James VanderKam and Peter W. Flint further explain that the stories of Daniel and his friends, set in Babylon during the Exile, encouraged readers to remain faithful to God and to refuse compromise in the face of their oppressors, and offered the prospect of triumph over wickedness and idolatry.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

Daniel Defoe in the pillory, 1862 line engraving by James Charles Armytage after Eyre Crowe ( painter ) | Eyre Crowe

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Adapted from by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1920 – Daniel " Chappie " James Jr., American general ( d. 1978 )

Their motivations are consistent with the convictions of James Daniel Bjorken and Sidney Drell: ” The Feynman graphs and rules of calculation summarize quantum field theory in a form in close contact with the experimental numbers one wants to understand.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

Notable theorists of libertarian Marxism have included Anton Pannekoek, Raya Dunayevskaya, CLR James, Antonio Negri, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maurice Brinton, Guy Debord, Daniel Guérin, Ernesto Screpanti and Raoul Vaneigem.

James Harrington, Mr. James Challoner, Mr. John Phelps, Mr. John Carew, Mr. Hugh Peters, Mr. Gregory Clement, Colonel Adrian Scroop, Col. Francis Hacker, Col. Daniel Axtel.

He was a presidential elector in 1820, voting for James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins.

* Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin ( 2008 ).

Sitting ( from left ): Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, and behind: William Daniel Leahy, Ernest Bevin, James F. Byrnes, and Vyacheslav Molotov.

* James Spader as Dr. Daniel Jackson, a professor who finds little acceptance of his theory that the Pyramids of Giza were much older than they were thought to be.

* Acker, James R., and Karp, Daniel R., Wounds that do not bind: victim-based perspectives on the death penalty, found at Google books

** In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.

* July 18 ( Sunday ) – The sixth bishop of Calcutta, Daniel Wilson, and Dr. James Taylor, Civil Surgeon at Dhaka, establish the first modern educational institution in the Indian subcontinent, Dhaka College.

The large cast also included Daniel MacPherson, Thomas James Longley and Joseph McManners.

) In 1820, President James Monroe and Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins were re-elected without needing to run any type of rigorous campaign.

Hatfield was founded in 1660 on land granted to General Daniel Dennison and Governor William Bradford.

Image: Peterborough engraved by Daniel King. jpg | 17th century view

John Daniel was a 17th century musician, born in Somerset, England.

* John Daniel, 17th century musician

On 25 August 1830, at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, an uprising followed a special performance ( in honor of William I's birthday ) of Daniel Auber's La Muette de Portici ( The Mute Girl of Portici ), a sentimental and patriotic opera suited to fire National Romanticism, for it was set against Masaniello's uprising against the Spanish masters of Naples in the 17th century.

Two of the most famous authors of papéis volantes are Baltasar Dias ( 17th century ) and José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa ( 18th century ), who wrote misogynous texts.

The name comes from the 17th century manor house and parkland ( built by Daniel O ' Neill for his wife, the Countess of Chesterfield ) which once stood on the site.

Originally named " Bloomingview ", its present name is derived from the Huguenots, led by Daniel Perrin, who settled in the area during the late 17th century and early 18th centuries to escape religious persecution.

De Trompenburgh is a 17th century manor house in's-Graveland, North Holland, Netherlands, designed by Daniel Stalpaert and built for Admiral Maarten Tromp, one of the naval heroes of the Dutch Republic.

Attention was called to the book by Vansleb and Ludolf towards the end of the 17th century, but it was only in 1870 that it was edited by Daniel Bonifacius von Haneberg, who added a Latin translation, and so made it generally accessible.

The industry of watch making was brought to Le Locle in the 17th Century by Daniel JeanRichard, a self taught watchmaker who encouraged the farmers of the area to start manufacturing watch components for him during the long winters.

The series followed the story of Black Jack Savage ( played by Steven Williams-Stoney Jackson in the pilot ), the ghost of a legendary 17th century Caribbean pirate who teams up with Barry Tarberry ( played by Daniel Hugh Kelly ), a crooked Wall Street con-artist who has escaped trial by coming to the Caribbean.

She later became a detective with the NYPD's 17th Precinct., forming a sort of father / daughter relationship with her partner and mentor, a veteran NYPD detective Daniel " Bo " Dollis.

* A 19th century church, restored in 2007, housing works of the Lyonnais painter, Daniel Sarrabat ( 17th century ); a set of six paintings dedicated to Mary Magdalene ; three delivered in 1706 and three in 1713.

** Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician ( b. 1647 )

* August 2 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician ( b. 1689 )

* May 24 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English lawyer ( d. 1769 )

* July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor ( d. 1730 )

Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill.

The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.

Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.

* The School of Medicine graduated Nobel laureates Earl Sutherland, Edwin Krebs, and Daniel Nathans.

Mary was daughter of Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham and Lady Essex Rich ( d. 1684 ).

The manor and castle were then sold by his father-in-law, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, to Hewer Edgeley Hewer ( heir to William Hewer, Samuel Pepys ' onetime servant and later protégé in the Admiralty ).

Incorporated in 1722 by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth, Nottingham was named for Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham.

The Earl and Countess of Wessex at the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling | wedding of the Crown Princess of Sweden in June 2010

Soon after ordination he was also appointed chaplain to Daniel Finch Earl of Nottingham, and tutor to his family.

* Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham ( 23 September 1714 – 6 July 1716 )

* Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham ( 12 July 1765 – 30 July 1766 )

# Redirect Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly

* Daniel Neal, Earl of Banbury, Lord High Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty of England 1646-1660.

* Daniel Massey as Elizabeth's lover, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

* Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 5 March 1689 – 26 December 1690

* Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 3 March 1692 – 23 March 1693

* Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 2 June 1690-November 1693

* Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham: 2 May 1702-22 April 1704

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.