* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

Primarily carried by rodents ( most notably rats ) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought.

Dealers that sponsor infomercials on shortwave radio are notorious for such sales pitches, most notably Discount Gold & Silver Trading on WWCR, which proclaims graded coins, in direct contradiction to their pricing history, as having appreciated more than non-graded coins, or as not likewise being " opinion coins.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Possibly the most notorious such vehicle was the former Soviet TMM bridging truck that could carry and launch a 10 meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles.

Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.

Even worse, the attempts have instead often created psychopathic supervillains of which Captain America's 1950s imitator and Nuke are the most notorious examples.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

After the downfall of feudalism, the landsknechts established a reputation as the most notorious dicing gamblers of their time ; many of the dice then were curiously carved in the images of men and beasts.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

As a response to Haeckel ’ s theory of recapitulation, von Baer enunciates his most notorious laws of development.

The most notorious film is Guy Debord's Howls for Sade of 1952.

Beyond this, the government was principally able to fund only short, educational films, the most notorious of which were the agitki-propaganda films intended to " agitate ", or energize and enthuse, the masses to participate fully in approved Soviet activities, and deal effectively with those who remained in opposition to the new order.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

Banksy is one of the world's most notorious and popular street artist who continues to remain faceless in today's society.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

In the most notorious incident, thousands of Huguenots were murdered in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572.

Child sacrifice to supernatural figures or forces, such as the one practiced in ancient Carthage, may be only the most notorious example in the ancient world.

He was nursed by his wife in a roadside inn near Blühnbach until his death in 1950, and then cremated and interred quietly, since his adopted name was at that time one of the most notorious in the American Zone.

During Shakespeare's day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, " the most notorious traytor and rebell that can be.

A 2001 autobiography entitled The Dirt packaged the band as " the world's most notorious rock band ".

Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

A most revealing recent case is Textile Workers Union v. Lincoln Mills.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

In the specific case of time diffusion, we must emphasize the significance of the earlier development of mistrust when it is combined with the inevitable time crisis experienced by most ( if not all ) adolescents in our society, and with the failure of the adolescent period to provide opportunities for developing trust.

Unlike most such sports rivalries, it appeared to have developed almost spontaneously, although this was not exactly the case.

The arithmetic mean may be misinterpreted as the median to imply that most values are higher or lower than is actually the case.

Although in many frog species, females are larger than males, this is not the case in most species where males are actively involved in territorial defence.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ).

This can have important consequences when dealing with issues such as consensual sadomasochistic sexual activity, the most notable case being the Operation Spanner case.

While these positions were well suited for most of his local constituency, this was not the case when he stepped outside that region politically.

This is a common fact about allomorphy: if the allomorphy conditions are ordered from most restrictive ( in this case, after an alveolar stop ) to least restrictive, then the first matching case usually " wins ".

D. B. Cooper is perhaps the most famous hijacker of all time and also the case is the only unsolved hijacking in America's aviation history.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

The courts of appeal in administrative cases however are specialized depending on the case, but most administrative appeals end up in the judicial section of the Council of State ( Raad van State ).

Justice is done when the most effective adversary is able to convince the judge or jury that his or her perspective on the case is the correct one.

The most common use of the term is in the case of English peerage dignities.

This difference most obviously manifests itself in the case of a fluid striking an object.

The most recent case was in early 1987, which was the most severe winter in Scandinavia since that date.

If he begins to run too soon, the pitcher may throw to a base rather than to home — in this case, the runner is picked off, and will most likely be tagged out.