Major figures in the Communist Party such as Trotsky and Red Army leaders, were killed, convicted of participating in plots to overthrow the Soviet government and Stalin.

Major figures in these fields include Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and George Bartholomew.

Major French political figures were designed by artists: Alain Duverne, Jacques Loup, Jean-Yves Grall ... representing as characters similar to those of The Muppet Show, with, for instance, François Mitterrand portrayed as a frog named Kermitterrand ( and naming himself God ), a reference to Kermit the Frog.

Other historical figures and famous people who have lived in Esopus include naturalist John Burroughs, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, Major Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who founded the American Express Company and wrote “ Taps ” in 1862, and 1904 Democratic nominee for president Alton Brooks Parker, a lawyer and judge, who lost to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt.

Since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, alongside those of eminent scientists and engineers, including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.

Major figures in the Bulgarian tradition are Dimitar Taralezhkov, Angel " Jendema " Angelov, Yavor " Yavkata " Rilov, Velizar " Valdes " Vankov, Dimitar Dobrev, Andro Stubel, Branimir " Bunny " Stoykov, Dorothea Tabakova, Mihail Belchev, Assen Maslarski, Grisha Trifonov, Plamen Stavrev, Vladimir Levkov, Margarita Drumeva, Maria Batchvarova, Plamen Sivov, and Krasimir Parvanov.

Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, national R & B chart and even mainstream hits.

Major figures in the early sound system scene included Duke Reid, Prince Buster and Clement " Coxsone " Dodd.

Major figures in the neo-Kantian movement, which began around the 1860s, include Friedrich Albert Lange and Hermann Cohen.

Major figures include Fortunato Depero,

Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, R & B and national hits.

" Floe " begins with open fifths in the horns while the other members of the ensemble enter with oscillating arpeggiating figures ( primarily outlining a Major 7th chord ).

* Major political figures

Previous Prime Minister John Major was one of the original figures behind the Northern Ireland peace process that Blair continued, and both of them campaigned in support of the Good Friday Agreement.

Major figures included Samuel Alexander, John Cook Wilson, H. A. Prichard, H. H. Price, and C. D. Broad.

Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time, visited their camp to back the effort and encourage them.

Major figures in the revolution had secular goals, which then created rifts in the clergy to the advantage of the monarchy.

Major theoreticians of the Labor Zionist movement included Moses Hess, Nachman Syrkin, Ber Borochov and Aaron David Gordon and leading figures in the movement included David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and Berl Katznelson.

Since 2002, the ceremony has been conducted on the Wednesday in July following the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star Game ; as none of the major North American professional leagues have games scheduled for that day — the National Basketball Association, National Football League, and National Hockey League are not in-season, and MLB does not contest games on the day following its all-star game — major sports figures are available to attend.

In the 1990s there was a certain absence of impressionists on television, with the demise of Spitting Image and Rory Bremner mainly concentrating on political figures ( notably John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and also members of the Royal Family ).

Major figures in the Religious Zionist Movement include Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook who became the Ashkenazi Jews Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine in 1924 and tried to reconcile Zionism with Orthodox Judaism.

Other notable figures buried under the church include British Marine Major John Pitcairn, who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill and was entombed along with many other soldiers killed in this battle, and Captain Samuel Nicholson of the U. S. S.

His instruments received praise and endorsements from major figures of the day, including impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius, and the German composer Felix Draeseke composed his Quintet in A Major specifically for Stelzner instruments.

Major figures in this line of thought are John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume ( These are retrospective categories, for which Kant is largely responsible ; but they are accurate enough.

* Oh became friends with Hank Aaron, his contemporary in Major League Baseball.

Major Pyu city states ( Pagan not contemporary )

Major contemporary campaigns include work for funding of public schools, against increased tuitions at colleges or the use of sweatshop labor in manufacturing school apparel ( e. g. United students against sweatshops ), for increased student voice throughout education planning, delivery, and policy-making ( e. g. The Roosevelt Institution ), and to raise national and local awareness of the humanitarian consequences of the Darfur Conflict There is also increasing activism around the issue of global warming.

Inglewood has produced a good share of All Blacks ( John Major, Dave " Trapper " Loveridge, Chris Masoe ), and also a leading contemporary artist, Michael Stevenson, who represented New Zealand at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Several English and American paintings including The Death of Major Pierson by John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 )— also painted within 2 years of the event — had established a precedent for a contemporary subject.

Although " Quaker Meadows " Joe is usually hailed as the Major McDowell who was the hero of the battle, some descendants of " Pleasant Gardens Joe " maintained that it was their ancestor who led the Burke County militia, a claim which, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, is contradicted by contemporary evidence.

