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He `` legitimized '' Paula for Lilian Steichen, and it was Paula who insisted on Carl for Charles.
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.
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.
Mr. Oakes succeeds Charles Merz, editor since 1938, who now becomes editor emeritus.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.
He selected as Comptroller of Defense, not a veteran accountant, but a former Rhodes Scholar, Charles Hitch, who is author of a study on The Economics Of Defense In The Nuclear Age.
One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.
In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.
Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.
Scientists who have worked in this area include Raymond Moody, Susan Blackmore, Charles Tart, William James, Ian Stevenson, Michael Persinger and Pim van Lommel among others.
Joining the League of Torgau in 1526, he acted in unison with the Protestants, and was among the princes who banded and plotted together to overthrow Charles V after the issue of the Augsburg Interim in May 1548.
Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.
King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".
Ken Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to the measles through Charles Duke, at that time on the back-up crew for Apollo 13, who had caught it from one of his children.
The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".
In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.
Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.
It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

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In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.
Between 720 and 723, Charles was fighting in Bavaria, where the Agilolfing dukes had gradually evolved into independent rulers, recently in alliance with Liutprand the Lombard.
" Poole announces his intention to redeem Mather's name, using as a springboard a harsh critique of a recently published tome by Charles Wentworth Upham called " Salem Witchcraft Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects.
More recently, Charles Wedemeyer of the University of Wisconsin – Madison is considered significant in promoting methods other than the postal service to deliver distance education in America.
The " competing browsers hypothesis " was originally suggested by Charles Darwin and only challenged recently.
Her first effort was called Sunflower to the sun ISBN 0-7981-1228-X ( Human & Rousseau, 1976 ), followed by Herman Charles Bosman, a Pictorial Biography ISBN 0-628-02148-8 ( Perskor, 1981 ), and most recently by Herman Charles Bosman: Between the Lines ISBN 1-77007-163-6 ( Struik, 2005 ).
Later that year, Governor Charles Lawrence issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia ( including recently captured areas of Acadia such as le Coude ).
In 1736 Anna declared war on the Ottoman Empire, but Charles made a separate peace with the Porte, forcing Russia to follow suit and to give up all recently captured territories with the exception of Azov.
In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.
The assault had been planned by recently promoted General Robert Nivelle and executed on a very narrow front under the direction of General Charles Mangin.
Well-known patients of St. Elizabeths include would-be presidential assassins Richard Lawrence ( who attempted to kill Andrew Jackson ) and more recently John Hinckley, Jr. who shot Ronald Reagan, as well as the successful assassin of James Garfield, Charles J. Guiteau ( until his execution ).
After the attempted flight was stopped at Varennes, Charles moved on to Koblenz, where he, the recently escaped Count of Provence and the Princes of Condé jointly declared their intention to invade France.
Several large hotel projects like the Port Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996 – 99, and more recently the new Hilton Hotel on Needhams Point, Saint Michael in 2005.
Charles VI's friend and advisor, Olivier de Clisson, had recently been the target of an assassination attempt by agents of John V, Duke of Brittany ; the would-be assassin, Pierre de Craon, had taken refuge in Brittany.
To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.
In addition, the Treaty of Troyes, signed by Charles VI in 1420, mandated that the throne pass to Henry VI of England, the son of the recently deceased Henry V and Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI.
In an interview recently Farrell discussed the byplay between his M * A * S * H co-stars, David Ogden Stiers and Harry Morgan: " David was like a rock, when he was concentrating, when he was being Charles Emerson Winchester III, you just couldn't get him, except for Harry Morgan.
When he was crowned, it was said ; " King Charles we recently buried, King Frederick we crown – suddenly the clock has now passed from twelve to one ".
Summit Lake Winery was founded recently in Holts Summit, linking the town to what is called the Missouri Rhineland, the area defined by vineyards along the Missouri River to the western part of St. Charles County.
More recently, singers Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, and Ray Charles have performed.
These include the Platnauer Concerts, established to honour the memory of Maurice Platnauer, Principal of Brasenose ( 1956 – 1960 ); termly Heberden Concerts, recently established to honour Charles Buller Heberden ( 1849 – 1921 ), Principal of Brasenose ( 1889 – 1920 ) and to showcase talented undergraduates and graduates of Oxford University ; the Principal's Concerts, established in 2009, for junior and senior members of Brasenose and other colleges to display their talents.

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The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.
In the end England and the Dutch Republic took control of the newly won territory for the duration of the war ; after which it was to be handed over to the direct rule of ‘ Charles III ’, subject to the reservation of a Dutch Barrier, the extent and nature of which had yet to be settled.
Charles won a national competition, run by The Guardian newspaper, for a poem he wrote when he was 12-years-old.
Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots ( by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys such as Echternach ), he subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia, and he defeated the pagan Saxons.
For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track " Back on the Block ", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that " attempt to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap ", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.
* 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.
The group won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy ( previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix ) in 1971.
Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf + Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role ; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, " What are we watching?
Charles Porter's photograph of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.
The photo, taken by utility company employee Charles H. Porter IV, won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
The subsequent competition for the reconstruction of the Palace was won by architect Charles Barry and his design for a building in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
With the help of a handful of local French administrators and officers, the British, and the Belgian government in exile Charles de Gaulle's Free French won over large parts of the French Empire.
In 1535 Charles V won an important victory against the Ottomans at Tunis, which together with the war against Venice the following year, led Suleiman to accept proposals from Francis I of France to form an alliance against Charles.
An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.
Charles Jewtraw from Lake Placid, New York, won the first Olympic gold medal, though several Norwegians in attendance claimed Oskar Olsen had clocked a better time.
Most recent designs are For The People and Empire of the Sun, each of which won the Charles S. Roberts Award for best game in their category.
Lawyer Charles Rembar sued the New York City Postmaster, and won in New York and then on federal appeal.
This was the turning point, because Charles Rembar appealed a restraining order against it all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court and won.
Charles Dickens wrote of her in 1865 that " he carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and has deserved to win it.
Gifts or promises had won the support of the Rhenish and Swabian towns ; a marriage alliance secured the friendship of the Habsburgs ; and an alliance with Rudolf II of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, was obtained when Charles, who had become a widower in 1348, married his daughter Anna.
He held to the Catholic faith and thus won the support of Charles IX, and by 1563 appears to have fully reconstituted his father's establishment in Paris.

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