However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

Bryennios had been made kaisar ( Caesar ) and received the newly-created title of panhypersebastos (" honoured above all "), and remained loyal to both Alexios and John.

Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

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High Sierra, a 1941 movie directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett ( Little Caesar, etc .).

* John Doukas, Caesar, younger brother and counsellor to Constantine X of Byzantium

* Renier of Montferrat ( the Caesar John ), Italian husband of Maria Comnena ( poisoned ) ( b. 1162 )

He cites renaissance historians such as Archbishop James Ussher, Caesar Baronius and John Hardyng, as well as classical writers like Caesar, Tacitus and Juvenal, although his classical cites at least are wildly inaccurate, many of his assertions are unsourced, and many of his identifications entirely speculative.

John Wilkes Booth ( left ), Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare ’ s Julius Caesar in 1864.

* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

* 1977: John Gielgud made his final appearance in a Shakespearean role on stage as Julius Caesar in John Schlesinger's production at the Royal National Theatre.

* Julius Caesar ( 1970 ), starring Jason Robards Jr. as Brutus, Charlton Heston as Antony and John Gielgud as Caesar.

In 1973 the BBC made a television play Heil Caesar, written by John Griffith Bowen.

* Text of Julius Caesar, fully edited by John Cox, as well as original-spelling text, facsimiles of the 1623 Folio text, and other resources, at the Internet Shakespeare Editions

Here he participated in the shambolic acts that crippled the empire ’ s eastern provinces, including his strategic retreat when Caesar John Doukas was confronting Norman mercenary rebels, resulting in the humiliating defeat of the Byzantine army, and the capture of John Doukas.

This plan was undermined by the Caesar John Doukas, and Nikephoros instead married Maria of Alania.

As Alexios was entrusted with substantial armed forces to combat the impending Norman invasion, the Doukas faction, led by the Caesar John, conspired to overthrow Nikephoros and replace him with Alexios.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

In Scotland, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, nicknamed Bobbin ' John, raised the Jacobite clans but proved to be an indecisive leader and an incompetent soldier.

* John F. Thompson, former Massachusetts state Speaker of the House, nicknamed the Iron Duke

At this time it seemed unlikely that John would ever inherit substantial lands, and John was jokingly nicknamed " Lackland " by his father.

Other notable residents are the sexton Mr Ratsey who is friendly to John, Parson Glennie, the local clergyman who also teaches in the village school, Elzevir Block, the landlord of the local inn, called the Mohune Arms but nicknamed the Why Not?

Coached by Don Coryell ( with an offense nicknamed " Air Coryell "), featuring Fouts throwing to tight end Kellen Winslow and wide receivers John Jefferson and Charlie Joiner, they clinched their first playoff berth in 14 years with a 35 – 0 victory against the New Orleans Saints.

The cathedral is nicknamed St. John the Unfinished.

John Wentworth ( nicknamed " Long John ") ( March 5, 1815 – October 16, 1888 ) was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term mayor of Chicago, and a six-term member of the United States House of Representatives, both before and after his service as mayor.

John Sherman, nicknamed " The Ohio Icicle " ( May 10, 1823 – October 22, 1900 ), was a U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century.

His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed " Sir John ," died four years after his birth ( 1781 ).

Liz and Simon are rescued from the ice and brought to a research base – the International Institute for Biological Research, nicknamed the “ Ice Box ”-headed by Morgan C. Devereaux ( John Barron ).

John Arthur (" Jack ") Johnson ( March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946 ), nicknamed the " Galveston Giant ," was an American boxer.

While he tries to deal with Buzz, he becomes friends with a 15-year-old boy, John, nicknamed Plato ( Sal Mineo ), who was also at the police station the night of the opening scene for shooting puppies.

John Garrett Olerud (; nicknamed Big Rude, and Johnny O ; born August 5, 1968 ), is a former American first baseman in Major League Baseball.

Surbiton's main claim to popular fame is as an icon of suburbia in such British television programmes as The Good Life ( starring Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington and Felicity Kendal ), though location filming was done in Northwood, North-West London ), and John Sessions ' comedy series Stella Street, which has on occasion led to the town being nicknamed " Suburbiton ".

In 1734, work began on a new cathedral, designed by John Wood, the Elder, and nicknamed the " Italian Temple ".

He is known as the king of teen movies as well as helping launch the careers of actors including Michael Keaton, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, John Candy and the up-and-coming actors collectively nicknamed the Brat Pack.

The marriage of John and Mary Black had clearly reached the breaking point after eight years.

Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd.

In 1662 the estate passed to Charles Farquharson of Inverey, brother of John Farquharson, the " Black Colonel ".

* " The Black & Tans and Auxiliaries in Ireland, 1920-1921: Their Origins, Roles and Legacy ", by John Ainsworth, 2001

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

The account in the Chronicle of Melrose names the place as the " Black Cave ," and John of Fordun calls it the " Black Den ".

Popular pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

Geneva College was founded in 1848 in Northwood, Ohio, by John Black Johnston, a minister of the RPCNA.

Though Desdichado was instrumental in the victory, Prince John, being displeased with his behaviour of the previous day, wishes to bestow his accolades on the vanished Black Knight.

* Black Hands of Beijing: Lives of Defiance in China's Democracy Movement, by George Black and Robin Munro, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993.

John Ray was born in the village of Black Notley.

* 1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.