* John Weever

John Weever says, “ Kelly ( otherwise called Talbot ) that famous English alchemist of our times, who flying out of his own country ( after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster ) was entertained with Rudolf the second, and last of that Christian name, Emperor of Germany .” Most accounts say that he first worked as an apothecary's apprentice.

* John Weever – The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle

John Weever has been suggested as author of the first play ; the satirist Joseph Hall has been seen as an influence on — if not the author of — the other two, though recent statistical tests bring Hall's authorship into question.

In 1601 a narrative poem, The Mirror of Martyrs, by one John Weever, was published ; it praises Oldcastle has a " valiant captain and most godly martyr.

John Weever in 1631

John Weever ( 1576 – 1632 ), was an English poet and antiquary.

He may be the son of the John Weever who in 1590 was one of thirteen followers of local landowner Thomas Langton put on trial for murder after a riot which took place at Lea Hall, Lancashire.

In his preface Weever calls it the " first trew Oldcastle ," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's character Falstaff first appeared as ' Sir John Oldcastle '.

* David Kathman, ‘ Weever, John ( 1575 / 6 – 1632 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

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

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

The Dutchman Fopp Gerritsz, while in command of a whaling expedition sent out by the Englishman John Clarke, of Dunkirk, claimed ( in 1631 ) to have discovered the island on June 28 and named it " Isabella ".

* 1580 – ( baptised ) John Smith of Jamestown ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

** John Donne, English writer and prelate ( d. 1631 )

* John Donne of England ( 1571 ?– 1631 ), Anglican priest, poet, and philosopher

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

** John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler ( d. 1631 )

In 1631, army officer John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ( 1604 – 1679 ), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvijver ( English: " Court's Pond ") in the The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

The only quarto version of The Shrew was printed by William Stansby for the bookseller John Smethwick in 1631 as A Wittie and Pleasant comedie called The Taming of the Shrew, based on the 1623 folio text.

A post-medieval example is the standing shrouded effigy of the poet John Donne ( d. 1631 ) in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

The area known as Lynn was first settled in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls ( d. 1647 ), followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631, whose descendants still reside in New England.

He was educated at Magdalen Hall ( which later became Hertford College ), Oxford, being tutored by John Tombes and graduating BA in 1631 and MA in 1634.

Sir John Smith ( c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631 ) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author.

* John Phillips ( author ) ( 1631 – 1706 ), author and secretary to John Milton

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

The obverse and reverse of this coin were designed by John Roettier ( 1631 – c. 1700 ).

* May 12, 1700: John Dryden ( born 1631 )

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

I am also pleased to note that Mr. John B. Oakes, a member of the Times staff since 1946, has been appointed as editorial page editor.

Money was also advanced by the publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc..

Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs. John Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.

The epithet " Arian " was also applied to the early Unitarians such as John Biddle though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians not Arians.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

There is also a brief physical description found in John Malalas ' Chronographia:

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

Cristoforo del Altissimo, Cesare Dandini, Aurelio Lomi, John Mosnier, Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Monanni also were his pupils.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

He also taught Asclepius of Tralles, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* John the Conqueror also known as High John the Conqueror, and many other folk variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore.