John Philoponus stands out for having attempted a fundamental critique of Aristotle's views on the eternity of the world, movement, and other elements of Aristotelian thought.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

Subsequently John von Neumann attempted to establish a general framework for these algebras which culminated in a series of papers on rings of operators.

In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.

P52 is small, and although a plausible reconstruction can be attempted for most of the fourteen lines represented, the proportion of the text of the Gospel of John for which it provides a direct witness is so small that it is rarely cited in textual debate.

In 1648 John Wilkins cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople 1554-1562, as recording that " a Turk in Constantinople " attempted to fly.

Barlow deposited the bulk of the papers, including the voluminous correspondence, with the John Hay Library, and attempted to organize and maintain Lovecraft's other writing.

Hoover attempted to appoint John J. Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court in 1930 to replace Edward Sanford.

John Boorman, in his film Excalibur, attempted to restore a more traditional heroic representation of an Arthurian tale, in which the Grail is revealed as a mystical means to revitalise Arthur and the barren land to which his depressive sickness is connected.

Selections from Iberia have rarely been attempted on solo guitar but have been very effectively performed by guitar ensembles, such as the performance by John Williams and Julian Bream of Iberia's opening " Evocation.

The Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Wentworth ( governor ) | John Wentworth, attempted to convert the Maroons to Christianity.

* 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan.

John unsuccessfully attempted a rebellion against Richard's royal administrators whilst his brother was participating in the Third Crusade.

In late 1203, John attempted to relieve Château Gaillard, which although besieged by Philip was guarding the eastern flank of Normandy.

John attempted to address some of the problems with the English currency in 1204 and 1205 by carrying out a radical overhaul of the coinage, improving its quality and consistency.

Neither John nor the rebel barons seriously attempted to implement the peace accord.

John made peace with Damascus and attempted to regain Ascalon ; the Egyptians, now ruled by the Mamluk sultanate, besieged Jaffa in 1256 in response.

* 1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan

Agapetus, a man of some force of character, attempted to put a stop to the so-called Pornocracy, which lasted from the accession of Pope Sergius III in 904 to the deposition of Pope John XII in 963.

Though much of John XXI's brief papacy was dominated by the powerful Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini ( who succeeded him as Pope Nicholas III ), John attempted to launch a crusade for the Holy Land, pushed for a union with the Eastern church, and did what he could to maintain peace between the Christian nations.

The John Birch Society emulates Communist cells and quasi-secret operation through " front " groups, and preaches a ruthless prosecution of the ideological war along lines very similar to those it finds in the Communist enemy.

He was, along with the earlier John Playfair, the major advocate of James Hutton's idea of uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.

Many private firms in the 19th century avoided the corporate model for these reasons ( Andrew Carnegie formed his steel operation as a limited partnership, and John D. Rockefeller set up Standard Oil as a trust ).

Built under the direction of John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania, ENIAC's development and construction lasted from 1943 to full operation at the end of 1945.

* John Ronald Brown ( 1922 – 2010 ), unlicensed United States sex-change operation surgeon

John's relief operation was blocked by Philip's forces, and John turned back to Brittany in an attempt to draw Philip away from eastern Normandy.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

* 1811 – Inventor John Stevens ' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry ( service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey ).

In 2009, Mike Richard John Smith filed a Canadian Patent application ( Canadian Patent number: 2675044 ) indicating the screw type propeller is inefficient due to the screw type blade orientation of the propeller which when in operation for forward movement substantially moves the fluid ( for a boat the fluid is water ) sidewardly, rotationally, and rearwardly wherein moving the fluid sidewardly does not move the boat forward, thus contibuting to the inefficiency of the screw type propeller.

Patricia, a doctor, went on to marry Domingo " Ding " Chavez, who worked with Kelly ( who at this point had adopted the identity of John Clark ) in the CIA, during a black operation in Colombia, and later as an assault team leader.

He names former Attorney General John Mitchell as ' overall boss ' of the operation.

* October 11 – Inventor John Stevens ' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry service, between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.

* In England, king John raises £ 100, 000 from church property as an extraordinary fiscal levy ; the operation is described as an “ inestimable and incomparable exaction ” by contemporary sources.

The first American plastic surgeon was John Peter Mettauer, who, in 1827, performed the first cleft palate operation with instruments that he designed himself.

Through the work of Zermelo and others, especially John von Neumann, the structure of what some see as the " natural " objects described by ZFC eventually became clear ; they are the elements of the von Neumann universe, V, built up from the empty set by transfinitely iterating the power set operation.

River piracy continued on the lower Mississippi River, from the early 1800s to the mid 1830s ; these river pirates were mainly organized into large gangs similar to Samuel Mason's organization around Cave-In-Rock or smaller gangs under the operation of John A. Murrell.

The operation was undertaken by three INLA volunteers – Christopher " Crip " McWilliams, John Glennon and John Kennaway – armed with two pistols.

Their operation had the all-important landing rights for Havana, having acquired American International Airways, a small airline established in 1926 by John K. Montgomery and Richard B. Bevier as a seaplane service from Key West, Florida, to Havana.

Michael is given the life-saving operation and, after watching the procedure with Denise, John is taken into police custody.

German native John Meiners had immigrated to America in 1848 and established a successful brewing operation in Milwaukee.

Otto Scharber was a prominent local businessman, owning a grocery store, hardware store and a John Deere implement dealership, which is still in family operation today.

The Delaware River Mill Society is a private non-profit organization responsible for the restoration, maintenance, and operation of the historic John Prall Jr. House and the Prallsville Mills Complex, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

* John Warren Butterfield ( see also John Warren Butterfield ) ( Nov. 18, 1801-Nov. 14, 1869 ), born in Berne, went on to found the Butterfield Overland Mail, the stage that was an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.