Catcher Charles Johnson, who had been acquired along with Wilson in the Hampton trade, was traded to the Boston Red Sox.

Other theories included the pangenesis of Charles Darwin ( which had both acquired and inherited aspects ) and Francis Galton's reformulation of pangenesis as both particulate and inherited.

Homann acquired renown as a leading German cartographer, and in 1715 was appointed Imperial Geographer by Emperor Charles VI.

The defensive line was anchored by Jim Jeffcoat ( 10. 5 sacks ) and Tony Tolbert ( 8. 5 sacks ), along with Charles Haley, who had led the NFC in sacks in 1990 and had been acquired by Dallas in a trade with San Francisco.

In 1344 Solothurn acquired the right to appoint their own Schultheiss from the Count of Buchegg, which was confirmed by Emperor Charles IV in 1360.

The first Duke of Mantua was Federico II Gonzaga, who acquired the title from Emperor Charles V in 1530.

Downing was a soldier and diplomat who served under Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II, and who invested in properties and acquired considerable wealth.

In 1986, Charles Hurwitz acquired Pacific Lumber Company and doubled its rate of timber harvesting as a means of paying off the acquisition.

A large parcel of land in Bloomsbury near the British Museum was acquired from the Duke of Bedford and Charles Holden was appointed architect with the instruction to create a building " not to suggest a passing fashion inappropriate to buildings which will house an institution of so permanent a character as a University.

The Archbishop of Toulouse, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, acquired Calonne's ministry.

( Dawson, incidentally, acquired his outstanding Handelian technique from Sir Charles Santley.

In the following offseason, the team acquired point guard John Paxson and on draft day traded with the Cavaliers for the rights to power forward Charles Oakley.

That move, along with the 1987 NBA Draft of Ken Norman, the 1988 draftings of Danny Manning and Charles Smith ( Smith was acquired from Philadelphia in exchange for the draft rights to Hersey Hawkins ), and the 1990 NBA Draft of Loy Vaught, formed a nucleus that made the franchise a playoff contender.

When she married Maximilian I of Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the provinces were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1482, with the exception of the Duchy of Burgundy itself, which, with an appeal to Salic law, had been reabsorbed into France upon the death of Mary's father, Charles the Bold.

Having acquired the centerpiece of the room, Whistler's painting of The Princess from the Land of Porcelain, American industrialist and aesthete Charles Lang Freer purchased the entire room in 1904 from Leyland's heirs, including Leyland's daughter and her husband, the British artist Val Prinsep.

After the City of Tucson acquired land southeast of town for a runway in 1925, Charles Lindbergh, fresh from his nonstop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his " Spirit of St. Louis " to Tucson in 1927 to dedicate Davis-Monthan Field, then the largest municipal airport in the United States.

He was the first French heir to use the title, which is named for the region of Dauphiné, acquired by Charles ' grandfather, Philip VI of France.

Morrison's father had what was at the time one of the largest record collections in Ulster ( acquired during his sojourn in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1950s ), and the young Morrison grew up listening to artists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Lead Belly, and Solomon Burke ; of whom Morrison later said, " If it weren't for guys like Ray and Solomon, I wouldn't be where I am today.

In the 1840s Charles James Philips acquired Mortlake Brewery, which had existed since the fifteenth century.

Sir Charles Pratt, a radical 18th century lawyer and politician, acquired the manor through marriage.

He acquired Roosevelt Airfield where Charles Lindbergh began his historic transatlantic flight.

Built by Hugues d ' Amboise in the middle of the fifteenth century, it was acquired in 1490 by Charles VIII of France for his wife, Anne de Bretagne.

In 1884 Charles King acquired of the Mexican land grant Rancho San Lorenzo, and began growing of wheat.

In 1895, Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard and James W. Wilson of the Howard-Wilson Publishing Company of Chicago acquired rights to present Fair Oaks community, then primarily covered by citrus farms, from California Senator Frederick K. Cox and businessman Crawford W. Clarke.

