Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

Others listed at new addresses are the Richard T. Olerichs, the Joseph Aderholds Jr., the Henri De La Chapelles, the John Berteros and Dr. and Mrs. Egerton Crispin, the John Armisteads, the Allen Chases, the Howard Lockies, the Thomas Lockies, and Anthony Longinotti.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

Well-known proponents of this theology are Greg Boyd, Clark Pinnock, Thomas Jay Oord, William Hasker, and John E. Sanders.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

" There are several such books in the New Testament apocrypha, including the Acts of Thomas, the Acts of Andrew, and the Acts of John.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

A hemispherical cup anemometer of the type invented in 1846 by John Thomas Romney Robinson

A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

Capell was replaced in December by Lord John Byron, who had been a successful cavalry brigade commander in the King's main " Oxford Army ".

John Thomas Capell, second son of the fourth Earl from his second marriage to Harriet Bladen.

John Capell ( half-brother of the fifth Earl ), son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl.

In 1784 Lord Mornington married Katherine Elizabeth Forbes, daughter of Admiral John Forbes and granddaughter of the George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard and of William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex.

The Trial of William Lord Russell in 1683 by Sir George Hayter painted in 1825 as a commission by his descendant John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford In January 1680, Russell, along with Cavendish, Capell, Powle, and Essex, tendered his resignation to the king, which was received by Charles " with all my heart.

Sir William Capell, son of John Capell, held the office of Alderman of London and the office of Lord Mayor of London from 1503 to 1504 and 1509 to 1510.

She has one half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore, also an actor, and two half-sisters, Blyth Dolores Barrymore and ( Brahma ) Jessica Blyth Barrymore.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

John saw several of his military household desert to the rebels, including his half-brother, William Longespée.

Isabella's half-brother John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut governed as regent until 1210 when Maria married an experienced French knight, John of Brienne.

Oswald had two older siblings – brother Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr. and half-brother John Edward Pic.

In August 1952, while living with half-brother John Pic, at the time a U. S. Coast Guardsman stationed in New York City, Oswald and Marguerite were asked to leave after Oswald allegedly threatened Pic's wife with a knife and struck their mother, Marguerite.

She becomes attached to Edward Ferrars, the brother-in-law of her elder half-brother, John.

Although Wenceslaus upon his father's death retained Bohemia, his younger half-brother Sigismund inherited Brandenburg, while John received the newly-established Duchy of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

* June 2 – John Holland, a maternal half-brother of Richard II of England, is created Earl of Huntingdon.

* September 29 – John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon is created Duke of Exeter by his half-brother Richard II of England.

Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her maternal older half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.

Edward's half-brother, the Earl of Kent, married Mortimer's cousin, Margaret Wake ; other nobles, such as John de Cromwell and the Earl of Richmond, also chose to remain with Mortimer.

His brother-in-law Ralph Neville remained one of his strongest supporters, and so did his eldest half-brother John Beaufort, even though Henry revoked Richard II's grant to John of a marquessate.

In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II ( son of his half-brother Lothair ), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on 29 December.

The Beaufort children, three sons and a daughter, were legitimised by royal and papal decrees after John and Katherine married in 1396 ; a later proviso that they were specifically barred from inheriting the throne, the phrase (), was inserted with dubious authority by their half-brother Henry IV.

In March, John of Dunois made an irresistible offer to Philip III of Burgundy, offering to turn Orleans over to him, to hold as a neutral territory on behalf of his captive half-brother Charles, Duke of Orléans.

When he was two, his father remarried and he gained a half-brother named John.

A young Boston artist, Henry Pelham, half-brother of the celebrated portrait painter John Singleton Copley, depicted the event.

Richard's sister, Mary Kennon, was married to Major John Fairfax Bolling, half-brother of Richard's wife.

In domestic politics, Eric's ambitions were strongly opposed by the Swedish nobility, including his half-brother, the later John III of Sweden ( 1537 – 92 ).

Florella's half-brother, John Brown came to " Bleeding Kansas " later the same year with a wagon of guns in order to help fight the pro slavery forces like his five sons, who were already living in another community in the area.

* John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter ( c. 1352 – 1400 ), half-brother to Richard II of England and second husband of Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of John of Gaunt