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In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.
W. E. Nunnally states that the John passage is considered authentic and that Josephus ' emphasis on the egalitarian nature of John's teachings fit well into the biblical and historical traditions.
For his part in the potential marriage alliance, Henry II transferred the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau into John's name ; as John was only five years old his father would continue to control them for practical purposes.
John's financial situation was tenuous: once factors such as the comparative military costs of materiel and soldiers were taken into account, Philip enjoyed a considerable, although not overwhelming, advantage of resources over John.
Wortham was responsible for fusing John's galleys, the ships of the Cinque Ports and pressed merchant vessels into a single operational fleet.
John's invasion, striking into the Welsh heartlands, was a military success.
In the 1940s, new interpretations of John's reign began to emerge, based on research into the record evidence of his reign, such as pipe rolls, charters, court documents and similar primary records.
The Knights are led by a man who is approximately 12 feet tall with disproportionately short arms and reindeer antlers inserted into his helmet ( played by Michael Palin standing on a ladder ; the original screenplay suggested that he be played by " Mike standing on John's shoulders ").
This is perhaps the basis for Internet reports in the late 1990s about the supposed discovery of Pope John's diary in which he allegedly wrote about receiving prophetic insight into the future, including the return of Jesus in New York in 2000.
After being a solicitor's clerk and for a while keeping a school at Mere in Wiltshire, he was ordained into the Church of England in 1847, taking a BD degree from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1851.
In May 1535, at the age of fourteen, he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, where he was brought into contact with the foremost educators of the time, Roger Ascham and John Cheke, and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek.
Tree sometimes interpolated scenes of famous historical events into the plays to provide even more spectacle, such as King John's granting of Magna Carta or Anne Boleyn's coronation in Westminster Abbey.
On July 21, 1821, Florida was divided into two counties, named Escambia County to the west and St. John's County to the east.
In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his Crusader allies, who deliberately failed to fight against their common Muslim enemies at the crucial moment.
John III's victory led to territorial concessions by the Latin Empire in 1225, but was followed by John's incursion into Europe, where he seized Adrianople.
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.
In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King John of Bohemia, who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 invaded the lands, which were incorporated into the Kingdom of Bohemia and shared the political fortunes of the Silesian crown land.
The alliance, kept secret at John's insistence, came into the open when Edward landed with his troops at Antwerp July 1338.
Stallone, suffering from laboured breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was forced into intensive care for eight days.
The post office moved into a part of John's building and Mary's assistants were her sisters, and the postmaster was Sylvia Metz.
In 1993, the brothers converted the academy into a kindergarten-through-high-school `` global learning community .`` In 2001, LaSalle was closed and it was bought by St. John's University, New York.
John's forces moved on into Essex, and Roger appears to have later regained his castle, and his grandson, another Roger, inherited Framlingham in 1225.
The point of these examples, as used by Riley and Pagels, is to support the argument that the text of Thomas must have existed and have gained a following at the time of the writing of John's Gospel, and that the importance of the Thomasine logia was great enough that John felt the necessity of weaving them into his own narrative.
When the Duke of York went into self-imposed exile to Scotland as a result of the furore surrounding the Popish Plot, John and Sarah accompanied him, and Charles II rewarded John's loyalty by creating him Baron Churchill of Eyemouth in Scotland, Sarah thus becoming Lady Churchill.

