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Alexander and took
When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.
" The Athenian admiral Leosthenes defeated Alexander and managed to relieve Peparethus, but Alexander escaped from being blockaded in Panormus, took several Attic triremes, and plundered the Piraeus.
The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.
In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
During the 1940s Alston also took occasional art classes studying under Alexander Kostellow.
Following his education in Giessen, he took postdoctoral fellowships in Paris ( 1851 – 52 ), in Chur, Switzerland ( 1852 – 53 ), and in London ( 1853 – 55 ), where he was decisively influenced by Alexander Williamson.
Under Alexander the Great, this force turned east, and in a series of three decisive battles, routed the Persian forces and took their empire, which included Egypt and the Phoenician lands.
On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.
Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.
Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.
A new set of tutors — Alexander of Cotiaeum, Trosius Aper, and Tuticius Proculus — took over Marcus ' education in about 132 or 133.
Most of her life, she was known as Maria Feodorovna (), the name which she took when she converted to Orthodoxy immediately before her 1866 marriage to the future Emperor Alexander III.
After the wedding night, Alexander wrote in his diary, " I took off my slippers and my silver embroidered robe and felt the body of my beloved next to mine ... How I felt then, I do not wish to describe here.
Once the death of Alexander III had receded, Maria again took a brighter view of the future.
Baluch tribes and the paths that Alexander the Great took
Alexander took a keen personal interest in his urban and architectural projects and made notes of these in his diaries.
Alexander II was followed by his associate Hildebrand, who took the title of Gregory VII.
In 1409 he took part in the Council of Pisa, and was one of the supporters of Antipope Alexander V. Later he confirmed his allegiance to another antipope, John XXIII, by whom his family obtained several privileges, while Oddone obtained for himself the vicariate of Todi, Orvieto, Perugia and Umbria.
Amid the disturbances consequent upon the death of the Borgia Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), it took the combined pressures of all the ambassadors to induce Cesare Borgia to withdraw from Rome, so that an unpressured conclave might take place.
The framers of the Constitution took care to limit the president's powers regarding the military ; Alexander Hamilton explains this in Federalist No. 69: Congress, pursuant to the War Powers Resolution, must authorize any troop deployments longer than 60 days, although that process relies on triggering mechanisms that have never been employed, rendering it ineffectual.
Alexander Graham Bell and his two associates took Edison's tinfoil phonograph and modified it considerably to make it reproduce sound from wax instead of tinfoil.

Alexander and duties
The existence of the Cabinet dates back to the first President of the United States, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four men: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson ; Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ; Secretary of War Henry Knox ; and Attorney General Edmund Randolph to advise him and to assist him in carrying out his duties.
* On returning to Susa, Persia, Alexander the Great punishes those who he considers to have failed in their duties in his absence in India, particularly those who have plundered tombs and temples.
Brothers Ron ( guitar ) and Scott Asheton ( drums ) and their friend Dave Alexander ( bass guitar ) rounded out the rest of the band, with Osterberg taking vocal duties.
Law personally felt that duties on foodstuffs should be excluded, something agreed to by Alexander Acland-Hood, Edward Carson and others at a meeting of the Constitutional Club on 8 November 1910, but they failed to reach a consensus and the idea of including or excluding food duties continued to be something that divided the party.
Following the war his military career took him from the dull duties of the post-war occupation of Germany, to Canada as aide-de-camp to Harold Alexander while Governor General of Canada.
With Lincoln entering administration at the end of the 2001 – 02 season, Alan Buckley was relieved of his duties as manager on financial grounds with Keith Alexander placed in charge of all football matters.
Alexander performed his duties with energy and diligence.
Even the officers did not receive training: Lieutenant Commander Alexander Holman, loading officer at Port Chicago whose duties included officer training, had initiated a search for training materials and samples but failed to organize a training class before disaster struck.
On July 5, 1914 things changed as old king Peter I relinquished his duties to the heir apparent Alexander, making him his regent.
He was to perform testing duties for the team alongside Alexander Wurz who had been confirmed earlier as the team's third driver.
Alexander took over vocal duties and renamed the band The Beale Streeters, also taking over King's WDIA radio show.
In 1972, Alexander Stuart Ogilvie, Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's grandson, died on the Thorpeness Golf Course and many of the houses and the golf course and country club were sold to pay death duties.
The director of the theatre Wenzel Sporck and the chairman of the committee for financing the theatre Franz Keglevich were released of their duties in 1776 and the University of Trnava, which rector was Alexander Keglevich in the year 1770 / 71, got the permission to move into the Buda Castle.
With Doyle Alexander and Dock Ellis added to the starting rotation in, Briles was relegated to the bullpen and fifth starter duties.
With Lincoln entering administration at the end of the 2001 – 02 season, Buckley was relieved of his duties as manager on financial grounds and Alexander placed in charge of all football matters.
* May and June 2000, World Business Review episode 711B marked the first major transition in Host duties as Alexander M. Haig Secretary of State for Reagan 1980 to 1981 ) assumes the post of Moderator from the retiring Caspar Weinberger.
In 1880, in addition to his management duties, Alexander was one of the leading bowlers of the team that visited other colonies as well as England.
He accompanied Alexander in his expedition into India, and was employed in several important duties.

Alexander and viceroy
* Alexander, viceroy of Antigonus Gonatas and ruler of a rump state based on Corinth c. 250 BC
Typically, individuals appointed as federal viceroy were already a peer, either by inheriting the title, such as the Duke of Devonshire, or by prior elevation by the sovereign in their own right, as was the case with the Viscount Alexander of Tunis.
He was in 1952 appointed as governor general by George VI, monarch of Canada, on the recommendation of Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, to replace the Viscount Alexander of Tunis as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Georges Vanier in 1959.
Alexander appears to have been quite jealous of Antipater's victory ; according to Plutarch, the king wrote in a letter to his viceroy: " It seems, my friends that while we have been conquering Darius here, there has been a battle of mice in Arcadia ".
Athlone then served as Chancellor of the University of London until he was in 1940 appointed as Canada's governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Lord Tweedsmuir as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by the Viscount Alexander of Tunis in 1946.
When the government decided that Alexander, as patriarch, must submit to being branded with the lion as well, he protested and asked that he be allowed to plead his case before the viceroy himself.
However, when he arrived at the capital, the viceroy refused to see him, and Alexander was forced to remain in Fustat.

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