John the Baptist used total immersion in the River Jordan for believers ; ;

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel ; ;

No doubt John Hancock would do well now ; ;

The officers were John Marsden, president ; ;

John C. Blackmer, vice-president ; ;

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

Survivors include two brothers, C. E. Killingsworth, Atlanta, and John Killingsworth, Warren, Ohio ; ;

John Beach who guides circulation ; ;

We prayed for John, during surgery, we asked others to pray ; ;

Sponsor quotes John McLendon of the McLendon-Ebony station group as saying that the Southern Negro is becoming conscious of quality and `` does not wish to be associated with radio which is any way degrading to his race ; ;

There was no one who would blame her or John ; ;

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax ; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis ; and Neville Chamberlain resigned in 1940 after the Allies were forced to retreat from Norway, as he believed a government supported by all parties was essential, and the Labour and Liberal parties would not join a government headed by him.

; On Scarlet's Walk / Lottapianos Tour: Amos's seventh tour saw her reunited with Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans, but not Steve Caton.

; American Doll Posse World Tour: This was Amos's first tour with a full band since her 1999 Five and a Half Weeks Tour, accompanied by long-time band mates Jon Evans and Matt Chamberlain, with guitarist Dan Phelps rounding out Amos's new band.

; Sinful Attraction Tour: For her tenth tour, Amos returned to the trio format of her 2002 and 2003 tours with bassist Jon Evans and drummer Matt Chamberlain while expanding her lineup of keyboards by adding three M-Audio MIDI controllers to her ensemble of her piano, a Hammond B-3 organ, and a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard.

That is the doctrine not merely of Peel, of Disraeli, of Salisbury, and Chamberlain ; it is the doctrine of Gladstone ; it is the doctrine of Cobden ; it is the doctrine of Bright ; and it is the doctrine of Campbell Bannerman ... It is the doctrine of all the great Liberal leaders of the past and present ".

In another letter to his parents in June 1939, before the beginning of war, Powell wrote: " It is the English, not their Government ; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors ".

Karol Skowroński, renamed Karel Samuilovich Skavronsky, was created a Count of the Russian Empire on 5 January 1727 and made a Chamberlain of the Imperial Court ; he had married Maria Ivanovna, a Russian woman, by whom he had descendants who became extinct in the male line in 1793.

* January 1919 Law becomes Lord Privy Seal, remaining Leader of the House of Commons, and is succeeded as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Chamberlain ; both remaining in the War Cabinet.

By late 1617, Anne's bouts of illness had become debilitating ; the letter writer John Chamberlain recorded: " The Queen continues still ill disposed and though she would fain lay all her infirmities upon the gout yet most of her physicians fear a further inconvenience of an ill habit or disposition through her whole body ".

His father, Alexander Georg von Humboldt, belonged to a prominent Pomeranian family ; a major in the Prussian Army, he was rewarded for his services in the Seven Years ' War with the post of Royal Chamberlain.

In the 1964 – 65 season, the 76ers acquired the legendary Wilt Chamberlain from the Warriors ; Chamberlain had been a high school legend in Philadelphia and began his career with the Warriors while they still played in Philadelphia.

Florence's sister, Louisa, married Joseph's brother, Arthur Chamberlain ; their granddaughter was the author Elizabeth Longford and their great-granddaughter is the Labour politician Harriet Harman.

Chamberlain was one of the 250, 000, including the Mayor, who marched for Reform in Birmingham on 27 August 1866 ; he recalled that " men poured into the hall, black as they were from the factories ... the people were packed together like herrings " to listen to a speech by John Bright.

Chamberlain had always been a keen imperialist and an advocate of a stronger empire ; in 1887 in Toronto, he had declared that " I should think our patriotism was warped and stunted indeed if it did not embrace the Greater Britain beyond the seas ".

Chamberlain was in the forefront of such tactics, declaring in a speech that " we have come practically to the end of the war ... there is nothing going on now but a guerrilla business, which is encouraged by these men ; I was going to say those traitors, but I will say instead these misguided individuals.

Chamberlain was the last Cabinet minister to see Queen Victoria on 10 January, informing her of the latest events in South Africa ; she died on 22 January.

Charles, anxious to secure such a famous fighter, gladly assented to Albert's demands and gave the imperial sanction to his possession of the lands taken from the bishops of Würzburg and Bamberg ; and his conspicuous bravery was of great value to the Emperor on the retreat from Metz in January 1553.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

Following the publication of the 1552 Prayer Book, a revised English Primer was published in 1553 ; adapting the Offices and Morning and Evening Prayer, and other prayers, for lay domestic piety.

Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicism by making sure that: Edward's religious laws were abolished in the Statute of Repeal Act ( 1553 ); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of Henry VIII were repealed ; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554.

A market was running outside the abbey from the 10th century ; it was confirmed by King John of England in 1202 and by a Royal Charter of Edward VI in 1553.

After some losses before the council, Calvin believed he was defeated ; on 24 July 1553 he asked the council to allow him to resign.

Important naval victories of the Ottoman Empire in this period include the Battle of Preveza ( 1538 ); Battle of Ponza ( 1552 ); Battle of Djerba ( 1560 ); conquest of Algiers ( in 1516 and 1529 ) and Tunis ( in 1534 and 1574 ) from Spain ; conquest of Rhodes ( 1522 ) and Tripoli ( 1551 ) from the Knights of St. John ; capture of Nice ( 1543 ) from the Holy Roman Empire ; capture of Corsica ( 1553 ) from the Republic of Genoa ; capture of the Balearic Islands ( 1558 ) from Spain ; capture of Aden ( 1548 ), Muscat ( 1552 ) and Aceh ( 1565 – 67 ) from Portugal during the Indian Ocean expeditions ; among others.

** Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 or 1553 ; d. 1616 )

He issued the French Bible in 1553, and many of John Calvin's writings ; the finest edition of the Institutio being that of 1553.

Mary's second marriage produced four children ; and through her eldest daughter Frances, Mary was the maternal grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, who was the de facto monarch of England for a little over a week in July 1553.

His first wife, Catherine, a former nun who died at Oxford on 17 February 1553, was disinterred in 1557 and tried for heresy ; legal evidence was not forthcoming because witnesses had not understood her tongue ; and instead of the corpse being burnt, it was merely cast on a dunghill in the stable of the dean of Christ Church.

But Dauntsey's financial operations proved unsuccessful and Gresham was soon re-instated ; and as he professed his zealous desire to serve the Queen, and manifested great adroitness both in negotiating loans and in smuggling money, arms and foreign goods, not only were his services retained throughout her reign ( 1553 – 1558 ), but besides his salary of twenty shillings per diem he received grants of church lands to the yearly value of 200 pounds.

Robert Balfour ( c. 1553 – 1621 ; known also as Balforeus ) was a Scottish philosopher.

He carefully avoided all foreign complications ; refused to participate in the Schmalkaldic war of 1546 ; mediated between the emperor and Saxony after the fall of Maurice of Saxony at the Battle of Sievershausen in 1553.

# Fausto derived from Lelio in conversations ( 1552 – 1553 ) the germ of his theory of salvation ;

Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who maintained a household there ; and in 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the ecumenical mother church of Rome and a spectacularly prestigious post indeed for a man only twenty-one years old.