an elephant duel between King | and Burmese heir-apparent Mingyi Swa in 1593 in which Naresuan famously sl ... |
| Eleanor of England | With | he had 11 children |
| Ahmed Sékou Touré | ... ican unity. He lived in exile in Conakry, Guinea, as the guest of President | , who made him honorary co-president of the country. He read, wrote, corre ... |
| Elizabeth I | ... son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, in 1563, four years after the succession of | to the throne. Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £500–£ ... |
| Harald | ... arried his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had one son, | , and two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid. As exiles during World War II, C ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... s of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, concluding with the call by | for the exiles to return to their land |
| Princess Louise of Sweden | ... mark (later King Christian X), the eldest son of Crown Prince Frederick and | (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). His mother was Alexandrine o ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ed rapidly during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after | , Karol Wojtyła Airport, with connections to several European cities |
| Manuel A. Odría | ... the Cathedral is based on the tyrannical dictatorship of Peruvian President | . The protagonist, Santiago, rebels against the suffocating dictatorship b ... |
| Queen Mary | ... egan the process of modernising Kenilworth. Before his execution in 1553 by | for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the ... |
| Stanisław Poniatowski | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British ambassador to Russia, offered | a place in the embassy, in return for gaining Catherine as an ally. Poniat ... |
| Henry I | ... fonso died at Gutierre-Muñoz and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, | , named after his maternal grandfather |
| Prince Carl of Denmark | ... in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to | and Princess Maud of Wales, (daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kin ... |
| Endelkachew Makonnen | ... television to agree to the army's demands for still greater pay, and named | as his new Prime Minister. However, despite Endalkatchew's many concession ... |
| Henry | ... to Italy in 1605, and during 1611–12 arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to | , the Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, whi ... |
| Ferdinand | ... g year, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind in Madrid, where she gave birth to | , later Holy Roman Emperor. Philip's life with Joanna was rendered extreme ... |
| Qazan | ... aravan route between Balkh and Bukhara. The Chagatai Mongol khans Kebek and | built palaces here on the site of Genghis Khan's summer pasture. In 1364, ... |
| Philip Augustus | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between | and John of England, Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism. | , then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ... |
| Alexios III Angelos | ... of the Pope if they would sail to Byzantium and topple the reigning emperor | , brother of Isaac II. It was a tempting offer for an enterprise that was ... |
| Eanfrith | ... Cadfan of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia, Northumbria fell into disarray, with | taking power in the sub-kingdom of Bernicia and Osric taking power in Deir ... |
| García Ramírez of Navarre | Alfonso was born to Sancho III of Castile and Blanche, daughter of | , in Soria on 11 November 1155. He was named after his grandfather Alfonso ... |
| Constantine the Great | The reign of | saw the division of the Empire into its Eastern and Western halves, as wel ... |
| Maha Thammarachathirat | ... The ensuing third invasion captured Ayutthaya in 1569, and Bayinnaung made | vassal king |
| James Bond | The charred wreck was featured in the 1974 | movie The Man with the Golden Gun, as a covert headquarters for MI6 |
| Gregory Peck | ... ick, which was faithfully based on the novel by Herman Melville and starred | as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and Orson Welles as Father M ... |
| Eleanor of England | ... ncia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, king of Castile, and | . Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| Pharaoh | ... ngholds, along with fortified cities. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign | Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Reaganomics, a term popularized during the Presidential administrations of | . This theory holds that reduced income tax rates increase GDP growth and ... |
| Rehoboam | ... petual war between them. Israel and Judah were in a state of war throughout | 's seventeen year reign. Rehoboam built elaborate defenses and strongholds ... |
| Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf | ... 1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter of | (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, Princess Margar ... |
| George Drew | ... o victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by | . The Liberals won 190 seats—the most in Canadian history at the time, and ... |
| Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
| Alfonso VIII | She was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of | , king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry ... |
| Joachim Murat | ... o a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat quarter (erected by | ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-p ... |
| Edward the Confessor | ... s The Last English King (2000), by Julian Rathbone (where he is depicted as | 's catamite), Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ... |
| President of Ireland | ... hoice lobby group called the Anti-Amendment Campaign, which included future | Mary Robinson. The Pro Life Amendment Campaign subsequently became the Pro ... |
| Elizabeth Stuart | ... ian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popular | and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen ... |
| Frederick V | ... g Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618. Elector | of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Protestant, was elected by the Bohe ... |
| Sparta | ... other account mentioned in Dionysius's work, a group of Lacedaemonians fled | since they regarded the laws of Lycurgus as too severe. In Italy, they fou ... |
| Louis IX | ... wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, | |
| Atys | ... the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus (Λυδός), son of | , in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty. T ... |
| Hein Verbruggen | ... about this, suggested that high IOC officials (probably including the Dutch | and IOC Director of the Olympic Games, Gilbert Felli, and most likely with ... |
| James Bond | ... ived in Llandaff, Shirley Bassey is familiar to many as the singer of three | movie theme tunes, while Charlotte Church is famous as a crossover classic ... |
| 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 ... |
| Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
| Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
| Malcolm III of Scotland | ... ted him decisively. Deserted by his men, he fled to his sworn brother, King | . Tostig spent the summer of 1066 in Scotland |
| Cloris Leachman | ... ademy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues, for | and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories. Bogdanovich co-wrote ... |
| Caroline of Brunswick | ... uccessful mediation attempts between King George IV, and his estranged wife | , who had sought her rights as queen. Nevertheless, Wilberforce still hope ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... y saw election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Re ... |
| Rhys Gryg | ... Britons and its southern part soon became Anglicised. In 1215 a local lord, | of Deheubarth claimed control of the peninsula, but in 1220 he ceded contr ... |
| Charles II | ... which related unfavourable anecdotes about the prospective king of England, | . In July 1660, following the Restoration, a royalist tract called The Pic ... |
| Chakravartin | ... peared. The king was considered chakkraphat, the Sanskrit-Pali term for the | who through his adherence to the law made all the world revolve around him ... |
| Carl Bildt | The term was coined by Swedish Prime Minister | in a debate against the opposition leader Ingvar Carlsson 1994 |
| Henrietta Maria | ... brother, Charles. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, | ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave ... |
| Painter | ... togonia and 48 in oogonia, concluding an XX/XO sex determination mechanism. | in 1922 was not certain whether the diploid number of humans was 46 or 48, ... |
| Sigismund I the Old | ... e. The European Renaissance currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings | and Sigismund II Augustus) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lit ... |
| President | ... he Court, Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by | Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual ancho ... |
| Louis the German | ... ngian empire. Given at the partition of 817 to the king of the East Franks, | , Bavaria formed part of the larger territories confirmed to him in 843 by ... |
| Rafael Trujillo | ... lides da Cunha in 1902. The Feast of the Goat, based on the dictatorship of | , takes place in the Dominican Republic; in preparation for this novel, Va ... |
| Perseus | ... he bore him a son named Oenopion, but he committed suicide or was killed by | . In some variants, he had her crown put into the heavens as the constella ... |
| Olav IV | ... was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since | , and his parents made sure he was given as Norwegian an upbringing as pos ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, | , Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Part ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... antium Cura) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Council, established by | on June 28, 1988, is dedicated to the spiritual welfare of migrant and peo ... |
| Theodosius I | ... y BCE. The last recorded response was given during AD 393, when the emperor | ordered pagan temples to cease operation |
| George W. Bush | ... received 51.5% of the vote here (3,333 ballots cast), outpolling Republican | , who received 47.8% of the vote (3,092 ballots), with 6,475 of the 7,931 ... |
| Clement Attlee's | St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister | proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white domini ... |
| Emperor Shao | ... ately two thousand eunuchs were killed. Zhang Rang had previously fled with | (r. 189 CE) and his brother Liu Xie—the future Emperor Xian of Han (r. 189 ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... g monarch in Spain. He never inherited his father's territories, nor became | , because he predeceased his father, but his son Emperor Charles V eventua ... |
| President | ... nized in 1830 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later | ) Martin Van Buren |
| Robert | In 1803 their son | was born, and in 1804 they moved to West Moor, near Killingworth while Geo ... |
| Ingrid of Sweden | Instead, he married Princess | (1910–2000) at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. She was a daughter ... |
| Jeroboam | ... efforts to bring Israel under his control. He waged a major battle against | of Israel and was victorious with a heavy loss of life on the Israel side; ... |
| Octavian | ... the Roman Republic. It was a naval engagement fought between the forces of | and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, | , George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House ... |
| Duke of Cumberland | ... uding the Queen's Staircase, (1733) and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the | . Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rth to a baby boy in 1716. Unfortunately, he died soon after. A year later, | , his elder surviving child, was born. At her baptismal ceremony, contempo ... |
| Ronald Reagan | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, | , Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's ... |
| Grand Duke Paul | ... s a Regent or as an usurper, tolerable only during the minority of her son, | . In the 1770s, a group of nobles connected with Paul (Nikita Panin and ot ... |
| Henry VIII of England | The future King | met Philip the Handsome on a visit Philip made to Henry's father's court i ... |
| Marcus Claudius Tacitus | ... that there was an interregnum between Aurelian's death and the election of | as his successor. Additionally, some of Ulpia's coins appear to have been ... |
| Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
| Otto III | ... ny-Anhalt). He is rumored to have been a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor | . At the age of six he was sent to be educated in Magdeburg, seat of Adalb ... |
| Diocletian | ... ragmentation of the decade in which he reigned. 20 years later the reign of | would fully restore stability and end the Crisis of the third century. The ... |
| Louis IX | # | (Poissy, 25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270, Tunis), King of France as success ... |
| Efraín Ríos Montt | | utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1982-3, resulting in t ... |
| King George VI | ... usiastic. It was St-Laurent who drafted the London Declaration, recognizing | as Head of the Commonwealth as a means of allowing India to remain in the ... |
| George W. Bush | ... presidential nomination in 2000 but lost a heated primary season contest to | . He secured the nomination in 2008 after coming back from early reversals ... |
| Prince of Wales | ... rth. Thereafter Gower remained beyond the reach of Llewelyn's successors as | ; but its population suffered at the hands of Rhys ap Maredudd during his ... |
| Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu | ... cile, on 26 May the Eastern region voted to secede from Nigeria. On 30 May, | , the Eastern Region's military governor, announced the Republic of Biafra ... |
| U.S. President | Since inception, 17 | s, 37 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1 NFL MVP, 1 Heisman Trophy winner, and ... |
| Empress He | General-in-Chief He Jin (d. 189 CE), half-brother to | (d. 189 CE), plotted with Yuan Shao (d. 202 ) to overthrow the eunuchs by ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
| Francisco Franco | ... Republic (founded 1931) in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) brought General | to power. Even though public use of the Catalan language was banned some p ... |
| Indira Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers | and her son Rajiv Gandhi (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, | and George W. Bush. The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority ... |
| Charles the Fat | ... ter his death in 880 it formed part of the extensive territories of Emperor | . This incompetent ruler left its defence to Arnulf, an illegitimate son o ... |
| Maria Anna | ... ed upset at the child's sex. The next year saw the arrival of another girl, | |
| Charles I's | ... ment was regarded as having been automatically dissolved from the moment of | execution on 30 January 1649. This view was confirmed by a court ruling du ... |
| Theseus | When | abandoned Ariadne sleeping on Naxos, Dionysus found and married her. She b ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
| Grace Kelly | ... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie ( | ) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... he murderers. Without a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President | dishonorably discharged the entire 167 member regiment due to their accuse ... |
| Hugh Hefner | ... ckers. Cigarette, liquor and car companies began to sponsor tournaments and | held backgammon parties at the Playboy Mansion. Backgammon clubs were form ... |
| Sigismund II Augustus | ... nce currents evoked in late Jagiellon Poland (kings Sigismund I the Old and | ) an immense cultural flowering. Poland's and Lithuania's territorial expa ... |
| Princess Margaret of Connaught | ... nce Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden) and his first wife, | . They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... elopment is part of the Curia of the Catholic Church. It was established by | on 15 July 1971 and is based in the Palazzo San Callisto, in Piazza San Ca ... |
| Charles II | ... during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem Shetland, without success, and | ratifying the pawning in the , explicitly exempting them from any "dissolu ... |
| Roger II of Sicily | The Norman | (1095–1154), employed a Greek Christian known as George of Antioch, who pr ... |
| emperor | In the hierarchical social order, the | was at the apex of Han society and government. However the emperor was oft ... |
| Percy Sutton | ... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was | , a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ... |
| Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
| Queen Anne | ... oak reredos in Baroque style carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of | . Opposite the altar, at first floor level, is the royal pew where the roy ... |
| Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
| 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 | |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | ... Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, popularly called 'The Black Scorpion' and later | . Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, Philip Effio ... |
| Hans Sloane | ... The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by | in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia ... |
| Valens | ... ed by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, Constantius II and | . Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues, and unsu ... |
| William Ewart Gladstone | ... s partner of Sir John Gladstones (sic), father of four times Prime Minister | . Gladstone junior was named after Ewart, his godfather |
| Theobald IV of Champagne | ... Still, Blanche had to break up a league of the barons (1226), and helped by | and the papal legate to France, Romano Bonaventura, she organized an army. ... |
| James I | ... after their father's death. Kenilworth remained a popular location for both | and Charles and accordingly was well maintained. The most famous royal vis ... |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ... House, the Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought and won by the Confederates. | sent Union General Frederick Steele to Brownsville to patrol the Mexican-A ... |
| Julian the Apostate | ... times re-establish paganism into the seat of the Emperor (see Arbogast and | ). Arians and Meletians soon regained nearly all of the rights they had lo ... |
| Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
| Bette Davis | In 1942, he directed two more hits, In This Our Life (1942), starring | , and Across the Pacific, another thriller starring Humphrey Bogart |
| John Adams | ... blockade of American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. | , a strong supporter of independence, believed that Parliament had effecti ... |
| Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
| Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg | ... wn in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after Prince | . The population was 107 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– ... |
| Owain Lawgoch | ... n 1372 the island was invaded by Aragonese mercenaries under the command of | (remembered as Yvon de Galles), who was in the pay of the French king. Law ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... ly is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by | on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta and substitut ... |
| Louis XIII | ... dua (where he attended Cesare Cremonini's lessons), and became physician to | |
| Hugo Chávez | ... criticism from the United States, which opposes the government of President | . The U.S. accuses Venezuela of starting an arms race, which they claim wi ... |
| Joanna of Castile | ... undy, and briefly succeeded to the Crown of Castile as the husband of Queen | , who was also heiress-presumptive to the Crown of Aragon. He was the firs ... |
| Bud Selig | ... ged again. Despite large fan support for overturning the call, commissioner | let the call stand, but said he would look into expanding instant replay f ... |
| Philip Effiong | ... segun Obasanjo. Ojukwu fled to the Ivory Coast, leaving his chief of staff, | , to act as the "officer administering the government". Effiong called for ... |
| Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | He died in 1637, leaving to his son | an empire still entangled in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increas ... |
| Christian IX of Denmark | ... 1899. The young prince had 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather | , Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grand ... |
| Henry VI | ... round the White Tower carrying her head under her arm. Other ghosts include | , Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the Princes in the Tower. In January ... |
| George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry won 46% o ... |
| Agron | ... f the Lydians. Later chronographers also ignored Herodotus's statement that | was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in thei ... |
| Ferdinand II of Aragon | The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and | (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the kingdom of Granada, the last ... |
| Josiah | ... resulting peace kept Judah free from Egyptian incursions until the time of | some centuries later |
| Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
| Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
| George I of Greece | ... them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, | , Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, t ... |
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| Douglas Fairbanks | ... ed a visit to Niagara Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to | , Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a wide ... |
| comte d’Artois | ... sieur Fayolle during his voyages in America. The collection was sold to the | and was later confiscated by the state. Fayolle, who had been nominated to ... |
| King James II | In 1323 the Catalan, under Peter, son of | , disembarked near Iglesias, in Southern Sardinia. The Pisane intervened b ... |
| Emperor Wen of Wei | ... had Emperor Xian relinquish the throne to him and is known posthumously as | . This formally ended the Han Dynasty and initiated an age of conflict bet ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... hite's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with | , in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth. ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... alf of the 20th century saw election or succession of Republican presidents | , Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... ecame an issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate | accused Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis (a member of the ACLU) of bei ... |
| Charles William Eliot | ... h century descendants include Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and educator | . The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts and Winthrop, Maine are named in hi ... |
| Hsinbyushin | ... xemplified their possession of white elephants in their formal titles (e.g. | , lit. 'Lord of the White Elephant' and the third monarch of the ) |
| Baasha of Israel | In his 36th year, Asa was confronted by | , who built a fortress at Ramah on the border, less than ten miles from Je ... |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | ... 4 military coup in Lisbon abolished the authoritarian regime established by | that had been prevailing in Portugal for decades. The new government decid ... |