* 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

Charles most notably presented the cult TV hit Robot Wars on BBC2 ( 1998 – 2003 ) and Channel 5 ( 2003 – 2004 ), from series 2 until its conclusion at series 7, which included two Extreme series and numerous ' specials '.

* 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and convicted murderer

** In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate U. S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.

* November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and criminal

* Just to the North of the square, Prince Charles Cinema is a cheap-ticket second-run and cult cinema famed for its regular showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a sing-along version of The Sound of Music.

In the so-called Strindberg feud ( 1910 – 1912 ), his response to the " Swedish cult of Charles XII " ( Steene ) was that Charles had been " Sweden's ruin, the great offender, a ruffian, the rowdies ' idol, a counterfeiter.

The group's lead singer, Jay Black, dubbed Becker and Fagen " the Manson and Starkweather of rock ' n ' roll ", referring to cult leader Charles Manson and spree killer Charles Starkweather.

He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of vampire hunter Charles Gunn on the WB cult television series Angel.

Affected by the Dreyfus Affair, and finding himself on the side of the Anti-Dreyfusards, Barrès played a leading role alongside Charles Maurras, which initiated his shift to the political right ; Barrès oriented himself towards a lyrical form of nationalism founded on the cult of the earth and the dead (" la terre et les morts ", " earth and the dead " — see below for details ).

Thornley also claimed that " Kirstein " and Brooks had accurately predicted Richard M. Nixon's accession to the presidency six years before it happened, as well as anticipating the rise of the 1960s counterculture and the subsequent emergence of Charles Manson and what became his cult following.

Takeshi's Castle, a game show hosted in the 1980s by Kitano featuring slapstick-style physical contests, has gained cult popularity in the United States ( where portions are broadcast on Spike TV as MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge ) and in the United Kingdom where it was given a voiceover by Craig Charles, though these feature very little of Takeshi Kitano as they are heavily edited.

Examples of American cult leaders ( the dark side of charismatic authority ) include Jim Jones ( leader of the Peoples Temple ), David Koresh ( leader of the Branch Davidians ), Charles Manson ( leader of the Manson Family ), and Theodore Rinaldo ( leader of Eden Farms ).

He argues she was a tool by which the Catholic Church furthered its political and theological aims, and the cult of personality that she developed was used by politicians, dictators and bankers to gain credibility and assuage guilt, citing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charles Keating and Michèle Bennett as examples.

Beausoleil and Anger fell out, with the former getting involved with Charles Manson and his cult, the Family, eventually carrying out Manson's bidding by torturing and murdering Gary Hinman.

There the Hungarian King is depicted receiving the royal crown, also fighting against the pagans, and receiving the crown of Croatia ( actually the cult to Saint Ladislaus, and other Hungarian Kings was already present in Naples and other Italian regions since the second half of the 13th century, thanks to Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, who transplanted them to his new home when became Charles II of Naples ' wife.

Played in an instrumentally discordant fashion and sung in screeched vocals, the psychedelic music video re-worked the song into an anthem for a cult, book-ended by audio clips from Charles Manson interviews.

The little town was transformed by the well-published discovery, 12 December 1279, in the crypt of Saint-Maximin, of a sarcophagus that was proclaimed to be the tomb of Mary Magdalene, signalled by miracles and by the ensuing pilgrim-drawing cult of Mary Magdalene and Saint Maximin, that was assiduously cultivated by Charles II of Anjou, King of Naples.

The band were initially called " Grey Lantern ", after Draper's DC Comics influenced alter ego which he created to help overcome his nervousness on stage, but soon changed their name to " Manson ", after the cult leader Charles Manson.

He executive produced the 1980s cult kids movie, The Monster Squad ( 1986 ), and co-wrote the screenplay for the Charles Bronson thriller, Telefon ( 1977 ).

Growing out of the National Socialist Liberation Front, Mason founded the order in the early 1980s following the advice of Charles Manson, leader of the mass-murder cult " The Family ".

The Society of Friendship had its origins in the cult of Neoplatonic love imported from the continent in the 1630s by Charles I ’ s French wife, Henrietta Maria.