The show concerned Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a wealthy white widower in New York City who adopted two young black boys after their parents died.

In 1115, Henry V awarded the territory of Eastern Franconia ( Ostfranken ) to his nephew Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who used the title " Duke of Franconia.

Perhaps the most notable of these was the Protestant pastor Georg Conrad Horst ( 1779 – 1832 ), who from 1821 to 1826 published a six-volume collection of magical texts in which he studied grimoires as a peculiarity of the Mediaeval mindset.

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.

Among the people Conrad may have encountered on his journey was a trader called Leon Rom, who was later named chief of the Stanley Falls Station.

Though lies seem to present Marlow as a depraved hypocrite, Conrad intends them to show an enlightened and willful man who desires to undo the darkness caused by others.

As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

After the death of Conrad II, often referred to as Kurt II who left no male heirs, Frederick III was granted the burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1192 as Burgrave Frederick I of Nuremberg-Zollern.

This union was contracted in connection with the Ascanian efforts to support the Junior Dukes in opposition to King Conrad III of Germany, who supported the deposed High Duke Władysław II as legal ruler of Poland.

Only the port of Tyre remained in Frankish hands, defended by Conrad of Montferrat, the paternal uncle of Baldwin V, who had coincidentally arrived just in time from Constantinople.

Guy of Lusignan, who had been refused entry to Tyre by Conrad, began to besiege Acre in 1189.

The next year, Isabella died giving birth to their son Conrad IV, who succeeded his mother to the throne although he never appeared in the east.

This war was probably prompted by family connections of Mieszko's in Germany who opposed Emperor Conrad II.

Honorius also sent Cardinal John of Crema to Pisa to hold another synod that excommunicated Archbishop Anselm of Milan, who had crowned Conrad king.

Robert Sarnoff was ousted in a 1975 boardroom coup by Anthony Conrad, who resigned a year later after he admitted failing to file income tax returns for six years.

On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat.

The city was now commanded by Conrad of Montferrat, who strengthened Tyre's defences and withstood two sieges by Saladin.

In 1189, they sought to reclaim Tyre for their kingdom, but were refused admission by Conrad, who did not recognize Guy as king.

Werner of Worms and his son Duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine, who died in 955, founded the ancestral dynasty.

Duke Otto had three sons: Bruno, who became Pope Gregory V ; Conrad ; and Henry, count of Speyer.

After the death of Henry II ( 3 July 1024 ), Stephen broke with the German alliance, because the new Holy Roman Emperor, Conrad II claimed supremacy over the Kingdom of Hungary, while Stephen demanded the Duchy of Bavaria for his son Emeric who was the nearest relative of the deceased Emperor Henry II ( who himself had been the last male descendant of the old dukes of Bavaria ).

Darwent with his Paria Petroleum Company Limited, and Conrad F. Stollmeyer ( who was great grandfather of Republic Bank ’ s then Chairman, former West Indies cricket captain, Jeffrey Stollmeyer ), an entrepreneur of that period who felt that a combustible fuel could not be distilled out of the asphalt from the pitch lake.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

Berg was born in Vienna, the third of four children of Johanna and Conrad Berg.

Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband Otto II against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978 ; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son ; in 983 Otto appointed her as his viceroy in Italy.

In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin.

Ceres Brewery was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery.

After his mother's death in 1872, he was sent, together with his younger brother, Conrad, back to Honfleur, to live with his paternal grandparents.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

At the failure of the direct Carolingian male line in 911, Conrad was acclaimed King of the Germans, largely because of his weak position in his own duchy.

Conrad had granted Franconia to his brother Eberhard on his succession, but when Eberhard rebelled against Otto I in 938, he was deposed from his duchy.

Rhenish Franconia was the heartland of the Salian dynasty, which provided four emperors in the 11th and 12th centuries: Conrad II, Henry III, Henry IV, and Henry V. Rhenish Franconia contained the ancient cities of Mainz, Speyer, and Worms, the latter two being countships within the hands of the descendants of Conrad the Red ( the Salians ).

