In 1904 he managed his brother John's successful campaign to be district attorney for the third judicial district of Oregon.

John's reforms were less popular with the barons themselves, especially as they remained subject to arbitrary and frequently vindictive royal justice.

John's reforms of the army and financial system revived for a while the strength of the Empire, which held its own successfully against its foreign enemies.

Walter continued to enjoy the support of Richard's brother John, and it was during John's reign that a number of Walter's administrative reforms took place, although how much royal initiative was behind the innovations is unknown, given John's interest in government and administration.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Bobbie had been successful, too, though he didn't match John's pace, and after all he didn't need to, with all the Stuart money.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

Recent discoveries and trends have cast doubt on the certainty that many mid-20th century biblical scholars had about the historical inferiority of John's Gospel.

On 11 January 1848, at St John's Church in Shrewsbury, George married for the third time, to Ellen Gregory, another farmer's daughter originally from Bakewell in Derbyshire, who had been his housekeeper.

John Lackland, Richard's successor, refused to come to the French court for a trial against the Lusignans and, as Louis VI had done often to his rebellious vassals, Philip II confiscated John's possessions in France.

However, Harold W. Attridge contends that John's status as a " self-conscious and deliberate forerunner of Jesus " is likely to be an invention by early Christians, arguing that " for the early church it would have been something of an embarrassment to say that Jesus, who was in their minds superior to John the Baptist, had been baptized by him.

So the Gospels ' description of John's death focuses on the final reason Herod had for arresting John, which was religious.

John and his brothers spent many of their younger years living within the grounds of these institutions, which had a great bearing on John's later deep understanding of the needs of the mentally ill. John was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, matriculating in 1928.

Formerly scholarship, on the basis of John's entry in the Menologion, had placed him in the latter 6th Century.

When John's elder brother Richard became king in September 1189, he had already declared his intention of joining the Third Crusade.

John's position was undermined by Walter's relative popularity and by the news that Richard had married whilst in Cyprus, which presented the possibility that Richard would have legitimate children and heirs.

Both sides paused for desultory negotiations before the war recommenced ; John's position was now stronger, thanks to confirmation that Count Baldwin of Flanders and Renaud of Boulogne had renewed the anti-French alliances they had previously agreed to with Richard.

John's predecessors had ruled using the principle of vis et voluntas, or " force and will ", taking executive and sometimes arbitrary decisions, often justified on the basis that a king was above the law.

None of John's known illegitimate children were born after he remarried, and there is no actual documentary proof of adultery after that point, although John certainly had female friends amongst the court throughout the period.

By 1212 John had successfully concluded alliances with Renault of Dammartin, who controlled Boulogne, and Count Ferdinand of Flanders, as well as Otto IV, a contender for the crown of Holy Roman Emperor in Germany ; Otto was also John's nephew.

John's father, Henry II, had forced William of Scotland to swear fealty to him at the Treaty of Falaise in 1174.

Many of John's military household joined the rebels, particularly amongst those that John had appointed to administrative roles across England ; their local links and loyalties outweighed their personal loyalty to John.

John's efforts to appear moderate and conciliatory had been largely successful, but once the rebels held London they attracted a fresh wave of defectors from John's royalist faction.

Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1203 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord.

John's second wife, Isabella of Angoulême, left England for Angoulême soon after the king's death ; she became a powerful regional leader, but largely abandoned the children she had had by John.

From John's perspective, what then followed represented an opportunity to stabilise control over his continental possessions and produce a lasting peace with Philip in Paris.

Their meaning is often obscure, but they reveal John's predilection for order and the lasting influence of Whistler, whose teaching emphasised systematic preparation.

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

These historians were generally unsympathetic to John's behaviour under Richard's rule, but slightly more positive towards the very earliest years of John's reign.

Reliable accounts of the middle and later parts of John's reign are more limited, with Gervase of Canterbury and Ralph of Coggeshall writing the main accounts ; neither of them were positive about John's performance as king.

John Foxe's Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Book of Martyrs, officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of John's reign

These historians were often inclined to see John's reign, and his signing of Magna Carta in particular, as a positive step in the constitutional development of England, despite the flaws of the king himself.

Anthony Munday's play The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington portrays many of John's negative traits, but adopts a positive interpretation of the king's stand against the Roman Catholic Church, in line with the contemporary views of the Tudor monarchs.

Despite its generally positive reviews, Peachtree Road was one of John's leanest-selling contemporary efforts, reaching # 17 US upon its release, yet only managing # 21 in the UK, making it one of his rare albums to miss the Top 10 in his homeland.

His lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted many students.

* Uncle John's Stall of Fame-Accounts of bathrooms and toilets being use in a positive way.

Though hurricanes are infrequent on this part of Florida's coast, they have had a large impact on the islands, with the Hurricane of 1848 forming John's Pass between Madeira Beach and Treasure Island, a hurricane in 1921 cleaving Hog Island into Honeymoon and Caladesi Islands and creating Hurricane Pass, and 1985's Hurricane Elena sealing Dunedin Pass to join Caladesi with Clearwater Beach.

" My realization of John's impact on the teen-comedy genre crept in sometime later.

Until fall 2006, the CRTC required that " commercial messages that are likely to have a negative impact on ( NTV ) be deleted from the ASN service distributed in St. John's and Mount Pearl ( and area )" by Rogers Cable and its pre-2000 predecessor, Cable Atlantic.

A champion of the working classes of Ashton-under-Lyne and the surrounding areas, Rayner Stephens is buried in St. John's Church in Dukinfield with a blue plaque marking his impact upon the local area placed on the remains of Stalybridge Town Hall.

Hurricane Cleo caused minimal impact on land, limited to of rainfall in St. John's, Newfoundland.