He is the patron saint of tin-miners, and is also generally regarded as the patron saint of Cornwall, although Saint Michael and Saint Petroc also have some claim to this title.

The ford developed into first a wooden then a stone bridge, and in 1497 saw the Battle of Deptford Bridge, in which rebels from Cornwall, led by Michael An Gof, marched on London protesting against punitive taxes, but were soundly beaten by the King's forces.

It is certain that Richard, Earl of Cornwall provided that the three fairs, on the two feasts of St Michael and at Mid-Lent, and the three markets which had hitherto been held by the priors of St Michael's Mount on land not their own at Marghasbighan, should in future be held on their own land at Marchadyou.

The fountain was given to the town by Michael Loam, whose father ( also called Michael Loam ) invented the Man engine ( a device for lifting men up and down mineshafts, and used in many mines throughout Cornwall & West Devon ).

Michael Adams ( born 17 November 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK ) is a British chess Grandmaster ( 1989 ).

With Saint Piran and Saint Michael, he is one of the patron saints of Cornwall.

Michael Mark Prisk ( born 12 June 1962, in Redruth, Cornwall ) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Thomas Flamank ( executed 27 June 1497 ) was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion against taxes imposed in England in 1497.

In reaction to King Henry's tax levy, Michael Joseph ( An Gof ), a blacksmith from St. Keverne and Thomas Flamank a lawyer of Bodmin, incited many of the people of Cornwall into armed revolt against the King.

The Tregothnan Estate is located beside the village of St Michael Penkivel south-east of Truro in Cornwall, England.

This strategy was successfully utilized by Cornwall Capital and profiled in " The Big Short " by Michael Lewis.

The ( previous ) government has said it will not be undertaking a review of the constitutional status of Cornwall and will not be changing the present status of the county ; the justice minister, Michael Wills, replying to a question from Andrew George MP, stated that " Cornwall is an administrative county of England, electing MPs to the UK Parliament, and is subject to UK legislation.

The Gorseth Kernow ( Gorsedd of Cornwall ) was set up in 1928 at Boscawen-un by Henry Jenner, one of the early proponents of Cornish language revival, who took the name " Gwas Myghal ", meaning " servant of Michael ".

Although Diana, Princess of Wales was known to have received the Order ( and, more recently, the Countess of Wessex and the Duchess of Cornwall were pictured wearing it ), neither Sarah, Duchess of York, Princess Michael of Kent or Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge have ever been seen to hold the order-although the latter has never attended any event in which the Order would be worn.

Current reporters include political editor Heather Ewart, together with Deborah Cornwall, Greg Hoy, Mark Willacy, Michael Brissenden, Murray McLaughlin, Mary Gearin, Mike Sexton, John Taylor, Peter McCutcheon, Paul Lockyer, Matt Peacock, Lisa Whitehead, Natasha Johnson, David Mark, Genevieve Hussey, Mark Bannerman and Jonathan Harley.

Thomas Michael Dunstan Voyce ( born 5 January 1981 in Truro, Cornwall ) is an English rugby union footballer who recently played at wing or fullback for Gloucester and England.

Mitchell ( sometimes known as Michael or St Michael's ) is a village in west Cornwall, England.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest.

Scientists who have worked in this area include Raymond Moody, Susan Blackmore, Charles Tart, William James, Ian Stevenson, Michael Persinger and Pim van Lommel among others.

The Dodo, who in this adaptation of the book is named Uilleam and is portrayed by Michael Gough, bears a down of brilliant blue and is one of Alice's advisers, who also took first note of her identity as the true Alice.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

* Raictor, a Byzantine monk who claimed to be the emperor Michael VII.

# Eudokia Komnene, who married Michael Iasites.

At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I of Epirus, who sent him to Asia Minor, where Alexios ' son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris of the Empire of Nicaea was holding his own against the Latins.

* Eirene Angelina, who married ( 1 ) Andronikos Kontostephanos, and ( 2 ) Alexios Palaiologos, by whom she was the grandmother of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

* 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested.

