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Among the chief victims of such an ill-conceived imposition would be religion itself.
Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
Among the chief ecclesiastical centres named in the records are Dunkeld, probably seat of the bishop of the kingdom, and Cell Rígmonaid ( modern St Andrews ).
Among the people Conrad may have encountered on his journey was a trader called Leon Rom, who was later named chief of the Stanley Falls Station.
Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.
Among these officials was the national police chief, who named his son Adolfo Hirohito after the best-known Axis leaders.
* May 19 – Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker ; she later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.
Among the details he gave authorities, was that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lieutenant had told him that Reid and Abderraouf Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to carry out identical shoe-bombing plots as part of a second wave of attacks against the United States, and that they had successfully blown up Flight 587, while Reid had been stymied.
Among Otto II's chief advisors, only the Saxon Bishop Dietrich I of Metz had close connections with the old Saxon nobility.
Among those who were put to death was Zenobia's chief counselor and Greek sophist, Cassius Longinus.
Among several places of worship the chief is the Church of St Mary.
Among several places of worship the chief is the Church of St Mary ; this has a north porch and windows dating from the 14th century, besides a slender spire ; but it has been much altered by restoration.
* Among the refugees arriving from Ionia after the collapse of the Ionian Revolt is a chief named Miltiades, who has a fine reputation as a soldier.
Among the chief victims: onetime Chief of State Liu Shaoqi, whose widow Wang Guangmei, herself imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution for 12 years, attended the trial as an observer.
Among these economists, the chief voices of dissent are Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, who base their ideas chiefly on actual economic theory.
Among them was Pierre Lamond, who had been the chief IC designer ( now partner at Sequoia Capital ).
Among his efforts in oil between 1728 and 1732 were The Fountaine Family ( c. 1730 ), The Assembly at Wanstead House, The House of Commons examining Bambridge, and several pictures of the chief actors in John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera.
Among the chief narrative changes Fellini makes to the Satyricon text is the addition of a hermaphroditic priestess, who does not exist in the Petronian version.
Among the visitors to the Traweek House was Baldwin Parker, a son of Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief, as well as state and national officials.
Among his works on Greek literature the chief are Die Äschyleische Trilogie ( 1824, 6 ), Der epische Zyklus oder die Homerischen Geschichte ( 2 vols.
** Liber CCXX: Liber AL vel Legis sub Figura CCXX: The Book of the Law — Among the Holy Books of Thelema, the chief is The Book of the Law.
Among his later appearances were an episode of The Brady Bunch, as an Indian chief who befriends the Bradys in the Grand Canyon, and an episode of the short-lived Dusty's Trail, starring Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island fame.
Among Hersey's earlier students at Yale was Michiko Kakutani, currently the chief book critic of The New York Times, as well as film critic Gene Siskel.
Among their permanent privileges were the traditional Republican title of princeps senatus ( leader of the Senate ) and the religious office of pontifex maximus ( chief priest of Roman state ).
Among his roles were the chief characters in The Brigand, The Rent-Day, The Wonder, Don Cassar de Bazan, Wild Oats and the refined comedy parts of Mercutio, Jaques, and Benedick.

Among and Swiss
Among the international airlines serving Cameroon are Alitalia, Swiss, Iberia and Air Mali.
Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions in the 60th ( Royal Americans ) was Henri Bouquet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management ( including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and ' battle-dress `) would become universal in the British Army some 150 years later.
Among the things she was accused of ( most, if not all, of the accusations were untrue and probably lifted from rumours begun by libelles ) were orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans, incest with her son, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and orchestrating the massacre of the Swiss Guards in 1792.
Among the first white settlers at the place was a group of Swiss dairy farmers, who named the settlement Geneva.
Among the first settlers in the area were Polish and Swiss immigrants.
Among the most popular hand tied harnesses are the Swiss Seat and Studebaker Wrap.
Among the most famous of his works are the Swiss Noel ( Noël Suisse, No. XII of his Nouveau livre ), and Le coucou (" The Cuckoo ") which is from his 1735 harpsichord suite.
Among offshore banks, Swiss banks hold an estimated 35 % of the world's private and institutional funds ( or 3 trillion Swiss francs ), and the Cayman Islands ( 1. 9 trillion US dollars in deposits ) are the fifth largest banking centre globally in terms of deposits.
Among the victims were more than 200 priests, almost 100 Swiss guards and many political prisoners and aristocrats.
Among the Swiss German dialects, it is the only Low Alemannic one.
Among the most common are Americans, Canadians, Nicaraguans, South Americans ( mainly Colombian and Ecuadorian ), and Europeans ( Spanish, Dutch, German, Swiss, and Italian ).
Among Dreamland's attractions were a railway that ran through a Swiss alpine landscape, imitation Venetian canals with gondolas, a " Lilliputian Village " with three hundred dwarf inhabitants, and a demonstration of firefighting in which two thousand people pretended to put out a blazing six-story building.
Among the most notable works of art in the museum's permanent collection are the French sculptors Auguste Rodin's The American Athlete and Niki de Saint Phalle's Les Footballeurs, the Luxembourgish sculptor Lucien Wercollier's tribute to the pole vault Altius, the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero's Jeune Fille a la Balle and a kinetic art sculpture by the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely which combines a hockey stick, a boar's head and a motorbike wheel.
Among these foreigners were Dr Albert Agassiz ( 1840 – 1910 ), distant cousin of the famous Swiss / American scientist Louis Agassiz, and Karl Völkner, a German missionary who had gone over to the Anglican Church.
Among the accusations against Vesco were that he parked funds belonging to IOS investors in a series of dummy corporations, one of which had an Amsterdam address that was later linked to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and that he broke into a Swiss bank vault to obtain shares.
Among the best riders in recent years: 8 times Grand National Winner and Swiss Franco Gansser, Lord Clifton Wrottesley, finished fourth at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, current Top record holder James Sunley ( 50. 09 in 1999 ) and current Junction Record holder Johannes Badrutt ( 41. 02 in 1999 ).
Among the refugees was Louis Bourguet ( 1678 – 1743 ) who wrote geological works and founded two periodicals that provided Italian research and works by French Swiss authors to the country.
Selling The Dream: Stock Hype and Fraud, Dealers Among Dealers, on Diamond Dealers of 47th Street in New York, and the Emmy award-winning film on Swiss Banks and the Holocaust, Blood Money: Switzerland's Nazi Gold.
Category: Swiss Righteous Among the Nations
Among his better novels are Her Two Millions ( 1897 ) because of its autobiographical element and accurate descriptions of how a Swiss newspaper is run ( Westall worked as an editor of Swiss Times ); and Birch Dene ( 1889 ) which contains striking portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.
Among the flora of the Alps, especially Swiss Pines grow along the tree line ; above subshrub, mainly alpenrose but also the endemic saxifraga rudolphiana, up to nival level at about 2, 800 m ( 9, 200 ft ).
Among other Swiss air pioneers, he is commemorated in a Swiss postage stamp issued in January 1977.

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