Ivanhoe accompanies King Richard on the Crusades, where he is said to have played a notable role in the Siege of Acre.

The Siege of Ostend, 1601 to 1604, of which it was said that " the Spanish assailed the unassailable and the Dutch defended the indefensible ", cost a combined total of more than 80, 000 dead or wounded, making it the single bloodiest battle of the Eighty Years ' War.

Avnery famously crossed the front lines and met Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, during the Siege of Beirut — said to have been the first time an Israeli met personally with Arafat.

McVeigh said that he bombed the Murrah building on the two-year anniversary of the Waco Siege in 1993 to retaliate for US government actions there and at the siege at Ruby Ridge.

He then passed some time at Paris and Madrid in obscurity and poverty, but eventually obtained a colonelcy in the Spanish army, and, it is said, took part in the Siege of Gibraltar ( 1726-1727 ).

' The author heard this said before the Spaghetti House Siege ever happened.

) It is said he fell in battle against the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Siege of Osaka in the summer of 1615 ; but there is no historical record of this.

Its spokesman Hussein Ibish said " The Siege is extremely offensive.

In 1962, when Stravinsky returned to the Soviet Union to celebrate his 80th birthday, he visited the Leningrad conservatory and, according to his associate Robert Craft, moaned and said " Glazunov!

`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

At an address in Munich to the SA " old guard " on 8 November 1941 at the Buergerbrau beer cellar commemorating Hitler's 1923 failed putsch, he said that the term " blitzkrieg " was silly and never used it himself

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

For example Winston Churchill 1941 said in a broadcast speech: " There are less than 70, 000, 000 malignant Huns, some of whom are curable and others killable, most of whom are already engaged in holding down Austrians, Czechs, Poles and the many other ancient races they now bully and pillage.

Writing in 1972, John C. Masterman ( who would later head the Twenty Committee ) said that by 1941 MI5 " actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in United Kingdom.

During the same meeting on 18 March 1941, Raeder said he wanted Japan to enter the war as soon as possible, stating that a Japanese attack on the British base at Singapore would force the Royal Navy to deploy most of its strength to the Far East, and thereby allow the Kriegsmarine to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

On 9 July 1941, during a meeting with Hitler, Raeder said he had enough of the Americans, and after this latest act of American " aggression " as he called the occupation of Iceland, demanded that Germany declare war on the United States.

Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, said that the use of Zyklon-B came about on the initiative of one of his subordinates, Captain Karl Fritzsch, who used the substance to kill some Russian POWs in late August 1941.

A report written by Major-General Robert Laycock in 1947 said there was a German raid on a radar station on the Isle of Wight in 1941.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

In January 1941, the intelligence officer ( G-2 ) of the Philippine Department had recommended, to his superior in Washington D. C., that a American high command in the Far East be created, with the commander of the Philippine Department as the designated commander of said command.

As the British advanced on the capital, al-Husseini is said to have exerted himself in helping to organize the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad, which erupted in June 1941, following the Iraqi defeat and the collapse of Rashid Ali's government.

In 1941, Sorge is said to have informed them of the exact launch date of Operation Barbarossa.

By 1941, as the U. S. State Department was counseling American nationals to return home, Gillars chose to stay in Germany after her fiancé, a naturalized German citizen named Paul Karlson, said that he would never marry her if she returned to the United States.

Pierrepoint's first execution as chief executioner ( he still acted as assistant until 1944 in some British cases, and until 1945 at Shepton Mallet ) was that of gangster Tony Mancini at Pentonville prison, London, on 17 October 1941, who said " Cheerio!

One correspondent said that in 1941 at RAF Yatesbury a man named Dickie Lyle drew a version of the diagram as a face when the instructor had left the room, and wrote " Wot, no leave?

In 1941 Hayworth said she was the antithesis of the characters she played.

Zapffe is said to have considered Jesus to be western culture's most tragic character, according to his findings presented in his treatise On the tragic ( 1941 ) and its definition of the objectively tragical.

Mike Budak, the Minister of Religion of Independent State of Croatia, said on 22 July 1941:

Their divorce was finalized on 8 July 1941, with Katherine Thaw stating that her husband had separated from her because he said he could not support them both.

Her breakthrough film was I Wanted Wings in 1941, a major hit in which Lake played the second female lead and was said to have stolen scene after scene from the rest of the cast.

Critics said he should have admitted his book was a fictional novel ) However, he finally achieved his permanent liberation in 1941, by using a bag of coconuts as a makeshift raft and riding the tide out from the island.

Goldhagen said that “ Mayer ’ s enormous intellectual error ” is in ascribing the cause of the Holocaust to anti-Communism, rather than to anti-Semitism, and criticized Prof. Mayer ’ s saying that most massacres of Jews in the USSR, during the first weeks of Operation Barbarossa ( 1941 ) in the summer of 1941, were committed by local peoples, with little Wehrmacht participation, and accused him of traducing the facts about the Wannsee Conference ( 1942 ), which was meant for plotting the genocide of European Jews, not ( as Mayer said ) merely the resettlement of the Jews.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

" A colleague is supposed to have told him to cheer up – at which point Montgomery is supposed to have said " I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about Rommel!

Classical particles with this energy distribution are said to obey Maxwell – Boltzmann statistics.

Psalms cix – cxlvii ( except cxvii, cxviii and cxlii ) were said at Vespers, five each day.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...

* Aristoclea – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to Pythagoras

The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.

In 2002, a report said " The oil companies do not view Equatorial Guinea's military – a product of decades of brutal dictatorial rule – with much confidence.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

We are dealing with this: Would a stable mind depart from the opinion handed down by so many men famous for holiness and miracles, depart from the decisions of the Church, and commit our souls to the faith of someone like you who has sprung up just now with a few followers, although the leading men of your flock do not agree either with you or among themselves – indeed though you do not even agree with yourself, since in this same Assertion you say one thing in the beginning and something else later on, recanting what you said before.

Their contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) said,

Coach H. W. " Bill " Hargiss ' " Presbies " are said to have featured the play in a 17 – 0 victory over Washburn University and in a 107 – 0 destruction of Pittsburg State University.

Downer said that he intended to elaborate further on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's promise of a seven-year extension of the SPARTECA – TCF scheme, which assists Fiji's textile, clothing, and footwear industry.

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the People's Political Consultative Conference ( CPPCC ), was dispatched to Fiji and met Prime Minister Qarase during a brief stopover on 21 – 22 May, a move that Tavola said was not coincidental.

Willem and Franz – Officers who arrest K. one morning but refuse to disclose the crime he is said to have committed.

He said: " When I take a look at the intellectual classes we have – unfortunately, I suppose, they are necessary ; otherwise one could one day, I don't know, exterminate them or something – but unfortunately they're necessary.