* 1937 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian ( d. 2012 )

This has been identified by the historian Ronald Hutton, cited in an article by Roger Dearnsley " The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical, as a piece of medieval ecclesiastical Latin used to mean " lifting the veil.

historian Ronald Hutton considered the events which might have followed a successful implementation of the plot, and the destruction of the House of Lords and all those within it.

The historian Ronald Hutton has suggested that it instead came from the Arabic term Dhul-Qarnayn which meant " Horned One ".

As the Romans outlawed human sacrifice, this opens up other possibilities ; this was emphasised by historian Ronald Hutton, who challenged the interpretation of sacrificial death.

* 1903 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian ( d. 1989 )

Ever since its first publication, Murray's theory has come under criticism for flaws in its use of evidence, with later historian Ronald Hutton remarking that it consisted of " a few well-known works by Continental demonologists, a few tracts printed in England and quite a number of published records of Scottish witch trials.

As later historian Ronald Hutton noted, " Among that small number of scholars who were familiar with the trial records, theories never had a chance.

" Similar criticism of Murray came from the historian Ronald Hutton, in both his 1991 book on ancient paganism, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy and in his 1999 study of Wiccan history, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.

The factual historical validity of her theories has been disputed by many scholars, including historian Ronald Hutton.

The historian Ronald Hutton identified a wide variety of different sources that influenced the development of Wicca.

The English historian Ronald Hutton noted that by the dawn of the 21st century, there were four separate definitions of the term which appeared to be in use.

Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.

Historian Ronald Numbers has been quoted as saying: " I can't say much about Gould's strengths as a scientist, but for a long time I've regarded him as the second most influential historian of science ( next to Thomas Kuhn ).

In terms of an overall context, historian Ronald Mellor has stated that the Annals is " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

* Sir Ronald Syme, ( MA ) classicist historian, OM recipient

The traditions of the Yule log died out in Britain in the latter 19th and early 20th century because of, according to historian Ronald Hutton, " the reduction in farm labour and the disappearance of the old-fashioned open hearths ", however the Bûche de Noël dessert has become a Christmas tradition in the UK, as in many French speaking places.

** Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian ( d. 1989 )

** Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian ( b. 1903 )

" Its willingness to engage positively with, and avoid taking sides against, religiously minded supporters of evolution has been noted by prominent historian of creationism Ronald L. Numbers and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins.

" For the historian of the anarchist movement Ronald Creagh, the hippie movement could be considered as the last spectacular resurgence of utopian socialism For Creagh, a characteristic of this is the desire for the transformation of society not through political revolution, or through reformist action pushed forward by the state, but through the creation of a counter-society of a socialist character in the midst of the current system, which will be made up of ideal communities of a more or less libertarian social form.

According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of Western Kentucky University, " ever since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was serving in his second term as president, there have been repeated attempts to repeal the 22nd Amendment ; this proposal has failed repeatedly in Congress, although it is still introduced over and over again.

According to historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by A Christmas Carol.

This charge had previously been made by historian Ronald Fraser in his Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War, who commented that direct force was not necessary in the context of an otherwise coercive war climate.

Unknown to them, Ronald Rennie had already heard their only Australian hit, " Spicks and Specks ", thanks to the band's publisher, so Rennie had made arrangements with their Australian label, Festival, to release it in the UK.

The paper had recently been taken over by the liberal publisher Ronald Staples who together with his new editor Vincent Evans was determined to cleanse it of its previous right-wing racist reputation.

* Ronald Alcock ( died 1991 ), British stamp dealer and philatelic publisher

In April 2001, Oprah Winfrey and the Hearst Corporation were sued for trademark infringement by Ronald Brockmeyer, the publisher of « O » Magazine, a German erotic periodical which predated Winfrey's magazine by several years.

After spending fourteen years as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999 ( edited by Robert Loomis, executive editor at Random House, Morris ' publisher ).

Both editors resigned suddenly in May of the same year after publisher Hachette Filipacchi's then president and chief executive, David Pecker told Connelly to not publish a column about Planet Hollywood because of its ties to billionaire Revlon owner Ronald Perelman, who was also half owner of Premiere.

The seminal case is Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music, where the publisher of " He's So Fine ", written by Ronald Mack, demonstrated to the court that George Harrison borrowed substantial portions of his song " My Sweet Lord " from " He's So Fine.

Ronald later became a member of parliament, during World War II became a link between the British and United States governments, and lent his country house, Ditchley Park near Oxford, to Churchill for weekend visits when the official residences were considered unsafe.

* 1981 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O ' Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The last member appointed to the court who was not a former student at one of those two institutions was Sandra Day O ' Connor, appointed by the newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

In the same year he composed a Pacifist March ( words, Ronald Duncan ) for the Peace Pledge Union, of which, as a pacifist, he had become an active member, but the work was not a success and soon withdrawn.

James Ronald (" Jim ") Ryun ( born April 29, 1947 ) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas.

The younger Christo had come from a more anarcho-punk background – he was also a member of Green CND, and had been involved in the blockade of Ronald Reagan's car at the 1984 Lancaster House summit meeting.

Glasgow was the death place of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Speirs, famed member of Easy Company, 101st Airborne.

* James Baker III, former United States Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, Staff member under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Carlyle Senior Counselor, served in this capacity from 1993 to 2005.

Ronald Murton was the only crew member to be rescued, after clinging to the ship's hull for eight hours )

After the couple married, they moved to New York, and then to San Francisco in 1969, where Mr. Pelosi's brother, Ronald Pelosi, was a member of the City and County of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.

Ronald Lee " Ron " Wyden ( born May 3, 1949 ) is the senior United States Senator for Oregon, serving since 1996, and a member of the Democratic Party.

Ronald C. " Pigpen " McKernan ( September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973 ) was a founding member of the Grateful Dead.

Former US President Ronald Reagan was the first non-Cabinet member to sit at the table during a Cabinet meeting.

Eight years later, in 1966, he was ousted from his seat in the Republican primary by the more liberal Margaret Heckler, who was forty-six years his junior, and later a member of the Cabinet of President Ronald W. Reagan.

Anthony Ronald Yary was born in Chicago and attended Cerritos College for one year and then the University of Southern California, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

Ronald Edward Santo ( February 25, 1940 – December 3, 2010 ) was an American professional baseball player of Italian heritage, a long-time radio sports commentator, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1987, as an elder statesman, Muskie was appointed a member of the President's Special Review Board known as the " Tower Commission " to investigate President Ronald Reagan's administration's role in the Iran-Contra affair.

Ronald E. " Ron " Burton ( July 25, 1936 – September 13, 2003 ) became a college All-American running back at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a member of the Northwestern Hall of Fame and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

From 1981 to 1982 he was a member of the Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives appointed by Ronald Reagan.

Munro Ferguson was born Ronald Craufurd Ferguson at his family home in the Raith area near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son and eldest child of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ferguson, a wealthy member of the British House of Commons of old Scottish descent.

# Ronald van Raak, MP since 2006, before Senate member

Ronald Davies ( born 6 August 1946 ) is a Welsh politician, former Secretary of State for Wales, former Member of Parliament and former member of the Welsh Assembly.

He was one of the more conservative Democrats in Congress, and a member of the boll weevils, a group of moderate to conservative leaning Democrats who often worked with Republican President Ronald Reagan on defense issues.