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.

After an initial unsuccessful visit to leading doctors in Harley Street, Elizabeth decided to first spend six months as a hospital nurse at Middlesex Hospital, London in 1860.

After six months in practice, Elizabeth wished to open an outpatients dispensary, to enable poor women to obtain medical help from a qualified practitioner of their own gender.

Protracted negotiations to arrange a match between his daughter Elizabeth and the Earl of Southhampton did not result in marriage ; in 19 November 1594, six weeks after Southampton turned 21, ' the young Earl of Southampton, refusing the Lady Vere, payeth £ 5000 of present money '.

The galliard was a favourite dance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and although it is a relatively vigorous dance, in 1589 when the Queen was aged in her mid fifties, John Stanhope of the Privy Chamber reported, " the Queen is so well as I assure you, six or seven galliards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise.

The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the six other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom.

The couple had six children: James ( 1763 – 94 ), Nathaniel ( 1764 – 81 ), Elizabeth ( 1767 – 71 ), Joseph ( 1768 – 68 ), George ( 1772 – 72 ) and Hugh ( 1776 – 93 ).

They were survived by three children, James & William and Elizabeth Bardeen Greytak, and six grandchildren.

* 1981 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

In the 1910 census, Peter and Elizabeth Weisenmüller as well as John and Eva Ott were living at 1521 Cleveland Ave in the 22nd Ward of Chicago, with sons John, age six, born in Temesvár and Peter Jr., age five, born in Illinois.

During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

They had six children: Joseph, Robert, Elizabeth, Letitia, Mary, and Anne.

Elizabeth kept the letter he had sent her six days before his death in her bedside treasure box, endorsing it with " his last letter " on the outside.

Newson and Louise had six daughters and four sons, including Millicent and Elizabeth, later famous as the first woman in the United Kingdom to qualify as a doctor.

Max Liebermann, for instance, painted at Barbizon, Dachau, Etzenhausen and at least six short-lived Dutch colonies ; Frederick Waugh worked in Barbizon, Concarneau, Grèz-sur-Loing, St Ives and Provincetown in the United States ; Evert Pieters was active at Barbizon, Egmond, Katwijk, Laren, Blaricum, Volendam and Oosterbeek ; Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes painted at Pont-Aven, Zandvoort, Newlyn and St Ives.

Elizabeth died when their son was six years old.

Of the six who survived, three were sons ( Henry, 1550-1616 ; William, 1551-1626 ; and Charles, 1553-1617 ) and three daughters ( Frances, b. 1548 ; Elizabeth, 1555-1582 ; and Mary, 1556-1632 ).

After the execution of Catherine Howard, there were rumours that Wyatt's wife, Elizabeth, was a possibility for wife number six, despite the fact that she was still married to Wyatt.

The six lane divided highway remains through Rahway in Union County and Elizabeth, until it reaches the Newark Airport, where it becomes a dual carriageway freeway around downtown Newark in Essex County with a 2-2-2-2 configuration.

Besides William Henry, their youngest child, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison had six other children ; Elizabeth, Anna, Benjamin VI, Lucy, Carter, and Sarah.

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

Elizabeth R is a BBC television drama serial of six 85-minute plays starring Glenda Jackson in the title role.