| Emperor Wu of Liu Song | When | subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but ... |
| Sam Houston | Initially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy, | , used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ... |
| Catherine I of Russia | Elizabeth, the second-oldest surviving daughter of Peter I of Russia and | , was born at Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, on 18 December 1709 (O.S.). Her p ... |
| Ford | ... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and | administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ... |
| Charlemagne | ... n to the war in Aquitaine. Moreover, during the early years of the reign of | , Tassilo gave decisions in ecclesiastical and civil causes in his own nam ... |
| Paul Revere | ... County, and named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Revolution who sent | on his ride and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| Desiderius | ... his position as an ally of the Avars and as son-in-law of the Lombard king | formed so serious a menace to the Frankish kingdom that Charlemagne determ ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | ... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman | , the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ... |
| Ho Chi Minh | | reading his Declaration of Independence. Ho Chi Minh is from Nghe An Provi ... |
| Oscar II of Sweden | ... dfather Christian IX of Denmark, Nicholas II of Russia, George I of Greece, | , his grandfather Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Prince of Wales ( ... |
| Constantius II | ... himself was succeeded by two Arian Emperors in the Eastern Empire: his son, | and Valens. Valens could not resolve the outstanding ecclesiastical issues ... |
| George W. Bush | ... s. However, it is a very mixed area overall, narrowly voting for Republican | over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barac ... |
| President of the United States | ... reason to enter the war against Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, | Lyndon B. Johnson launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo fro ... |
| Eric Bloodaxe | ... f Fagrskinna, a prose narrative states that, after the death of her husband | , Gunnhild Mother of Kings had a poem composed about him. The composition ... |
| Louis XIV | ... t of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when | moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capit ... |
| John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
| Charles II | ... th the earls of Monmouth acting as stewards once again, but after her death | gave the castle to Sir Edward Hyde, whom he created Baron Hyde of Hindon a ... |
| Vicente Fox | ... ree Trade Agreement, creating the world's largest free trade area. In 2000, | became the first non-PRI candidate to win the Mexican presidency in over 7 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
| Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
| Belus | ... us's statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, | , and Ninus in their list of kings of Lydia. Strabo (5.2.2) makes Atys, fa ... |
| Charles VII of France | ... ritory. The Château Trompette (Trumpet Castle) and the Fort du Hâ, built by | , were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city ... |
| Arthurian | ... mary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to | legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. Another lege ... |
| Brian Cowen | ... When the issue was (successfully) submitted to a referendum a second time, | , the Taoiseach of Ireland, stated that he had obtained "legal guarantees" ... |
| Earl of Cambridge | ... of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the | and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton. Henry's clever ... |
| Harold Godwinson | ... September 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King | , the last crowned English King of England |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... ion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of | , Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As ... |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... or the Doctrine of the Faith by its prefect, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now | ), to Bishops of the entire Catholic Church * Pontifical secret;Church pre ... |
| Ramiro I of Aragon | ... e neighboring taifa of Tortosa and defending his northeastern frontier from | and Raymond Berengar I of Barcelona. The emir, up until then paying tribut ... |
| Belgarion | ... asy series; The Malloreon is the sequel. The books follow the adventures of | , Polgara, Belgarath, and their companions |
| Douglas Hyde | Dr | Park, with a capacity of 30,000 is an important Gaelic Athletic Associatio ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... with Gelsenberg-Benzin-AG to form the new corporation VEBA-Oel AG. In 1987, | celebrated Mass before 85,000 people at Gelsenkirchen's Parkstadion. The P ... |
| Louis XIV | ... 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by | |
| Saddam Hussein | Chemical weapons employed by | killed and injured numerous Iranians, and possibly Iraqis. According to Ir ... |
| Matilda of Flanders | ... t Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V of Flanders, and aunt of | , who married William the Conqueror. The Domesday Book recorded twenty-six ... |
| Louis XIII | ... ailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited | on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles. Pleased wi ... |
| Victor Amadeus | ... ty of The Hague, Charles swapped Sardinia, which went to the Duke of Savoy, | , for Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, which was more diff ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... unicationibus Socialibus) is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Established by | on June 28, 1988, it is responsible for using the various forms of the med ... |
| George W. Bush | ... of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of | might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay L ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | The marriage of | and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1469) unified Christian Spain; in 1492, the ki ... |
| Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President | . Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ... |
| Luciano Violante | ... s, instead of a genuine preoccupation of the common citizen's civil rights. | , a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, c ... |
| Edward, the Black Prince | ... Paul Bettany as Geoffrey Chaucer, and James Purefoy as Sir Thomas Colville/ | |
| Cyrus the Great | ... uch as the release of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity by Zoroastrian | in 537 BC, and the Biblical account of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus. ... |
| Taytu Betul | The site of Addis Ababa was chosen by Empress | and the city was founded in 1886 by her husband, Emperor Menelik II. The n ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
| Walter A. Shewhart | In 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr. | proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ... |
| Isabella I of Castile | ... e married Infanta Joanna, daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen | , in Lier, Belgium |
| Henry II of England | ... iage (Burgos, before 17 September 1177) with Eleanor (Leonora), daughter of | and , brought him under the influence of the greatest governing intellect ... |
| Charles XII of Sweden | ... Anna was betrothed to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, nephew of the late King | , Peter's old adversary. Her father had tried to also find a brilliant mat ... |
| Hugo Chávez | ... lished in 1921 under President Juan Vicente Gómez. In 2002, under president | , the name was changed to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenou ... |
| Ed Victor | ... nd Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas Adams and his agent, | , after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which ... |
| 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 |
| Chris Vance | ... gued that this constituted support for bin Laden. Republican state chairman | was outraged, and said it was "despicable to imply that the American gover ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, President of the United States | launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ssian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young | . Both Chatterton and Macpherson's work involved elements of fraud, as the ... |
| Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
| George W. Bush | ... he 2004 presidential election, when 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for | , 32.8% voted for John Kerry, and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third ... |
| John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
| duke of Parma | ... oseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the | had sent him. That a low-ranking priest was used as envoy was due to the d ... |
| Alexander III | Lydia remained a satrapy after Persia's conquest by the Macedonian king | of Macedon. When Alexander's empire fell apart after his death, Lydia went ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... er a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed to Taft in honor of | |
| President of the United States | ... even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood were at one time in their respective worlds, | . In the pilot episode, the former cast of The People's Court guest starre ... |
| Corazon Aquino | ... tional Airport) upon returning home from exile. His death thrust his widow, | , into the limelight and, ultimately, the presidency following the peacefu ... |
| Queen Christina | ... y was sold by the parlement of Paris during the troubles of the Fronde, and | invited Naudé to Stockholm. He was not happy in Sweden, and on Mazarin's a ... |
| James I of England | ... nglish colonies in Virginia, a more determined effort was initiated by King | (James VI of Scotland), who granted a Royal Charter to the Virginia Compan ... |
| Don Carlos | ... gression than Sardinia. The treaty also recognised Philip V of Spain's son, | , as the heir to the Duchy of Parma and Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Charles ha ... |
| Cyrus II | ... f the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Croesus was defeated in battle by | of Persia in 546 BC, with the Lydian kingdom losing its autonomy and becom ... |
| William Laud | ... the impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop | and Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford |
| Cyrus | ... of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus, | , etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
| Bush | ... de Range. She eventually succeeded, with the bill being signed by President | on May 8, 2008. Murray has also supported legislation to increase the size ... |
| William the Conqueror | ... land. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by | in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by ... |
| Harold Wilson | ... anted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of | , and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the le ... |
| Oscar I of Sweden | ... s Margaret of Connaught. They were related in several ways. In descent from | and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In desce ... |
| Elihu Thomson | ... ring the final decades of the 19th century, with the first patents going to | in 1885, who produced further advances over the next 15 years. Thermite we ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... bylonian Sibyl", the Persian Sibyl is said to have foretold the exploits of | . The Persian Sibyl, by name Sambethe, was reported to be of the family of ... |
| Philip the Good | ... y of Flanders (today in Belgium) and was named after his great-grandfather, | . In 1482, upon the death of his mother Mary of Burgundy, he succeeded to ... |
| Jehoshaphat | Asa's successor, | , changed the policy towards Israel and instead pursued alliances and co-o ... |
| Aragorn | ... m Saruman's corpse instead of Wormtongue throwing it from the tower window. | also reveals himself to Sauron after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in ... |
| George W. Bush | ... isenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and | . The Republican Party, led by House Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingric ... |
| Judith | ... ex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Sprakaleg. In 1051, he married | , the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders, half-sister of Baldwin V o ... |
| Pentheus | ... y, Dionysus returns to his birthplace, Thebes, which is ruled by his cousin | . Dionysus wants to exact revenge on Pentheus and the women of Thebes (his ... |
| Henry II of England | ... ntagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King | . The city flourished, primarily due to wine trade, and the cathedral of S ... |
| King Albert II of the Belgians | ... He was knighted in 1992, and in 2002 elevated to the noble rank of Count by | |
| Queen Anne | ... om his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law | who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Qu ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ... |
| Edward, the Black Prince | ... St. André was built. It was also the capital of an independent state under | (1362–1372), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon (1453) it was a ... |
| HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
| Paul I of Russia | ... opold, Grand Duke of Baden, they were double third cousins. In descent from | , Frederick was a fourth cousin of Ingrid's mother |
| Ronald Reagan | ... sed of still regularly engaging in such operations. In 1986, U.S. President | (who survived an assassination attempt himself) ordered the Operation El D ... |
| Burhanuddin Rabbani | ... unisian. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewed | and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001 ... |
| Henry II of England | ... so VIII, king of Castile, and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of | and Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| Lilian Rolfe | ... the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, Cecily Lefort, and | . Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in action or died in ... |
| Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden | ... t. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden and | , they were double third cousins. In descent from Paul I of Russia, Freder ... |
| Denise Bloch | Three other women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: | , Cecily Lefort, and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving President | in the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... s great-grandfather, Philip the Good. In 1482, upon the death of his mother | , he succeeded to her Burgundian possessions under the guardianship of his ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis the Child | ... own election as German king in the following year. In 899 Bavaria passed to | , during whose reign continuous Hungarian ravages occurred. Resistance to ... |
| Cecily Lefort | ... r women members of the SOE were also executed at Ravensbrück: Denise Bloch, | , and Lilian Rolfe. Of the SOE's 55 female agents, thirteen were killed in ... |
| Harald III Hardrada | He made contact with King | of Norway and persuaded him to invade England. One of the sagas claims tha ... |
| Peter Wright | | , in his book Spycatcher, claimed that in 1967 Mountbatten attended a priv ... |
| Philip V | ... n furthering the accession of the French candidate for the throne of Spain, | . Two years later, Vendôme having died in the interval, Alberoni was appoi ... |
| Augustus | ... e. The name Austin is considered to be derived from Augustine, a variant of | . The location was seen as a convenient crossroads for trade routes betwee ... |
| Henry the Fowler | In 920 Conrad's successor as German king, | of the Ottonian dynasty, recognized Arnulf as duke, confirming his right t ... |
| William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
| Emperor Wu | ... state decisions and shaping government policy. However, the Han court under | gave Confucianism exclusive patronage. He abolished all academic chairs or ... |
| George II | Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son | were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court. Under George I six room ... |
| Dr. Alan Ashton | ... Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor | joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Da ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... , and Eleanor of England. Eleanor was a daughter of Henry II of England and | |
| Ahab | ... ued alliances and co-operation with the northern kingdom. The alliance with | was based on marriage. This alliance led to disaster for the kingdom with ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
| King George III | ... e, in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 | presented the Rosetta Stone – key to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. Gifts ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
| Ahaziah of Israel | ... dom with the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead. He then entered into an alliance with | for the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. But the fleet ... |
| Haakon I of Norway | In chapter 32 of Hákonar saga Góða, | is given a pagan burial, which is described as sending him on his way to V ... |
| Constantine the Great | ... ructures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of | , during which the Empire was divided into its Eastern and Western halves, ... |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | ... che's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their grandmother | , upon getting acquainted with the two sisters, judged that Blanche's pers ... |
| David | ... abylonian Exile. Many of the psalms in the book of Psalms are attributed to | ; King Solomon is believed to have written Song of Songs in his youth, Pro ... |
| John of England | In consequence of the Treaty of Le Goulet between Philip Augustus and | , Blanche's sister Urraca was betrothed to Philip's son, Louis. Their gran ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... rs was set up by the Motu Proprio Dolentium Hominum of 11 February 1985, by | who reformed the Pontifical Commission for the Pastoral Assistance to Heal ... |
| Louis XV | During the reign of | , Versailles underwent transformation, but not on the scale that had been ... |
| George II | ... ge I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh. Under | and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the archit ... |
| Alfonso II | ... s King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of Bermudo I, he succeeded | |
| George W. Bush | ... les for the move to The Tonight Show. Will Ferrell made a surprise visit as | , which quickly devolved into Ferrell tearing off his business suit to rev ... |
| Lester B. Pearson | ... as actualized by St-Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs | in the development of UN Peacekeepers that helped to put an end to the Sue ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... buildings in over 20 countries around the world. In 1985, at the behest of | , the mayor of Paris at that time, Tange proposed a master plan for a plaz ... |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | ... of alcohol for three decades from 1947, but restrictions were introduced by | just weeks before he was removed as prime minister in 1977. Since then, on ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable | . The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ... |
| Ivan VI | ... fter the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant | was marked by high taxes and economic problems. Such a course of events co ... |
| Paul Volcker | ... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under | , initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ... |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ... Chinese civil war, the ROC government under the KMT withdrew to Taiwan and | declared martial law. Japan formally renounced all territorial rights to T ... |
| Vaballathus | ... on bread. In the beginning, Aurelian had been recognized as Emperor, while | , the son of Zenobia, hold the title of rex and imperator ("king" and "sup ... |
| Karl Dönitz | ... any. The main body effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined | 's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's deat ... |
| Naresuan | ... s vassal king at Ayutthaya. Thai independence was restored by his son, King | (1590–1605), who turned on the Burmese and by 1600 had driven them from th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Imru Haile Selassie | ... h fleeing before an invading force. Haile Selassie appointed his cousin Ras | as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for Djibouti on ... |
| Aegidius | In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General | , who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to exten ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President | in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... of the Achaemenid Empire, with Sardis as its capital. Tabalus, appointed by | , was the first satrap (governor). (See: Lydia (satrapy)) |
| Pentheus | ... troduction on account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. | or Lycurgus) |
| Merovech | He succeeded his father | as king, traditionally in 457 or 458 (?). With his Frankish warband he was ... |
| Godwin | Tostig was the third son of | (d. 1053), Earl of Wessex and Kent, and Gytha, daughter of Thorgils Spraka ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ds, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing of Sir | 's novel Kenilworth in 1826. English Heritage has managed the castle since ... |
| Bermudo I | ... miro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of | , he succeeded Alfonso II |
| Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
| Frederick II | ... tricities and policies, including a great admiration for the Prussian king, | , alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. Besides, Peter ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... arty. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, | had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, Gerald ... |
| Frederick II, Elector of Saxony | ... he Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of | . His elder half-brother was the Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg. Fri ... |
| Ludwig II | Maximilian was succeeded on 10 March 1864 by his son | , a youth of eighteen. The government was at first carried on by Schrenk a ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and | , who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ... |
| Edward I of England | ... ieve Wallace must have had some earlier military experience; campaigns like | 's wars in Wales provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landho ... |
| João Bernardo Vieira | In Guinea Bissau, President | was assassinated in the early hours of March 2, 2009, in the capital, Biss ... |
| Nicholas I | ... seat of the newly-formed Armenian Oblast between 1828-1840. By the time of | 's visit in 1837, Yerevan had become an uyezd. In 1840, the Armenian Oblas ... |
| Anschutz Entertainment Group | ... arena which opened in late 2008. It is owned by Ontario, but is operated by | . It is an 11,000-seat multi-purpose arena, and is home to the Ontario Rei ... |
| Caesarion | ... ed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive | , the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, as a major th ... |
| Pope John Paul II | Eight hundred years after the Fourth Crusade, | twice expressed sorrow for the events of the Fourth Crusade. In 2001, he w ... |
| Jehoram of Israel | ... ugh it was successful, the trade was not prosecuted. He subsequently joined | in a war against the Moabites, who were under tribute to Israel. This war ... |
