I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.

* 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1830 )

The metre fell into disuse until the reign of Francis I, when it was revived by Jean-Antoine de Baïf, one of the seven poets known as La Pléiade.

In 1806 Francis II ( now Francis I of Austria ) named the Archduke Charles, already a field marshal, as Commander in Chief of the Austrian army and Head of the Council of War.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

* then to Francis, Duke of Valois, Count of Angoulème, who became Francis I of France, and his descendants, of the Orléans-Angoulème,

** Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

** Francis I ( 1825 – 1830 )

** Francis I ( 1442 – 1450 )

* Francis I ( 1515 – 1547 )

Charles V strongly favoured a council, but needed the support of King Francis I of France, who attacked him militarily.

Francis I generally opposed a general council due to partial support of the Protestant cause within France, and in 1533 he further complicated matters when suggesting a general council to include both Catholic and Protestant rulers of Europe that would devise a compromise between the two theological systems.

Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 34 ) was vehemently against the idea of a council, agreeing with Francis I of France.

* 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1765 )

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With the size of his imperial realm significantly reduced, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor became Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

Two years later, Carmine became the first flautist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the family moved to New York City, finding a home in Woodside, Queens, where Francis spent the remainder of his childhood.

* Francis II of the Two Sicilies ( 1836 – 1894 )

Two years later, Francis personally wound up the moribund Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

Alex Aarons signed Ira to write the music for his next show, Two Little Girls in Blue ( written under the pseudonym " Arthur Francis "), ultimately produced by Abraham Erlanger, with co-composers Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin.

* 1836 – King Francis II of the Two Sicilies ( d. 1894 )

* 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( b. 1777 )

" Two of Canada's four Confederation Poets-Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman-were educated at UNB, as was Francis Joseph Sherman, along with a number of notable 20th and 21st century Canadian writers.

* May 22 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his 23-year-old son Francis II of the Two Sicilies.

* November 3 – The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold.

* January 4, 1825 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.

* November 8 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies ( b. 1777 )

* January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.

Two former cricket players, James H. Francis and Francis Wood, formed the Pythian Base Ball Club.

Two poets, Irishman Francis Ledwidge, 25, of 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 29th Division, and Hedd Wyn, a Welsh-language poet serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Pilckem Ridge, were both killed in action on 31 July.

Francis II of the Two Sicilies, the son and successor of Ferdinand II ( the infamous " King Bomba "), had a well-organized army of 150, 000 men.

In the warlord period of China, many American and English mercenaries thrived such as Homer Lea, Philo Norton McGriffin, Morris " Two Gun " Cohen, and Francis Arthur " One Armed " Sutton.

When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 ( see Francis II of the Two Sicilies ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the island, built a villa, reopened the local mines and planted vineyards for grapes that would later be used to make Malmsey wine.

Two Indian leaders, Josiah Francis, a Red Stick Creek, also known as the " Prophet " ( not to be confused with Tenskwatawa ), and Homathlemico, had been captured when they had gone out to an American ship flying the British Union Flag that had anchored off of St. Marks.

Philip Francis Berrigan was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota, a Midwestern working class town, the younger brother of the Jesuit fellow-activist and poet, Daniel Berrigan.