In 1260 Pope Alexander IV made him Bishop of Regensburg, an office from which he resigned after three years.

Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.

Alexander was named after Pope Alexander II.

* Pope Alexander I, Pope from 106 to 115

* Pope Alexander II, Pope from 1061 to 1073

* Pope Alexander III, pope from 1159 to 1181

* Pope Alexander IV ( 1199 or ca.

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In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as an independent crown with the right to conquer lands from the Moors.

He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli, the Spanish national church in Rome, immediately below the tombs of Pope Callixtus III and Pope Alexander VI.

* 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI ( d. 1519 )

However, during the schism between Pope Alexander III and Antipope Victor IV, Absalon stayed loyal to Valdemar even as he joined the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barberossa in supporting Victor IV.

* 1073 – Pope Alexander II

Alexander of Hales ( c. 1185 — 1245 ) ( also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius ) also called Doctor Irrefragibilis ( by Pope Alexander IV in the Bull De Fontibus Paradisi ) and Theologorum Monarcha was a theologian and philosopher important in the development of Scholasticism and of the Franciscan School.

Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

He was the first Cistercian placed on the calendar of saints, and was canonized by Pope Alexander III on 18 January 1174.

With the Papal Bull of 1493, Pope Alexander VI commanded Spain to conquer, colonize and convert the Pagans of the New World to Catholicism.

Frederick also famously received the gift of a dog from Alexander Pope with a collar inscribed:

So, Alexander famously advocated on-site improvisation by concerned, empowered users, as a powerful way to form very workable large-scale initial solutions, maximizing the utility of a design, and minimizing the design rework.

He was a founder of the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ) and the father of the third United States Vice President, Aaron Burr ( 1756 – 1836 ), who famously dueled with Alexander Hamilton.

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

Most famously, it referred to Alexander the Great's bodyguard cavalry unit ( see Companion cavalry ).

* Ivan Pnin – in an 1802 petition to Tsar Alexander I, famously deplored the status of illegitimate children in the Russian Empire.

This move was borrowed from Greco-Roman wrestling, where it was most famously the signature move of Russian Alexander Karelin.

The novelist Alexander Cordell, most famously author of The Rape of the Fair Country is buried at Llanfoist.

Another theory, famously forwarded by Alexander von Humboldt is that it comes from the Arabic al-Tin or al-Tennyn, for " dragon ", a reference to the old Arab legends about sea dragons on the edge of the ocean ( frequently depicted in Arab maritime charts ), and that the island may have been known as Jezirat al Tennyn, or " Dragon's Isle ", in Andalusian Arab legend.

For those reasons, she was lampooned as having a supposedly mannish appearance ( among other faults ), most famously by Alexander Pope in several pieces.

Memnon famously advocated a scorched earth policy against Alexander, aware of the Macedonian's lack of supplies and funds.

On the one hand, it was held responsible for a wave of speculative investment in lavishly budgeted features which could never hope to recoup their production costs on the domestic market ( e. g. the output of Alexander Korda's London Films, a boom-and-bust which was famously satirised in Jeffrey Dell's 1939 novel Nobody Ordered Wolves.

In the battle over the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1787 – 1788, Governor George Clinton in Albany, wishing to preserve his independent power, led the local Anti-Federalists in opposition, with support for the Constitution coming from Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, largely urbanites who saw opportunity in a stronger national union, and famously published as their manifesto the Federalist Papers in New York City newspapers.

His professional record was 58-17-1 with 48 knockouts, defeating Gerrie Coetzee, Jimmy Young, James " Quick " Tillis, Renaldo Snipes, George Chaplin twice, Larry Alexander, Stan Ward, Alfredo Evangelista, Scott LeDoux, James Broad, James " Bonecrusher " Smith, and Tim Witherspoon in an exceptionally long career, and was a regular sparring partner for Mike Tyson, famously knocking the champ down in a 1990 session.

" Still, the debates Alexander had with Kilpatrick were so prominent in American culture that they were famously satirized on Saturday Night Live, with Jane Curtin taking Alexander's role on " Weekend Update " opposite Dan Aykroyd's version of Kilpatrick – " Jane, you ignorant slut.

Beginning famously with the line " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ", Endymion, like many epic poems in English ( including John Dryden's translations of Virgil and Alexander Pope's translations of Homer ), is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter ( also known as heroic couplets ).

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

Ruling from the age of fourteen under the influence of his able mother, Julia Avita Mamaea, Alexander restored, to some extent, the moderation that characterized the rule of Septimius Severus.

Stars such as Dorothy Mackaill, Bebe Daniels, Frank Fay, Winnie Lightner, Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Alice White, and Jack Mulhall that had characterized the urban, modern, and sophisticated attitude of the 1920s gave way to stars such James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Edward G. Robinson, Warren William, and Barbara Stanwyck who would be more acceptable to the common man.

The first mutant in arabidopsis was documented in 1873 by Alexander Braun, describing a double flower phenotype ( the mutated gene was likely Agamous, cloned and characterized in 1990 ).

Some authors ( e. g., Alexander Zinovyev ) have argued that Leonid Brezhnev's rule was also characterized by a cult of personality, though unlike Stalin, Brezhnev did not initiate large-scale persecutions in the country.

Alexander I's death was followed by a long period of political instability, characterized by frequent fights for the throne.

It was characterized by initial restoration of the conditions prevailing before the reform period led by Alexander Dubček ( 1963 / 1967 – 1968 ), first of all, the firm rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and subsequent preservation of this new status quo.

With the Liberal reaction and strong reform movement which characterized the earlier years of Alexander II's reign ( 1855-1881 ) he thoroughly sympathized, and for some time he warmly advocated the introduction of liberal institutions of the British type, but when he perceived that the agitation was assuming a Socialistic and Nihilist tinge, and that in some quarters of the Liberal camp indulgence was being shown to Polish national aspirations, he gradually modified his attitude until he came to be regarded by the Liberals as a renegade.

A model put forward by Lee Kump, Alexander Pavlov and Michael Arthur in 2005 suggests that oceanic anoxic events may have been characterized by upwelling of water rich in highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas, which was then released into the atmosphere.

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

Jurgis Baltrušaitis, a close friend of Alexander Scriabin and whose poetry is characterized by mystical philosophy and mesmerizing sounds, was active in Lithuania.