| Ma Ying-jeou | ... entitled a "Celebration Drill" and not a traditional military parade. Since | became president, one parade has been held on the centenary celebrations o ... |
| Tiberius | ... resort. Cicero compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both | and Domitian resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained importa ... |
| Minos | ... ould be blinded. One source tells the same story but converts Oenopion into | of Crete. It adds that an oracle told Orion that his sight could be restor ... |
| Napoleon | ... s the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of | in 1814. The Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty was restored on the throne of Tusca ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, | had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the ... |
| Henry VIII of England | ... nd tariffs on goods traded amongst them. Internal tariffs were abolished by | , they survived in Russia till 1753, 1789 in France and 1839 in Spain |
| Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of | . Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ... |
| President Millard Fillmore | ... territory's first governor and superintendent of American Indian affairs by | . During his time as governor, Young directed the establishment of settlem ... |
| Edward the Confessor | ... the foundation of Westminster Abbey and the old Palace of Westminster under | had marked it as a centre of governance, and with a prosperous port it was ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... 006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidents | and Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to ... |
| Mike Ilitch | ... in franchise history. Following the 1992 season, the franchise was sold to | , the President and CEO of Little Caesars Pizza who also owns the Detroit ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for | , the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
| Chen Shui-bian | ... i City) killing both pilots. The parade was not held again until 1975. When | became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entit ... |
| Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
| Tiberius | ... y mentioned) denounced the magistratus and mancipes of the Italian roads to | . He pursued them and their families with fines and imprisonment for 18 ye ... |
| Midas | ... ied him to their king (alternatively, he passed out in Midas' rose garden). | recognized him, and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days ... |
| Mike Ilitch | ... ral recognition for some tribes. Pombo got money for his 2006 campaign at a | -backed fundraiser. Disclosure documents on file with the Secretary of the ... |
| Emperor Zhang's | | (r. 75–88 CE) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
| Zhang Zuolin | ... of Manchuria and much of North China after the assassination of his father, | , by the Japanese on 4 June 1928. As an instigator of the Xi'an incident h ... |
| George W. Bush | In the 2004 presidential election John Kerry won 52% of the vote, whereas | won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, Arnold Schwarzen ... |
| Governor Isaac I. Stevens | Believed to be named after | , Lake Stevens was first settled in 1886 on a homestead along the east sho ... |
| Odoacer | ... raiders under the command of a certain Adovacrius (perhaps, but not surely | ) reached Angers but Childeric arrived the next day and a battle ensued. C ... |
| William Feller | ... uld return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read | 's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Pr ... |
| Euthydemus | ... Bactria. They continued to expand eastward, especially during the reign of | (230–200 BCE) who extended his control beyond Alexandria Eschate to Sogdia ... |
| Kanishka | ... untains to the Ganges river valley in India. Early in the 2nd century under | , the most powerful of the Kushan rulers, the empire reached its greatest ... |
| Emperor of Ethiopia | ... Ethiopia an Italian province. Victor Emanuel III was proclaimed as the new | . However, on the previous day, the Ethiopian exiles had left Djibouti abo ... |
| Empress Dowager Dou | ... he aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), Emperor He (r. 88–105 CE) had | (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
| Ernest Rutherford | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by | as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ... |
| John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
| Athamas | ... rge of Hermes. One version of the story is that Hermes took the boy to King | and his wife Ino, Dionysus' aunt. Hermes bade the couple raise the boy as ... |
| Ramathibodi II | ... e sent a diplomatic mission headed by Duarte Fernandes to the court of King | of Ayutthaya. Having established amicable relations between the kingdom of ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... nt bicentennial, however, controversy erupted when neither French president | nor prime minister Dominique de Villepin attended any functions commemorat ... |
| Chiang Ching-kuo | ... tic reforms were mandated during the final year of authoritarian rule under | . The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, Lee Teng-hui, whi ... |
| Fëanor | When the Elves came to Valinor, the Noldor became the students of Aulë. | was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through craftsma ... |
| emperor Henry VI | ... hout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191 at the coronation of | . However the word 'orbis' means 'circle' and there is no record of a glob ... |
| Ahab | ... Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of | . Despite this alliance with the stronger northern kingdom, Jehoram's rule ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... an chief of the Slavic Obodrites began his open resistance when Lothar III, | invaded Slavic lands. In August 1160 Niklot was killed and German coloniza ... |
| Chen Cheng | ... n October 10, 1949 was the first public military parade held in Taiwan with | serving as the Grand Review Officer. The 1964 National Day parade was stru ... |
| Harold Godwinson | ... orwegian king Harald III (Haraldr Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King | in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge; in Ireland, the capture of Dubli ... |
| Nadir Shah | The five prominent Musahiban brothers included | , the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war. They were permitte ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President | of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ... |
| Richard Hamming | ... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947, | invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... rea, resulting in his being the first King of Bohemia to also be elected as | . Under his rule the Bohemian crown controlled such diverse lands as Morav ... |
| Jordi Pujol | ... th Spanish. New elections under this statute gave the Catalan presidency to | , a position he would hold until 2003. During this time he also led Conver ... |
| Xerxes the Great | ... o provinces as far out as India and the Kingdom of Kush during the reign of | (485–465 BCE) |
| Emperor He | ... imperial consort clans. With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 CE), | (r. 88–105 CE) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 CE) put under house arrest a ... |
| Domitian | ... ro compares its villas with those at Antium, and probably both Tiberius and | resided there. Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic w ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, | won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... has carried Fort Bend County in the presidential election since 1964, when | of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama came very clo ... |
| Margaret, Maid of Norway | The heir to the throne was Alexander's granddaughter, | . As she was still a child and in Norway, the Scottish lords set up a gove ... |
| Athaliah | ... at's successor, Jehoram of Judah formed an alliance with Israel by marrying | , the daughter of Ahab. Despite this alliance with the stronger northern k ... |
| George Washington | ... first settler, Ariel Bradley, was only nine years old when he was a spy for | during the American Revolution. Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, Bradley ca ... |
| Louis XV | ... he bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and | to get rid of Bestuzhev (making the Russian court the centre of a tangle o ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... ecific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to the scene in the fourth | movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) when Jones hides inside an inexplicab ... |
| George W. Bush | ... 4, Democrat John Kerry received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican | received just over a quarter |
| Yasser Arafat | ... i, and Ahad Olma, fled to the Palestinian National Authority. Israel placed | under siege in the Ramallah compound to force the handing over of the susp ... |
| Dave Dombrowski | In late 2001, | , former general manager of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ... |
| Germanicus | ... Orion a horse. Fontenrose, Orion, p. 26–27, note 9, citing the scholion to | ' translation of Aratus, line 331 (p 93, l.2 Breysig's edition. It is so l ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
| Iris Burton | ... were eventually discovered by one of Hollywood's leading children's agents, | , who got the five children acting work, mainly doing commercials and tele ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
| Empress Dowager Yan | ... exiled them and forced many to commit suicide. After An's death, his wife, | (d. 126 CE) placed the child Marquess of Beixiang on the throne in an atte ... |
| Frederick the Great | ... tain and Russia. Elizabeth sided against Prussia over a personal dislike of | . She wanted him reduced within proper limits, so that he might no longer ... |
| 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, ... |
| House of Luxembourg | The | accepted the invitation to the Bohemian throne with the crowning of John I ... |
| Finarfin | ... Arda. On the Flight of the Noldor, the Noldor who returned to Valinor under | named themselves the Aulendur, Followers of Aulë |
| Amānullāh Khān | | reigned in Afghanistan from 1919, achieving full independence from the Bri ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... ing of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of | , but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, show ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs. | , the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... disapproved of interventionist foreign policy actions. Republicans opposed | 's intervention in World War I and his subsequent attempt to create the Le ... |
| Jehoram of Judah | Jehoshaphat's successor, | formed an alliance with Israel by marrying Athaliah, the daughter of Ahab. ... |
| Frederick II | ... s, the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035–1171) and the Swabian Castle built for | , which is now also a major nightlife district. To the south is the Murat ... |
| Atahualpa | ... s Andean Indian auxiliaries native allies ambushed and captured the Emperor | of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took dec ... |
| David | ... s covenant can be fulfilled with the re-establishment of the throne of King | |
| Hadrian | ... quatuorviri among them. The latter were certainly still in existence under | (117-138 AD). Augustus abolished the duoviri, no doubt because the time ha ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
| Emperor An | When Empress Dowager Deng died, | (r. 106–125 CE) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run (李閏 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by President | in 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ... |
| Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that sank at Portsmouth in 1545 |
| Narai | Foreigners were cordially welcomed at the court of | (1657–1688), a ruler with a cosmopolitan outlook who was nonetheless wary ... |
| Edward, the Black Prince of Wales | ... winning accolades and acquiring friendships with such historical figures as | and Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Benedict Arnold | ... tly been moved from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1816, James Arnold, the son of | , fortified Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard against possible U.S. attacks. ... |
| Ordoño I | ... er being the name of the queen of a later Ramiro). Given the age of his son | , this must have been a second marriage |
| Bellerophon | Parnassus was also the home of Pegasus, the winged horse of | |
| President | ... um of the Twelve Apostles was to lead the church with Young as the Quorum's | . Young was ordained President of the Church in December 1847, more than t ... |
| King Farouk I | ... ity after a coup was carried out by the Free Officers Movement overthrowing | . By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil eng ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Paul Harvey) refers to the economic policies promoted by the U.S. President | during the 1980s, also known as supply-side economics, or pejoratively as ... |
| Augustus | The governing structure was changed by | . In the course of his reconstitution of the urban administration he creat ... |
| James Bond | Connery is best known for portraying the character | , starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 (six "official" Eon p ... |
| Mesha | ... his war was successful, with the Moabites being subdued. However, on seeing | 's act of offering his own son in a human sacrifice on the walls of Kir-ha ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... stablished in 1906. Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President | , and incorporated in 1909 |
| Achilles | In the paradox of | and the Tortoise, Achilles is in a footrace with the tortoise. Achilles al ... |
| George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven | ... k (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and | |
| Thorvald Stoltenberg | ... ally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister | . It includes the administrative regions Nordland, Troms, Finnmark in Norw ... |
| Constantine | ... o Christianity, Lactantius (245–325) became the tutor to the son of emperor | and a trenchant critic of all pagan philosophy. In Book III of The Divine ... |
| Charles VIII | ... Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French king | invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he rea ... |
| Robert Mugabe | ZANU-PF | , elected Prime Minister in 1980, revised the constitution in 1987 to make ... |
| Cleopatra VII | ... t between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and | . The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the c ... |
| Bermudo III | ... h of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry Sancha, sister of | , King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, Sancho III of Navarre nomi ... |
| Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
| Frederick William III of Prussia | ... of 26, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King | . There he published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's o ... |
| Joseph I | ... Habsburg sovereign of the Habsburg Empire. He succeeded his elder brother, | , as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (Charles II), Hungary and Croatia ... |
| Manwë | ... nyar. He dwells with them on the slopes of Taniquetil, beneath the halls of | |
| Trajan | ... ptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, | , and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The ... |
| Frederick V | ... the Belgian general Johann Tserclaes, count of Tilly, smashed the rebels of | , who had been elected as rival King in 1618. After Frederick's flight to ... |
| Louis XV | Simultaneously, Elizabeth caused to be conveyed to | a confidential letter in which she proposed the signature of a new treaty ... |
| Lynn Thorndike | ... ubleday and Broadway Books. In strongly worded terms, historians of science | and George Sarton have dismissed these claims as unsupported |
| Jezebel | ... ripts. For the next four years, he co-wrote scripts for major films such as | , The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Juarez, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Ser ... |
| Ahaziah of Judah | ... king's house, and carried off all of his family except for his youngest son | |
| Sancha | ... entering the church of John the Baptist in León, where he had gone to marry | , sister of Bermudo III, King of León. In his role as feudal overlord, San ... |
| Porfirio Díaz | ... they had become much more secure. George Hearst was on friendly terms with | , the Mexican dictator, who helped him settle boundary disputes profitably ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
| Ivan VI | ... posed assassination. Other potential rival claimants to the throne existed: | (1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in Lake Ladoga, from ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
| Phetracha | ... bles and Buddhist clergy. When word spread that Narai was dying, a general, | , killed the designated heir, a Christian, and had Phaulkon put to death a ... |
| Croesus | ... ia, Phrygia and coastal Ionia. Later on, the military power of Alyattes and | expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlle ... |
| Consort Deng Mengnü | ... 159 CE), brother of Empress Liang Na (d. 150 CE), had the brother-in-law of | (later empress) (d. 165 CE) killed after Deng Mengnü resisted Liang Ji's a ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, President | awarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ... |
| Stephen D. Lee | ... turgis, after some doubts and trepidation, departed Memphis on June 1. Gen. | , alerted of Sturgis's movement, warned Forrest. Lee had also planned a re ... |
| Luitpold | ... s crisis, had been declared insane, and, on 10 June 1886, his uncle, Prince | , became regent. Three days later, on 13 June, Ludwig II was found dead in ... |
| Empress Matilda | ... gh the king had persuaded his most powerful barons to swear support for the | , just a few days after Henry's death Stephen of Blois arrived from France ... |
| Pelasgus | ... s, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of | and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practic ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... Redemptor the Pontiff called acts of reparation a duty for Roman Catholics: | referred to the concept as |
| Alfonso XII | ... pos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of | . A period of political stability, of repression of the workers movement, ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | ... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, | , Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... au's brother John Patrick Schmitz is the former deputy counsel to President | |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
| Commodus | ... d in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of | , who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor |
| Domitian | ... the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, | , Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capacity at Emér ... |
| Stansfield Turner | Former CIA chief, Admiral | , claimed that De Beers restricted US access to industrial diamonds needed ... |
| Walter A. Shewhart | ... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as | , W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ... |
| Basil I | ... tinople but deposed by a Council of Constantinople called in 869 by Emperor | the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. Called in 879, this Greek Fourth Counci ... |
| Maria Theresa | ===Forced assimilation===In the Habsburg Monarchy under | (1740–1780), a series of decrees tried to force the Romanies to permanentl ... |
| Finarfin | ... cond wife of Finwë (the king of the Noldor) and the mother of Fingolfin and | , the latter of whom founded the only house of Noldorin Elves to sport gol ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
| Matthias | ... support of the Spanish Habsburgs in the succession of his childless cousin | , in exchange for concessions in Alsace and Italy. In 1617, he was elected ... |
| Shapur I | ... inor, preparing another campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings | (272) and Hormizd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a ... |
| George W. Bush | ... the 1990s expansion that began with George H.W. Bush in 1991 and ended with | in 2001. This economic expansion continued through the Clinton administrat ... |
| James Bond | NAC executive director Dennis Wend says that he was inspired by a | film when producing the SmarTrucks |
| Theodoric the Great | #Audofleda (467 – 511). Queen of the Ostrogoths. Wife of | #Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??) |
| García Sánchez | Ferdinand was barely in his teens when | , Count of Castile, was assassinated by a party of exiled Castilian noblem ... |
| Peter of Holstein-Gottorp | ... find a legitimate heir to secure the Romanov dynasty. She chose her nephew, | . Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had impr ... |
| Quintillus | ... support of some senators, probably those who had supported the election of | , and thus had something to fear from Aurelian |
| Taksin | One general, Phraya | , former governor of Taak, began the reunification effort. He gathered for ... |
| Charles Granville Bruce | ... ell for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to | , the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922 |
| Clovis I | # | (466 – 511) |
| Alexander the Great | ... achines and (what we today call) submarines, attributing their first use to | |
| Yan Xishan | In 1930, when warlords Feng Yuxiang and | attempted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government, Zhang Xuel ... |
| Pierre de Coubertin | ... was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: | presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of ... |
| Benjamin Harrison | ... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. President | called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ... |
| Maria Anna of Bavaria | He was born at Graz, the son of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, and | . He was educated by the Jesuits and later frequented the University of In ... |
| Ladislaus the Posthumous | ... thus resorted to more subtle means. He held his second cousin once removed | , the ruler of the Archduchy of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, (born in 144 ... |
| Mahlon Pitney | ... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justice | wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ... |
| president of the church | While in jail awaiting trial for alleged treason charges, Joseph Smith, | , was killed by an armed mob in 1844. Several claimants to the role of chu ... |
| von Hindenburg | ... bowed in apparently respectful humility before President and Field Marshal | |
| Alaungpaya | ... a starting around 1715. But a greater threat came from Burma, where the new | dynasty had subdued the Shan states |
| Julian P. Boyd | ... Archives is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, historian | argued that the Declaration, like Magna Carta, is not a single document. B ... |
| Dominique de Villepin | ... rsy erupted when neither French president Jacques Chirac nor prime minister | attended any functions commemorating the battle. On the other hand, some r ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ey & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-President | and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group membe ... |
| Septimius Severus | ... storers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and | were commemorated in this capacity at Emérita. The Itinerary of Antoninus, ... |
