Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

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 ).

Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.

The sale was completed in November 1851, the price being £ 32, 000, and Prince Albert formally took possession the following autumn.

William Smith's designs were amended by Prince Albert, who took a close interest in details such as turrets and windows.

Albert spent many days shooting deer and game, while Victoria took long walks of up to four hours daily.

Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.

In 1906, Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph took the next step, and in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, what appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another.

There will be no night races in Albert Park but 2009 ’ s event started at 5pm and took place between 26 – 29 March.

When the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1866, Albert then Crown Prince ( German: Kronprinz ), took up the command of the Saxon forces opposing the Prussian Army of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.

Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde ( who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father ), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry.

Frederick agreed at first, but after Albert took over yet another fief, Regensburg, Frederick withdrew his consent.

In its initial years Winslow Homer took a studio there, as did Edward Lamson Henry, and many of the artists of the Hudson River School, including Frederic Church and Albert Bierstadt.

He took over the administration of the Duchy of Prussia in 1577, when the then-reigning Duke Albert Frederick became ill.

Albert consulted widely, took enormous pains, and spent some £ 8, 000 on the operation, which reduced the weight of the stone by a huge 42 percent — but nevertheless Albert was dissatisfied with the result.

Albert left the Rangers after the 1994 – 95 season at the same time Rose took the job as play-by-play announcer of the New York Islanders.

Bob Costas took over for Albert on the basketball side in the 1997 – 98 season before stepping down after the 2000 NBA Finals for Albert's return.

Kabba took power once again with Albert Joe Demby as vice president.

However, in 1905 Albert Einstein took Planck's black body model in itself and saw a wonderful solution to another outstanding problem of the day: the photoelectric effect.

Albert was a voluminous letter writer, and corresponded with many of the leading personages of the time.

In Germany the small Christadelphian community founded by Albert Maier went underground from 1940 – 1945, and a leading brother, Albert Merz, was imprisoned as a conscientious objector and later executed.

Albert had a successful military career leading Saxon troops which participated in the First War of Schleswig, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War.

Albert Camus opposed both Nazi fascism and Stalinist communism, leading to a split with Jean-Paul Sartre.

In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Virginian James Albert Bonsack invented the tobacco cigarette rolling machine in 1880 leading to new industrial scale production centered around Richmond.

Before the retraction in 2002, the researchers from Berkeley had intended to name the element ghiorsium ( Gh ), after Albert Ghiorso ( a leading member of the research team ).

He also depicted leading Catholics like Albert of Brandenburg, archbishop elector of Mainz, Anthony Granvelle and the Duke of Alva.

* Albert Z. Carr, The Coming of War ; an account of the remarkable events leading to the War of 1812.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

Jan van Arkel had a dispute with Albert I, brother of Willem V of Holland, leading to war and subsequently to the annexation of Gorinchem to Holland in 1417.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Amongst his pupils was William Theed ( 1804 – 1891 ), a leading Victorian sculptor who produced a number of portrait busts and the large group sculpture ‘’ Africa ’’ for the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens.

A number of leading museums, for example, the National Gallery, Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum and Science Museum in London ( to cite the leading UK museums active in this field ) were early adoptors in the field of interactive technologies, investing in educational resources, and more latterly, in the creative use of MP3 players for visitors.

Administration in the duchy declined as Albert Frederick became increasingly feeble-minded, leading Margrave George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach to become Regent of Prussia in 1577.

On the day of Albert Victor's death, the leading Liberal politician, William Ewart Gladstone, wrote in his personal private diary " a great loss to our party ".

Following the event, Lewis and two other performers from that concert, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson often appeared as a trio and became the leading boogie-woogie pianists of the day.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

Nolan was a close friend of the arts patrons John and Sunday Reed, and is regarded as one of the leading figures of the so-called " Heide Circle " that also included Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd and John Perceval.

Finally, in 1940, Lippert argued with Albert Speer over the organization of Berlin, leading to his dismissal on the orders of Adolf Hitler, who had become increasingly hostile to him, writing in a journal entry, “ Lippert is an incompetent, an idiot, a failure, a zero .”

Reilly understudied as Albert Peterson for Van Dyke, who periodically took vacations and returned to the leading role.