Although " Quaker Meadows " Joe is usually hailed as the Major McDowell who was the hero of the battle, some descendants of " Pleasant Gardens Joe " maintain that it was their ancestor who led the Burke County militia, a claim which, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, is contradicted by contemporary evidence.

: For the contemporary of Diana, Princess of Wales, see Major James Hewitt.

Major groups of local contemporary native peoples or tribes include the Suquamish, Duwamish, Nisqually, Snoqualmie, and Muckleshoot ( Ilalkoamish, Stuckamish, and Skopamish ) tribes.

Zavos quotes a contemporary newspaper account by Major Trevor in The Daily Telegraph 27Oct1908, " It will be remembered that less than a month ago there was a match played between Australia and Cornwall at Camborne and although the Australians also won on that occasion, the beaten side then played on the whole, a very good game.

In early 1991, WFYR-FM ( 103. 5 ), an adult contemporary and AC / oldies station in Chicago for many years, was sold by its parent company Summit Communications to Major Broadcasting of Chicago.

When Major League Soccer had its inaugural season in 1996, the league resembled its contemporary North American leagues.

The Greek War of Independence and the contemporary Wallachian uprising brought Bucharest under the brief rule of the pandur leader Tudor Vladimirescu ( March 21, 1821 ), and was then occupied by the Filiki Eteria forces of Major General Ypsilantis-before seeing the violent Ottoman reprisals ( ending in a massacre during August, one which made over 800 victims ).

According to Account of the Sarmoun Brotherhood ( 1966, 1982 ) by Major Desmond R. Martin, a major centre of the contemporary Sarmoun Brotherhood was in the Hindu Kush mountains of northern Afghanistan.

Although he was often overshadowed by his contemporary, Johnny Bench, Simmons is considered one of the best hitting catchers in Major League baseball history.

However, that is based on a total of 10 losses in the 1892 season ( his last as a pitcher ), a total revised from the contemporary record ; the official league records for that year, which are recognized by Major League Baseball, charged him with only 8 losses, a figure which some other sources also recognize.

Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, drug design, drug discovery, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein – protein interactions, genome-wide association studies and the modeling of evolution.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation works closely with Major League Baseball through its Home Run Challenge program to promote awareness of prostate cancer and raise money for medical research.

Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do ; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans ; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.

Major themes in research at the Experimental Forests and Ranges includes:

According to its Web site, MLB. com, Major League Baseball continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4, 191, though independent research has revealed that two of Cobb's hits were counted twice.

This claim had originally been raised in the book Amelia Earhart Lives ( 1970 ) by author Joe Klaas, based on the research of Major Joseph Gervais.

Major industries include finance, insurance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, health services, research and development, and technology.

Major employers in Lewisburg, Ohio, include Cheeseman LLC ( Trucking ), Parker Hannifin Corporation, the Tri-County North School District, the Iams Corporation, which has a manufacturing plant and research center located nearby, the Carl S. Akey Corporation, and Lewisburg Container.

Major increases in the nation's research budget are proposed as the country recognizes the importance of research in science and technology, as well as education.

* Major private, government or dedicated telecommunications networks, such as those used for internal communication and monitoring by major infrastructure companies, by governments, by the military or by emergency services, as well as national research and education networks

Mark's overseas duties in the U. S. Army ( retired Major ) combined with a year of historical research enhanced the puzzles that must be solved to finish the game.

The university also boasts a baseball research center that is the official baseball bat testing center for Major League Baseball.

Her husband, who did research on Moore, affirmed that this person had resided at St Columb Major in Cornwall during the English Civil War.

Major psychological research into homosexuality is divided into five categories:

Major universities, including the University of Iowa ; University of California, Irvine ; and University of Hawaii, were conducting research on alternative medicine and therapies with MUM.

Major differences between Star Lords and Master of Orion include inferior graphics and interface, simpler trade and diplomacy, undirected research, a lack of safeguards to prevent players from building more factories than are usable and the use of transports rather than colony ships to colonize new planets.

Major papers presented as the final project for a master's degree are normally called thesis ; and major papers presenting the student's research towards a doctoral degree are called theses or dissertations.

Major research funding was awarded by several ministries and departments of the Government of India, including the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology ( India ), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and others.

Major projects include the development of the neurological research institute ($ 215, 000, 000 ), the formation of a maternity center ($ 575, 000, 000 ), and the expansion of existing research facilities ($ 120, 000, 000 ).

During Roberts ' research into Major Rogers, his researcher uncovered transcripts of both of Major Rogers ' courts-martial ( once as the accuser and once as the accused ), which had been thought lost for over a century, and these were published in the second volume of a special two-volume edition of Northwest Passage.

Major NDSU research extension centers are located near Carrington, Casselton, Dickinson, Fargo, Hettinger, Langdon, Minot, Streeter, and Williston.