Conrad Gessner ( or Gesner ), the Swiss scientist and natural historian of the Renaissance, made a Latin translation of Aelian's work, to give it a wider European audience.

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The guinea pig was first described in the West in 1554 by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner.

Three editions were published by Conrad Gessner ( Zurich, 1543 ; Basle, 1549 ; Zurich ; 1559 ), and another by Gaisford ( Oxford, 1822, 4 vols.

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In October 1889 he read a biography of Conrad Gessner, a Swiss naturalist and a leading figure of modern biology, and swore he would become Japan's Gessner, which was when his quest for the wonders of cryptogam began.

Use of the former by Conrad Gessner established the quasi-scientific term lanius for the shrikes.

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Conrad Gessner, John Ray and Francis Willughby also reported old folk names, mainly from Germanic languages: Wereangel or Wierangel from the Pennines of England ( where the bird was noted as a vagrant ) as well as Warkangel, Werkengel or Wurchangel in various German dialects ( e. g. around Frankfurt / Main and Strasbourg ) probably mean " choking angel " ( cf.

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His bust, by Conrad Dressler, was placed on the platform in front of the Liverpool organ, as a memorial of his long series of performances there.

* Conrad Barski: Land of Lisp: Learn to program in Lisp, one game at a time !, No Starch Press, 2010, ISBN 1-59327-200-6, Web

On his deathbed, Conrad yielded the crown to his main rival, Henry of Saxony ( r. 919 – 36 ), who was elected king at the Diet of Fritzlar in 919.

When he died in 1138, the princes again aimed at checking royal power ; accordingly they did not elect Lothair's favoured heir, his son-in-law Henry the Proud of the Welf family, but Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen family, close relatives of the Salians, leading to over a century of strife between the two houses.

* Peter Conrad, academic and author currently teaching at Christ Church, Oxford

In 1147, Conrad heard Bernard of Clairvaux preach the Second Crusade at Speyer, and he agreed to join King Louis VII of France in a great expedition to the Holy Land which failed.

Although they had been at odds with each other from 912 – 15 over the title to lands in Thuringia, before he died Conrad recommended Henry as his successor.

Isabella's mother Maria and the Ibelins ( now closely allied to Conrad ) argued that Isabella and Humphrey's marriage was illegal, as she had been underage at the time ; underlying this was the fact that Humphrey had betrayed his wife's cause in 1186.

* 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ( the " Ocean of Storms ") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

* 1147 – Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.

Lothair was unable to visit Rome immediately as Germany was rocked by the rebellion of the Hohenstaufen brothers, with Conrad Hohenstaufen elected anti-king in December 1127, followed by his descent into Italy and his crowning as King of Italy at Monza on 29 July 1128.

The German bishops, again led by Adalbert of Mainz, excommunicated Conrad, an act that was confirmed by Honorius in a synod held in Rome at Easter ( 22 April 1128 ).

In accordance with this last policy, the marriage of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with Guelph of Bavaria was promoted ; Prince Conrad of Italy was assisted in his rebellion against his father and crowned King of the Romans at Milan in 1093 ; and Henry IV's wife, the Empress ( Adelaide ), was encouraged in her charges of sexual coercion against her husband.

At a great diet held at Speyer in 1146, Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and many of his nobles were also incited to dedicate themselves to the crusade by the eloquence of Bernard.

* October 2008: Sabine Conrad and colleagues at Tübingen, Germany generate pluripotent stem cells from spermatogonial cells of adult human testis by culturing the cells in vitro under leukemia inhibitory factor ( LIF ) supplementation.

In 1027, Stephen had Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, the envoy sent by Conrad II to the Byzantine Empire, arrested at the frontier.

A quarter of a century later, Joseph Conrad described Amsterdam's trams in chapter 14 of The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ): From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

When Conrad died in February 1152, only Frederick and the prince-bishop of Bamberg were at his deathbed.

* November 24 – Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure king.

With the support of the imperial cities, Swabia, and the Duchy of Austria, Conrad was elected antiking at Nuremberg in December 1127.

After Lothair's death ( December 1137 ), Conrad was elected king at Coblenz on 7 March 1138, in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.

Conrad was crowned at Aachen six days later ( 13 March ) and was acknowledged in Bamberg by several princes of southern Germany.

Conrad, after a long siege, defeated the latter at Weinsberg in December 1140, and in May 1142 a peace agreement was reached in Frankfurt.

In 1147, Conrad heard Bernard of Clairvaux preach the Second Crusade at Speyer, and he agreed to join Louis VII in a great expedition to the Holy Land.

Conrad fell seriously ill at Ephesus and was sent to recuperate in Constantinople, where his host the Emperor Manuel I acted as his personal physician.