He even went so far as to decorate his schoolroom with visual elements he thought would inspire learning: paintings, books, comfortable furniture, and busts or portraits of Plato, Socrates, Jesus, and William Ellery Channing.

William ( with a fleet of 200 ships ) landed in Epirus with a strong force ( 80, 000 men including 5, 000 knights ), and marched as far as Thessalonica, which he took and pillaged ruthlessly ( 7, 000 Greeks died ).

According to William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708 the ice cover permeated as far as the Danish straits, parts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, in addition to coastal fringes in more southerly locations such as the Gulf of Riga.

This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

Although conservative, William I was far more pragmatic.

Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.

The Lady Augusta, captained by Francis Cadell, reached Swan Hill while another, Mary Ann, captained by William Randell, made it as far as Moama ( near Echuca ).

The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.

In his book ‪ The Varieties of Religious Experience ‬, the psychologist William James defined religion as " the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine ".

Daniel Sleator, Robert Tarjan and William Thurston showed that the rotation distance between any two n-node trees ( for n ≥ 11 ) is at most 2n − 6, and that infinitely many pairs of trees are this far apart.

William Rehnquist ( left ) takes the oath as Chief Justice from retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1986, as his wife, Natalie, holds the Bible and President Ronald Reagan ( far right ) looks on.

Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it wasn't until 1846 when an American Dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.

Messrs Lea and Perrins, being John Wheeley Lea ( research and product development ) and William Perrins ( finance ), from their building in Broad Street, Worcester, ran by far the most important and successful chemist and druggist business in the county.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the " D " version, goes so far as to state that William visited England in the later part of 1051, perhaps to secure confirmation of the succession, or perhaps William was attempting to secure aid for his troubles in Normandy.

Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole.

As a result William ordered his cavalry to charge far sooner than planned.

Mary P. Winsor, Ron Amundson and Staffan Müller-Wille have each argued that in fact the usual suspects ( such as Linnaeus and the Ideal Morphologists ) were very far from being essentialists, and it appears that the so-called " essentialism story " ( or " myth ") in biology is a result of conflating the views expressed by philosophers from Aristotle onwards through to John Stuart Mill and William Whewell in the immediately pre-Darwinian period, using biological examples, with the use of terms in biology like species.

The Great Powers of Europe chose the last scenario, but didn't want to go as far in enlarging the Netherlands as William.

However, Sarah Foot is inclined to accept Michael Wood's argument that William's chronicle draws on a lost life of Æthelstan, while cautioning that we have no means of discovering how far William ' improved ' on the original.

Willem Barentsz (, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz ) ( c. 1550 – 20 June 1597 ) was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, explorer, and a leader of early expeditions to the far north.

William Harrison " Bones " Dillard ( born July 8, 1923 ) is an American former track and field athlete, the only male so far to win Olympic titles in both sprinting and hurdling events.

Hook's personality is far closer to Barrie's original character ; he terrifies his crew, brutalizes his enemies, has no fear ( except where the crocodile is concerned ), shows great intelligence, and is passionate about plays by William Shakespeare.

In 1778 English mariner Captain James Cook visited Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island and also voyaged as far as Prince William Sound.

According to legend, when Duke William II of Normandy ( later known as William the Conqueror ) sent his representative to ask for Matilda's hand in marriage, she told the representative that she was far too high-born to consider marrying a bastard.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

You must have the patience of a saint, the smile of a cherub, the generosity of an Indian prince, and the back of a camel ," and the Earl of Dufferin stated that the governor general is " A representative of all that is august, stable, and sedate in the government, the history, and the traditions of the country ; incapable of partizanship, and lifted far above the atmosphere of faction ; without adherents to reward or opponents to oust from office ; docile to the suggestions of his Ministers, and yet securing to the people the certainty of being able to get rid of an Administration or Parliament the moment either had forfeited their confidence.

The ABA also cleverly went after four of the best referees in the NBA: Earl Strom, John Vanak, Norm Drucker and Joe Gushue, getting them to " jump " leagues by offering them far more in money and benefits.

The cenacle opposing the ' despotism ' of Queen Elizabeth and King James, like the knights of King Arthur's Round Table consisted of Francis Bacon, Walter Ralegh, and, as far as Shapiro can make out from her confused writing, perhaps Edmund Spenser, Lord Buckhurst and the Earl of Oxford, all putatively employing playwriting to speak to both rulers and the ruled as committed republicans vindicating that cause against tyranny.

On 19 June, he was taken out on the road towards Kenilworth as far as Blacklow Hill, which was on the Earl of Lancaster's land.

By this time Earl Uchtred may have been dead, and Eiríkr Hákonarson was appointed Earl of Northumbria by his brother-in-law Cnut the Great, although his authority seems to have been limited to the south, the former kingdom of Deira, and he took no action against the Scots so far as is known.

It is far from certain that Eógan died at Carham, and it is reasonably certain that there were kings of Strathclyde as late as the 1054, when Edward the Confessor sent Earl Siward to install " Máel Coluim son of the king of the Cumbrians ".

Gower ( far right ) with fellow commentators Willis and Botham, politicians Alastair Campbell and James Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar | James Erskine.

When it was first built in 1745 – 48 by James FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, it was located on the unfashionable and isolated south side of the city, far from the main locations of aristocratic residences, namely Rutland Square ( now Parnell Square ) and Mountjoy Square.

An observer, Sir Samuel Luke, who was one of the officers discharged from the Earl of Essex's Army, wrote on 9 June 1645 that the Army was " the bravest for bodies of men, horse and arms so far as the common soldiers as ever I saw in my life ".

The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, the Earl of Bathurst, sent instructions to Lieutenant-General Sir George Prévost, the Commander-in-Chief in Canada and Governor General of the Canadas, authorizing him to launch offensives into American territory, but cautioning him against advancing too far and thereby risking being cut off.

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 most of the future county remained part of Scotland although some villages in the far south west, which were the possessions of the Earl of Northumbria, were included in the Yorkshire section with the Furness region.

The church was planned by the Lord of the Manor and major landowner, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, because St Mary's was too far away from the main centres of population in the parish at Kempley Green and Fishpool, and liable to flooding.

The royalist forces defeated, in May 1643, the Earl of Stamford at the battle of Stratton, with great loss of baggage and artillery, and pursued him as far as Wells.

Also named for the Earl was Mount Minto in the Atlin District of far northern British Columbia as well as the town of Minto, North Dakota in the United States.

The Duchess of Teck and her family c. 1880 ; Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | Prince Alexander sits centre with his arm around the Duchess, Mary of Teck | Princess Mary ( later Queen Mary ) is seated at far right

Minto's successor, the Earl Grey, added the governor general's study to the far east end of the Monck Wing, thus symmetrically balancing out the curved bay and pediment of the original McKay villa to the west.

Siward himself died in 1055, and Waltheof being far too young to succeed as Earl of Northumbria, King Edward appointed Tostig Godwinson to the earldom.

Only 15 investors, including the Earl himself, were willing to invest, and a total of only £ 17, 662 ( about £ as of ) was raised, far less than was needed to finance the ambitious project.

A great deal of work to restore and improve the gardens was undertaken from 1911 by Violet wife of the fourth Earl, including the laying out of the formal gardens at the far south eastern corner.

Along with Cecil, he numbered among his friends some nobles, such as Thomas Howard and the Earl of Arundel, whose loyalty to Elizabeth was far from certain.

Although the Scottish War was as remote a project to the Kentishmen as to the Cornish, they not only declined to offer their support but went so far as to offer resistance under their Earl.