John Chrysostom confronting Aelia Eudoxia, in a 19th Century painting by Jean-Paul Laurens.

But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.

John Chrysostom confronting Empress Aelia Eudoxia | Eudoxia, by Jean-Paul Laurens

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

Colonel John Laurens, an aide to Washington, challenged him to a duel, one in which Lee was wounded in his side.

The county was named for Colonel John Laurens, a soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.

A treaty of amity and commerce was however concluded with the Americans in October, 1782, after John Adams, who succeeded Henry Laurens, had managed to obtain diplomatic recognition of the American republic from the States-General in April, 1782.

Hamilton sent Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens around to the rear of the redoubt to prevent the British from escaping.

Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin.

Other major radio dramatisations by Sibley include: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ; Tolkien's Tales from the Perilous Realm ; Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World ; Lucy M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe, Laurens van der Post's The Night of the New Moon, J.

"-from the sentence of a letter written by Washington to Colonel John Laurens on 13 October 1780

John Laurens ( October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782 ) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.

John Laurens joined the Continental Army and following the Battle of Brandywine, was made officially an aide-de-camp to General Washington with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

In March 1779 Congress approved the concept, commissioned John Laurens as Lieutenant Colonel, and sent him south to recruit a regiment of 3000 blacks.

John Laurens became a prisoner in May 1780 after the fall of Charleston and was shipped to Philadelphia.

) Exchanged in November, John Laurens was appointed by Congress in December as a special minister to France.

According to Daniel Wheeler's Life and Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume 1 ( of 10, Vincent & Parke, 1908 ) pp. 26-27: Thomas Paine accompanied Colonel John Laurens to France and is credited with initiating the mission.

Henry Laurens ( John Laurens ' father ) had been ambassador to the Netherlands but was captured by the British on his return trip there.

The credit for obtaining the critical loans in 1781 and 1782, and first " organizing " the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should certainly include Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine.

* Gregory D. Massey ; John Laurens and the American Revolution ; 2000, University of South Carolina Press ; ISBN 1-57003-330-7.

* David D. Wallace ; The Life of Henry Laurens: With a Sketch of the Life of Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens ; 1967, Russell & Russell Publishers, ISBN 0-8462-1015-0.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

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 ; ;

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

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 third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

John was quietly insistent.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

For an instant John was stunned.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.