| Pope Pius XI | As expressed by | in his encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor, in the Roman Catholic traditi ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor Henry II | ... e pagan peoples of Eastern Europe. Owing to a regional conflict between the | and Duke Boleslaus I of Poland he delayed the plans for the monastery, and ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... r 1991, while serving as Minister without Portfolio, he called US President | an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk ... |
| Agamemnon | ... re many plays in which no such limitation existed. For instance, Æschylus's | compresses into about fifteen minutes a journey (from Troy to Argos) which ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
| Isabella II | ... solutist "Carlist" partisans of Infante Carlos and the liberal partisans of | led to the First Carlist War, which lasted until 1840 and was especially v ... |
| Saddam Hussein | On August 1, 1990, Iraq, led by | , invaded Kuwait. President Bush formed an international coalition and sec ... |
| James Boyle Uniacke | ... uary 1848. Following a vote of want of confidence in the preceding Council, | , who had moved the resolution, became Attorney General and leader of the ... |
| Lydus | ... tories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their king, | (Λυδός), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents since | had recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ... |
| Yasser Arafat | ... similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, | and John F. Kennedy. The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Emperor Ling | Under | (r. 168–189 CE) the eunuchs had the partisan prohibitions renewed and expa ... |
| Sun Yat-sen | ... layed a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding father | , a medical doctor by training, received financial support mainly from the ... |
| Infante Carlos | ... conflict over the succession between the absolutist "Carlist" partisans of | and the liberal partisans of Isabella II led to the First Carlist War, whi ... |
| Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
| Catherine I | ... her husband as Empress Regnant. She followed the precedent established when | (born in the lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeed ... |
| Paul I | ... 's mother. The marriage took place on 21 August 1745 with a son, the future | , finally born on 20 September 1754 |
| Richard Nixon | ... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue by | taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ... |
| Josiah | When | became king of Judah in c. 641/640 BC, the international situation was in ... |
| Achilles | ... refutation of some of them. Three of the strongest and most famous—that of | and the tortoise, the Dichotomy argument, and that of an arrow in flight—a ... |
| Ramiro | ... rded. Most, and the most reliable, charters name Sancho's sons in the order | , García, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the Cathedral of P ... |
| Joseph Howe | ... y the colony of Nova Scotia in January–February 1848 through the efforts of | . The plaque in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly erected by the Historic ... |
| Caligula | ... imprisonment for 18 years (21-39 AD), and was rewarded with a consulship by | , who was himself in the habit of condemning well-born citizens to work on ... |
| Bahram I | ... zd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler ( | ), set the possibility to attack the Sassanid Empire |
| Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
| George H. W. Bush | During the 1988 presidential election: then-Vice President | noted that his opponent Michael Dukakis had described himself as a "card-c ... |
| Esarhaddon | ... C), Judah was a vassal of Assyrian rulers - Sennacherib and his successors, | and after 669 BC. Manasseh is listed as being required to provide material ... |
| Boris Yeltsin | ... issue. (The aides claimed vindication later in 1992 when Russian President | said that the Soviet Union had kept some U.S. prisoners in the early 1950s ... |
| George W. Bush | ... 4 presidential election, in which 69.5% of Wheeler Country voters voted for | , while 27.8% voted for John Kerry, and 2.7% of voters either voted for a ... |
| Ludwig II | ... rown prince, against Germany's common enemy. It was on the proposal of King | that the imperial crown was offered to King Wilhelm I of Prussia |
| Empress Dowager Dou | ... 81 CE), and Wang Fu (王甫). When the plot was uncovered, the eunuchs arrested | (d. 172 CE) and Chen Fan. General Zhang Huan (張奐) favored the eunuchs. He ... |
| Gríma Wormtongue | Later, | cast the stone down from Orthanc, where it was recovered by Peregrin Took ... |
| Otto III | In | hoped to open a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the ... |
| Hormizd I | ... ther campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings Shapur I (272) and | (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (Bahr ... |
| Giamatti | ... his possible inclusion in the Hall of Fame. In a meeting with Commissioner | , Rose, having failed in a legal action to prevent it, accepted his punish ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
| Titus | ... tly in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, Vespasian, | , Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this capaci ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Because | saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ... |
| Sigismund I of Poland | ... Casimir IV of Poland by his wife Elisabeth of Habsburg, and sister of King | . They had seventeen children |
| Ulysses S. Grant | The Overland Campaign, Lt. Gen. | 's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the Battle of the ... |
| Sancha | ... ation of the realm of León–Castilla under Fernando el Magno and [his queen] | (1037–1065) is a history that remains to be researched and written. |
| Ulpia Severina | There is substantial evidence that Aurelian's wife | , who had been declared Augusta in 274, may have ruled the Empire by her o ... |
| Henry V | ... aces where bone prevented the arrow being pushed through. Prince Hal, later | , was wounded in the face by an arrow at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). ... |
| Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
| Eadbald | Æthelberht died in 616, during Laurence's tenure; his son | abandoned Christianity in favour of Anglo-Saxon paganism, forcing many of ... |
| Feast of Saint Louis | ... t a church in the central village of La Plaza Medio and dedicated it on the | , June 21, 1851. The village was renamed San Luis de la Culebra in honor o ... |
| 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 ... |
| Aragorn | ... egacy comes in the form of her progeny (from Lúthien to Elrond to Arwen and | , who share somewhat of her temperament — especially the healing, though t ... |
| Peter the Great | ... lower classes in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband | in 1725 |
| Ronald Reagan | The election of | as president in 1981 ushered in an eight year period of conservative leade ... |
| Sennacherib | ... made a stand against Assyria by refusing to pay tribute. (; ) In response, | of Assyria attacked the fortified cities of Judah. Hezekiah paid three hun ... |
| Charles V of Spain | ... a personal hunting park. The castle was later mostly rebuilt in the age of | |
| Hamid Karzai | In 2001, the Afghan Interim Government under president | officially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation". One a ... |
| President Nasser | Encouraged by the rhetoric of | of Egypt against British colonial rule in the Middle East, pressure for th ... |
| George W. Bush | ... run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. In 2004, | received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 J ... |
| Vespasian | ... cur frequently in the inscriptions to restorers of roads and bridges. Thus, | , Titus, Domitian, Trajan, and Septimius Severus were commemorated in this ... |
| George W. Bush | ... 7.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that | carried it by in 2004. Each of the three row-office statewide winners carr ... |
| Pope John Paul II's | ... on Ecclesia Dei is a commission of the Roman Catholic Church established by | motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 2 July 1988 for the care of those former foll ... |
| President | ... r Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the | of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
| Barbara Boxer | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
| Frederick II of Hohenstaufen | ... was conquered by the Arabs, who built here the first nucleus of the castle. | further fortified the town and created here a personal hunting park. The c ... |
| Isildur | Using the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir of | to Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo. Sauron was led to believe t ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... ons from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and | . The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as ... |
| Rajiv Gandhi | In India, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and her son | (neither of whom were related to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in ... |
| Francis Stephen | The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of | , duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany ... |
| Claudius | ... f condemning well-born citizens to work on the roads. It is noticeable that | brought Corbulo to justice, and repaid the money which had been extorted f ... |
| Desta Damtew | ... aile Selassie suffered several personal tragedies. His two sons-in-law, Ras | and Dejazmach Beyene Merid, were both executed by the Italians. The empero ... |
| Aragorn | ... nadvertently contacted Sauron, after which Gandalf turned the stone over to | |
| Jackie Speier | ... ict, which has a Cook PVI of D +22 and is currently represented by Democrat | . However, of the town's 6,849 registered voters, 42% are registered as Re ... |
| Bianca Maria Sforza | # 1494 | (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforz |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... n the county has voted for the non-Republican only two times. The first was | 's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. ... |
| Genseric | Hilderic was the grandson of king | , founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son H ... |
| Bette Davis | ... ar sentence. The case was made into the 1937 movie 'Marked Woman', starring | |
| Philip the Arab | In 248, Emperor | had celebrated the millennium of the city of Rome with great and expensive ... |
| King Hussein | ... other Arab states showed much more reluctance to fully commit to a new war. | of Jordan feared another major loss of territory as had occurred in the Si ... |
| Saddam Hussein | ... ndon bombings, and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design, | 's capture, and Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| Henry III | During the reign of | the Assize of Arms of 1252 required that all "citizens, burgesses, free te ... |
| Count Lestocq | ... lstein-Gottorp, resulted from some amount of diplomatic management in which | , Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress Elizabeth), and Frederick II of ... |
| Augusto Pinochet | ... language. Nonetheless, Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President | , who supported the United Kingdom in the Falklands conflict. Helms was st ... |
| Asopus | ... is included the oracular hero Acraephen, who, she sings, gave a response to | regarding Asopus' daughters who were abducted by the gods. Corinna sang of ... |
| Wang Zhengjun | | (71 BCE–13 CE) was first empress, then empress dowager, and finally grand ... |
| Elizabeth | ... management in which Count Lestocq, Peter's aunt (the ruling Russian Empress | ), and Frederick II of Prussia took part. Lestocq and Frederick wanted to ... |
| Joey Smallwood | ... n 1949, following two referenda within the province, St-Laurent and Premier | negotiated the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation |
| Huneric | ... ric, founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. His father was Genseric's son | , and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinia ... |
| Yuan | ... owager, and finally grand empress dowager during the reigns of the Emperors | (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and Ai (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. Du ... |
| Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
| Charlemagne | ... claim to the Roman legacy for several centuries, after Pope Leo III crowned | , king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor" on December 25, 800, an act w ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
| Xerxes the great | ... mbyses, they went to Sindh in command of Darius I, and also took in army of | at the battle of Thermopylae, where they were equipped the same as Pactyan ... |
| Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
| Valentinian III | ... son Huneric, and his mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor | and Licinia Eudoxia. Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Ca ... |
| Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
| E. Howard Hunt | # | (R) ‘security consultant,’ convicted of burglary |
| Caesarion | ... bite of a snake (an asp) conveyed to her in a basket of figs. Octavian had | killed later that year, finally securing his legacy as Julius Caesar's onl ... |
| Charlemagne | ... start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with | 's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony. Historians Rudolf ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ompetitive counties. Al Gore received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for | in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for John Kerr ... |
| Sparta | ... f Zeus on Mt. Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against the | ns. The inscription supposedly commemorated the execution of Aristocrates ... |
| Cadmus | ... mpian pantheon. His mother was a mortal woman, Semele, the daughter of king | of Thebes, and his father was Zeus, the king of the gods. Zeus' wife, Hera ... |
| Nicholas I | ... lost its independence when Russia's army crushed the Polish Uprising under | . Revival and reinterpretation of ancient myths, customs and traditions by ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... first was Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was | in 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 vote ... |
| Pelasgus | Lycaon, son of | , the mythical founder of the Greek race, is said to have instituted the w ... |
| Stanisław August Poniatowski | ... d political system. The royal election of 1764 resulted in the elevation of | , a refined and worldly aristocrat connected to a major magnate faction, b ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. Appointed to the Court by President | in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... full university in 1955. The title of Pontifical University was granted by | in 1972. The university has three campuses in the city |
| Jigme Dorji Wangchuck | In 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration, | made Thimphu the year-round capital. In May 1968, the comprehensive Rules ... |
| Licinia Eudoxia | ... s mother was Eudocia, the daughter of the Roman Emperor Valentinian III and | . Most of the Vandals were Arians and had persecuted Catholics, but Hilder ... |
| US president | ... Republican politicians for years; the last time a Democratic candidate for | carried Klamath County was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide ... |
| Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
| John Ramsey | ... ndful of well-known public address announcers; the most famous of which was | , who served as the PA voice of the Dodgers from 1958 until his retirement ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as | reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ... |
| Papen | ... ity than in the previous years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, | , Schleicher and Hitler (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed throug ... |
| Ai | ... ng the reigns of the Emperors Yuan (r. 49–33 BCE), Cheng (r. 33–7 BCE), and | (r. 7–1 BCE), respectively. During this time, a succession of her male rel ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
| Louis XV | ... was Peter's intention to marry his second daughter to the young French King | , but the Bourbons declined the offer as Elizabeth`s mother`s origin was d ... |
| Álvaro Arzú | ... municipal government (Municipalidad de Guatemala) headed by long time Mayor | , has implemented a plan to control its growth based on transects along it ... |
| Ferdinand VII | The reign of | (reigned 1808–33) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the co ... |
| Charles II, Archduke of Austria | He was born at Graz, the son of | , and Maria Anna of Bavaria. He was educated by the Jesuits and later freq ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... ) to Hunt's 1,070,488 (47.8%). Helms might not have won had it not been for | 's popularity in the state; Reagan carried North Carolina by 24 points tha ... |
| Elizabeth | ... tria's influence and ruin the Russian chancellor Bestuzhev, on whom Empress | relied, and who acted as a known partisan of Russo-Austrian co-operation. ... |
| Lynn Thorndike | ... 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. An early critic of this claim was | , starting with a letter in the 1915 edition of the journal Science , and ... |
| George Washington | ... that was chosen was the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of | , Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the ... |
| Benedict XVI | ... ls prior to his election. After being elected Pope, Ratzinger took the name | . Benedict is the eighth German Pope, and is the second non-Italian Pope s ... |
| William I | ... alighting, proceeded to examine the field". In 1820, the Netherlands' King | ordered the construction of a monument on the spot where it was believed h ... |
| Henry VIII | ... arrows and 137 whole longbows were recovered from the Mary Rose, a ship of | 's navy that was sunk at Portsmouth in 1545. It is an important source for ... |
| Jackie Speier | ... gressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +22, represented by Democrat | |
| Catherine II of Russia | ... onnected to a major magnate faction, but hand-picked and imposed by Empress | , who expected Poniatowski to be her obedient follower. The King according ... |
| Abba Jifar II | ... om of Jimma was formally absorbed into Ethiopia following the death of King | of Jimma |
| General de Gaulle | ... ion, many officers and men were arrested or deserted to escape persecution. | considered disbanding it altogether. But after being downsized to 8,000 me ... |
| Æthelberht of Kent | ... bout points of dispute. Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King | , when the king's successor abandoned Christianity; he eventually reconver ... |
| Theodoric the Great | ... w, Amalafrida, imprisoned; he escaped war with her brother, the Gothic king | , only by the latter's death in 526 |
| Charles II | ... areas. However, at the end of the century, after the death of the childless | (1700), the crown of Spain went to Philip V of the House of Bourbon. The G ... |
| Jayapala | ... jua overlord, Jayapala, of the Panduvanshi dynasty. The last Shahi emperors | , Anandapala and Tirlochanpala fought invading Muslim Turks from Central A ... |
| Wolverine | ... duced in issue #4). The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as | , Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gamb ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... n Law (promulgated 1917). Further steps toward reorganization were begun by | in the 1960s. Among the goals of this curial reform were the modernization ... |
| James I of England | ... mia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King | . However, after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 162 ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... II (9 July 1578 – 15 February 1637), a member of the House of Habsburg, was | (1619–1637), King of Bohemia (1617–1619, 1620–1637), and King of Hungary ( ... |
| Grace Kelly | ... for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite | and Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder |
| Pope Paul VI | ... which is always conferred posthumously and was finally bestowed upon her by | in 1970 along with Saint Catherine of Siena making them the first women to ... |
| Josef II | ... ties (1767), and prohibited marriage between Romanies (1773). Her successor | prohibited the wearing of traditional Romani clothing and the use of the R ... |
| Leopold I | ... ccession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, | . Charles sought the other European powers' approval. They exacted harsh t ... |
| Augustus | ... te a history of the world up to his own time (the beginning of the reign of | ). He starts with the gods and the heroes. At the end of this part of the ... |
| Al Gore | ... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democrat | won 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ... |
| Augustus | ... e actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, | , Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
| Emperor Ping | ... i, Wang Zhengjun's nephew Wang Mang (45 BCE–23 CE) was appointed regent for | (r. 1 BCE – 6 CE). When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed W ... |
| Liu Ying | ... CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child | (d. 25 CE). Wang promised to relinquish his control to Liu Ying once he ca ... |
| Prince of Wales | ... y Act of Parliament". This meant the Duke took precedence over his son, the | , except, officially, in the British parliament. In fact, however, he atte ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
| Philip V | ... er the death of the childless Charles II (1700), the crown of Spain went to | of the House of Bourbon. The Grand Alliance of England, the United Provinc ... |
| José Napoleón Duarte | ... lvadoran election March and May 1984, in favor of the incumbent centre-left | instead of D'Aubuisson, claiming that Pickering had "used the cloak of dip ... |
| Aragorn | ... Men of the West, an island sea-people, founders of Gondor and ancestors of | from The Lord of the Rings; the fate of the Númenóreans, and so the fate o ... |
| Idi Amin | ... mentaries include The Man Who Ate His Archbishop's Liver? (Channel 4) about | ; Alchemists of Sound, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; a biography of ... |
| Jigme Singye Wangchuck | ... til his death in July 1972 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son, | . The close ties of the Wangchuck and Dorji families were reemphasized in ... |
| Nazgûl | ... ains that came to be known as the Ephel Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the | in , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the War o ... |
| Victor Emmanuel III | ... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and King | were facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ... |
| King Charles III | ... children sent to orphanages. Similar prohibitions took place in 1783 under | , who prohibited the nomadic lifestyle, the use of the Calo language, Roma ... |
| George W. Bush | ... recent years. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won 53% of the vote and Republican | won 44%. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 50.14% of the vote and Bush ... |
| Commodus | ... liver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts (1997), the cruel Roman emperor | in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) (for which he was nominated for the Aca ... |
| Andrew Davis (A.D.) Bruce | ... for the tank destroyer testing and training, which Texas had in abundance. | was assigned to organize a new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing Center, ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ported the protection of the environment. For example, Republican President | was a prominent conservationist whose policies eventually led to the creat ... |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r to the 2008 election, it had not voted for a Democrat for President since | in 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ... |
