In the best-known incident, Andrew Jackson, in his cavalier incursion into Spanish Florida in 1818, executed British nationals Robert Christie Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot at the old fort.

Alexander Woollcott in the New York Times called it " a singularly engrossing play ", and advised that " all grown-up playgoers should jot down in their notebooks the name of Anna Christie as that of a play they really ought to see.

When Alexander was leaving the serial, Christie hired the small actor Bud Duncan.

Following the death of Archbishop Alexander Christie, Howard was appointed the fifth Archbishop of Oregon City on April 30, 1926.

According to University of Portland tradition, Archbishop Alexander Christie, the head of the Archdiocese of Oregon City, saw a large building on the bluff from aboard a ship on the nearby Willamette River.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

* John Alexander Christie ( 1895 – 1967 ), British Victoria Cross recipient

John Alexander Christie VC ( 14 May 1895 – 10 September 1967 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* Find-A-Grave profile for John Alexander Christie

He was assisted in building the plant by Alexander Graham Christie, 1880 – 1964, a mechanical and electrical engineering graduate from the University of Toronto, who later in 1909 became associate professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin, and in 1914 joined the School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

* Khandi Alexander as Christie Kaplan

The second Art + Environment Conference took place in 2011 and featured speakers: Diana Al-Hadid, Subhankar Banerjee, David Benjamin, Richard Black, Edward Burtynsky, Gaetano Carboni, John Carty, Pilar Cereceda, William L. Fox, Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg, Newton Harrison, Helen Mayer Harrison, Laura Jackson, Patricia Johanson, Chris Jordan, Thomas Kellein, Geoff Manaugh, Mandy Martin, Christie Mazuera-Davis, Paul D. Miller, Gerald Nanson, Jorge Pardo, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, John Reid, Alexander Rose, Sean Shepherd, Mark Smout, Bruce Sterling, Nicola Twilley, Leo Villareal, Stephen G. Wells, Ann M. Wolfe, Liam Young.

* Alexander Christie ( 1899 – 1925 )

Her maternal great-grandfather, Alexander Christie, served as Governor of Assiniboia on two occasions, and supervised the construction of Fort Garry.

Early settlers in the area included Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey and Doctor Alexander James Christie.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

This was how Alexander Brandel expressed pure Zionism.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.

`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

This was a training ship and the training would continue, but there was an element of frightful absurdity here which Alexander recognized.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.

Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest, and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander Mackenzie Sr. and Mary Stewart Fleming.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

* Alexander Gonzalez ( 1997 – 2003 ), previously the provost of the California State University, Fresno who left CSUSM to become president of the larger California State University, Sacramento

* Alexander Angelov, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, The College of William and Mary http :// www. wm. edu / about / administration / provost / about / newfaculty / angelov_a. php

Alexander the Great explored the Kabul valley after his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC but no record has been made of Kabul, which may have been only a small town and not worth writing about.

In 1262 the army of Prince Dmitri of Pereslavl, son of Alexander Nevsky launched an assault on Dorpat, capturing and destroying the town.

After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.

* Alexander ( town )

The town was first mentioned in 1408 when Prince Alexander the Good of Moldavia ( 1400 – 1432 ) listed the customs points in the principality in his privilege for Polish merchants.

( However, new research indicates that the first historical mention of the town is even earlier, occurring in a 1399 legal document of Prince Iuga of Moldavia, Alexander the Good's stepbrother ).

Alexander the Good donated the wax collected as part of the tax payable by the town to the nearby Orthodox Bistriţa Monastery.

The letter also reveals that Hussite immigrants who had undergone persecutions in Bohemia, Moravia, or Hungary were settled in the town and granted privileges by Alexander the Good.

Alexander then founds the town of Alexandria of the Arians ( modern Herat ).

* The key remaining generals ( diadochi ) of the late Alexander the Great agree to the Partition of Triparadisus ( a town in northern Syria ).

House where Alexander von Humboldt lived in Mexico City in 1803, located at 80 Rep. de Uruguay in the Centro ( Mexico City ) | historic centre of the town, just south of the Zocalo.

The monks of Arbroath Abbey selected Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity as his replacement and the insult led to pitched battle in the town, leaving 500 dead, including Lindsay and Ogilvy.

A few years after the death of Alexander the Great, Macedonian king Antigonus — who had taken control of much of Asia Minor upon the death of Alexander ( under whom Antigonus had served as a general ) — probably after his victory over Eumenes, in 316 BC, rebuilt the town, and called it, after himself, Antigoneia ().

They are Parris Mitchell ( Robert Cummings ), who lives with his grandmother ( Maria Ouspenskaya ); Cassandra Tower ( Betty Field ), daughter of Dr. Alexander Tower ( Claude Rains ); the wealthy orphan Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ); Louise Gordon ( Nancy Coleman ), daughter of the sadistic town physician Dr. Henry Gordon ( Charles Coburn ), who has been known to perform operations without anesthetic ; and the tomboy Randy Monaghan ( Ann Sheridan ), whose father ( Ernest Cossart ) is a railroad worker.

A town dentist, Dr. J. F. Kennedy, a friend of Alexander Graham Bell, installed a direct telephone connection between his home and office.

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

Within Alexander County is the unincorporated town of Hiddenite, the location of a mine that yields emeralds, sapphires, and its namesake stone " hiddenite ," a variety of spodumene.

It was named for William M. Alexander, a physician who practiced in the town of America ( the first county seat ).

The reconstruction of Piraeus went on during the period of Alexander the Great, but this revival of the town was quashed by Roman Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who captured and totally destroyed Piraeus in 86 BC.

Through the influence of Alexander, he was permitted to return to Chios about 333, and figured for some time as one of the leaders of the aristocratic party in his native town.

Reverend Alexander Travis first called the town by its present name of Evergreen for the abundance of surrounding green foliage, plants, and ferns.

The town is the county seat of Coosa County and is part of the Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area.

On June 13, 1902, at 1 pm, a fire broke out in the Alexander City Machine shop and destroyed much of the town.

The town was renamed Humboldt in 1905 to honor Baron Alexander von Humboldt, who had visited New Spain early in the 19th century and predicted that greater riches would be found to the north ( interpreted by early twentieth century promoters as the Bradshaw Mountains region ).