* Atlas is a nickname for Michael Marra, a Scottish musician ( born 1952 )

Achill is attached to the mainland by Michael Davitt Bridge, between the villages of Gob an Choire ( Achill Sound ) and Poll Raithní ( Polranny ).

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.

* 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

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.

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

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

This account, supported by biologist E. O. Wilson and philosopher Michael Ruse, proposes that the human experience of morality is a by-product of natural selection, a theory philosopher Mark D. Linville calls evolutionary naturalism.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

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.

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

Notable in this area is Michael Leyton, professor of psychology at Rutgers University.

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.

Michael Meyer argues that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather " the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.

One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

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 ').

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Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after Michael Faraday, and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a potential difference of one volt when it stores a charge of one coulomb.

The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.

Michael (), also occasionally Micheal, is a given name that comes from the ( Mikha ' el ), derived from the question מי כאל ( mi k ' ʔel ) meaning " Who is like God?

Michael is a popular given name in the United States, and has been in the top three most popular name given to male babies in the U. S. for each year since 1953.

" Mike ", " Mick ", " Mikiel ", " Mikey ", " Mikael ", " Mic ", " Misha " ( common in Russia ) and " Mickey " are short forms of, or nicknames for, Michael as a given name.

She arranged a meeting among feuding campaign managers John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, which resulted in Deaver leaving the campaign and Sears being given full control.

The best evidence for resting positions is given by data collected by the peppered moth researcher Michael Majerus, and it is given in the accompanying charts.

The column is called " The Pop of King ", a play on the nickname " The King of Pop " commonly given to Michael Jackson.

" Michael Horton appears as a bloodied and stoic Starfleet defender ; his character would be given the name of Daniels in the next Star Trek film.

Astronaut and friend of ZZ Top, Michael Fossum, was given the released single to listen to on his trip to the International Space Station.

* The Constantinople suburb of Beyoğlu ( then known as Pera ) is given to the Republic of Genoa by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, in return for Genoa's support of the Empire after the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Furthermore, as one of the negotiators, Michael Collins, later admitted ( and he was in a position to know, given his role in the independence war ), the IRA at the time of the truce was weeks, if not days, from collapse, with a chronic shortage of ammunition.

Knight Rider 2000, a 1991 sequel movie featuring Michael Knight and Devon Miles, with KITT being given a new sporty red body ( a close copy of the Pontiac Banshee IV concept car, was actually a Dodge Stealth with custom body work ) as the Knight 4000, and serving as a Television pilot for a would-be new series starring Susan Norman as Shawn McCormick, but it did not sell.

To the question, therefore, which ought to hold the first rank, Raffaelle or Michael Angelo, it must be answered, that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man, there is no doubt but Raffaelle is the first.

An insight into his character is given in Michael St. John Packe's The Life of John Stuart Mill:

Prince of Israel, Prince of the Angels, and Prince of Light are titles given to the Archangel Michael.

Michael Wilson was blacklisted at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front ( novelist Pierre Boulle ).

In 1983 – 84, the Pacers finished with the worst record in the Eastern Conference, which would have given the Pacers the second overall pick in the draft — the pick that that the Blazers famously used to select Sam Bowie while Michael Jordan was still available.

The romance theme was later given lyrics, and became the pop standard " Smile ", first recorded by Nat King Cole and later covered by artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Trini Lopez, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Petula Clark, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux, Plácido Domingo and Dionne Warwick, Michael Jackson and Robert Downey, Jr. ( included on the soundtrack for the film Chaplin ).

A temple ( aedes or delubrum ) was dedicated to the Tempestates ( given in the singular by Ovid ) by L. Cornelius Scipio in 259 BC ,< ref > CIL 1 < sup > 2 </ sup >. 9 = 6. 12897 ( ILS 3 ); Michael Lipka, Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach ( Brill, 2009 ), p. 128 .</ ref > as recorded by his epitaph.