| Anwar Sadat | ... ent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt died in September 1970 and was succeeded by | . In 1971, Sadat, in response to an initiative by UN intermediary Gunnar J ... |
| Andrew Jackson | ... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and | were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
| Charles Augustus | ... e family well: she herself had intended to marry Princess Johanna's brother | (Karl August von Holstein), who had died of smallpox in 1727 before the we ... |
| Pharaoh | ... time being without foreign intervention. However, in the spring of 609 BC, | Necho II personally led a sizable army up to the Euphrates to aid the Assy ... |
| Carl L. Becker | ... ved", is usually cited as one of the primary influences. In 1922, historian | wrote that "Most Americans had absorbed Locke's works as a kind of politic ... |
| Joseph Chamberlain | ... t rally celebrating the British Empire, the occasion being the centenary of | 's birth. In October 1942, the Hall suffered minor damage during World War ... |
| Rupprecht | ... I of Bavaria. During the First World War, Ludwig's eldest son, Crown Prince | , commanded the Bavarian army and became one of the leading German command ... |
| Constans | ... , often on pain of death. In 342 CE, the Christian emperors Constantius and | declared same-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 C ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
| George Washington | ... th the county and the city were named for American Revolutionary War leader | , later to become the first President of the United States. It was the fir ... |
| George Washington | ... r North Carolina Governor General Benjamin Smith, who was a special aide to | during the American Revolutionary War and was an early benefactor to the u ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... abeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, by whom he had his two children: | , born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and Maria Anna, born 1718, Gover ... |
| Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
| Gelimer | ... ven years on the throne, Hilderic fell victim to a revolt led by his cousin | , an Arian, who led the people in a religious rebellion. Gelimer then beca ... |
| Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
| Valentinian II | ... ame-sex marriage to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors | , Theodosius I and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and thos ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... legorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past ( | , Augustus, Cyrus, etc.). (Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985 |
| Slobodan Milošević | ... ommanders and politicians, notably Serbia and Yugoslavia's former president | , were put on trial by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal ... |
| Floris V, Count of Holland | ... is from 1276 when Dirk van Santhorst received the "Soetrewold" fiefdom from | |
| King Henry VIII | ... nians. As the English Reformation progressed, their friaries were closed by | . The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a th ... |
| Frank Sturgis | # | guilty of burglary |
| Maria Anna | ... is two children: Maria Theresa, born 1717, the last Habsburg sovereign, and | , born 1718, Governess of the Austrian Netherlands |
| Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
| Clovis | ... 440 – 481/82) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of | |
| William I | In 933 the islands, formerly under the control of | , then Duchy of Brittany were annexed by the Duchy of Normandy. The island ... |
| Archduke Charles | ... rlands) and Austria gave military support to a rival claimant to the crown, | . Catalonia initially accepted Philip V following prolonged negotiations b ... |
| Demetrius of Montferrat | ... rians, and his head was sent to Kaloyan. He was succeeded by his infant son | , who ruled until he reached adulthood, but was eventually defeated by The ... |
| Alfonso XIII | In the early 1900s Santander became the favoured summer residence of King | , who built the Palacio de la Magdalena as the residence of the royal fami ... |
| Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ... |
| Peter II | ... liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew | . The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov. Wit ... |
| Theodosius I | ... to be illegal. Shortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, | and Arcadius declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guil ... |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | In 1956, President | of Egypt initiated "state feminism", which outlawed discrimination based o ... |
| Hadrian | ... hat the decrease of importance of the Oracle after the era of Roman Emperor | was due in part to the fact that there had not been an earthquake in the a ... |
| Philip II | ... om of the former Aragonese confederation, eclipsing Barcelona. The reign of | marked the beginning of a gradual process of deterioration of Catalan econ ... |
| Jane Seymour | ... heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, | , died there two weeks later. Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass ... |
| Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ... |
| Arvedui | ... and taken to Fornost. It remained there until Fornost too was overrun, when | took it to Forochel. It was lost in when the ship on which he was travelli ... |
| Marie Feodorovna | ... e was built by Catherine the Great’s son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, | , were avid francophiles, who, on a visit to France and Versailles in the ... |
| Murray the K | After the success of their singles, The Shirelles became frequent guests of | , who hosted them on his "All Star Rock Shows" on the New York radio stati ... |
| Charles the Bold | ... s were astonishingly successful. In the Siege of Neuss (1474–75), he forced | of Burgundy to give up his daughter Mary of Burgundy as wife to Frederick' ... |
| Lionel Hampton | His songs attracted countless covers over the years. The first cover was by | featuring Sonny Parker, then Wynonie Harris, and lastly, Loy Gordon & His ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... es outlining a philosophy of science which might as easily be attributed to | centuries later. The novel's Roger Bacon serves to motivate Costain's prot ... |
| Philip IV | ... of the kingdoms, and were jealously guarded by the Catalan oligarchy. After | acceded to the throne in 1621, the Count-Duke of Olivares attempted to sus ... |
| Catherine Howard | ... ce's chapel, the King was informed of his fifth wife's adultery. The Queen, | , was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to the to ... |
| Philippe, Duke of Anjou | ... The ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, which pitted France's candidate, | , Louis XIV of France's grandson, against Austria's Charles, lasted for al ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
| Emperor Charles V | ... r became Holy Roman Emperor, because he predeceased his father, but his son | eventually united the Habsburg, Burgundian, Castilian, and Aragonese inher ... |
| King Basin | ... Franks, whose women he was taking; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia with | and his wife Basina; of his return when a faithful servant advised him tha ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | ... s (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter | as wife to Frederick's son Maximilian. With the inheritance of Burgundy, t ... |
| Arvedui | ... to Fornost, they took the palantír with them. This Stone was also lost when | was shipwrecked |
| Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... expedite the progress of the building project at its permanent location and | laid the foundation stone of the Institute at Powai on March 10, 1959 |
| George Washington | President of Congress John Hancock sent a broadside to General | , instructing him to have it proclaimed "at the Head of the Army in the wa ... |
| Karl Renner | In April 1945 | , an Austrian elder statesman, declared Austria separate from Germany and ... |
| Empress Anna | With the death of her father and the later accession of the | , no royal court or noble house in Europe could allow a son to pay court t ... |
| Arcadius | ... hortly after, in the year 390 CE, emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I and | declared homosexual sex to be illegal and those who were guilty of it were ... |
| President of the Republic of China | ... Chinese culture, like the lion dance and drum teams. Later in the day, the | addresses the country and fireworks displays are held throughout the major ... |
| Theodosius II | ... hed in 439 or soon thereafter, and certainly during the lifetime of Emperor | , i.e., before 450. The purpose of the history is to continue the work of ... |
| Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
| Claudius | ... and formed the north border of the Roman Empire. Since the rule of Emperor | (41–54 CE), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, ... |
| Emperor Jing | Emperor Gengshi of Han (r. 23–25 CE), a descendant of | (r. 157–141 BCE), attempted to restore the Han Dynasty and occupied Chang' ... |
| Omphale | In Greek myth, Lydia was also the first home of the double-axe, the labrys. | , daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was ... |
| Clovis | He died in 481 and was buried in Tournai. His son | succeeded him as king of the Franks |
| Kublai Khan | ... ictional Englishman who journeys to China during the reigns of Edward I and | . Costain's narration includes technology such as the compass, the telesco ... |
| Anna | ... ria (having previously been relieved of his tongue) by order of the Empress | , she turned to a coachman and even a waiter. Eventually she consoled hers ... |
| Emperor Guangwu | ... monarch Liu Penzi. Emperor Gengshi's brother Liu Xiu, known posthumously as | (r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Kunyang in 23 ... |
| Catherine the Great’s | Pavlovsk Palace was built by | son Paul. The czarevitch and his wife, Marie Feodorovna, were avid francop ... |
| Leopold I | ... eslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor | and of his third wife, Princess Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on ... |
| Justinian I | ... e who were guilty of it were condemned to be publicly burned alive. Emperor | (527–565 CE) made homosexuals a scapegoat for problems such as "famines, e ... |
| Anne Boleyn | ... ndon Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as | 's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn ... |
| Magneto | Early X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemy | and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ... |
| William the Conqueror | ... t the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, | , spent the rest of the year securing his holdings, by fortifying key posi ... |
| Licinius | ... he Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and | |
| Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... Across from the Parliament is the Shengo Hall, built by the Derg regime of | as its new parliament hall. The Shengo Hall was the world's largest pre-fa ... |
| Ralph Klein | ... ssue in Canada. A national plebiscite had been suggested by Alberta Premier | and some Conservatives and Liberal backbenchers. However, Paul Martin's Li ... |
| Pau Claris | The president of the Generalitat, | , declared a Catalan Republic under the protection of Louis XIII of France ... |
| Ronald Reagan | ... d States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President | |
| John F. Kennedy | Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President | (dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ... |
| President of Ireland | ... e Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first | , Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the off ... |
| Louis XIV | ... atin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to | , who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal libra ... |
| Edmund Crouchback | Henry granted Kenilworth to his brother, | , in 1267. Edmund held many tournaments at Kenilworth in the late 13th cen ... |
| Kunigunde of Austria | The marriage of his daughter | to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and decepti ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... merican Civil War Brigadier General Robert H. Chilton (Chief of Staff under | ) was a native of Loudoun County. World War II general George C. Marshall ... |
| Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
| The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
| Walter Scott | ... rslie, by Blind Harry. Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir | and Jane Porter and of the Academy Award winning epic film Braveheart |
| Ashur-uballit II | ... ght and where Josiah was killed. Necho then joined forces with the Assyrian | and together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran. The combi ... |
| Henry IV of England | ... bowstaves to England was in 1294. In 1350 there was a serious shortage, and | ordered his royal bowyer to enter private land and cut yew and other woods ... |
| Habibullah Khan | ... ost rebellion of 1923-24. Religious leaders, who had gained influence under | , were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms |
| Douglas Hyde | ... for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, | , a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of Preside ... |
| Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
| Lew Wasserman | ... ylor, who was in Paris, sent flowers, as did Roddy McDowall, Myrna Loy, and | |
| Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
| Bill Richardson | ... rdon promised and not delivered by Wallace, to then-Governor of New Mexico, | . On December 31, 2010, on the eve of leaving office, Richardson turned do ... |
| Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
| Alfonso | ... and the successful defense against a French crusade; his son and successor | ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son James II, who f ... |
| Jigme Singye Wangchuck | On December 15, 2006, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty | , abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince Jigme Khesar Namg ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... 9.3% of the vote. In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President | |
| Sun King | ... restoration and maintenance at Versailles undoubtedly surpass those of the | |
| Augustus | The Romans had a preference for standardization whenever they could, so | , after becoming permanent commissioner of roads in 20 BC, set up the mili ... |
| Kwame Nkrumah | The term "neocolonialism" was first coined by | , the first post-independence president of Ghana, and has been discussed b ... |
| Sparta | ... ttoman Empire, European travelers and scholars began to systematically tour | and the Peloponnnese. Ernst Curtius, Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet p ... |
| Inayatullah Khan | ... rth. In January 1929, Amanullah abdicated the throne to his oldest brother, | , who ruled for only three days before escaping into exile in British-Indi ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice President | as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ... |
| James II | ... uccessor Alfonso ("the Generous") conquered Minorca; and Peter's second son | , who first acceded to the throne of Sicily and then succeeded his older b ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic President | did not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ... |
| Kristina Keneally | Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Among its notable alumni and faculty are | , Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsch ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... emian diet, in 1618, King of Hungary by the Hungarian estates, and in 1619, | |
| Philip II of Spain | ... mpton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's eldest daughter) retreated with King | to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester. The marriage wa ... |
| Edward I of England | ... 05, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over to King | , who had him hanged, drawn, and quartered for high treason and crimes aga ... |
| Alfonso V | Ferdinand's successor, | ("the Magnanimous"), promoted a new stage of expansion, this time over the ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | ... er complication occurred due to Saint-Exupéry's and others' view of General | , who was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader ... |
| George W. Bush | ... e for ratification, as he thought it unfair to the United States. President | also publicly opposed ratification of the Kyoto Protocols on the grounds t ... |
| Psamtik I | ... that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh | only a year earlier (610 BC). Presumably in an attempt to help the Babylon ... |
| Charles the Bold | # 1477 Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy | # 1494 Bianca Maria Sforza (1472–1510), daughter of Duke of Milan Galeazzo ... |
| George W. Bush | ... d of many prominent leaders in industry and government, including President | |
| Kaleb | ... eginning of the 6th century and began to massacre the Christians. Outraged, | , the Christian King of Aksum with the encouragement of the Byzantine Empe ... |
| Mary of Burgundy | # 1477 | (1457–1482), daughter of Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bol |
| Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | ... me Singye Wangchuck, abdicated all of his powers as King to his son, Prince | , with a specific intention to prepare the young King for the country's tr ... |
| Aragorn | ... ver Isengard with Merry and Pippin as Théoden, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli, and | arrive to pick up the two hobbits |
| Humphry Davy | ... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by | in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ... |
| Menen Asfaw | ... d that in the interest of preserving the Imperial house, the emperor's wife | and the rest of the imperial family should immediately depart for Djibouti ... |
| Saddam | ... ts pedestal. The pro-Chávez website Aporrea wrote: "Just like the statue of | in Baghdad, that of Columbus the tyrant also fell this October 12, 2004 in ... |
| Charles I of England | ... and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King | (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly ... |
| Achilles | ... . In an almost identical line (X.391) that suggests a formulaic expression, | tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector |
| President | ... "an examination ... of rival claims." Great Britain reacted favourably but | Woodrow Wilson rejected the plan. Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary were favora ... |
| James I | ... ly. This was when, on the death of Robert III in 1406, his heir, who became | , was a prisoner in England. James was eventually released and crowned in ... |
| Malcolm, son of Kenneth II | ... ed mac Duib), who became Kenneth III on Constantine's death, or perhaps for | (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) |
| Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... cting the newly formed Republic of India, from a planned coup to topple the | Administration in Delh |
| Llywelyn the Great | ... ng and soon the archbishop was sent to Wales to negotiate peace with Prince | |
| William the Conqueror | ... father Eustace II appeared at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 as an ally of | , and is listed as a possible killer of Harold II; he is also believed to ... |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
| Talcott Parsons | ... pretations of his writings were produced by such sociological luminaries as | and C. Wright Mills. Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a fun ... |
| George Papandreou | ... ral Democratic Alliance (DS) and the moderate leftist Democratic Left (DA). | , president of PASOK, won 4 October 2009, won with a majority in the Parli ... |
| Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... arried Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of | and his wife Princess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her materna ... |
| Henry VIII | ... whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Arms to | in 1526, Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1532, and a Justice of the Peace f ... |
| Charles I | ... ent in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King | |
| George W. Bush | ... a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that | is a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test que ... |
| Robert III | ... able to be crowned more or less immediately. This was when, on the death of | in 1406, his heir, who became James I, was a prisoner in England. James wa ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... guards, and palace guards. After the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on | by Mehmet Ali Ağca, the guards were given enhanced training in unarmed com ... |
| Lady Diana Spencer | ... dest son, Charles, counselling him to make up his mind to either propose to | , or break off their courtship. Charles felt pressured by his father to ma ... |
| King Henry II | ... de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, the castle was seized by the crown in 1102. | , who added on to the castle, in 1155 confirmed William d'Aubigny as Earl ... |
| John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
| George W. Bush | ... Presidential election, John Kerry carried the county by a 6.6% margin over | , with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush |
| President of Ireland | ... Uachtaráin , formerly the Viceregal Lodge, is the official residence of the | . It is located in the Phoenix Park on the northside of Dublin |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
| Alexander the Great | ... t family was named Psittacus alexandri, meaning "Alexander's parrot", after | whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece. Linnaeus' trivial nam ... |
| Johnson administration | ... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the | , their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ... |
| Nero | ... centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as | , and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls i ... |
| Henri I | ... 06. The country was then divided between a kingdom in the north directed by | ; and a republic in the south directed by Alexandre Pétion, an homme de co ... |
| Danaus | ... their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. (See the myth at the entry for | .) The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, do ... |
| Art Rooney | ... d among his friends and companions the Vanderbilts, the Whitneys, Tim Mara, | , and George Preston Marshall, among others. Marshall met Bell in Atlantic ... |
| Stephen of England | ... V (c. 1129 – 17 August 1153), count of Boulogne, was the eldest son of King | and Countess Matilda I of Boulogne. When his father seized the English thr ... |
| Dwight Eisenhower | ... ioned endlessly for an exemption which had finally been approved by General | . However Saint-Exupéry had been suffering pain and immobility due to his ... |
| Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... ectors' Awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London. Presenting the awards was | ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman (writers of Round ... |
| Lex Luthor | ... c (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and | to conquer the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor causes chaos on the Earths b ... |
| Danaus | In Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of | . As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identica ... |
