Twenty-two Johns of indisputable legitimacy have Pope, and almost all had a brief pontificate.

After a brief pontificate of eight months, Benedict XI died suddenly at Perugia.

He supported Cesare Borgia and reconfirmed him as Gonfalonier ; but after a brief pontificate of twenty-six days he died ( 18 October 1503 ) of an ulcer in the leg, or, as some have alleged, of poison administered at the instigation of Pandolfo Petrucci, governor of Siena.

According to Joseph S. Brusher, " His pontificate though brief was glorious.

Gregory XIV's brief pontificate was marked by vigorous intervention in favour of the Catholic party in the French Wars of Religion.

The only noteworthy feature of his brief and uneventful pontificate was the practical form assumed by his desire for reunion with the Eastern Church.

During his brief pontificate, Leo granted the canons of Bologna a special papal bull ( epistola tuitionis ) where he exempted them from the payment of taxes.

During his brief pontificate, Leo confirmed the decisions of the Synod of Split.

Nicholas ' brief pontificate was marked by several important events.

During his brief pontificate, the Catholic Emancipation occurred in the United Kingdom, and the July Revolution ( 1830 ) in France – after which he recognised Louis Philippe ( 1830 – 48 ) as the de facto king of France after the toppling of Charles X.

However, the acts of his brief pontificate are not known.

Without even discussing the last, astronomical part of the text, skeptics point out at least two discrepancies in the following: Pope Stephen IX became Pope in 1057, not 1058, and Emperor Henry III who is mentioned, actually Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, was born in 1017, 39 and not 49 years before 1058, his reign having started in 1039 ( King of the Romans, then as emperor of the Romans from 1046 after being consecrated by Pope Clement II during the course of his brief pontificate ).

and in that brief interval, a redcoat officer came tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to kill.

There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

In the original brief, a 6 storey basement is required, therefore a diaphragm wall design came out.

Although it looked like Parton's career had been revived, it was actually just a brief revival before contemporary country music came in the early 1990s and moved all veteran artists out of the charts.

Four years later came Groucho's last theatrical film appearance ; a brief, uncredited cameo in Michael Ritchie's The Candidate ( 1972 ).

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree.

Smoking of opium came on the heels of tobacco smoking and may have been encouraged by a brief ban on the smoking of tobacco by the Ming emperor, ending in 1644 with the Qing dynasty, which had encouraged smokers to mix in increasing amounts of opium.

Gibson died early in 1947 and thus never played in the majors ; and Paige's brief major league stint came long past his prime as a player.

Harry Randall Truman ( October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980 ) was a resident of the U. S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave his home.

In 1718, after a brief rule of the Austrian Habsburgs, Cagliari and Sardinia came under the House of Savoy.

" One such possibility, Welch says, is that the story is of a historical telescoping nature: " that a situation that was known by Muhammad's contemporaries to have lasted for a long period of time later came to be encapsulated in a story that restricts his acceptance of intercession through these goddesses to a brief period of time and places the responsibility for this departure from a strict monotheism on Satan.

Rushton had not been involved in Private Eye since the latter part of the 60s, other than a brief stint illustrating " Mrs Wilson's Diary " when the Labour Party came back into power in the mid-70s.

The campaign came to a brief halt with the death of emperor Nero in 68, launching Vespasian's bid for the imperial power during the Year of the Four Emperors.

When zero hour came, there was a brief and unsettling silence as artillery shifted their aim to a new line of targets and the time of the infantry to advance had come.

Little information can be found today on Sills before he came to Tombstone and he vanished afterward, except for a brief mention in one newspaper three months later.

Whatever the true explanation, these colours soon came to be regarded as the national colours of Germany during this brief period, and especially after their reintroduction during the Weimar period, they have become synonymous with liberalism in general .< ref >

They came for a brief social season to grand, gilded mansions with elaborate receiving, dining, music and ballrooms, but with few bedrooms, since the guests were expected to have cottages of their own.

A brief campaign of a coalition of Philip's friends came to a truce, followed by a pact at Compiègne by which John received a fief from Philip worth 2000 livres and declared himself a vassal of France.

