On the Col d ' Agnes Voigt and Rasmussen dropped Chavanel and in the twenty-strong chasing group the five US Postal riders started to push harder.

Agnes ' body reportedly became so heavy, perhaps due to the help of her sister, that her assailants dropped her in a field nearby.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

Agnes ' bones are conserved beneath the high altar in the church of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb that housed Agnes ' tomb.

Leopold supported Henry, the son of Henry IV, in his rising against his father, but was soon drawn over to the emperor's side, and in 1106 married the daughter of emperor Henry IV, Agnes, widow of Frederick I of Swabia.

In June 1972 the remnants of Hurricane Agnes stalled over the area, dropping more than of rain.

Remnants of Hurricane Agnes | Agnes over Pennsylvania.

In June 1972 the remnants of Hurricane Agnes stalled over the New York – Pennsylvania border, dropping up to 20 inches ( 500 mm ) of rain into the Chemung Valley, which was among the worst hit areas by the resultant flooding.

alt = A color-coded chart shows that Hurricane Agnes began as a tropical depression over the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, turned sharply northward and became a tropical storm after entering the Caribbean Sea.

By Wednesday, June 21, tropical storm Agnes arrived and was hovering over the Susquehanna watershed, dropping up to of rain upstream in a single day.

Agnes then proceeded through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina before she moved back over the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast on June 21.

In 1972, Hurricane Agnes passed over the area.

Amalric of Lusignan, although a son-in-law of Baldwin of Ibelin, had been won over by the patronage of Agnes and the king, and had brought his younger brother Guy to prominence.

The Fauconberg and Thweng families, who married Peter's sisters Agnes and Lucia, took over its patronage which continued for several centuries.

Agnes ' bones are now conserved in the church of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb.

In 1972, the remnants of Hurricane Agnes stalled over the New York-Pennsylvania border, dropping as much as of rain on the hilly lands.

However, one year later, and again instigated by the intrigues of Władysław's wife Agnes, the newly Papal legate Guy arrived to the country in connection with the refusal to restore the former High Duke, and declared the ban over Poland.

When Agnes confesses that she is pregnant with Raymond ’ s child, Ambrosio turns her over to the prioress of her abbey for punishment.

The second tropical cyclone and first named storm of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Agnes developed on June 14 from the interaction of a polar front and an upper trough over the Yucatán Peninsula.

While over eastern North Carolina, Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm on June 21, as a result of baroclinic activity.

Remnants of Agnes over northeastern United States

As a result, Agnes restrengthened into a tropical storm at 1800 UTC on June 21, while centered over eastern North Carolina.

Unlike most ' typical sayings ' in the Folio, it is actually recorded that Granny says this, or at least Nanny Ogg says something very similar when she pretends to be Granny while briefly taking over the role of ... the other one, due to Granny's temporary retirement and Agnes and Count de Magpyr saying or hearing it in their heads whilst under the influence of fragments of her mind, as well as Granny saying it whilst unconscious at exactly the same moment as the count doing so, in Carpe Jugulum.

One nun however named Agnes Smythe “ a sturdy dame and a wylful ” made a show of some resistance in persuading her sister nuns not to hand over the convent seal, which had been required by Cromwell's agents to seal a declaration of conversion to be signed by the abbess and nuns.

After three years, during which the head of the congregation had gone to Rome as the accredited representative of abbess Agnes, and the congregation had been formally constituted an order under the Rule of St. Augustine by Gregory XI ( 1238 ), the abbess resigned all jurisdiction over the hospital and its possessions into the hands of the Holy See the next year.

While " Black Agnes ," Countess-consort Dunbar and March, continued to resist the English laying siege to Dunbar Castle, hurling defiance and abuse from the walls, Scotland received some breathing space when Edward III claimed the French throne and took his army to Flanders, beginning the Hundred Years ' War with France.

The six examples built by Constantine outside the walls of Rome are: Old Saint Peter's Basilica, the older basilica dedicated to Saint Agnes of which Santa Costanza is now the only remaining element, San Sebastiano fuori le mura, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Santi Marcellino e Pietro al Laterano, and one in the modern park of Villa Gordiani.

Lady Agnes responded by having her maids dress in their Sunday best ; she then led them to the outer walls, where with their handkerchiefs they nonchalantly and slightingly dusted away the damage from the bombardment.

The water from Hurricane Agnes in 1972 exceeded the capacity and banks of Dyke Creek, producing a rapid and huge pool of water at the center of the village.

The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured ( note that by some, Andronikos not only survived, but also managed to escape to the then self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus ).

Agnes grew up in Edessa, until the city was captured by Zengi in 1144.

Agnes then seems to have been betrothed, possibly even married, to Hugh of Ibelin, but Hugh was captured in battle.

According to one story, at one point during the siege, the English captured Agnes ’ s brother John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, and paraded him in front of the castle with a rope round his neck, threatening to hang him if she did not surrender.

Its notoriety arises from an incident in 1894 in which the then owner, an English landlady named Agnes McDonnell, was savagely beaten and the house set alight, allegedly by a local man, James Lynchehaun.

Agnes McDonnell suffered terrible injuries from the attack but survived and lived for another 23 years, dying in 1923.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

Pope Innocent III espoused the cause of Ingeborg ; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, nine months after interdict had been added to excommunication, he consented to a separation from Agnes.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Amalric agreed and ascended the throne without a wife, although Agnes continued to hold the title Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income.

And in doing so, Elin stops Agnes from attempting to commit suicide.

His father was a shipwright, ship owner and contractor, and served as the town's chief baillie, while his mother, Agnes Muirhead, came from a distinguished family and was well educated.

After some time away from film, Cotten returned in the horror classic Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead.

The subsequent events have often been interpreted as a struggle between two opposing factions, the " court party ", made up of Baldwin's mother, Amalric's first wife Agnes of Courtenay, her immediate family, and recent arrivals from Europe who were inexperienced in the affairs of the kingdom and who were in favour of war with Saladin ; and the " noble party ", led by Raymond of Tripoli and the lesser nobility of the kingdom, who favoured peaceful co-existence with the Muslims.

There were rumours that Agnes and Heraclius were lovers, but this information comes from the partisan 13th-century continuations of William of Tyre's history, and there is no other evidence to substantiate such a claim.

Philip finally achieved a third marriage, on 7 May 1196, to Agnes of Merania from Dalmatia ( c. 1180 – 29 July in 1201 ).

The name " Agnes " is actually derived from the feminine Greek adjective " hagnē " ( ἁγνή ) meaning " chaste, pure, sacred ".

Emerentiana and Constance appear in the scenes from the life of Agnes on the 14th-century Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum.

* " Of Saint Agnes " from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend

* Remarks on the feast of St. Agnes from St. Ambrose of Milan, On Virgins

They returned from the tour in May 1874 with Agnes six months pregnant.

** The Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work among India's poorest and sickest.

At Leo's death, the new Pope, Victor II, confirmed him as legate, while Victor's successor Stephen IX sent him and Anselm of Lucca to Germany to obtain recognition from the Empress Agnes de Poitou.

" The " court party " was led by Baldwin's mother, Amalric's first wife Agnes of Courtenay, and her immediate family, as well as recent arrivals from Europe who were inexperienced in the affairs of the kingdom and were in favour of war with Saladin.

There were rumours that Agnes and Heraclius were lovers, but this information comes from the partisan 13th-century continuations of the Historia, and there is no other evidence to substantiate such a claim.

Agnes Strickland, a Victorian historian, argued that Isabella suffered from occasional fits of madness during this period but modern interpretations suggest, at worst, a nervous breakdown following the death of her lover.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.