| Yuan Hao | ... n garrison towns, he sent his general Chen Qingzhi to support the pretender | . Despite the fact that Chen was only given 7,000 troops, Chen still manag ... |
| Branch Rickey | ... "minor" – a term that did not come into vogue until St. Louis Cardinals GM | pioneered the farm system in the 1930s. Nevertheless, these financially tr ... |
| Emperor Gong of Western Wei | ... AD). Afterwards, Yuwen Tai's son Yuwen Jue seized the throne of power from | , establishing the Northern Zhou Dynasty (557–580 AD). The Northern Zhou D ... |
| Stever Committee | In early 1958, NACA's " | " included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by W ... |
| Diana, Princess of Wales | ... ted with the Royal Family (for instance, immediately following the death of | ). However, recent polls show that around 70–80% of the British public sup ... |
| Haakon V | ... peared claiming to be her, known as the False Margaret; she was executed by | , King Eric's brother and successor, in 1301 |
| Joseph II | On Maria Theresa's death in 1780, she was succeeded by her son | , already Holy Roman Emperor since Francis I's death in 1765. A reformer h ... |
| Baldwin of Bourcq | ... he travelled all the way to Apulia before learning that a distant relative, | , had been crowned in the meantime. Eustace returned to Boulogne and died ... |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... e rule in Goa and its integration into India. When Prime Minister of India, | refused to obtain it by armed intervention, RSS leader Jagannath Rao Joshi ... |
| Crown Prince | ... Loerzer had been regularized. They were assigned as a team to FFA 25 in the | 's Fifth Army – "though it seems that they had to steal a plane in order t ... |
| Alan García | ... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of | . He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ... |
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| John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg | ... ncess Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her maternal grandfather was | . In 1725 Charles Albert visited Versailles for the wedding of Louis XV an ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA). Privately, however, the CIA and President | were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret sp ... |
| Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
| Alexander the Great | ... o the age of heroes, extending from Manuchehr's reign until the conquest of | (Sekandar). The main feature of this period is the major role played by th ... |
| Baldwin of Boulogne | ... 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon (duke of Lower Lotharingia) and | . He soon returned to Europe to administer his domains. He married Mary of ... |
| Alfred the Great | ... yfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by | to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was rec ... |
| Philip | ... Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince Charles, and Prince | |
| Pope John Paul II | ... said that his religion was the "most important thing" in his life. In 1998, | made him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KSG), the highest ... |
| Henry of Anjou | ... ssibility of a peaceful settlement between Stephen and his rival, the young | . According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was "grieved beyond measu ... |
| Catherine the Great | ... ntral Europe, faced with the alliance of Frederick the Great of Prussia and | of Russia. The Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 caused a serious crisis in e ... |
| Yazdegerd III | ... h Keyumars, the first man, and ended with his fiftieth scion and successor, | , six thousand years of history of Iran. The task of Ferdowsi was to preve ... |
| Woodrow Wilson | ... rsity as undergraduate students, graduate students or were faculty members. | , who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was Hopkins' first affi ... |
| Elizabeth II | ... remain Commonwealth realms and share the same monarch. The present monarch, | , succeeded her father, George VI, in 1952. Like her recent predecessors, ... |
| Nimrod | ... ified in the Recognitions (part of Clementine literature) with the biblical | , who, the author says, taught the Persians to worship fire. In many moder ... |
| Joseph Locke | ... ed men were starting to make their marks, such as his son Robert, his pupil | and finally Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His conservative views on the capabil ... |
| Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia | ... icholas was identified from DNA obtained from among others his late brother | . Grand Duke George had died of tuberculosis in the late 1890s and was bur ... |
| Frederick Taylor | The modern history of workflows can be traced to | and H. Gantt. Rudolf Laban and Warren Lamb contributed to this in England. ... |
| Benedict Arnold | ... -copy," and "We started out with too much cargo / So I'm glad we got rid of | , yo |
| Anne of Denmark | ... 00. James VI and I, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland and his wife, | , the daughter of Frederick II of Denmark also lived at the Palace until t ... |
| Kim Il-sung | In April 1982, | announced a new economic policy giving priority to increased agricultural ... |
| George W. Bush | ... er, many Democrats in Congress did not want to work with incoming President | . Kennedy, however, saw Bush as genuinely interested in a major overhaul o ... |
| Matilda of Boulogne | ... cotland, and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, | |
| Hou Jing | ... n and Western Wei, Emperor Wu granted asylum to rebel Eastern Wei commander | , sending him on Northern Expeditions against Eastern Wei. After some init ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
| Casimir IV | ... tiated with Lithuania in the hope of placing itself under the protection of | , King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania, a would-be alliance regard ... |
| Joseph Locke | ... tar" driven by his brother Robert and "Rocket" driven by assistant engineer | . The day was marred by the death of William Huskisson, the Member of Parl ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
| King Harold | ... shire and Monmouthshire, and traced his descent from an Owen of the time of | and a Sitsyllt of the reign of William Rufus. Sitsylt is the original Wels ... |
| Achilles | ... s married the Ocean goddess Thetis. Peleus later gave the horses to his son | who took them to draw his chariot during the Trojan War |
| Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria | He and his wife | were parents of seven children |
| Baldwin I of Jerusalem | When his youngest brother king | died in 1118, the elderly Eustace was offered the throne. Eustace was at f ... |
| Rawhi Fattouh | Upon Arafat's death, PLC Speaker | succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General Ma ... |
| Prince William, Duke of Cumberland | ... on is 156,898. Its county seat is Bridgeton. Cumberland County is named for | |
| Daniel Nathans | ... Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, | and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ... |
| Agustin de Iturbide | Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of | , a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Centr ... |
| Maximilian I | In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor | established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und ... |
| Daniel of Galicia | ... mogitia). Vykintas died in 1251 or 1252, and Tautvilas was forced to rejoin | |
| Leopold II | ... roved a boon for Austria, as he was succeeded by his more sensible brother, | , previously the reforming Grand Duke of Tuscany. Leopold knew when to cut ... |
| James I of Scotland | ... e David II of Scotland (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324 | ;(reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and Charles I of England, King of England, S ... |
| Mahmoud Abbas | ... ouh succeeded Arafat as interim President of the PNA. PLO Secretary-General | was selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah ... |
| David II of Scotland | A number of British monarchs were born in Dunfermline Palace. These include | (reign 1329-71), the son of Robert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland ... |
| Vasili | ... rty three years, dying on 27 October 1505 and he left his empire to his son | |
| Charles I of England | ... ert The Bruce in 1324; James I of Scotland (reign 1406-37) in late 1394 and | , King of England, Scotland and Ireland (reign 1625-49) in 1600. James VI ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
| Emperor Wen of Sui | ... -lived, as the Northern Zhou was overthrown in 581 by Yang Jian, who became | . With greater military power and morale, along with convincing propaganda ... |
| Al Gore | ... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President | 's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ... |
| Nero | ... Barrett incarnated Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of | , who falls in love with a young woman and converts to Christianity for he ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of President | married into the Yeomans family |
| Peleus | Poseidon gave the two horses to King | of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis. ... |
| Earl Mountbatten of Burma | ... le all over the country. On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated | in County Sligo. On the same day the IRA killed 18 British soldiers at War ... |
| Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria | He was born in Brussels as the son of | , and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King John III ... |
| Henry VII | ... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor | , to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ... |
| Empress Matilda | ... ouis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the | , and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou |
| King George V | ... of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of | . In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, t ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... ze such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister | , assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984 |
| Augustus | ... nd his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first emperor, | , (r. 27 BC–AD 19), had shared power with his colleagues and more formal o ... |
| Malcolm III of Scotland | ... pe to administer his domains. He married Mary of Scotland, daughter of King | , and Saint Margaret of Scotland. Eustace and Mary had one daughter, Matil ... |
| Alexander III of Scotland | ... e was the daughter of King Eric II of Norway and Margaret, daughter of King | . Margaret was born in Tønsberg, on 9 April 1283, while her mother did not ... |
| Khosrau I | During the reign of the later Sassanid king | (531–579), a gift from an Indian king (possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of ... |
| Finarfin | Dorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, two of the sons of | , under the suzerainty of their older brother Finrod. The north-eastern ar ... |
| Marcus Aurelius | ... with his colleagues and more formal offices of co-emperor had existed from | (r. 161–180) on |
| Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
| Harry S. Truman | ... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. President | great embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ... |
| Isaiah Berlin | ... itically, rather than any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including | and Piero Sraffa. Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewi ... |
| Carus | ... sily removed from power. In contrast, just a few years earlier, the emperor | and his sons had ruled jointly, albeit not for long. Even the first empero ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle. | , then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ... |
| Holy Roman Emperor | ... mber of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and | from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only ... |
| Louis VII of France | ... ers dated no later than August 1131. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to | , whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she ... |
| Eric II of Norway | She was the daughter of King | and Margaret, daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland. Margaret was bor ... |
| Saparmurat Niyazov | In January 2006, | ordered to stop paying pensions to ⅓ (more than 100,000) of elderly people ... |
| Ardashir I | ... and 7th centuries AD (Common Era). This ancient Persian text refers to Shah | , who ruled from 224–241, as a master of the game |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | ... akhstan and is a regular goose hunting companion of the country's President | . He is a supporter of Norwich City Football Club |
| Pope Benedict XVI | ... reign affairs. Bertone and Mamberti were named in their respective roles by | in September 2006 |
| Henry VIII | ... ard Family were Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of | . Both women were nieces of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, who played ... |
| DJ Yella | ... t behind the scenes it was a group effort. Music was handled by Dr. Dre and | ; the lyrics were largely written by MC Ren, with contributions from Ice C ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of | and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ... |
| Xiao Dong | ... ering. Despite Emperor Wu's assurances, Hou decided to rebel in the name of | , the grandson of the former crown prince Xiao Tong who died in 531 AD and ... |
| Oswaldo López | ... a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under General | until 1970 |
| President of the Church | ... restrictions remained in place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by | Spencer W. Kimball |
| President Reagan | ... rd Nixon announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, | added the position of drug czar to the President's Executive Office |
| Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
| Melvin A. Eggers | ... ention of the NCAA. The day after the bombing, the university's chancellor, | , said on nationwide television that he should have canceled the event. Af ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
| Erskine H. Childers | ... Fianna Fáil's electoral comeback by securing the election of its candidate, | , as President of Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the Na ... |
| Alfonso IX of León | ... i had established himself in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both | and Sancho II of Portugal opportunistically ordered their own raids into A ... |
| George Tupou V | In July 2008, three days before his coronation, King | announced that he would relinquish most of his power and be guided by his ... |
| Ferdinand III of Castile | ... aeza. He set up a rebel camp and forged an alliance with the hitherto quiet | . Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheik ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by | . Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ... |
| Louis IV | ... emperor at Frankfurt. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach Emperor after | and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of Rupert of G ... |
| President | ... staing (; born 2 February 1926) is a French centre-right politician who was | of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. , he is a member of the Const ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... protected by a bubble of clear bulletproof glass, such as the Popemobile of | – built following an attempt at his life. Politicians often resent this ne ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
| Marc Ravalomanana | The government of former President | was aggressively seeking foreign investment and had planned to tackle many ... |
| President Bush | On September 26, 2006, | urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that U.S. armed forces ... |
| Emperor Charles VII | ... a to the Prussians. In 1745, following the reign of the Bavarian Elector as | , Maria Theresa's husband Francis of Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | ... G (13 September 1521 – 4 August 1598) was an English , the chief advisor of | for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) ... |
| Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
| President of India | ... tion of SPG for a period of 5 years, after stepping down from the post. The | is also protected by SPG while the President's Bodyguards, which is a mech ... |
| Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | ... left with the prisoners. Alexandra kept only two bracelets which her uncle, | , had given her as a child and which she could not take off. He did not kn ... |
| Cephalus | ... mage:Cephalus and Aurora - Poussin - 1627-30 National Gallery, London.jpg | | and Aurora - Nicolas Poussin - 1627 - National Gallery, London |
| Talaus | He was a son of | and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hyginus calls he ... |
| Jacques Chirac | ... Palestinian national anthems, and a Chopin funeral march. French President | stood alone beside Arafat's coffin for about ten minutes in a last show of ... |
| Henry IV | ... a Parisian) and to Henry III of Navarre who later became king of France as | |
| Mithridates I of Parthia | ... g Syria and northern Mesopotamia; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by | had overrun uppland Media (home of the famed Nisean horse herd); and Roman ... |
| Edward, the Prince of Wales | ... ceremony of the Hall was on 29 March 1871. A welcoming speech was given by | ; Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak although she did comment that i ... |
| President of the United States | West Point is a federal military reservation established by | Thomas Jefferson in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the ... |
| Indira Gandhi | ... and his family members, after the assassination of the then Prime Minister | , in 1984. Former Prime Ministers also get the protection of SPG for a per ... |
| Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
| López | ... is time round, he adopted more progressive policies, including land reform. | 's successors continued armed forces modernization programs, building army ... |
| Juan Alberto Melgar | ... air force superiority over its neighbors. During the governments of General | (1975–78) and General Policarpo Paz (1978–82), Honduras built most of its ... |
| Odin | ... Munin, two Common Ravens who whispered news into the ears of the Norse god | . In several civilizations of ancient Italy, particularly Etruscan and Rom ... |
| Lynceus | ... meless, was eventually reconciled with her father, and given in marriage to | , with whom she founded a race of kings that led to Danae, the mother of P ... |
| Tigranes the Great | Mithridates' ambitious son-in-law, | , king of Armenia, however, saw opportunity for expansion in the constant ... |
| Gerry Adams | ... ough the move caused some controversy in the UK due to his connections with | of the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin. Later in March, a bill ... |
| Achaemenes | His character seems to have been chosen by Virgil treating the Persian name | as Greek and extracting a meaning "he who waits with affliction" |
| Oswaldo López | ... NH, Ramón Ernesto Cruz, took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972, | staged another coup. This time round, he adopted more progressive policies ... |
| Dermot MacMurrough | ... x Ireland and bring the Irish church into line with Rome. Around 1170, King | of Leinster was deposed by his arch-enemy King Rory O'Connor of Connacht. ... |
| Chen Shubao | ... er and morale, along with convincing propaganda that the Chen Dynasty ruler | was a decadent ruler who had lost the Mandate of Heaven, the Sui Dynasty w ... |
| Anthony Blunt | The most famous 20th-century scholar of Poussin was the Englishman | , Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, who in 1979 was disgraced by revelations ... |
| Justinian | ... tiquity, Awjila was nominally within the Roman Empire, evidenced by emperor | 's decree that forbade the worship of Amun |
| Clement Attlee | ... current stones were dedicated in September 1946 by the then Prime Minister | , replacing those destroyed during WW2 as an anti-invasion measure. The lo ... |
| Ramón Ernesto Cruz | A civilian president for the PNH, | , took power briefly in 1970 until, in December 1972, Oswaldo López staged ... |
| Sancho II of Portugal | ... lf in the city of Cordoba. Sensing the vacuity, both Alfonso IX of León and | opportunistically ordered their own raids into Andalusian territory that s ... |
| Patsy Ramsey | ... The Southern Skillet, when he lived there off and on in the '90s. John and | , the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, lived in the area in the early 2000s. Fo ... |
| Sarpedon | ... of Eetion. Pedasos was mortal, but he could keep up with the divine horses. | , prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed P ... |
| Don Carlos | ... whose settlement saw Austria cede Naples and Sicily to the Spanish Infante | in exchange for the tiny Duchy of Parma and Spain and France's adherence t ... |
| Mahmoud Abbas | ... prevent a blood feud. The lawyer called on Palestinian Authority president | to reopen the investigation into Arafat's death. |
| Michelle Yeoh | ... ead actors: Chow Yun Fat is from Hong Kong and spoke Cantonese natively and | is from Malaysia and spoke English. Only Zhang Ziyi spoke with a native Ma ... |
| Sarah, Duchess of York | ... ayment. The Duke's entourage denied he knew of the situation. In July 2011, | stated that her multi-million pound debts had been cleared due to the inte ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... rs' worthless recognitions of the Pragmatic Sanction that made his daughter | his heir. The most notable instance of this was in the War of the Polish S ... |
| Maria Theresa | ... ies were overrun by the Austrians and Bavaria was occupied by the troops of | . Therefore the emperor fled Munich and resided for almost three years in ... |
| Odin | The Norse god | in his many forms, astride his eight-legged steed Sleipnir, came to be ass ... |
| Benazir Bhutto | ... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister | , or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ... |
| Henry II of England | In the 12th century the only English pope, Adrian IV, authorised King | to take possession of Ireland as a feudal territory nominally under papal ... |
| Vonones II of Parthia | ... Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of | , and his coronation by Nero in 66 AD confirmed the end of a war between P ... |
| Joseph Locke | ... e, rather than the West Coast Main Line taking the direct route favoured by | over Shap between Lancaster and Carlisle, Stephenson was in favour of a lo ... |
| James I’s | | ambassador to Paris, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, who pr ... |
| Ronald Reagan | United States President | ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the VF-74 "BeDe ... |
| Nero | ... ring the state visit to Rome of Tiridates I of Armenia, during the reign of | . (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthia, and his coronation by N ... |
| Henry II | His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future | to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. Th ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
| Mitt Romney | ... that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans". | , former Massachusetts Governor and Kennedy's opponent in the 1994 senate ... |
| Edward Bruce | Around Lent of 1314, | , brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which ... |
| President | ... ere constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as | , and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. The PLH rule ... |
| Organa | ... uly 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in DVD by | through Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary The Hollywood ... |
| John II Komnenos | ... y set afoot by his mother-in-law Irene Doukaina and his wife Anna to depose | , the son of Alexios, and raise himself to the throne. His wife attributed ... |
