John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

British general John Moore, who met Nelson in Naples at this time, described him as " covered with stars, medals and ribbons, more like a Prince of Opera than the Conqueror of the Nile.

* Worst Casting: John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror

* A John the Conqueror root wrapped up in a $ 2. 00 bill fixed in a green flannel bag with a metal money bag charm and dressed with Van Van Oil.

On screen, Odo has been portrayed by John Nettleton in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ), part of the series Theatre 625, and by Denis Lill in the TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror ( 1990 ).

Haushofer is portrayed as a minor villain in the 2005 anime movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, in which he is voiced by Masane Tsukayama in the Japanese version and John Swasey in the English version.

In addition to the expected terms " hoodoo " and " mojo ", other conjure words in blues songs include " jinx ", " goofer dust ", " nation sack ", " black cat bone ", " John de conkeroo " ( John the Conqueror root ), " graveyard dirt ", and " black spider dumplings.

Powell also directed The Conqueror ( 1956 ), starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

In Hollywood she starred films like The Fugitive ( 1947 ), Fort Apache ( 1948 ) and Three Godfathers ( 1949 ), directed by John Ford, We Were Strangers ( 1949, directed by John Huston ) and The Conqueror ( 1953 ) with John Wayne among others.

* The root called John the Conqueror in hoodoo and used in lucky and / or sexual charms ( though apparently not as a component of love potions ) usually seems to be from I. jalapa.

The Conqueror is a 1956 CinemaScope epic film produced by Howard Hughes and starring John Wayne as the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.

John V the Conqueror KG ( in Breton Yann V, in French Jean IV ) ( 1339 – 1 November 1399 ) was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort, from 1345 until his death.

After the first Treaty of Guérande, Joanna of Penthièvre abdicated her claims to the dukedom in favour of John the Conqueror.

John the Conqueror, also known as High John the Conqueror, John de Conquer, and many other folk variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

I am also pleased to note that Mr. John B. Oakes, a member of the Times staff since 1946, has been appointed as editorial page editor.

Money was also advanced by the publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc..

Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs. John Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.

The epithet " Arian " was also applied to the early Unitarians such as John Biddle though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians not Arians.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

There is also a brief physical description found in John Malalas ' Chronographia:

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

Cristoforo del Altissimo, Cesare Dandini, Aurelio Lomi, John Mosnier, Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Monanni also were his pupils.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

He also taught Asclepius of Tralles, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

A long flat known as the St. John field seemed to answer their purpose, and since the Winooski bridges were at last passable, they decided to use it.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

This is known through the writings of John of Salisbury, who is thought to have been a near exact contemporary student of Alan of Lille.

Given Ealdred's known support of Godwin's family, John of Worcester is probably correct.

* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.

Gabriele and Teresa had nine children: Alphonse " Scarface Al " Capone, James Capone ( also known as Richard Two-Gun Hart ), Raffaele Capone ( also known as Ralph " Bottles " Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry ), Salvatore " Frank " Capone, John Capone, Albert Capone, Matthew Capone, Rose Capone, and Mafalda Capone ( who married John J. Maritote ).

* 1759 A Journey Through Europe published by John Jefferys, the earliest board game with a designer whose name is known.

The " Red Sox " name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the " Red Stockings ".

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

In this view, the Lamb of God references and other hallmarks of Revelation are linked to what is known of John the Baptist, though it must be confessed that little information about him is known.