In 1734, during the War of Polish Succession, the Spanish army under Charles of Bourbon and the Duke of Montemar defeated the Austrians under Giuseppe Antonio, Prince of Belmonte at the Battle of Bitonto, thus securing possession of the Kingdom of Naples for the Bourbons.

Belmonte was founded in about 1270, under the reign of King Charles I of Anjou, with the construction of a castle in the territory of Amantea by Drogone di Beaumont, the marshal responsible for new fortification in Calabria, in order to provide resistance against partisans fighting for the claimant Conradin of Hohenstaufen.

Under the Tarsia lordship, Belmonte was besieged several times: during the invasions of Charles VIII and Louis XII of France, between 1495 and 1503, and again in 1528 under the French marshal Lautrec.

Charles said, grinning, showing his huge yellow teeth.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

As Charles Evans Hughes said, `` Miss Poitrine's limitations as an actress are exceeded only by her logic as a litigant ''.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Rep. Charles E. Hughes of Sherman, sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount `` to making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance and pipeline companies ''.

Senate Republican Leader Dirksen ( Ill. ) and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck ( Ind. ) said the message did not persuade them to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance.

Sen. Charles W. Sandman, R-Cape May, said today Jones will run well ahead of his GOP opponents for the gubernatorial nomination.

Charles A. Black, COAHR chairman, said Friday that three theater representatives had agreed to meet with the students on Oct. 31 but had failed to show up.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

Even earlier examples of this sentiment may be found in Wild Talents by author Charles Fort where he makes the statement: "... a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

" We could never equal Buchenwald ," said its final director, Charles Nonon.

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

Hakim Bey has said " From Stirner's " Union of Self-Owning Ones " we proceed to Nietzsche's circle of " Free Spirits " and thence to Charles Fourier's " Passional Series ", doubling and redoubling ourselves even as the Other multiplies itself in the eros of the group.

Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage.

However, Charles E. Schumer had probably summarized the prospects of Kemp's success in advance best when he said in 1989, " Good ideas with money can do a whole lot.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

" Mr. Thomas Scott, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrosy of Monk ... said: ' That though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand, but his heart also was in it ' and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, ' that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the folloing inscritption might be engraved on his tomb ; " Here lies one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late King of England.

Clement IV is said to have disapproved of the cruelties committed by his protégé, but there seems no foundation for the statement by Gregorovius that Clement IV became an accomplice by refusing to intercede for the unfortunate Conradin whom Charles had him beheaded in the marketplace of Naples.

One of the apparent ringleaders of the Abu Ghraib prison torture incident, Charles Graner Jr., exemplified some of these when he was reported to have said, " The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, ' I love to make a grown man piss himself.

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simple: Charles Messier

simple: Charles I of England

simple: Charles Lyell

Lloyd rejected this in favour of a simple distinction of economic class yet for him true folk music was, in Charles Seeger's words, " associated with a lower class " in culturally and socially stratified societies.

simple: Charles Antony Richard Hoare

simple: Charles M. Schulz

' The Looking-Glass Self ' is just a simple theory formed by Charles Cooley that states that our self-concepts are formed as reflections of the responses and evaluations of others in our environment ..

This State Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun ( 1787 ) of Marie Antoinette and her children Marie Thérèse, Louis Charles ( on her lap ), and Louis Joseph, was meant to help her reputation by depicting her as a mother and in simple, yet stately attire.

simple: Charles II of England

Often used for fly fishing the fly reel or fly casting reel has traditionally been rather simple in terms of mechanical construction, little has changed from the design patented by Charles F. Orvis in 1874.

simple: Charles the Bald

Opening with a simple but clear dedication to King Charles I, the quarto has 17 chapters which give a perfectly clear and connected account of the action of the heart and the consequent movement of the blood around the body in a circuit.

simple: Charles de Gaulle

simple: Charles Edward Stuart

simple: Charles X of France

simple: Charles Ives

simple: Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy

simple: Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia

Indeed, in 1815 at the age of sixty-four Charles Emmanuel took simple vows in the Society of Jesus ( the Jesuits ).

simple: Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia

To get around this problem, most early gravity researchers, such as Jean Picard ( 1669 ), Charles Marie de la Condamine ( 1735 ), and Jean-Charles de Borda ( 1792 ) approximated a simple pendulum by using a metal sphere suspended by a light wire.

simple: Charles V of France

simple: Charles IV of France

simple: Charles Lindbergh

simple: Charles Perrault