The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief period in the early 1950s working at Simpsons of Piccadilly, a clothing store which traded for over 60 years until 1999.

Like other cities ( e. g., Brunswick, Georgia, and Crestview, Florida ) before it, Bonifay's brief flirtation with a Fowler-sponsored wildlife park came to an end.

As the Kalmar Union was formed, Halland came for a brief period of time to have a rather central position.

There was a brief alert in October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when all six Squadrons it then possessed were put on high alert, but nothing came of the crisis.

He returned to England in 1679 when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a brief positive turn.

When he hastily returned home, the brief attempt at political liberalization in North Korea was ended.

Only two Sultans in this period personally exercised strong political and military control of the Empire: the vigorous Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) recaptured Yerevan ( 1635 ) and Baghdad ( 1639 ) from the Safavids and reasserted central authority, albeit during a brief majority reign.

Paraguay experienced a brief period of openness as Moríñigo relaxed restrictions on free speech, allowed political exiles to return, and formed a coalition government.

This led to a brief political crisis ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ) and a mutiny by conscripts posted in British Columbia, but the war ended a few months later.

In Cuba the afrocubanismo zarzuelas of Ernesto Lecuona ( María la O ; El cafetal ), Eliseo Grenet ( La virgen morena ) and Gonzalo Roig ( Cecilia Valdés, based on Cirilo Villaverde's classic novel ) represent a brief golden age of political and cultural importance.

The revised opera was however still not successful, apart from a brief period in the 1930s when it benefited from political support which the composer established through personal contact with Mussolini.

The cultural and geographic campaign background section offers a brief history and timeline for each nation ; basic geography, climate, and ecology ; and, fundamental social and political concepts of the region.

One of her political cartoons achieved a brief international fame: she drew Adolf Hitler as a crying baby in diapers, surrounded by Neville Chamberlain and other great European leaders, who tried to calm the baby down by giving it slices of cake – Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc.

Although his administration was marked by a relative absence of major military or political conflicts, Titus faced a number of major disasters during his brief reign.

* André Marty, a leading French Communist and political officer in the International Brigades, makes a brief but significant appearance in Chapter 42.

After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War.

Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

Born in Perumthanam, Uzhavoor village, in the princely state of Travancore ( present day Kottayam district, Kerala ), and after a brief stint with journalism and then studying political science at the London School of Economics with the assistance of a scholarship, Narayanan began his career in India as a member of the Indian Foreign Service in the Nehru administration.

After brief service as a selectman, Huntington began his political career in earnest in 1764 when Norwich sent him as one of their representatives to the lower house of the Connecticut Assembly.

Since then-other adaptations of the play for TV or theatre have usually left this brief mention of a largely forgotten political party intact.

Black community leaders who had achieved brief political success during the Reconstruction era lost any gains made when their voters disappeared.

The Douglases used his coming of age as a way to throw the Livingstons out of the shared government, as the young king took revenge for the brief arrest of his mother ( a means to remove her from political influence ) that had taken place in 1439.

As in Serling's 1963 screenplay for the political thriller, Seven Days in May, in which a highly moral minor character is named Art Corwin, the appellation of Carney's " Night of the Meek " character, Henry Corwin, was a tribute to Serling's idol, legendary television, film and, most memorably for Serling, radio writer Norman Corwin whose lengthy career, in contrast to Serling's relatively brief 50-year lifetime, had spanned over seven decades.

Repton tried his hand as a journalist, dramatist, artist, political agent, and as confidential secretary to his neighbour William Windham of Felbrigg Hall during Windham's very brief stint as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The Beijing Spring () refers to a brief period of political liberalization in the People's Republic of China which occurred in 1977 and 1978.

His political career was brief.

During the brief period of the Hungarian Soviet in 1919 he taught in a teacher training school thanks to the patronage of his friend and mentor György Lukács, whose political conversion to Communism he did not, however, share.

The region was then under the control of regional powers such as Egypt and the Ottoman Empire through much of its later history, after which the Hejaz had a brief period of political independence in the early 20th century.