| John André | ... ut $1.3M in 2009 dollars). However, Arnold's plot failed when British Major | was captured as a spy by the Americans. Arnold received a decreased cash r ... |
| Constantine | ... divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself. When Licinius and | began to make common cause with one another, Maximinus entered into a secr ... |
| Polynices | ... aughter of Pronax, or to Demonassa. His daughters Argea and Deipyle married | and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, Aegialeus, a ... |
| Indira Gandhi | In 1975, the Indian Government under the Prime Minister Mrs. | , proclaimed emergency rule in India, thereby suspending the fundamental r ... |
| Charles | ... the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Prince | , and Prince Philip |
| Kenneth II | Constantine became king upon the death of | (Cináed mac Maíl Coluim), supposedly killed by Finnguala, daughter of Cunc ... |
| Ramón Villeda | ... it back). There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed | as President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term. ... |
| Emperor Yuan of Liang | ... f his generals Wang Sengbian and Chen Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself | . His brother Xiao Ji based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Y ... |
| John Balliol | ... eace in Scotland between the competing claims of Margaret, Robert Bruce and | |
| Sparta | ... came a sea of Syracuse. In the Peloponnesian War, he joined the side of the | ns and assisted them with mercenaries |
| Jacques Chirac | ... a memorial to the cruelty of the Nazi occupation. In 1999, French President | dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, near the ... |
| Tiridates I of Armenia | ... tells how the name of Mithras was spoken during the state visit to Rome of | , during the reign of Nero. (Tiridates was the son of Vonones II of Parthi ... |
| Cuilén, King of Scotland | ... III, (before 971–997) was king of Scots from 995 to 997. He was the son of | (Cuilén mac Iduilb) |
| Baudouin | ... ave been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King | of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope John Paul II; Pri ... |
| Nathan Hale | ... hore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Named after | , a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War ... |
| Douglas Fairbanks | ... and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, | and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919 |
| the Queen | ... the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to | . On these occasions he maintained the principle of separatism, denouncing ... |
| Henry III of England | ... ecclesiastical office. In the name of his fellow bishops he admonished King | at Westminster, on 2 February 1234, to heed the example of his father, Kin ... |
| Charles de Gaulle | After the war, General | decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
| Benedict Arnold | In perhaps the most infamous act of treason in American history, General | attempted to turn the site over to the British Army in 1780 for a bribe co ... |
| Daniel of Galicia | ... augas, along with the Samogitians of western Lithuania, the Livonian Order, | (Tautvilas and Edivydas' brother-in-law), and Vasilko of Volhynia. The pri ... |
| Timur Leng | ... he late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later | and Uzbeks contested the land |
| Walter Wanger | Producer | bought the rights to journalist Vincent Sheean's memoir Personal History i ... |
| Sparta | ... manner the Rhodians celebrated Ptolemy I of Egypt, the Samians Lysander of | , the Athenians Demetrius, the Delphians Craterus of Macedon |
| Ferdinand III | In 1799, King | created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the ti ... |
| Mike Easley | ... %. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor | against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine |
| James Bond | ... y in 1989. In 1995 Pierce Brosnan filmed train crash sequences for the 17th | film, GoldenEye, at the former sugar beet factory. A scene for the film Th ... |
| Basil II | ... hen led his armies against Bulgaria, in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor | , and collected several relics during his campaign |
| Edward II of England | ... . It was now two years since an English army had come to Scotland, and King | had recently been on the verge of war with his barons after the murder of ... |
| Diomedes of Thrace | ... not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of | , who fed these animals on human flesh. The capture of these horses was th ... |
| Mitt Romney | ... n instrumental in the prior 2004 alteration of this law to prevent Governor | from appointing a Republican senator should John Kerry's presidential camp ... |
| Prince Rainier III | ... the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, | ; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia; Pope J ... |
| Villeda | ... nservative military officers preempted constitutional elections and deposed | in a bloody coup. These officers exiled PLH members and governed under Gen ... |
| Charles VI | ... d claimed the German territories of the Habsburg dynasty after the death of | in 1740. With the treaty of Nymphenburg concluded in July 1741, Charles Al ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With President | 's declaration to create a Great White Fleet, the company entered the wars ... |
| Galerius | ... 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor | near their family lands around Felix Romuliana; a rural area then in the D ... |
| Tarquin the Proud | ... ic was established around 509 BC, when the last of the seven kings of Rome, | , was deposed by Lucius Junius Brutus, and a system based on annually elec ... |
| Marie Amalie | On 5 October 1722, Charles married | , Archduchess of Austria. Marie Amalie was a daughter of Joseph I, Holy Ro ... |
| George Washington | ... and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies. | , who had more than sufficient difficulties with the British, brushed off ... |
| Halle Berry | ... er subsequent films, North Country and Æon Flux, she ranked seventh, behind | , Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon and Nic ... |
| Charles V | In 1520 | united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the t ... |
| Robert E. Lee | ... a and the South by figures such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and | . Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of America and the Sout ... |
| Princess Grace of Monaco | ... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been | and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ... |
| George Washington | ... ld was best known as the site of the Springfield Armory, a site selected by | and Henry Knox in 1777. Closed controversially during the Vietnam War, the ... |
| Isaac I Komnenos | ... ials for a History", ) of the period from 1057 to 1081, from the victory of | over Michael VI to the dethronement of Nikephoros III Botaneiates by Alexi ... |
| Harry | ... xtended royal family. In their grief, Diana's two sons, Princes William and | , wanted to attend church, and so their grandparents took them that mornin ... |
| Edward I | ... of Chelsea (Chelsey), Kensington (Kensing town) and Charing. In the time of | , the manor of Knightsbridge appertained to the abbey of Westminster. It w ... |
| Alexander the Great | ... s of the ancient world. It was part of the Persian Empire until captured by | at the siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC |
| Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
| Catherine of Aragon | ... later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy. His wife, | , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary. As England had ... |
| Roman Emperor | ... – July or August 313), also known as Maximinus Daia or Maximinus Daza, was | from 308 to 313. He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of ... |
| George W. Bush | ... ear equal measure. In the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported | over John Kerry by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to ... |
| Saddam Hussein | All United Nations attempts to intervene as mediators were rebuffed. Under | , Baathist Iraq claimed the entire waterway up to the Iranian shore as its ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
| George W. Bush | ... e were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and | (also representing his father, former President George H. W. Bush, who dec ... |
| George H. W. Bush | ... Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President | , who declined to attend), along with Vice President Biden, three former V ... |
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| Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
| George V | ... British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably Queen Victoria and | . American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Rich ... |
| Amphiaraus | ... her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iphis and | , the husband of Adrastus's sister Eriphyle. He was married either to Amph ... |
| Pervez Musharraf | ... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President | , as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ... |
| Mohammad Najibullah | ... Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President | |
| Francis of Lorraine | ... ign of the Bavarian Elector as Emperor Charles VII, Maria Theresa's husband | , Grand Duke of Tuscany, was elected Emperor, restoring control of that po ... |
| Spencer W. Kimball | ... place until 1978, when the policy was rescinded by President of the Church | |
| Simon de Montfort | In 1248, | was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. Bitter complaint ... |
| president | ... state senator and U.S. Congressman and, after changing parties, he ran for | as an American Independent Party candidate in the |
| Queen Victoria | Various visiting British monarchs stayed at the Viceregal Lodge, notably | and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. K ... |
| Xiao Ji | ... en Baxian defeated Hou, crowning himself Emperor Yuan of Liang. His brother | based in Sichuan was still a major threat. Emperor Yuan asked for assistan ... |
| William McKinley | ... bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons; U.S. President | did this at the public reception where he was assassinated |
| Elizabeth I | ... "Tyburn Tree" was Dr John Story, a Roman Catholic who refused to recognise | . Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in the foll ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
| George Washington | ... was popularized and spread across America and the South by figures such as | , Thomas Jefferson, and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent t ... |
| Ermengarde of Tours | He married | , who died in 851 |
| Organa | ... This Special Edition with the Hollywood Ten film is still available through | at organa.com. In 2004, a budget edition DVD was released by Alpha Video. ... |
| Lycurgus | When King | of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned all the fo ... |
| Simon bar Kokhba | ... leader, and burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of | in 135 CE, innumerable Jewish captives were sold into slavery at Hebron's ... |
| Ferdinand II | ... tion was therefore to support the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor, the Habsburg | |
| Henry III | ... eigneurs of the nobility and the contending factions in the great communes. | yielded to the outcry and instituted a formal inquiry into Simon's adminis ... |
| David Wu | ... ile at Harvard he shared an apartment with future United States Congressman | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... Cold War. Participants at the conference included Churchill, U.S. President | and French Premier Joseph Laniel. In 1957, a second summit conference was ... |
| Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor | According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of | , sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic ... |
| Galerius | In 305, his maternal uncle | became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank ... |
| Frederick II of Prussia | ... ught Austria by a series of battles in 1743 and 1744. The new alliance with | during the Second Silesian War finally forced the Austrian army to leave B ... |
| Gaston, Duke of Orléans | On two occasions the King's younger brother, | had to leave France for conspiring against the King's government, and for ... |
| Queen Mary | ... built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and | in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints and Drawings an ... |
| Numa Pompilius | Rome's second king, | (r. 715-673 BC), is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its hou ... |
| the Queen | ... ided to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister. Fearing that Whitlam would go to | and have him removed, Kerr did not give Whitlam any hint of what was comin ... |
| president | ... s election, George Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as | , and John Adams became the first vice-president |
| Michelle Yeoh | ... red an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, | , Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. The film was based on the fourth novel in a ... |
| Edward | ... ascony, pursuing a policy of conciliation; he arranged the marriage between | , his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X. Alfo ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
| Licinius | In 308, after the elevation of | to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum ("so ... |
| Offa | ... Crane or Yeading Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made by | in 790 to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on lin ... |
| Amphiaraus | Afterwards, however, Adrastus became reconciled to | , gave him his sister Eriphyle in marriage, and returned to his kingdom of ... |
| John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale | Image:John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale by Jacob Huysmans.jpg| | (1616-1682) |
| Marie Antoinette | ... sh spies, they visited Paris, meeting Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, | and Louis XVI, and joined the French court at Fontainebleau |
| President | ... featured an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican | James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephe ... |
| Justinian I | ... t. Eventually it became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperor | erected a Christian church over the Cave of Machpelah in the 6th century C ... |
| Princess Royal | ... e of this is the adjective "naff" to denote bad or shoddy, even used by the | (as a verb) in a clash with the press some years later. They were able to ... |
| Henrietta Maria | ... spy) to appear before Parliament. Arturo discovers that she is Enrichetta ( | ), widow of the executed King Charles I. Elvira appears singing a joyful p ... |
| Henry Cowell | ... udied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and | . Gershwin began his career as a song plugger. Soon after, he began to com ... |
| Genghis Khan | ... al system in the world was established by Ugedei Khan, who was successor of | of Mongolian empire in thirteen century, which territory included China. D ... |
| James Bond | ... e complicated by the arrival of a British secret agent called Bond (but not | ), on the trail of a Russian spymaster who never goes anywhere without his ... |
| Robert Torrens | In 1817, David Ricardo, James Mill and | showed that free trade would benefit the industrially weak as well as the ... |
| Chulalongkorn | ... at and any attempts at colonialization. By 1887 during the next reign, King | a permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established. Ho ... |
| Alfonso X | ... ge between Edward, his 14 year old son, and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of | . Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets ag ... |
| Olusegun Obasanjo | 30 October 2006: President | signed a contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
| Raymond Pearl | ... the earliest aging theories was the Rate of Living Hypothesis described by | in 1928(based on earlier work by Max Rubner), which states that fast basal ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
| Sergei Diaghilev | ... ith Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina, and one of the stars of | 's Ballets Russes. For the first years of the courtship, Keynes maintained ... |
| Henry IV | In order to continue the exploration efforts of his predecessor | , Louis XIII considered a colonial venture in Morocco, and sent a fleet un ... |
| Tullus Hostilius | ... use and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace. Later | (r. 673-642 BC) enclosed the Comitium around the old Etruscan temple where ... |
| John Major | ... principal editorial cartoonist. One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of | as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in ... |
| Maxentius | ... e another, Maximinus entered into a secret alliance with the usurper Caesar | , who controlled Italy. He came to an open rupture with Licinius in 313, h ... |
| Archelaus | ... in The Bacchae. Since Euripides wrote this play while in the court of King | of Macedon, some scholars believe that the cult of Dionysus was malicious ... |
| James Madison | ... then fourth Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and | ; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury un ... |
| Erastus Otis Haven | ... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr. | , Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ... |
| George Washington | In 1792 Congress under | authorized construction of the Montauk Lighthouse. It was completed in 179 ... |
| Aegialeus | ... ied Polynices and Tydeus, respectively. His other children include Aegiale, | , and Cyanippus |
| Abba Eban | ... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended by | on behalf of Israel. Folke was survived by a widow and two sons, a 12 year ... |
| Vespasian | ... ebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and burnt down by | 's officer Cerealis. After the defeat of Simon bar Kokhba in 135 CE, innum ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become | 's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ... |
| DJ Yella | ... 8-Ball," "Dopeman," which marked the first collaboration of Arabian Prince, | , Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Mexican rapper Krazy-Dee co-wrote "Panic Zone," wh ... |
| King George V | ... ucted, these were built 1906-14 to the design by J.J. Burnet, and opened by | and Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's collections of Prints ... |
| Henry VIII | ... ce. Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of | , and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It i ... |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | ... Tilden of New York, the Democratic candidate, defeated Republican candidate | of Ohio in the popular vote. Tilden garnered 184 electoral votes to Hayes' ... |
| Kublai Khan | ... teen century, which territory included China. During the Yuan Dynasty under | , China was integrated first into the much larger Örtöö system of the Mong ... |
| Xiao Yuanming | ... efeats to the forces of Northern Qi, Wang Sengbian allowed their pretender, | to establish himself as Emperor Min of Liang. However, Chen Baxian was dis ... |
| Amphiaraus | ... uring a feud between the most powerful houses in Argos, Talaus was slain by | , and Adrastus being expelled from his dominions fled to Polybus, then kin ... |
| Charles IV | In 1325, the land was confiscated by | when Edward II of England, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to ... |
| Irene Doukaina | ... ios, he refused to enter into the conspiracy set afoot by his mother-in-law | and his wife Anna to depose John II Komnenos, the son of Alexios, and rais ... |
| Pope Paul VI | ... to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by | on October 28, 1965. (The full text in English is available from the . |
| Alexandre Pétion | ... ers under Leclerc were accompanied by mulatto troops led by gens de couleur | and André Rigaud from Saint-Domingue. Pétion and Rigaud, both wealthy with ... |
| James Stockdale | Future U.S. Vice Presidential candidate | and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Day were held as prisoners at the H ... |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate | |
| Sophia of Hanover | ... lement restricts the succession to the legitimate Protestant descendants of | (1630–1714), a granddaughter of James I |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's | ... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident during | presidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ... |
| Ferdinand III of Castile | ... tacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, | and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the ... |
| George V | In 1911, the house underwent a large extension for the visit of King | and Queen Mary. With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the off ... |
| Sparta | ... back to the 5th century BC, during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and | . Spartan forces besieging an Athenian city placed a lighted mixture of wo ... |
| James Madison | ... an intriguing competition between incumbent Democratic-Republican President | and a dissident Democratic-Republican, DeWitt Clinton, nephew of Madison's ... |
| Daniel Defoe | The author, | (who attended school in Dorking and probably grew up in the village of Wes ... |
| Octavius | ... 's leadership, the city was ruled by his friend and colleague, Mark Antony. | (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius ... |
| Sparta | | was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece |
| George W. Bush | ... ndchildren. King is politically active and made media appearances promoting | during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which included attendance at t ... |
| Philip III of Spain | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, daughter of | . This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political a ... |
| Lycurgus | ... n account of the disorders and madness it brought with it (e.g. Pentheus or | ) |
| Alfonso II of Aragon | ... ueen of Aragon, and Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, produced a son, | who inherited all their respective territories creating the Crown of Arago ... |
| Jayavarman VII | ... King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of Angkorean emperor | , and in the present period. He is currently at work on a new historical n ... |
| Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
| Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg | ... and the elevation of several members of the gentry to peers of the Empire. | was declared full age ahead of time in 1744. Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prin ... |
| Emperor Wu of Chen | ... g. After a short reign, Chen deposed Emperor Jing and took power himself as | in 557 AD |
| Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
| Emperor Yizong of Tang | ... tten by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang (daughter of | ) playing the "leaf game" in 868 with members of the Wei clan (the family ... |
| George Washington | ... e ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. In this election, | was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and John Adams be ... |
| Mary | ... house underwent a large extension for the visit of King George V and Queen | . With the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the office of Lord Li ... |
| John Adams | ... rge Washington was elected for the first of his two terms as president, and | became the first vice-president |
| his wife | ... ity as Duke of Aquitaine, failed to pay homage after a dispute. Edward sent | and then his heir, to whom he had transferred the title, to sort out the m ... |