Hawks accepted and was immediately put in charge of over forty productions, including many literary acquisitions that included works by Joseph Conrad, Jack London and Zane Grey.

When Henry II died in 1024, Conrad II, first of the Salian Dynasty, was then elected king in 1024 only after some debate among dukes and nobles, which would eventually develop into the collegiate of Electors.

After the death of Frederick II in 1250, the German kingdom was divided between his son Conrad IV ( died 1254 ) and the anti-king, William of Holland ( died 1256 ).

Frederick II remained a close ally of the Salians, he and his younger brother Conrad were named the king's representatives in Germany when the king was in Italy.

After Lothair's death in 1137, Frederick's brother Conrad was elected King as Conrad III.

The Great Interregnum, a period in which there were several elected rival kings non of whom was able to achieve any position of authority, followed the death of Frederick's son King Conrad IV of Germany in 1254.

Conrad IV was succeeded as duke of Swabia by his only son, two-year old Conradin.

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.

Frederick had reneged on his promise to lead the Fifth Crusade, but was now eager to cement his claim to the throne through Conrad.

The arrival of Conrad, the exiled duke of Lotharingia ( Lorraine ) and Otto's son-in-law, was particularly heartening because he had recently thrown in his lot with the Magyars, but now returned to fight under Otto ; in the ensuing battle he lost his life.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 10 kg of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

The Vista chain has been phased out, while Conrad is now restyled as one of the luxury brands of Hilton ( along with The Waldorf-Astoria Collection ) and operates hotels within the US, as well as abroad.

It was founded by Conrad Hilton and is now owned by Hilton Worldwide.

* Conrad, now vanished

* Conrad Weiser, 1696 – 1760, built his homestead just outside what is now the borough limits.

The Ibelins hastily divorced Isabella from Humphrey, and married her to Conrad, who now claimed the kingship.

In music, Conrad was an early ( though not original ) member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, nicknamed The Dream Syndicate, which included John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela, and utilized just intonation and sustained sound ( drones ) to produce what the group called " dream music " ( and is now called drone music ).

Conrad was born in Montferrat, which is now a region of Piedmont, in northwest Italy.

Conrad was still in command of the city, which was now heavily fortified and filled with Christian refugees from across the north of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

In an incident described by the Itinerarium Peregrinorum ( which is generally hostile to Conrad ), the Old French Continuation and Sicardus of Cremona's second chronicle ( now known through quotations by Salimbene di Adam and Alberto Millioli ), Saladin presented Conrad's aged father, William V of Montferrat, who had been captured at Hattin, before the walls of the city.

Conrad was now de jure King of Jerusalem.

By now, Boniface was Marquess of Montferrat, following the deaths of his father in 1191 and of Conrad, the newly elected King of Jerusalem, in 1192.

* 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers what are now known as X-rays.

* Ponce de Leon Hotel, later Hilton San Jeronimo Hotel, now Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza Hotel, San Juan, 1960

Other prominent guests were NDP leader Jack Layton ; Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper ( now Prime Minister ); Green Party leader Elizabeth May ; then-Conservative MP Belinda Stronach ; Conservative MP Peter MacKay ; Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams ; Olympic gold medallist Kyle Shewfelt ; author Pierre Berton ; recording artists Jann Arden, Bif Naked, Rush bassist Geddy Lee and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, and Sarah McLachlan ; publishing mogul Conrad Black ; and former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Władysław of course did not lose hope of changing his fate, but for now he had to accept the postponement of his return, particularly when Conrad III started the Second Crusade with King Louis VII of France to the Holy Land the next year.

The earliest experiments with multistage rockets in Europe were made in 1551 by Austrian Conrad Haas ( 1509 – 1576 ), the arsenal master of the town of Hermannstadt, Transylvania ( now Sibiu / Hermannstadt, Romania ).

On 5 June 1695, Johann Conrad Schlaun was born in Nörde near Warburg ( now one of Warburg's constituent communities ).

Thompson is also a director and head of the Audit Committee for Hollinger International, the media company founded by convicted fraudster Conrad Black ( it is also now the subject of a U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation ).