Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

He had a brother William four years his elder and an older sister Elizabeth, who died in childhood.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

On 8 November 1273 Andronikos II married as his first wife Anna of Hungary, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, with whom he had two sons:

Anne had four pupils: Lydia, age 15, Elizabeth, age 13, Mary, age 12, and Edmund, age 8.

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.

In another 1998 event, Elizabeth Ward Gracen recanted a six-year-old denial and stated she had a one night stand with Clinton in 1982.

They had four children: ( Lady ) Janet Helen ( b. 1923 ), ( Lady ) Felicity Ann ( 1925 – 2007 ), Martin Richard ( 1927 – 91 ) and ( Lady ) Alison Elizabeth ( b. 1930 ).

They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

" Jones and Haines had two daughters: Talia Elizabeth ( born 2 October 1968 ) and Sarah Lee ( born 3 July 1971 ).

The Garretts had their first three children in quick succession: Louie, Elizabeth and their brother, Newson Dunnell, who died at the age of six months.

Elizabeth ’ s grandfather, owner of the family engineering works, Richard Garrett & Sons, had died in 1837, leaving the business to his eldest son, Elizabeth ’ s uncle.

Elizabeth and Louie were known as “ the bathing Garretts ”, as their father had insisted they be allowed a hot bath once a week.

It may have been in The Englishwoman ’ s Journal, first issued in 1858, that Elizabeth first read of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who had become the first female doctor in the United States in 1849.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

* Universalis Ecclesiae, a bull of Pope Pius IX that recreated the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, which had gone underground with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth I

In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.

In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and half-siblings had been.

Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.

In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of Elizabeth I of England ( 1558 ) and its form has more than once been altered since.

Kenneth Jay Lane has since the 1960s been known for creating unique pieces for Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Vreeland, and Audrey Hepburn.

:* Emma, by " Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady ", published 1980 ; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.

Recently, meetings have been attended by Queen Elizabeth II, who is the Head of the Commonwealth, although the Queen's formal appearance only began in 1997.

Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by " Country Dancing ," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of the mid-17th century is disputed.

Elizabeth Gracen's best-known acting role has been as the character of the Immortal Amanda in the series Highlander: The Series, and its spin-off from that character, Highlander: The Raven.

The embroidered binding with the monogram KP for " Katherine Parr " is believed to have been worked by Elizabeth.

Elizabeth called the duke her " frog ", finding him " not so deformed " as she had been led to expect.

Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth.

In the belief that the revolt had been successful, Pope Pius V issued a bull in 1570, titled Regnans in Excelsis, which declared " Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime " to be excommunicate and a heretic, releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her.

Though some historians have criticised Elizabeth on similar grounds, Raleigh's verdict has more often been judged unfair.

In July Elizabeth granted the Earl property which been seized from Edward Jones, who had been executed for his role in the Babington plot.

Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.

Translations of the Discourses ( e. g. by Elizabeth Carter, George Long ) have included the Enchiridion, and it has often been included with other moral writings from the ancient world, most notably the Tablet of Cebes.

Executive authority on the Falkland Islands is vested in Queen Elizabeth II, who has been the head of state since her accession to the British throne on 6 February 1952.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

Since 1974 with the publication of Elizabeth A. R. Brown's The Tyranny of a Construct, and Susan Reynolds ' Fiefs and Vassals ( 1994 ), there has been ongoing inconclusive discussion among medieval historians as to whether feudalism is a useful construct for understanding medieval society.

* 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

* The Aunt Betty Frazee House is a rare historic treasure, the simple farmhouse of a colonial-era couple Gershom and Elizabeth Frazee, the latter of whom was approached by British generals in 1777 who sought to buy bread she'd been baking that day.

Coke reacted by becoming even more dogmatic in his actions on behalf of the crown, and when Devereux approached Elizabeth I on Bacon's behalf, she replied that even Bacon's uncle considered him the second best candidate, after Coke.

Zola Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Emira Eagle each approached Morris Levy, the music impressario who retained possession of Lymon's copyrights and his royalties, claiming to be Lymon's rightful widow ; Lymon had neglected to divorce both Taylor and Waters.

Three years later, in 1464 ( allegedly on Jacquetta's instructions ), the beautiful, widowed Elizabeth and her two young sons approached the young king as he hunted in Whittlebury Forest near the Woodville manor.

Mrs. Sewall told Elizabeth that it had been the Devil who had approached her " and he was a Liar from the Beginning, and bid her tell him so, if he came again: which she did ".

In 1776 he approached Elizabeth Chudleigh, the so-called ( but bigamist ) Duchess of Kingston, and real life Countess of Bristol, with a threat to reveal her secret marriage to the Earl of Bristol in his play A Visit to Calais.

Some 10, 000 marchers approached Trafalgar Square from several different directions, led by ( among others ) Elizabeth Reynolds, John Burns, Annie Besant and Robert Cunninghame-Graham, who were primarily leaders of the Social Democratic Federation.

When the Goulds approached Crawford she first sought permission from Queen Elizabeth ( later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother ), who refused.

In January 1754 Elizabeth Sisson approached Thomas Birch one of the trustees of the newly established British Museum, loaning him the 12 volume catalogue, but again nothing was to come of the sale during Elizabeth Sisson's lifetime.