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A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.
According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.
Even so, his ideas helped to found one of the first adult education centers in America, and provided the foundation for future generations of liberal education.
The National Cartoonists Society ( NCS ) convened an ethics hearing, and Fisher was expelled for the forgery from the same organization that he had helped found ; Fisher's scheme had backfired in spectacular fashion.
* Moses Coady, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University
* James " Father Jimmy " Tompkins, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University
He found the entrance to the underworld at Tanaerum, and Athena and Hermes helped him to traverse the entrance in each direction.
Crystal Eastman was a noted anti-militarist, who helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Her mother, Lorena ( Daeschner ) Hall, helped found Gustavus Adolphus College's Art Department and served as the department head.
He also helped found the Irwin & Agnew Iron Foundry in 1846.
A 2005 study in the British Medical Journal found that learning and practising the didgeridoo helped reduce snoring and obstructive sleep apnea by strengthening muscles in the upper airway, thus reducing their tendency to collapse during sleep.
In 1854 Atchison helped found the town of Atchison, Kansas, as a pro-slavery settlement.
One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.
When Eurystheus found out that Heracles ' nephew had helped him he declared that the labour had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him.
At age 16 he helped found and became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, which protested against the monarchist government.
He was four times president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and three times president of the Directors Guild of America, which he helped found.
The comparison was helped by the Pickelhaube or spiked helmet worn by German forces until 1916, which would be reminiscent of images depicting ancient Hun helmets, some British found.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories helped found the tradition of detective fiction.
The Glasgow School, which developed in the late 19th century, and flourished in the early 20th century, produced a distinctive blend of influences including the Celtic Revival the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Japonisme, which found favour throughout the modern art world of continental Europe and helped define the Art Nouveau style.
* Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, based on technology found in Germany after the war, helped musical artists such as Bing Crosby make and distribute recordings with better fidelity.
In 1920 she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ).
Zero Tolerance came across and Bobby found and helped Cecilia Reyes who was trying to keep a secret that she was a mutant, they also joined with Charlotte Jones and the morlock Marrow, after Bastion was defeated he took Cecilia and Marrow to the mansion, and soon left the X-Men again for a while to be with his parents.
Reynolds was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society of Arts, helped found the Society of Artists, and, with Gainsborough, established the Royal Academy of Arts as a spin-off organisation.
Great emphasis also was placed on speech and debate ; Madison helped found the American Whig Cliosophic Society, in direct competition to fellow student Aaron Burr's Cliosophic Society.
His knowledge of the Italian language and his affability and good humor, however, often helped in mediating between the papal regime and the British government, and he was able on many occasions to offer advice and protection for British visitors who found themselves in awkward scrapes.

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Many Barbadian-born Irishmen helped establish the Carolina colony in the United States.
They helped send several thousand freed slaves to the new colony of Liberia in Africa from 1820 to 1840.
Henry Clay helped establish and became president in 1816 of the American Colonization Society, a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa ; it founded Monrovia, in what became Liberia, for that purpose.
In 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown.
Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success.
Farragut participated in capture of HMS Alert on August 13 of 1812 and then helped to establish America's first naval base and colony in the Pacific, named Madisonville during the ill-fated Nuku Hiva Campaign.
* Edward Lamson Henry N. A., the painter of historical themes, lived in Cragsmoor and helped found an artist's colony.
Graduates still very often had to leave Wales to work, but Betws-y-Coed became a popular centre for artists, and its artist's colony helped form the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in 1881.
The exiled family were raised in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, thus Robert Livingston was fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in the former Dutch colony of New Netherland.
His work provided useful information and understanding of the " New World " that helped to create an American identity in the minds of Europeans by describing an entire country rather than another regional colony.
His freelance reports of the revolt against the Vichy French in the south-Pacific colony of New Caledonia helped him gain accreditation with the Daily Express newspaper.
Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success.
Portolà landed in Monterey Bay in 1770, and with Father Junípero Serra, who helped found most of the missions in California, established the town Monterey, which became the capital of the Spanish colony Alta California.
The town was officially incorporated in 1712, having been named six years earlier by Governor Joseph Dudley as a tribute to Anne Venables-Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire, who helped him secure the governorship of the colony from Queen Anne.
* American Colonization Society, an organization that helped in founding Liberia as a colony for freed slaves
As an active protester of issues such as the Stamp Act, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain.
The Jesuits ' work to pacify a hostile tribe helped the Portuguese expel the French from a colony they had established at present-day Rio de Janeiro.
The favourable picture he presented of the colony founded by the New Zealand Company helped the Company to avoid censure in the House of Commons.
Gosnold was popular among the colonists and opposed the location of the colony at Jamestown Island due to what he perceived as its unhealthy location ; he also helped design the fort that held the initial colony.
Others he helped escape on ships leaving Marseille for the French colony of Martinique, from which they too could go to the United States.
He took a leadership role in what he found to be a demoralized colony and helped build the defenses of Monrovia, as well as building up trade.
When war erupted between the thirteen American colonies and Great Britain in 1775, Pinckney stood with the American Patriots ; in that year he was a member of the first South Carolina provincial congress in 1775, which helped South Carolina transition from being a British colony to being an independent state.
The region's rustic beauty helped Lenox develop into an art colony.

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