He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

Sitch has claimed that none of the characters were directly based on a single person, and indeed the character of Moore was a combination of well-known characteristics of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant.

* James Martin's version of Information Engineering systems development methodology was automated to allow the input of the results of system analysis and design in the form of data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, entity life history diagrams etc.

One of George R. R. Martin's aims with the Ice and Fire series was to retell the history of the fictional world, since he feels that past events from dozens or even thousands of years ago still influence the present.

The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and was centered on country music and rural Southern culture.

This programme covered much of the same ground as Martin's documentary, but rejected Martin's suggestion that Holt had committed suicide, stating that he was a vocal ' life affirmer '.

He took rooms in St Martin's Lane, before moving to Great Newport Street, his sister Frances acting as his housekeeper., He achieved success rapidly, and was extremely prolific.

The next, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, was released on April 1, 2009, and focuses on living with type 1 diabetes ( St. Martin's Press ; ISBN 0-312-37631-6 ).

Martin was elected pope at the Council of Constance on St. Martin's Day, 11 November 1417, by a conclave consisting of twenty-three cardinals and thirty delegates of the council.

Martin's first act after his election was to publish a brief that confirmed all the regulations made by his predecessors regarding the papal chancery, regulations that had long been the subject of complaints.

The main concern of the first years of Martin's pontificate was the resumed war against Braccio da Montone from 1423.

Slavery was commonplace in Europe, Africa, and Asia during Martin's reign and was accepted by " almost everyone " with few arguing against it.

Davidson ( 1961 ) argues that Martin's injunction against slavery was not a condemnation of slavery itself, but rather driven through fear of " infidel power ".

He was a canon at St. Martin's Abbey in Laon .< ref >" Gregory, the eighth of that name … they declare from records of St. Martin of Laon to have once been a canon of that church ..." Basil R. Reuss, " A Norbertine Pope ?," rev.

Little is known about what happened in Rome after Pope Martin's departure, but it was typical in those days for the Holy See to be governed by the archpriest and archdeacon.

He was a member of Lockheed Martin's scenario development team charged with developing strategies for space exploration.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

The only score in the second quarter however was Giants defensive end George Martin's quarterback sack of Elway in the end zone for a safety.

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series was originally planned as a trilogy, but has already expanded to five published novels with another two planned.

* John Martin's paintings Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon and Belshazzar's Feast are purchased by his former employer William Collins and begin to tour.

A Group C Nimrod NRA / C2 which used Aston Martin's V8 engines in the 1980s.

Perhaps more importantly, numerous other well-known conservative Christian leaders as well as many conservative pastors have accepted Martin's definition of a cult as well as his understanding of the groups to which he gave that label.

Thomas ' funeral, which Brinnin did not attend, took place at St Martin's Church in Laugharne on 24 November.

Prominently, George R R Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series more or less abandons the good-evil paradigm in favor of a more politically based and multifaceted struggle between different ruling families, most of whom display both good and evil tendencies in pursuit of power, which takes the place of the main catalyst of the story.

This mysterious Western, offshoot of Gnosticism had no single feature about it which could soften the hostility of a character such as Martin's, but he resisted the introduction of secular punishment for evil doctrine, and withdrew from communion with those bishops in Gaul, a large majority, who invoked the aid of Maximus against their erring brethren.

In parts of Flanders and some parts of the Netherlands and most areas of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, children go to houses with home made beet lanterns or with paper lanterns ( which can hold a candle or electronic light ), singing songs about St. Martin on St. Martin's Day ( the 11th of November ), in return for treats.

Saint Martin's monastery benefited from its inception, at the very start of the 6th century from patronage and support from the Frankish king, Clovis, which increased considerably the influence of the saint, the abbey and the city in Gaul.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

For example, neither Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga nor George R. R. Martin's 1970s short stories which share a backdrop are generally considered future histories.

Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her next role, which brought her to international attention, was as one of the regular cast members on the 1968-1973 sketch comedy show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Martin's ancestry includes the Coughlin family, which also had NSW's first female statistician and the noted test cricketer Victor Trumper.

Examples of these axioms include the combination of Martin's axiom and the Open colouring axiom which, for example, prove that, while the continuum hypothesis implies the opposite.

Martin's extensive musical training ( which he received at the Guildhall School of Music ) and sophisticated guidance in the studio are often credited as fundamental contributions to the work of The Beatles ; he was without question a key part of the synergy responsible for transforming a good rock-and-roll group into the most celebrated popular musicians of their era.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

The town's three main trading streets of High Street, West Street and South Street are complemented by a small open-air shopping centre, St Martin's Walk, which is adjacent to the town's main car park and easily accessed from the High Street.

In so doing, he became the emblematic figure of Oakland manager Billy Martin's aggressive " Billyball " philosophy, which received much media attention.

He was known to reject atonal works, or works which he considered too radical, even if they were dedicated to him ; e. g. he rejected Frank Martin's Quatre pièces brèves, Darius Milhaud's Segoviana, etc.

It was a summary of seventeen years of Martin's musical career, which included mostly Spanish-language songs.

Lancaster is also home to a campus of the University of Cumbria – on the site of the former St Martin's College – which was inaugurated in 2007.

In 1995, St. Martin's Press of New York City agreed to publish the Goebbels biography ; but after protests, they cancelled the contract, leaving Irving in a situation in which, according to D. D. Guttenplan, he was desperate for financial help, publicity, and the need to re-establish his reputation as a historian.

( 1964 ), and the Howard Hawks western El Dorado ( 1966 ), a remake of Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), in which Mitchum took over Dean Martin's role of the drunk who comes to the aid of John Wayne.

They scrapped Martin's planned opening monologue and instead, Martin, in tears, introduced a video clip of a 1978 sketch in which he and Radner parodied an old Hollywood romantic couple's dance.