John's and past
The coach road from London to Guildford ran slightly south of the future station site, past The Falcon public house at the crossroads in the valley between St. John's Hill and Lavender Hill.
At his funeral, held at St. John's Cathedral outside the Archbishopric in Nicosia, 182 dignitaries from 52 countries attended whilst an estimated 250, 000 mourners — about half the Greek Cypriot population of the island — filed past the coffin.
St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past ; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John-the Knights Hospitallers.
A flight of steps winds up from the street past the stone to Castle Mansions and St John's Church, whose crown steeple forms a landmark dominating Gourock.
He who enters the city, as Mr Green did, from the Woodstock Road, and rolls down the shady avenue of St Giles ', between St John's College and the Taylor Buildings, and past the graceful Martyrs ' Memorial, will receive impressions such as probably no other city in the world could convey.
Although the current hosts of two of the programs have past or present political involvement ( Simms is currently the mayor of the St. John's suburb of Mount Pearl, while Rowe was a former leader of the provincial Liberal party ), these shows are generally considered to be non-partisan and are not driven by the hosts ' personalities, unlike the majority of contemporary North American talk radio programs.
Actively involved for the past 40 years with St. John's Ambulance, he was Chairman of the Kitchener-Waterloo Branch ( 1967 – 1971 ) and went on to become President of the Ontario Council of the Order of St. John ( 1989 – 1991 ).
The Gairdner National Program sees current and past awardees fan out across the country to speak to medical and science faculty at 18-22 universities from St John's to Vancouver.
Whereas there were roughly six locations in the early 2000s in St. John's proper ( and many more in years past ), there are now only three Dominion stores in the city, none built before 2000.
Broadcasts of St. John's and Seton Hall men's basketball and New York Red Bulls MLS team are most common, and there have been some New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils hockey games in the past.

John's and read
It has been argued that John's descriptions of the Jews ought to be read in context of the persecution of Christians in the New Testament.
He then went up to St John's College, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences then Archaeology and Anthropology, graduating in 1962.
As might have been expected from a man brought up by cultivated German-Jewish parents who had arrived in Australia barely two years before John's birth, Monash spoke, read and wrote splendid German.
At 18, he won a scholarship to the University of Cambridge, where he read history at St John's College and earned his degree.
Subsequently he went on to read geography as an exhibitioner at St John's College, Cambridge.
He went on to read Mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge from 1931-34, continuing to complete a Ph. D. in physics on the topic of radio propagation of very long radio waves in the ionosphere in 1936.
Born in a family of comfortable means, Yang attended St. John Middle School ( same foundation as St. John's University ) in his early years and read law in the Comparative Law School of China in Soochow University from 1946 to 1949.
In ' John read that book yesterday ', however, John's reading is presented as a complete event, without further subdivision into successive temporal phases ; while in ' while he was reading it ', this event is opened up, so that the speaker is now in the middle of the situation of John's reading, as it is in the middle of this reading that the postman arrives.
He was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School and, from 1902, St John's College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics, but was sent down in 1904 after rowdy behaviour on Boat Race night.
The novel was illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover, who carefully read the descriptive passages on the costumes and weapons of Barsoom and developed an overall concept for the artwork, even ensuring that John's Carter's pistol and belt in his cover illustration reflected their origins in Green Martian craftsmanship.
On September 20, 2000, Bart Gordon, representative from Tennessee, read the following proclamation in honor of John's 112th birthday:
Cannadine went up to Clare College, Cambridge where he read History, and wrote a doctorate on the history of the development of the Calthorpe estate, Edgbaston, Birmingham, while at St John's College, Oxford, supervised by Peter Mathias.
In 1932 he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, where he remained for the rest of his academic career, to read archaeology and anthropology, and graduated with a first-class honours degree with distinction.
The first chapter of St John's Gospel was read while the priest made his way back to the sacristy.
He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
He was educated at Alderman Wraith Grammar School, Spennymoor followed by St John's College, Cambridge where he read law.
Keenlyside read zoology at Cambridge University, returning to St John's as a choral scholar, before studying singing at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
After attending school in Norwich, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell.
In 1940 he went to read modern languages at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis.
He received his early education at the Penang Free School, and read law at St John's College, Cambridge.
After attending Nottingham High School, Adam read history at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated with a First Class degree.
He spent his secondary education at St John's College, an independent Catholic boarding school in Portsmouth, England, after which he read politics at Van Mildert College, Durham University.
Lee read Mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge between 1802 and 1806, graduating fifth wrangler in his year.

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