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I and name
She realized I'd have to notify the police, but fervently hoped I could avoid mentioning her name.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.
`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
A fellow came up to me, a Senator, I don't have to tell you his name, and he told me, ' I love the President like a brother, but God damn it, he's crucifying me.
I pushed at his shoulder, calling his name.
I think his name stopped the snoring but he didn't move except to roll a little when I shoved him.
At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.
The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.
Other synonyms could of course serve the same function, and for the sake of ease I shall speak of kennings and epithets in the widest and loosest possible sense, and name, for example, Gar-Dene a kenning for the Danes.
When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

I and King
Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).
* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.
* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
* 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.
* Albert I of Belgium ( 1875 – 1934 ), third King of the Belgians
* Albert I of Germany ( 1255 – 1308 ), King of Germany and Archduke of Austria
Albert was a loyal vassal of his relation, Lothar I, Duke of Saxony, from whom, about 1123, he received the Margraviate of Lusatia, to the east ; after Lothar became King of the Germans, he accompanied him on a disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment.
Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).
Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage: Albert and his brothers receive the Duchy of Prussia as a fief from Polish King Sigismund I the Old, 1525.
Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.
Alaric I (; 370-410 ) was the King of the Visigoths from 395 – 410.
The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.
Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

I and Albanians
* Zog I also known as Skenderbeg III, ( 1895 – 1961 ), king of Albanians
A new constituent assembly amended the constitution, making Albania a kingdom and transforming Zogu into Zog I, " King of the Albanians.
Zog I, Skanderbeg III of the Albanians (, ; 8 October 18959 April 1961 ), born Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolli, was the ruler of Albania from 1925 to 1939, first as President ( 1925-1928 ) and as King ( 1928-1939 ).
A referendum in 1997 -- seven years after the end of Communist rule -- proposed to restore the monarchy in the person of Zog's son Leka Zogu who, since 1961, has been styled " Leka I, King of the Albanians ".
Zogu pressures the parliament to dissolve itself ; a new constituent assembly declares Albania a kingdom and Zogu becomes Zog I, " King of the Albanians ".
The most famous member of the dynasty is Zog I, Skanderbeg III, who in 1928 was proclaimed King of the Albanians and ruled until he was deposed by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and the Italian invasion in 1939.
The Crown Prince Leka Zogu ( 1939 – 2011 ), who was now styled ' King Leka I of the Albanians '.
On 18 October 1912, Peter I of Serbia issued a declaration ' To the Serbian People ', which appeared to support Albanians as well as Serbs:
During the course of the war, it was rapidly evident that neither did the Albanians see Serbia as liberators, as suggested by King Peter I, nor were the Serbs prepared to act upon his declaration.
The Turkish force, consisting of Kilij Arslan I and his ally Hasan of Cappadocia, along with help from the Danishmendids, led by the Turkish prince Ghazi ibn Danishmend, the Persians, and the Caucasian Albanians.
The first historical mention of the Albanians appears in an account of the resistance by a Byzantine emperor, Alexius I Comnenus, to an offensive by the Vatican-backed Normans from southern Italy into the Albanian-populated lands in 1081.
Aran is also known as the divine eponym and the first governor of the Caucasian Albanians, appointed by Vologases I ( Vagharsh I ) the Parthian.
Four years later, on September 1, 1928, President Ahmed Bey Zogu proclaimed himself King of the Albanians ( Mbret i Shqiptarëve in Albanian ) as Zog I. Zog sought to-establish a constitutional monarchy.
After World War I, with the complete collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Albanians looked to the Kingdom of Italy for protection against its enemies.
We first learn of the ancestors of the modern Albanians in their native land as the Arbanites of Arbanon in Anna Comnena's account ( Alexiad, IV ) of the troubles in that region caused in the reign of her father Alexius I Comneus ( 1081 – 1118 ) by the Normans.

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