*" Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930-41 ( University of Chicago Press, 1968 ) ISBN 0-226-24378-8

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

The Spanish Crown Jewels were destroyed in a major fire in the eighteenth century while the Irish Crown Jewels ( actually merely the Sovereign's insignia of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick ) were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907.

* His / Her Illustrious Highness ( abbreviation HIllH, oral address Your Illustrious Highness ) — sovereign or mediatized Count and his family, also a Count of Imperial Russia-this is a mistranslation too, from German Erlaucht ; it should be correctly His / Her Illustriousness.

**-Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa ( adapted from a story by Madeleine de Scudéry )

* Gerhard Herzberg: An Illustrious Life in Science from the National Research Council of Canada Press

* Ibrahim, the Illustrious Bassa ( 1676 ), a tragedy taken from Madeleine de Scudéry's romance

As such, at the time of his birth, Henry could not take his title from his father, and was styled His Illustrious Highness Count Henry ( Heinrich ) Maurice of Battenberg.

In response to this rebuff, the British body declared itself to be the Sovereign Order of St. John in the United Kingdom, under the title The Sovereign and Illustrious Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Anglia, thereby founding the modern myth of the order's direct and continuous succession from the Order of St. John that was established in the 11th century.

Although he was Italian, he only made a handful of films in his native language, among them The Last Judgement ( Il giudizio universale, 1961 ), Illustrious Corpses ( Cadaveri eccellenti, 1976 ) and Cento Giorni a Palermo ( 1983 ), long used to seeing him dubbed into Italian from the original French release.

* 12 – 14 October 1940, Operation MW 2: two SM. 79 ( 36th Stormo ) were downed by Fulmars from Illustrious.

* 10 January 1941, Battle of Taranto: a single Fulmar from Illustrious downed two SM. 79s of 30th Stormo.

Jerome obtained his Hebrew text of Gospel of Matthew from Nazarenes ( Jerome, On Illustrious Men, 2 ).

* September 4 – Aircraft from the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious attack Italian airfields on Rhodes.

* September 17 – Aircraft from the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious raid Benghazi, Libya.

* October 14 – Aircraft from the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious raid Leros.

* December 21 – Nine Fairey Swordfish from the British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious sink two Italian merchant ships off Tunisia with the loss of one Swordfish.

Since the invasion began on May 5, aircraft from the British aircraft carriers HMS Indomitable and HMS Illustrious have suppressed Vichy French aircraft, supported British ground forces ashore, attacked coastal artillery, a wrecked a French sloop, and sunk a French armed merchant cruiser and two French submarines.

His work became famous through his collaboration with the historian Thomas Birch and artist George Vertue, on the project entitled, Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, published in parts in London from 1743 to 1752.

The Tyne Turrets were two 12-inch Mk VIII guns from the battleship HMS Illustrious, installed in Roberts Battery at Hartley, near Seaton Sluice north of the Tyne, and Kitchener Battery in Marsden near Lizard Point south of the river.

Leopold I ( died 994 ), also Luitpold or Liutpold, called the Illustrious ( der Erlauchte ), was the first Margrave of Austria from the House of Babenberg.

Illustrious and Fort George had been diverted from NATO exercises in the Bay of Biscay, with RAF aircraft embarked for the exercise.

Much of what is known about him comes from Libro de descripción de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones ( Book of the Description of the True Portraits of Illustrious and Memorable Men ) ( 1599 ) by Francisco Pacheco.

Thanks to the Illustrious Prince and Sovereign and to you, his councillor, for whatever thought you may from time to time lend this bloody Serbian crag.

In the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal's and Spain's university heads or presidents have the title Magnífico Reitor / Rector Magnífico, and are usually styled, in official ceremonies, with the denomination of " Most Excellent and Illustrious Sir or Lord ".

His / Her Illustrious Highness =

* Illustrious Knight, Sir / Lady-Titles for members of the Order of the Knights of Rizal, the Philippines ' only order of knighthood created by law.

" The Abraham Lincoln Genesis Cover-up: The Censored Origins of an Illustrious Ancestor ," R. Vincent Enlow, Herndon's accounts http :// genealogytoday. com / us / lincoln / genesis. html ( 2001 )

Other members of this line bore the equal title Graf / Gräfin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode ( not to confound with ordinary Counts ), styled Illustrious Highness.

Other members of this line bore the title Count ( Graf / Gräfin ) zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, with the style Illustrious Highness.

* His / Her Illustrious Highness ( HIll. H )

De viris illustribus, meaning " On Illustrious / Famous Men ", represents a trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature that was revived during the Italian Renaissance and inspired the assembly or commissioning of series of portraits of outstanding men — and sometimes, by the sixteenth century, of outstanding women as well — with a high didactic purpose.

The EVA, piloted by Mari Illustrious Makinami, features in the opening of the second film in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy and is held at the joint U. S ./ Russian Nerv Bethany Base.

:* de Viris Illustribus ( On Illustrious Men ) 392.

In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in the Mediterranean in January.

Born in Memleben, in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Henry was the son of Otto the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony, and his wife Hedwiga, daughter of Henry of Franconia and Ingeltrude and a great-great-granddaughter of Charlemagne.

" Illustrious one " is provided as an example, appearing in a Christianity-influenced work by the skald Hallvarðr Háreksblesi: " There is not under the pole of the earth an illustrious one closer to the lord of monks than you.

Some Russian noble princes also hold the style of Serenity ; all others and Russian princely counts hold the style of Illustriousness, often translated as Illustrious Highness.

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

In 1985 he was named Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires and premiered his Concerto for bandoneon and guitar at the Fifth International Belgian Guitar Festival on 15 Mar 1985, with the Philharmonic conducted by Leo Brouwer.

Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York appears also to have been consulted, and scholars have supposed that Shakespeare was familiar with Samuel Daniel's poem on the civil wars.

Formally styled as " Excelentísimo e Ilustrísimo Señor Profesor Doctor Don N, Rector Magnífico de la Universidad de X " ( Most Excellent and Illustrious Lord Professor Doctor Don N, Rector Magnificus of the University of X ), it is an office of high dignity within Spanish society, usually being highly respected.

Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York appears also to have been consulted, and scholars have also supposed Shakespeare familiar with Samuel Daniel's poem on the civil wars.

In the Knights Templar his example of truth and fidelity is used as the foundation of the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross.

He finished reading Illustrious Definite orders (《 昭明文選 》), Shi Shuo Xin Yu (《 世說新語 》) and a large number of classical novels.

The Crown Jewels of Ireland were heavily jewelled insignia of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick.

Though he had brief assignments to HMS Illustrious, RNAS Culdrose, and the Joint Services School of Intelligence, Prince Andrew remained with Invincible until 1983.

Redgrave joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in July 1941, ( HMS Illustrious ) but was discharged on medical grounds in November 1942.

The English style Serene Highness and even more Illustrious Highness goes back to an incorrect translation.

During World War II Hordern served on HMS Illustrious ( R87 ), in Operation Ironclad in 1942 and later as a Lt .- Commander in the office of the first Sea Lord.

In folklore, a magician escorted Emperor Illustrious August to the palace of the moon goddess across a silver bridge that was conjured up by him tossing his staff into the air.