Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

Cyril ( also Cyrillus or Cyryl ) is a masculine given name.

A number of other bishops also entered statements to the effect that they believed that Leo's Tome was not in contradiction with the teaching of Cyril as well.

Cyril has also been portrayed in Ki Longfellow's Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria.

Cyril also helped a member of his family in pursuit of religious career in 366, appointing his nephew Galesius to the bishopric of Caesarea.

Cyril ’ s appointment to the Bishop of Jerusalem is also shrouded in conspiracy.

Saint Jerome was claiming not only that Cyril was an Arian but also involved directly or indirectly in the death of Maximus who he replaced as Bishop of Jerusalem.

It was also believed Cyril sold ornaments and many imperial gifts all in the name of charity to keep his people from starving.

Cyril ’ s central messages also contain the primary principle of faith.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Cyril had both theological and political reasons for attacking Nestorius ; on top of feeling that Nestorianism was an error against true belief, he also wanted to denigrate the head of a competing patriarchate.

She also demo-ed songs with Cyril Rawson but the demos were without success, partly due to Twain's wish to become a rock singer, not a country artist.

He was also responsible, along with the regent Bardas, for initiating a far-reaching educational program within the Empire which culminated in the establishment of the University of Magnaura, where Cyril was to teach.

The " Translatio " speaks only of a version of the Gospels by Cyril, and the " Vita Methodii " only of the " evangelium Slovenicum ," though other liturgical selections may also have been translated.

Hence, Cyril and Methodius ' efforts also paved the way for the spread of Christianity throughout Eastern Europe.

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

Four of his brothers also became actors: Arthur ( 1888 – 1972 ), an actor and sculptor, and Clifford ( 1892 – 1978 ), Cyril ( 1899 – 1987 ) and Kenneth ( circa 1901-1979 ).

The account of the labors of Saints Cyril and Methodius among the Slavic peoples is also very interesting, and to Nestor we owe the tale of the summary way in which Vladimir the Great suppressed the worship of Perun and other traditional gods at Kiev.

Ludmila, Wenceslas, Procopius, Cyril and Methodius, and Adalbert ), although numerous legends about Bohemian saints were also written by foreign authors.

" Saint Cyril also writes, " this kiss is the sign that our souls are united, and that we banish all remembrance of injury.

The production also featured Cyril Cusack and Franchot Tone.

* John Cyril Cato ( born 1889, died 1971 ), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography, known also as Jack Cato

The WBC has also created a " Silver " world title recently, with Justin Savi to be the first one to win it on April 16, 2010, against Cyril Thomas in France.

He was also a close friend of Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, and a friend of his other son Cyril until his death in the First World War.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the later 4th and 5th centuries.

At Easter 429 A. D., Cyril wrote a letter to the Egyptian monks warning them of Nestorius ' views.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

He wrote to Cyril Connolly from Barcelona on 8 June 1937: " I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before.

In the 4th century, Cyril of Jerusalem mentioned a " Gospel of Thomas " twice in his Catechesis: " The Manichæans also wrote a Gospel according to Thomas, which being tinctured with the fragrance of the evangelic title corrupts the souls of the simple sort.

* Lobsang Rampa, who claimed to be a deceased Tibetan Lama possessing the body of Cyril Hoskins and wrote a number of books based on that premise.

A West Country schoolboy playground-rhyme current in the 1940s concerning the pasty went: In 1959 the English singer-songwriter Cyril Tawney wrote a nostalgic song called " The Oggie Man ".

Bowra had learnt the value of poetry during his experiences of the First World War, and Cyril Connolly wrote that, " He saw human life as a tragedy in which great poets were the heroes who fought back and tried to give life a meaning ".

In 2004, Besson wrote Banlieue 13, another feature film involving advanced chase sequences, starring David Belle and Cyril Raffaelli ; English-dubbed and-subtitled versions were released in 2006 as District B-13 in North America and the UK.

Council of Constantinople in 1638 anathematized both Cyril and " Eastern Confession of the Christian faith ", but the Council of Jerusalem in 1672, specially engaged in the case of Cyril, completely acquitted him, testified that the Council of Constantinople cursed Cyril not because they thought he was the author of the confession, but for the fact that Cyril hadn ` t wrote a rebuttal to this essay, attributed to him.

He even wrote to the emperor's secretary Aristolaus the tribune, who was greatly interested in the question of peace, almost complaining that he did not press Cyril enough on the point, and to his archdeacon Epiphanius.

Cyril wrote to him, attributing the blessed result to the force of his prayers.

Cyril Lionel Robert James ( 4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989 ), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist.

He wrote for the radio comics ; Frankie Howerd, Vic Oliver, Arthur Askey, and Cyril Fletcher.

Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning ( 1891 – 1959 ) and Cyril Henry Coles ( 1899 – 1965 ), who wrote many spy thrillers from the early 40s through the early 60s.

In England, Egerton Castle and Alfred Hutton wrote pioneering books on the history of swordsmanship, and Cyril Matthey republished Silver's Paradoxes of Defence and Brief Instructions.

It was used by Christ Himself, by St. Paul, by St. Cyril of Jerusalem, by St. Clement and Origen at Alexandria, by St. Augustine, who wrote a special treatise thereon ( De catechizandis rudibus ), also, in later times, by Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, who wrote " De parvulis ad Christum trahendis "; Clement XI and Benedict XIV gave to it all the weight of their authority, and one of the greatest of all catechists was St. Charles Borromeo.

Cyril of Jerusalem wrote a series of sermons aimed at catechumens, outlining via passages of scripture the main points of the faith, yet dividing between those merely interested and those intending baptism then continuing with certain sermons aimed at those who had been baptized.

Bro Cyril Piot wrote a manual for reading in 1872.