* Maria ( renamed Eirene ), who married Emperor Michael Asen IV of Bulgaria

The Empire's problems were exploited by Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria, who defeated Michael IX and conquered much of northeastern Thrace in c. 1305 – 1307.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

The so-called Weil conjectures were hugely influential from around 1950 ; they were later proved by Bernard Dwork, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Artin, and Pierre Deligne, who completed the most difficult step in 1973.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

The term was coined by Michael Dummett, who introduced it in his paper Realism to re-examine a number of classical philosophical disputes involving such doctrines as nominalism, conceptual realism, idealism and phenomenalism.

Angels, especially the archangel Michael, who were depicted as military-style agents of God, came to be shown wearing Late Antique military uniform.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

She first supported Michael Ancram, who was eliminated in the first round, and then Kenneth Clarke, who lost in the final round.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

After leaving college in 1963 Fulcher worked as an assistant at the design company Michael Tucker + Associates in London.

Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank.

American singer, pianist, musical historian Michael Feinstein worked for Gershwin in the lyricist's latter years, helping him with his archive.

During the German occupation of Denmark, Fritz Michael Hartmann worked as a civil servant and joined a resistance group ( Frit Danmark ), actively counteracting any pro-German and pro-Nazi colleagues in his department.

Among them were Michael Townley, a DINA U. S. expatriate who had once worked for the CIA ; General Manuel Contreras, former head of the DINA ; and Brigadier Pedro Espinoza, also formerly of DINA.

Amongst those who worked for Ingram at MGM on the Riviera during this period was the young Michael Powell, who later went on to direct ( with Emeric Pressburger ) The Red Shoes and other classics.

During the first two months the group worked on demos at South Hill Park Recording Studios in Bracknell, Berkshire with producer / studio owner Michael Sparkes and song writer / arranger Tim Hawes.

* Harold Varmus – Nobel laureate in Medicine ( 1989 ), worked with J. Michael Bishop to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.

For both Air Force One and Outbreak ( but not for The Perfect Storm ), Petersen teamed up with the German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who has also worked frequently with director Martin Scorsese.

He later worked with the American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas on a similar television series from 1993, Concerto !, likewise designed to introduce audiences to classical music concertos.

He then worked with Michael Scott from 1945-1946.

Joseph Schlessinger's former colleagues at the Weizmann Institute, in particular Michael Sela, claimed to have come up with this concept alongside Schlessinger when they worked together there years earlier, and Yeda challenged the Aventis patent in the United States.

For a while the diplomatic intent of the union worked out in the West, but in the end Pope Martin IV, an ally of Charles of Anjou, excommunicated Michael VIII.

He was soon joined by an actor he had previously worked with, comedy actor Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire.

The church was pastored by Michael Kyle, a native of Del Rio and longtime broadcaster himself, having worked in both local radio stations and with Paul Kallinger.

Michael Kyle worked an air shift at the station in Mexico when the format went to all music.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

The TV show was written and produced by largely the same team as had worked on Radio Active, and Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens, Geoffrey Perkins and Phillip Pope again comprised the main cast.

Many contemporary performers have worked in the style of classic pop including Harry Connick, Jr., Linda Ronstadt, Michael Bublé, Diana Krall, Stacey Kent, John Pizzarelli, Ray Reach, Karrin Allyson, Madeleine Peyroux, Jane Monheit, Maude Maggart, as well as those known as cabaret singers such as Andrea Marcovicci and Bobby Short.

Bruce Lundvall was appointed to oversee the label at the time of the revival and Michael Cuscuna has since worked as freelance advisor and reissue producer.

Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >

The sessions for the album ( chronicled in Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life ) were a source of conflict between the band and engineer / producer Spot, who had worked with the band and the SST label since their early years.

James Chaney and other local residents, along with Michael Schwerner, his wife Rita, and Andrew Goodman, volunteers from the North, worked on creating a community center to help prepare African Americans in the area to regain the power to vote.