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.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of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

In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

John of Worcester says that the group supporting Edgar vacillated over what to do while William ravaged the countryside, which led to Ealdred and Edgar's submission to William.

In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John of England, and led an army into the Kingdom of England in support of their cause.

Within a few months, the right to exercise the regency over his infant son, John V Palaiologos, and the position of Andronikos'all-powerful chief minister and friend John Kantakouzenos led to the outbreak of a destructive seven-year civil war.

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

Over the period 1858 to 1861, John McDouall Stuart led six expeditions north from Adelaide into the outback, culminating in successfully reaching the north coast of Australia and returning, without the loss of any of the party's members ' lives.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

* Back to Basics, a government policy slogan portrayed by opponents and the press as a morality campaign to compare it with a contemporaneous succession of sex scandals in John Major's government which led to the resignation of Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness, among others ( 1994 )

The Battle of Berestechko (; ) was fought between the Ukrainian Cossacks, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, aided by their Crimean Tatar allies, and a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army under King John II Casimir.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

The group selected was led by John Antonucci, an Ohio beverage distributor, and Michael I. Monus, the head of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain.

Bennett, John Diefenbaker, Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, and Kim Campbell led progressive conservative federal governments.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

The faction led by John Marshall Harlan and Rufus Peckham embraced a small-producer ethic and a fully competitive market ; these justices used the Sherman Act's prohibition of " restraint of trade " to outlaw price fixing by businesses.

However this liberality eventually led to dissent as John Thomas developed in his personal beliefs and started to question mainstream orthodox Christian beliefs.

Initially led by John Haslet, Delaware provided one of the premier regiments in the Continental Army, known as the " Delaware Blues " and nicknamed the " Blue Hen's Chicks.

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.

He flew the observation / chase plane which monitored flight surgeon Colonel John Stapp's rocket sled run of in 1955.

" and made to chase after his assailant, but then fell down dead ; the assassin was John Felton, an army officer who had been wounded in the earlier military adventure.

One of the policemen helping to chase and kill the werewolf is John Altman, who would later achieve fame as " Nasty " Nick Cotton in EastEnders.

They lure the snake into the water treatment plant by having it chase John through a shaft while they set a bomb near the entrance.

King John I wrote a book of the chase, his sons, King Duarte and D. Pedro, composed moral treatises, and an anonymous scribe told with charming naïveté the story of the heroic Nuno Alvares Pereira in the Chronica do Condestavel.

John Ford hired Canutt on John Wayne's recommendation for Stagecoach, where Canutt supervised the river-crossing scene as well as the Indian chase scene, did the stagecoach drop, and doubled for Wayne in the coach stunts.

The original music score was composed by John Ottman, but some music from Scream was added to the chase scenes later on during post-production.

* In Brian De Palma's 1981 film Blow Out, John Travolta's character, Jack Terry, crashes a Jeep into a display window of Wanamaker's after driving through City Hall center courtyard in a chase scene.

The chase scene was filmed along Sager Road near the small village area of Sheffield, Ontario, and even shows the schoolbus of the local school, Dr. John Seaton Public School, and Sheffield Public School.

The famous chase scene from " The French Connection " ( 1971 ) was filmed under the West End line in Brooklyn, and the opening scene of " Saturday Night Fever " ( 1977 ) features Tony Manero ( John Travolta ) walking down 86th Street, with the West End elevated line above.

The producers later hired John Altman to provide the music for the tank chase in St. Petersburg.

The word " chase " comes from the hunts, frequented by royalty ( including Kings John, Henry VIII and James I ), which took place on the downs.

They formed in early 1983. and initially comprised Peter Hooton, Steve Grimes, John Melvin and Andrew John " Andy " McVann, who was killed in a police chase on 1 October 1986 at the age of 21, and to whose parents the band's subsequent album, Spartacus, would be dedicated.

A more traditional rendition by John Altman is heard in the film during the tank chase in St. Petersburg.

After a chase across the city, Arian and his main henchman John Stanton have a shootout with Cormac, during which Arian receives a serious facial injury, and Cormac is called away to look into the Samarkand incident, leaving Arian and his crew at large.

* August 11-John Collins and John Murphy, members of the Portland Street Gang, are arrested by two police officers after a hard chase.

The Peugeot 605 is featured prominently in the car chase scenes of John Frankenheimer's film Ronin ( 1998 ).

This starts a chase sequence where the T-800 and John try to lose the T-1000.

After a lengthy chase across the city, Freddy catches John climbing a fence and fires at him.

A car chase ensues and ends when John crashes his car into a truck trailer.

She manages to chase off Munk and Mambo and tip the scales of good and evil, causing a series of fairy tales to go wrong and have unhappy endings including Jack getting stepped on by the Giant ( John DiMaggio ), Little Red Riding Hood being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, and Rumpelstiltskin ( Michael McShane ) winning his bet with the miller's daughter and takes her baby.