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

Major figures in contemporary research include Sarah Coakley, John Zizioulas and Robert Jenson.

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 ).

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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.

Major parties such as the Unified Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ), Communist Party of Nepal ( Unified Marxist-Leninist ) ( CPN UML ) and the Nepali Congress agreed to write a constitution to replace the interim one within 2 years.

Major decisions during this period were made by the Communist head in Shanghai, Chen Duxiu, the Party's general secretary, with a special committee of eight party officials coordinating Communist actions.

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

Communist agents active within Fu's inner circle included Fu's own daughter, Fu Dongju ( 傅冬菊 ), and Fu's most trusted personal secretary, Major General Yan Youwen ( 閻又文 ), who was from the same hometown as Fu, Ronghe, in Yuncheng.

Major RIM parties, including the RCP and the CPN-M, argue that while the Soviet Union was essentially genuinely socialist under Stalin's government, power-induced " absolutism " nevertheless hindered the ability of the masses to rule, and to replenish the truly revolutionary Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks over time.

The 24th came into international press focus in 1961 when its commanding general, Major General Edwin Walker, was removed from command for making " derogatory remarks of a serious nature about certain prominent Americans ... which linked the persons and institutions with Communism and Communist influence ".

In 1947, Sirota was a target of Major General Charles A. Willoughby's yearlong investigation of Leftist Infiltration, in which he tried, but failed, to construct a case against Sirota charging her with advancing the Communist cause within the new government of Japan.

In 1995 the CPP merged with the Major Ishaque faction of the Mazdoor Kissan Party to form the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party ( CMKP ).

The Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party () ( Communist Workers and Peasants Party ) is a minor political party in Pakistan formed in 1995 through the unification of the Communist Party of Pakistan ( CPP ) and the Major Ishaque faction of the Mazdoor Kisan Party ( MKP ).

At this difficult juncture in history the CPP and Major Ishaque's MKP group ( one of three factions resulting from a split in the MKP in 1978 ) came together to engage in criticism and self-criticism and form the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

Major was Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997 and held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher.

When Michael Heseltine challenged Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the Conservative Party in November 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd were her proposer and seconder on her nomination papers.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

At the 1993 Conservative Party Conference, Major began the " Back to Basics " campaign, which he intended to be about the economy, education, policing, and other such issues, but it was interpreted by many ( including Conservative cabinet ministers ) as an attempt to revert to the moral and family values that the Conservative Party were often associated with.

On 22 June 1995, tired of continual threats of leadership challenges that never arose, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and announced he would contest the resulting leadership election – he continued to serve as Prime Minister while the leadership was vacant, but would have resigned had he not been re-elected by a large enough majority.

The Sun newspaper, still at this stage supporting the Conservative Party, had lost faith in Major and declared its support for Redwood in the leadership election, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

In 2010, Major became a key loyalist to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, and said that he hoped for a " liberal conservative " alliance beyond 2015, and has criticised Ed Miliband and the Labour Party, for " party games " rather than helping in the national interest.

During his leadership of the Conservative Party, Major was portrayed as honest (" Honest John ") but unable to rein in the philandering and bickering within his party.

In the general election of 1997, for example, 13. 5 million people voted for the Labour Party led by Tony Blair ; 9. 6 million for the Conservative Party, led by John Major, the previous Prime Minister ; and, 5. 2 million for the Liberal Democrat Party led by Paddy Ashdown.

* July 4 – UK Prime Minister John Major wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party.

** The United Kingdom general election is narrowly won by the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major.

However, the slow pace of developments contributed in part to the ( wider ) political difficulties of the British government of John Major and the consequent reliance on Ulster Unionist Party votes in the House of Commons, led the IRA to end its ceasefire and resume the campaign.

In July 1995 there was a leadership election for the Conservative Party, in which Major resigned as leader of the party and stood in the election.

Labour's identification with high tax rates was to prove one of the issues that helped the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher and John Major dominate British politics during the 1980s and early-to-mid-1990s.

The New Party also gained four seats in Taipei Major private offices.

" The resulting political turmoil led to the killings of Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot ; of the leaders of the Treaty Party, only Stand Watie escaped death.