| Eurytion | ... when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd | out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos. |
| James I of Aragon | ... by Sancho II of Portugal, Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and | . The next twenty years saw a massive advance in the Christian reconquista ... |
| Khosrau II | ... CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general Shahrbaraz in 614 when | 's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
| Wolverine | ... . In the first storyline to feature the nation, some members of the X-Men ( | , Rogue, and their ally Madelyne Pryor) were kidnapped by Genoshan Magistr ... |
| Aragorn | ... he rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of | . As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relat ... |
| Dalibor Brozović | A number of Croatian linguists, specifically Radoslav Katičić, | , and Tomislav Ladan, consider the appropriate name to be "Bosniak" rather ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President | let it be known that he was displeased by the switch. In the summer of 195 ... |
| Philip II of Spain | ... and Spain with Royal marriages. The tradition went back to the marriage of | with the French Princess, Elisabeth of Valois. The marriage was only brief ... |
| Henry VIII | ... the Succession", barred both Elizabeth and Mary, the remaining children of | , from the throne, in favour of Lady Jane Grey.) Cecil resisted for a whil ... |
| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | ... Shatt al-Arab. By the late 1960s, the build-up of Iranian power under Shah | , who had gone on a gargantuan military spending spree, led Iran to take a ... |
| James K. Polk | ... for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States of America under | |
| Alexios I Komnenos | ... against the feeble Michael VII, but had been defeated by the future Emperor | and was blinded. The son, who was distinguished for his learning, personal ... |
| Frederick III, Elector of Saxony | ... Diet of Worms) because he was unexpectedly backed by German princes such as | who strongly objected to the Catholic Church meddling in their affairs and ... |
| Emperor Wen of Liu Song | ... aoism was highly influential during the Southern Dynasty, to the point that | established a Neo-Daoist Academy and promoted it, along with Confucianism, ... |
| King Arthur | ... fairies; its leaders also varied, but they included Gwydion, Gwynn ap Nudd, | , Nuada, King Herla, Woden, the Devil and Herne the Hunter. Many legends a ... |
| William McKinley | ... region. Years of controversy and legal maneuvering ensued before President | issued a proclamation on July 4, 1901, that gave the federal government co ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
| Emperor Wen of Chen | ... s. After the sudden death of Emperor Wu, his nephew Chen Qian took power as | . After the fall of Liang, the general Wang Lin had established an indepen ... |
| Antiochus VII Sidetes | Demetrius Nicator's brother, | , took the throne after his brother's capture. He faced the titanic chore ... |
| Alfred Marshall | ... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of | 's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ... |
| Queen Elizabeth I | During her reign | made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh a ... |
| Taufa'ahau Tupou IV | ... titution. A copy of the commission's report was presented to the late king, | , shortly before his death in September 2006 and is currently under study ... |
| Sergei Diaghilev | In the first years of the Ballets Russes Pavlova worked briefly for | . Originally she was to dance the lead in Mikhail Fokine's The Firebird, b ... |
| Mary I | ... hat he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen | , he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay st ... |
| King | ... e in Iraq and Qatif in opposition to the Saudi-led intervention in Bahrain. | Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared a three-month state of emergency on 15 M ... |
| Alexandre Pétion | Disaffected members of Dessalines' administration, including | and Henri Christophe, began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessali ... |
| George Tupou V | ... s death in September 2006 and is currently under study by the present king, | , and members of parliament |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
| Obama | ... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did President | authorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ... |
| Shahrbaraz | ... lah in the 6th century CE which was later destroyed by the Sassanid general | in 614 when Khosrau II's armies besieged and took Jerusalem |
| Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
| Mary of Guise | ... ible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent | , who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen ... |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | ... Mary of Guise, who had governed Scotland in the name of her absent daughter | (then also Queen of France) |
| Henri Christophe | ... ected members of Dessalines' administration, including Alexandre Pétion and | , began a conspiracy to overthrow the Emperor. Dessalines was assassinated ... |
| Anne of Austria | On 24 November 1615, Louis XIII married | , daughter of Philip III of Spain. This marriage followed a tradition of c ... |
| Vaišvilkas | ... kavysk, and the Principality of Polotsk. In about 1239 he appointed his son | to govern these areas, then known as Black Ruthenia. In 1248, he sent his ... |
| Allan Pinkerton | ... d named the town Dundee in honor of his Scottish hometown. In 1843 Scotsman | , later the renowned detective, set up business as a cooper. The town was ... |
| Shimon Peres | ... dish deputy prime minister, Israeli Foreign Minister and Labor Party member | issued a "condemnation of terror, thanks for the rescue of the Jews and re ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... f the world. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President | , who was familiar with Bermuda, having made numerous personal visits. The ... |
| President | The United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent | Calvin Coolidge, the Republican candidate |
| Sylvanus Morley | In 1931 | led a Carnegie Institution expedition to Yaxchilan, mapped the site and di ... |
| Klement Gottwald | ... . The Party won the most votes in free elections but not a simple majority. | , the communist leader, became Prime Minister of a coalition government. I ... |
| Henry VIII of England | ... d was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The abbey was dissolved by King | in 1536 and sold to Sir Rice Mansel. At this time, only 12 monks were livi ... |
| John F. Kennedy | ... or Distinguished Federal Civilian Service at a 1962 ceremony with President | . In September 2010, the FDA honored Kelsey with the first Kelsey award. T ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
| Edward VI | ... Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young | . Cecil accompanied Somerset on his Pinkie campaign of 1547 (part of the " ... |
| George H. W. Bush | Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States | and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor ... |
| Polynices | ... the Seven against Thebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, | , Tydeus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
| Pepin II of Aquitaine | ... enay-en-Puisaye on 25 June 841, when, in spite of his and his allied nephew | 's personal gallantry, Lothair was defeated and fled to Aachen. With fresh ... |
| George W. Bush | ... cent meeting was on 23 June 2008, between Premier Ewart Brown and President | . Prior to this, the leaders of Bermuda and the United States had not met ... |
| Qin Shi Huang | ... from rice in the 1st century CE. This date could be revised if the tomb of | is excavated and the account in the Records of the Grand Historian concern ... |
| Henry Cowell | ... ed with classical composer Rubin Goldmark and avant-garde composer-theorist | |
| President | ... e House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under | Bill Clinton; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Co ... |
| President of Russia | ... on in Russia. Shortly before his death he issued a statement accusing then- | Vladimir Putin of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies ... |
| Cyrus the Great | ... st documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to the Persian King | (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 ... |
| Edward I of England | ... ather Eric who raised the question again. Eric sent official ambassadors to | , then in Gascony, in May 1289, with papers referring to Margaret as "Quee ... |
| Aegeus | ... is a back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named for an eponymous | in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) me ... |
| Rupert of Germany | ... ter Louis IV and the first Wittelsbach King of the Romans since the rule of | |
| Fëanorian | ... Anfauglith, the Gasping Dust. Both Fingolfin, High-king of the Noldor, and | Noldor led by Maedhros had maintained camps of cavalry on Ard-galen as a f ... |
| King Arthur | ... he ages been modified to accommodate other gods and folk heroes, among them | and, more recently, in a Dartmoor folk legend, Sir Francis Drake. At Cadbu ... |
| Nicomedes I | ... s the king of Bithynia from 149 to c. 127 BC. He was fourth in descent from | . Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and Apame IV. His p ... |
| Sancho II of Portugal | ... le to stem the rising flood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by | , Alfonso IX of León, Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The ... |
| Cincinnatus Leconte | Dessalines was a great-grandfather of | , who served as President of Haiti from 1911 to 1912 |
| George W. Bush | ... e descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and | , the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First L ... |
| Cædwalla of Wessex | ... of Northumbria was converted in the mid 620s. However, later kings, such as | , who ruled in the 680s, are recorded as pagan at their accession |
| Catherine Parr | ... , Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, | . In 1551, he became Bishop of Exeter, but was deposed in 1553 after the s ... |
| Darius I of Persia | ... ian King Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor | (521 BC). Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal sy ... |
| George Washington | ... ion. More energetic planning with surveys took place repeatedly in 1776 (by | ), 1791, 1803, 1818, 1824–1830, and 1860. None of these efforts came to fr ... |
| Alfonso IX of León | ... lood of Christian attacks, launched almost yearly by Sancho II of Portugal, | , Ferdinand III of Castile and James I of Aragon. The next twenty years sa ... |
| Walter Scott | ... ques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which is in turn based on | 's novel Old Mortality. It was first produced at the Théâtre-Italien in Pa ... |
| President of the Republic | Greece is a parliamentary republic. The nominal head of state is the | , who is elected by the Parliament for a five-year term. The current Const ... |
| Francis II | ... ch, he died in March 1792. The French declared war on his inexperienced son | a month later |
| Elisabeth of Valois | ... n went back to the marriage of Philip II of Spain with the French Princess, | . The marriage was only briefly happy, and the King's duties often kept th ... |
| Carl III | The town of Levanger was founded by | , king of Sweden on 18 May 1836, on the site where the village of Levanger ... |
| Louis the Pious | ... texts to write his Life. The style is similar to that of two biographies of | : Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually ... |
| Polynices | ... es. During the time he reigned there it happened that Tydeus of Calydon and | of Thebes, both fugitives from their native countries, met at Argos near t ... |
| Charles V | ... e Spanish governors began importing enslaved Africans as laborers. In 1517, | authorized the draft of slaves. The Taíno people became virtually, but not ... |
| Nicomedes III | ... assisted them against Eumenes III of Pergamon. He was succeeded by his son | |
| Marie Louise | ... 1835, Paganini returned to Parma, this time under the employ of Archduchess | of Austria, Napoleon's second wife. He was in charge of reorganizing her c ... |
| Emperor Fei of Chen | ... of Emperor Wen, his son, the weak-willed Chen Bozong, took power and became | . His uncle, Chen Xu, after essentially controlling the country through hi ... |
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| Michelle Yeoh | ... ought to learn Wudang skills. Mu Bai is also a good friend of Yu Shu Lien ( | ), a female warrior. Mu Bai and Shu Lien have developed feelings for each ... |
| Hammurabi | ... laim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to | (1700 BC) and Sargon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary missi ... |
| Aleksander Kwaśniewski | ... 995, Poland held its second post-war free presidential election. SLD leader | defeated Wałęsa by a narrow margin—51.7% to 48.3% |
| Henry IV of France | Born at the Château de Fontainebleau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of | (1553–1610) and Marie de' Medici (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
| Cynegils of Wessex | ... ghout his life. Records survive of the baptism of other kings at this time— | was baptized in about 640, for example, and Edwin of Northumbria was conve ... |
| Queen Mary I | ... , Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. During the reign of | , Christ Church became a centre of Catholic support, and Harrison converte ... |
| Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
| Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
| Louis Napoleon Bonaparte | ... dent of France at 48, the third youngest president in French history, after | and Jean Casimir-Perier. He promised "change in continuity". He made clear ... |
| George Washington | ... tant in the Revolutionary War due to its location near Ramapo Pass. General | and other important military leaders used John Suffern's home as headquart ... |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | In 1997 the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan | approved the Decree to transfer the capital from Almaty to Astana |
| Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
| Edward II of England | ... ition since Edward and Eric could arrange Margaret's marriage to the future | , or some other if they chose, without reference to the Guardians. Accordi ... |
| Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor | ... his father Charles Albert aspired to an even higher rank. As son-in-law of | , Charles Albert rejected the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and claimed the G ... |
| Marie de' Medici | ... leau, Louis XIII was the oldest child of Henry IV of France (1553–1610) and | (1575–1642). As son of the King, he was a Fils de France, and as the eldes ... |
| George Washington | ... land donated by Col. James Bonner, Washington is the first city named after | , the first president of the United States |
| Presidential | Amador is a strongly Republican county in | and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the co ... |
| Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
| Pope Benedict | ====2008====In April, during a visit to the United States, | admitted that he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that ... |
| King George V | Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to | , where Corinthian-Casuals F.C. (two semi-pro football teams that have sin ... |
| Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor | ... or after 995. By this marriage, he became the brother-in-law of the future | . Giselle arrived at her husband's court accompanied by German knights |
| Putin | ... ably as a result of social, economic, and lifestyle changes. However, after | become a president in 2000 there was significant growth in spending for pu ... |
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| Cadmus | ... o him the twins Phrixus and Helle. He subsequently married Ino, daughter of | , with whom, he had two children: Learches and |
| Diana, Princess of Wales | ... g the more famous descendants of the Marlboroughs are Winston Churchill and | |
| DJ Yella | The original lineup consisted of Arabian Prince, | , Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and MC Ren; Arabian Prince embarked on a solo ... |
| Commodus | ... ied in the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh. Accounts of the cruelty of the emperor | describes his amusing himself by enacting Mithriac initiation ordeals in h ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
| George W. Bush | ... Service-issued collectible envelope commemorating the 2004 inauguration of | |
| George Washington | ... an alliance with the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. In 1797, he met cordially with | , who presented him with a ceremonial sword. On this trip he also met Comt ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ... |
| Creon | After the battle, | , king of Thebes, ordered that none of the fallen enemies were to be given ... |
| Andrew Dickson White | ... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and | to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ... |
| Theodore Roosevelt | ... ty. The County Seat found its home in Mineola on July 13, 1900, as Governor | laid the cornerstone of the Nassau County Court House. A celebration was h ... |
| Pope John Paul II | ... a became the first saint from a Central European country to be canonized by | before the "Velvet Revolution" later that year. After the dissolution of C ... |
| Emperor Xuan of Chen | ... e country through his short reign, eventually deposed him and took power as | . At that time, the Northern Wei intended to conquer Northern Qi and thus ... |
| Mitterrand | Giscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by | . At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ... |
| Princess Alice of Battenberg | ... ly son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and | . Philip's four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophi ... |
| Elisa Baciocchi | ... nnexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister, | . Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi court, while giving privat ... |
| Khosrau II | ... of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of | (590–628). The xvatāynamāk contained historical information on the later S ... |
| George Washington | ... the seventh year of the war, Continental Army troops, commanded by General | , were encamped in Dobbs Ferry and neighboring localities, alongside allie ... |
| Hamid Karzai | Zahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in of | as President of Afghanistan. In his final years, he was frail and required ... |
| Magneto's | ... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including | Acolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ... |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... s once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and | , but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953 |
| Ardashir I | ... s originally written during the late Sassanid era, and gave accounts of how | came to power which, because of its historical proximity, is thought to be ... |
| Aeëtes | ... fter her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King | took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope ... |
| King George III's | ... e of Fort Condé to Fort Charlotte, after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, | queen |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | ... embly, with the support of a number of Solidarity deputies, elected General | to that office. However, two attempts by the communists to form government ... |
| Amphiaraus | ... hebes, in which Adrastus was joined by six other heroes, Polynices, Tydeus, | , Capaneus, Hippomedon, and Parthenopaeus. Instead of Tydeus and Polynices ... |
| William Howard Taft | On June 22, 1919, former President | visited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
| Henry III of France | ... er was the first Bourbon King of France, having succeeded his ninth cousin, | (1574–1589), in application of Salic law. Louis XIII's paternal grandparen ... |
| Magneto | The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant | , after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ... |
| Pharaoh | ... d courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where | s used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the ... |
| Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany | ... ndôme and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre; his maternal grandparents were | and Johanna, archduchess of Austria, and Eleonora de' Medici, his maternal ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
| Mongkut | ... i Armed Forces came into existence as permanent force at the behest of King | , who needed a European trained military force in order to thwart any west ... |
| Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
| Achilles | ... humans whom they had bitten. Homer, in the Iliad, describes the approach of | toward Troy in these words |
| Emperor Muzong of Liao | ... inese dominoes are also available as playing cards. It is not clear whether | really played with domino cards as early as 969, though. Legend dates the ... |
| Theodoric | Odoacer's rule came to an end when the Ostrogoths, under the leadership of | , conquered Italy. This led to the Gothic War against the armies of Byzant ... |
| Vladimir Putin | ... ly before his death he issued a statement accusing then-President of Russia | of involvement in his assassination. President Putin denies he had any par ... |
| William III of England | ... r fish." This land was located in the eastern segment of an tract that King | granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt of New York City in 1697. The part of V ... |
| Humaira Begum | He married | (1918–2002) on 7 November 1931 and had six sons and two daughters |
| Mitt Romney | ... ed his first serious challenger, the young, telegenic, and very well-funded | . Romney ran as a successful entrepreneur and Washington outsider with a s ... |
| Samuel Pepys | ... e and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. | spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, p ... |
| Adolf Hitler | ... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe by | and Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ... |
| Emperor Jing of Northern Zhou | ... ng Jian defeated his rival General Weichi Jiong, he usurped the throne from | and established the Sui Dynasty, crowning himself Emperor Wen of Sui. He p ... |
| King Charles I | ... o discovers that she is Enrichetta (Henrietta Maria), widow of the executed | . Elvira appears singing a joyful polonaise ("Son vergin vezzosa"), but dr ... |
| Paul Kruger | ... cum with a pamphlet in which they set out to prove that the world was flat. | , President of the Transvaal Republic, advanced the same view: "You don't ... |
| John Adams | ... ial sword. On this trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents | and Thomas Jefferson. He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce Ame ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... e Township High). Actor Harrison Ford known as playing the lead role in the | movies, went to Maine East, and has been credited as being the radio stati ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
| DJ Yella | ... Deuce, which featured MC Ren, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Six-Two. Dr. Dre and | were present in the studio for the latter song |
| Violeta Chamorro | ... from the court in September 1992 (under the later, post-FSLN, government of | ), following a repeal of the law requiring the country to seek compensatio ... |
| Shimon Peres | ... led in action and more were wounded. In July 1974, Israeli Defense Minister | informed the Knesset that high-ranking Soviet officers had been killed on ... |
| George Bancroft | ... Public Education in Prussia." Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann, | and |