Allen is profiled in Sen. John McCain's and Mark Salter's book, Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them ( Twelve Books, 2007 ).

* Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You ( 2008 ) ISBN 1-4002-8028-1

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Her second collection, At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, published in 1988, stimulated controversy.

* At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women.

Typically, the order is: First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve, the Quorums of Seventy, Melchizedek priesthood holders, Aaronic priesthood holders, Relief Society members, members of the Young Women organization, and then all members together.

* The Unfinished Revolution: Status of Women in Twelve Countries, ( 1991, ISBN 0-385-25271-4 )

*( 2002 ) Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women.

Armed and Female ; Twelve Million American Women Own Guns, Should You?

The resulting collection of only twelve poems is typically found today in many abridged editions of Men and Women, and in the somewhat more accurately titled volume, Transcendentalism: A Poem In Twelve Volumes.

Fältskog and Carlgren originally planned to call the album " Tolv kvinnor i ett hus " ( Twelve Women In A House ) with each song on the album describing twelve different characters, all women, all leading very different lives, but all living in the same house.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.

* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

A spiritual awakening is achieved by following the Twelve Steps, and sobriety is furthered by volunteering for AA and regular AA meeting attendance or contact with AA members.

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the Twelve Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and this collection appears in all copies of texts of the Septuagint, the Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible completed by 132 BC.

President of the Church Harold B. Lee taught " The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church.

After Smith's death, a succession crisis ensued, and the majority voted to accept the Quorum of the Twelve, led by Brigham Young, as the church's leading body.

Dioscorus then pressed his advantage by having Cyril of Alexandria's Twelve Anathemas posthumously declared orthodox with the intent of condemning any confession other than one nature in Christ.

Nonetheless due to such concerns, the Council decided to adjourn and appoint a special committee to investigate the orthodoxy of Leo's Tome, judging it by the standard of Cyril's Twelve Chapters, as some of the bishops present raised concerns about their compatibility.

This committee was headed by Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and was given five days to carefully study the matter ; Cyril's Twelve Chapters were to be used as the orthodox standard.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

In another record by Petrus Olai called " Danmarks Tolv Herligheder " ( Twelve Splendours of Denmark ), in splendour number nine, the same story is re-told almost to the word ; however, a paragraph has been inserted correcting the year to 1219.

The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.

The reign of this empress was marked by the opening of relations with the Sui court in 600, the adoption of the Twelve Level Cap and Rank System in 603 and the adoption of the Seventeen-article constitution in 604.

* The Twelve Chairs-based on the famous novel of the same name by Ilf and Petrov.

" The text does not actually name this disciple, but by the beginning of the 2nd century a tradition began to form which identified him with John the Apostle, one of the Twelve ( Jesus's innermost circle ).

* Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica which focuses on the guerrilla war against the Cylons by the former citizens of the Twelve Colonies on New Caprica.

Eurystheus decided to give Heracles ten labours, but after completing them, Heracles was cheated by Eurystheus when he added two more, resulting in the Twelve Labors of Heracles.

Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible to be mentioned by name in the Qur ' an.

One group of Lollards petitioned Parliament with The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards by posting them on the doors of Westminster Hall in February 1395.

While by no means a central authority of the Lollards, the Twelve Conclusions reveal certain basic Lollard ideas.

* 1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by the end of the century.

In this capacity he brought out a series of masques and pastoral tragi-comedies — of which were printed The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses ( 1604 ); The Queen's Arcadia, an adaptation of Guarini's Pastor Fido ( 1606 ); Tethys ' Festival or the Queenes Wake, written on the occasion of Prince Henry's becoming a Knight of the Bath ( 1610 ); and Hymen's Triumph, in honour of Lord Roxburghe's marriage ( 1615 ).

Twelve graduates of Dalhousie have also served as provincial premiers across Canada, including Allan Blakeney, John Buchanan, Alex Campbell, Amor De Cosmos, Darrell Dexter, Joe Ghiz, John Hamm, Angus Lewis Macdonald, Russell MacLellan, Gerald Regan, Robert Stanfield, Clyde Wells, and Danny Williams.

' Along with Peter, the unnamed disciple is especially close to Jesus, and early-church tradition identified him as John the Apostle, one of Jesus ' Twelve Apostles.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

* John Wilkes: Owner of " Twelve Oaks " and patriarch of the Wilkes family, John Wilkes is educated, gracious and loving.

* In June 2012 started the filming of Twelve Years a Slave ( film ), directed by British director Steve McQueen who also co-wrote the script with John Ridley to adapt Northup's memoir book.

John the Apostle ( Aramaic Yoħanna, Koine Greek Ἰωάννης ) ( c. AD 6 – c. 100 ) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

James and John did so and thus rank high among the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and is usually identified with Nathaniel, who is mentioned in the John 1.

Traditionally it is the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Great Commission until the death of John the Apostle ( about 100 AD Since it is believed that John lived so long and was the last of the twelve to die, there is some overlap between the apostolic age and the first Apostolic Fathers.

Those disagreeing with the second manifesto included apostles Matthias F. Cowley and John W. Taylor who both resigned from the Quorum of the Twelve.

Twelve years later, in October 1978, Stephen M. Larson and John W. Fountain realised that the 1966 observations were best explained by two distinct objects ( Janus and Epimetheus ) sharing very similar orbits.

Twelve years later, in October 1978, Stephen M. Larson and John W. Fountain realised that the 1966 observations were best explained by two distinct objects ( Janus and Epimetheus ) sharing very similar orbits.

The first English monarch to be recorded as giving gifts of small silver coins to the poor is John who in 1213 gave 13 pence to each of 13 poor men at a ceremony in Rochester — the number being symbolic of the Twelve Apostles together with either Jesus or an angel.

Following Brigham Young's death in 1877, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles governed the church, with John Taylor as the quorum's president.

* John William Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men ( 1888 – 1889 );

One of the sculptures of the Twelve Apostles in the niches of the Basilica of St. John Lateran.

* John William Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men ( 1891 )

Adorned with the figures of Christ, Mary, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III and the Twelve Apostles, the shrine contains the four great Aachen relics: St. Mary's cloak, Christ's swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist's beheading cloth and Christ's loincloth.

*" Son Of John Doe ": Volume Twelve – Winter 1994 ( December 1994 )

In 438, he transferred the relics of his old master, Saint John Chrysostom, from Comana back to Constantinople, where he interred them with great honour in the Church of the Twelve apostles.