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.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

Long-time bastion Houston Alexander, a one-time graffiti artist and professional Mixed Martial Arts competitor, is currently a local hip-hop radio show host.

Edward's host followed the line of the old Roman road, which ran through an ancient forest known as the Tor Wood, over the Bannockburn and into the New Park, a hunting preserve enclosed at the time of Alexander III.

Rudolf Alexander ( Ruud ) de Wild ( born 24 April 1969, Hilversum ) is a Dutch radio host.

Alexander Emerick " Alex " Jones ( born February 11, 1974 ) is an American talk radio host, actor and filmmaker.

The Bridport Literary Festival has been running since 2005 and has played host to the biggest literary lions including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Claire Tomalin, Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, Julian Fellowes, Alexander Waugh, John Julius Norwich, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon, Bill Oddie, Robin Hanbury – Tenison, Katharine Whitehorn, Kate Summerscale, Michael Dobbs and Ann Leslie DBE.

Queen is referred to as both a host and narrator, he essentially introduced the profiles that were narrated by such luminaries as Alexander Scourby, Walter Cronkite, Raymond Massey, and Ronald Reagan.

In 1901, the royal home played host to the Duke and Duchess of York ( later King George V and Queen Mary ), as well as the Duchess ' brother, Prince Alexander of Teck ( who would later become Governor General of Canada ); Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1919 and 1941 ; and King George VI was the first reigning monarch to reside at Government House when he and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, stopped in Winnipeg during their cross-country tour of Canada in 1939 ; from Government House, the King broadcast over the radio a speech to the British Commonwealth, the table at which he sat still in the residence.

With the help of the governor of Krasnodar Kray Alexander Tkachev, the host has become an integral part of the Kuban life, there are joint combat training operations with the Russian Army, policing of the rural areas with the Militsiya, preparation of local youth for the draft service.

Alexander Duszat, better known under the nickname Elton, is a German television host and comedian.

While she is institutionalized, the supernatural entity known as Eclipso ( aided by the actions of the Psycho-Pirate and Alexander Luthor of the former Earth-3 ) manipulates Jean into becoming his new host so she could seduce the Spectre into destroying all of the magical beings in the DC universe ( see Day of Vengeance ).

As Managing Director of Next Generation Clubs Australia, Alexander became a successful businessman building sport and fitness clubs ; including the development of the Ryde Aquatic Centre in Sydney to host the 2000 Summer Olympic Games water polo event, development of Memorial Drive in Adelaide into a multi-function health and fitness facility, and Royal King's Park in Perth.

She is also the third cast member from the sitcom Seinfeld to host SNL ( after Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld himself ).

Alexander played for a whole host of lower league football teams.

* In 2000, World Business Review welcomed its second host, General Alexander M. Haig.

CNBC host Carl Quintanilla has substituted for Holt on numerous occasions ; correspondents Jeff Rossen and Peter Alexander have both also appeared.

He is script writer and host of the television profiles ( for Bulgarian television ) " Alexander McQueen ", " Gianfranco Ferré ", " John Galliano ", " Daniel Hechter ", " Emanuel Ungaro ", " Hubert de Givenchy ", " Issei Miyake ", " Carmen Carven ", " Kenzo ", " Christian Lacroix ", " Lloyd Klein ", " Michiko Koshino ", " Nino Cerruti ", " Olivier Lapidus ", " Paco Rabanne ", " Pierre Cardin ", " Hanae Mori ", " Zhana Zhekova ", " Maria Nedkova "," Nathaly Genova "," Zapryan Marinov " and others.

In 1995 Alexander received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, he also shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with Seinfeld, Louis-Dreyfus and Richards.

In 1992 and 1993 Alexander won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV Series.

Clockwise: Michael Crawford, Lynn Redgrave, Donald Madden and Geraldine Page. Black Comedy was first presented in New York with White Lies at the Ethel Barrymore Theater by Alexander H. Cohen directed by John Dexter with the following cast:

It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Alexander Knox ), Best Director, Best Effects, Special Effects, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.

* Leggatt, Alexander, Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare ( Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973 ).

He was introduced to fellow Cambridge graduate Alexander Armstrong in 1992, at the TBA Sketch Comedy Group, a comedy club which ran at the Gate Theatre Studio, Notting Hill throughout the 1990s.

The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards, and was declared Best Comedy Film at the British Comedy Awards.

Greek New Comedy was Greek comedy after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 till 260 BC, during the reign of the Macedonian rulers in Greece.

* Heaven and Hell ( On Earth ): A Divine Comedy by Robert Alexander, Jenny Lyn Bader, Elizabeth Dewberry, Deborah Lynn Frockt, Rebecca Gilman, Keith Glover, Hilly Hicks Jr., Karen Hines, Michael Kassin, Jane Martin, William Mastrosimone, Guillermo Reyes, Sarah Schulman, Richard Strand, Alice Tuan & Elizabeth Wong