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Knox and acted
) Eventually Knox — who seems to have acted with the greater magnanimity — was expelled, and in the fall of 1555, Foxe and about twenty others also left Frankfurt.
Putnam ( Brown University, 1962 ) was the first director, but acted as a substitute for Bernard Knox ( Yale University, 1963 – 1985 ), the Center's first official Director.

Knox and bearing
John Knox portrait bearing the date 1572
Other entities bearing his name include a coal-fired power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority near Rogersville, a railroad classification yard operated by Norfolk Southern in east Knox County, and a dormitory at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.
In 1941, Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox decreed that all Navy insignia bearing eagles were to have the heads facing to their own right.

Knox and sword
The sword was presented in 1786 by Gen. Henry Knox.

Knox and order
It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter.
In order to liven up a scene that they thought was too heavy on exposition, they added an " effete art-world hanger-on ", known as Knox Harrington, late in the screenwriting process.
Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk.
Knox returned to London in order to deliver a sermon before the King and the Court during Lent and he again refused to take the assigned post.
Knox therefore agreed on a temporary order of service based on a compromise between the two sides.
She charged that Knox spoke irreverently of the Queen in order to make her appear contemptible to her subjects.
In order to defend these men, Knox sent out letters calling the nobles to convene.
It was necessary for residents in this area to travel some distance east to Lemon's Bridge to cross the Kankakee River in order to travel south to the center of the county, the future site of the county seat at Knox.
Secretary of War Henry Knox sent Colonel Josiah Harmar and the First American Regiment to restore order.
That failure and the realization that most of the remaining infantrymen's enlistments were due to expire by June 1784 led Washington to order Knox, his choice as the commander of the peacetime army, to discharge all but 500 infantry and 100 artillerymen before winter set in.
With the arrival of news of a preliminary peace in April 1783 Congress began to order the demobilization of the army, and Washington gave Knox day-to-day command of what remained of the army.
Instead, Knox at first recommended a continuation of British policies, furnishing the Native nations with livestock, farming implements, and missionaries, in order to pacify them.
Army Ordnance officials at Fort Knox pulled down M26 Pershing tanks from display pedestals around Fort Knox in order to equip the third company of the Army's hastily formed 70th Tank Battalion.
" to order Bond to put on a gas mask before entering Fort Knox.
* In the television series Suits Harvey Spector makes a joke about breaking into Fort Knox in order to return some stolen " doubloons "
In 1930, Knox was left half of the estate of his friend and mining magnate John Brown, which was reportedly worth more than a million pounds, and in March 1930 he retired from the High Court in order to manage this business.
In 1918, Knox was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ), and in 1921 he was elevated to Knight Commander of that order ( KCMG ).
In Goldfinger ( 1964 ) the titular antagonist ( with assistance from Chinese and North Korean agents who want economic collapse in the West ) attempts to irradiate the US's national gold reserves stored at Fort Knox with an atomic bomb in order to increase the value of his own stockpile.
" The most famous, if not the largest, vault door order came from the Federal government in 1935 for the newly-constructed gold depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
The ROC Navy already has 95 older Harpoon missiles in its inventory for the 8 Knox frigates, 22 newer RGM-84L for the 4 Kidd DDGs, 32 sub launched Harpoon II on order for the 2 Zwaardvis / Hai Lung submarines, and with 60 air launched Harpoon Block II anti-ship missile on order for the 12 P-3C, plus the newly announced 10 ship launched and 2 air launched Harpoon II / L sales.
At the 1925 General Assembly, Brown was one of 79 Commissioners who refused to join the United Church, and met in a corner of Toronto's College Street United Church at the conclusion on June 9 in order to resume business later that night at nearby Knox Presbyterian Church and legally claim their continuity.
Knox was again taken off television for several months in order to return to Deep South Wrestling.

Knox and defend
Scott, on leave in Philadelphia at the time, wrote to Secretary of War Henry Knox to defend Wayne's reputation, breaching his friendship with Wilkinson.

Knox and him
A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.
John Knox took The Form of Prayers with him to Scotland, where it formed the basis of the Scots Book of Common Order.
That same year, Taylor's family, including his daughter Sarah Knox Taylor, joined him at Fort Crawford.
The existence of the Cabinet dates back to the first President of the United States, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four men: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson ; Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ; Secretary of War Henry Knox ; and Attorney General Edmund Randolph to advise him and to assist him in carrying out his duties.
* May 28 – Persia grants William Knox D ' Arcy a concession, giving him the right to prospect for oil.
Knox was present on the night of Wishart's arrest and was prepared to follow him into captivity, but Wishart persuaded him against this course saying, " Nay, return to your bairns and God bless you.
Soon afterwards, Dudley, who saw Knox as a useful political tool, offered him the bishopric of Rochester.
On 2 February 1553 Cranmer was ordered to appoint Knox as vicar of Allhallows Church in London placing him under the authority of the Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley.
In the meantime, Elizabeth Bowes wrote to Knox, asking him to return to Marjorie in Scotland, which he did at the end of August.
Although Knox had not targeted Elizabeth, he had deeply offended her, and she never forgave him.
Knox left in January 1559, but he did not arrive in Scotland until 2 May 1559, owing to Elizabeth's refusal to issue him a passport through England.
Negotiations with England then began, from which Knox was excluded ; in particular his earlier tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, although it had been aimed at Mary Tudor, rendered him unacceptable to the female English monarch.
* Organ Grinder ( voiced by Jim Cummings )-An alien organ grinder who used his instrument to mesmerize Monkey into helping him to rob the gold from Fort Knox.
On the recommendation of Donovan's friend United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Roosevelt gave him a number of increasingly important assignments.
In 1977 Knox's niece, Penelope Fitzgerald published a composite biography, The Knox Brothers, which devoted equal weight to him and his three brothers ( E. V. Knox, the editor of the humorous magazine Punch, Dillwyn Knox, a mathematician, and Wilfred Knox, an Anglican monk and New Testament scholar ).
Washington wanted to push onto New Brunswick and capture a British pay chest of 70, 000 pounds but Major Generals Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene talked him out of it.
Knox did not have a commission in the army, but John Adams in particular worked in the Second Continental Congress to acquire for him a commission as colonel of the army's artillery regiment.
Knox is generally credited with suggesting the prospect to Washington, who thereupon put him in charge of an expedition to retrieve them even though Knox's commission had not yet arrived.

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