Here I took my leave of my learned friends to step out on another path, to which we might give the modern name of Pragmatism, or the thing that works.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

The finance company took all their furniture -- and they didn't have a cent to their name.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

On March 29, 1862, Johnston officially took command of this combined force, which continued to use the Army of the Mississippi name under which it had been organized by Beauregard on March 5.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

As it took many years for the name " The Ashes " to be given to the ongoing series between England and Australia, there was no concept of there being a representation of the ashes being presented to the winners.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

The lawyer Thomas Egerton was praised through the anagram gestat honorem ; the physician George Ent took the anagrammatic motto genio surget, which requires his first name as ".

In Byzantine times a new settlement took its place under the name of Arta.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

It is against this background that two religious orders or congregations, one of men and one of women, when founded in the Milan area during the 13th and 15th centuries, took Saint Ambrose as their patron and hence adopted his name.

As a canonically recognized order they took the name " Fratres Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus " and adopted a habit consisting of a brown tunic, scapular, and hood.

The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.

Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.

Upon the death of his mentor, he took the name Adalbert.

The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Since the Angles took a geographic name, they possibly had other names not based on geography.

His name at birth was Ahmed Shah ; he took the name " Massoud " as a nom de guerre when he went into the resistance movement in 1974.

He also trimmed staff and took other cost-cutting measures, and in 1987 he changed Combined's name to Aon.

* Aba ( nymph ), Thracian naiad, mother of Ergiscus ( after whom Çatalca or Ergisce, took its name ) by Poseidon

The band took its name from the Irish constitutional law guaranteeing freedom of the press.

Gérald-Libois writes that '.. the special meeting of the council of ministers took steps for the immediate Africanisation of the officer corps and .. named Victor Lundula, who was born in Kasai and was burgomaster of Jadotville, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armée Nationale Congolaise ( ANC ); Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu as chief of staff ; and the Belgian, Colonel Henniquiau, as chief advisor to the ANC.

In 1809 an Anglo-Portuguese naval squadron took French Guiana ( ousting governor Victor Hugues ) and gave it to the Portuguese in Brazil.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

Gregory VII died in 1085, and Matilda's forces, with those of Prince Jordan I of Capua ( her off and on again enemy ), took to the field in support of a new pope, Victor III.

The new coalition government, under prime minister Victor Ciorbea remained in office until March 1998, when Radu Vasile ( PNŢCD ) took over as prime minister.

In 1891, Fathers Victor Garrand, S. J., and Adrian Sweere, S. J., took over a small parish near downtown Seattle at Broadway and Madison.

When Pope Hadrian IV died in 1159, the divided cardinals elected two popes: Roland of Siena, who took the name of Alexander III, and Octavian of Rome who, though nominated by fewer cardinals, was supported by Frederick and assumed the name of Pope Victor IV.

The performance of Canada's Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz would have won them the bronze medal, but bloc voting between the judges ( five of the nine judges were from from former Eastern bloc countries ) relegated them to 4th place as the two Russian pairs and the French pair took the medals.

Jacques Étienne Victor ( 1799 – 1855 ) took part in Louis de Freycinet's exploring voyage in the Uranie from 1817 to 1821, and on his return to France devoted himself to his journalism and the drama.

About 500 AD, the Burgundian Princess Sedeleuba took the bones of St. Victor to Geneva, while the bones of St. Ursus remained in Solothurn.

Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child.

On October 9, Victor Emmanuel II arrived and took command.

Pierre Bonaparte took them personally to account, and during a violent discussion he drew his revolver and killed one of them, Victor Noir.

Rivers's interest in the physiology of the nervous system and in " the mind " that is, in sensory phenomena and mental states, was further stimulated by work in 1891, when he was chosen to be one of Victor Horsley's assistants at in the series of investigations which elucidated the existence and nature of electrical currents in the mammalian brain which took place at University College, London.

At his father's death in 1675, his mother took over a regency in the name of her nine year old son and would remain in de facto power till 1684 when Victor Amadeus banished her further involvement in the state.

Having done much to improve the state of his inheritance in 1684, Victor Amadeus took the decision to abdicate in September 1730. the month before the lonely king having lost most of his family including his favourite son the Prince of Piedmont sought the security of a previous mistress Anna Canalis di Cumiana.

The couple took a small retinue of servants and Victor Amadeus was kept informed of matters of state.

Aosta took the throne on 4 June 1802 as Victor Emmanuel I.

Tomb of Victor Emanuel II at the Pantheon In 1870, after two failed attempts by Garibaldi, he also took advantage of the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War to capture Rome after the French withdrew.

Additional Toscanini recordings with the Philharmonic, all for Victor, took place on Carnegie Hall's stage in 1929 and 1936.

He was appointed senator by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1929, but he refused to take his seat and never took part in the workings of the Assembly.

After a highly troubled recording process for Extraction ( 2003 )– a collaboration with drummer Dennis Chambers and bassist Victor Wooten — he took an extended hiatus from recording solo material until the release of his eighth studio album, Sound Proof, in 2008.

He took the Scala Orchestra to the United States on a concert tour in 1920 / 21 ; it was during that tour that Toscanini made his first recordings ( for the Victor Talking Machine Company ).

In 1942, Karl Erik Hasselblad died and Victor took control of the family business.