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The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.
The year before, Nicholas had unchivalrously taken Christopher captive as he bathed before a tournament in Munich.
Although Christopher renounced his claim for revenge, he lay in wait for Nicholas in Friesling.
* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.
Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
The modern interpretation, following that of Louis Duchesne, who compiled the major scholarly edition, is that the Liber Pontificalis was gradually and unsystematically compiled, and that the authorship is impossible to determine, with a few exceptions ( e. g. the biography of Pope Stephen II ( 752 – 757 ) to papal " Primicerius " Christopher ; the biographies of Pope Nicholas I and Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) to Anastasius ).
* Front of name: Sometimes a nickname can come from the front: Chris from Christopher / Christina, Ed from Edward / Edmond / Edgar / Edwin, Iz or Izzy from Isaac / Isaiah / Isidore / Izale / Isabel / Isabella, Joe or Jo from Joseph / Josephine / Joanna, Abby from Abigail, Nick or Nico from Nicholas, Peg from Peggy, Sam from Samuel / Samantha / Samson
The building was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor ( Christopher Wren's greatest pupil ) and built between 1711 and 1715 to house the Press's printing operations.
The palace fell into disrepair during the English Civil War and was rebuilt as the Royal Naval Hospital for Sailors by Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor.
British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.
The college is distinguished by its predominantly neo-classical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
She gave birth to his second daughter, Toni, in September 2004, and his third child, Christopher Nicholas, in December 2005.
Directed by Graeme Clifford, the story was written for the screen by Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, and Nicholas Kazan ( son of Elia Kazan, who worked with the real Frances Farmer in several plays ), based upon William Arnold's Shadowland, a fictional biography of Farmer.
Christopher Hatton as Lord Chancellor with his seal on the table by his side, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1588-1591
Nicholas reposed on January 30, 2006, and was replaced by Archbishop Christopher of Prague and the Czech Lands ( elected May 2, 2006 ).
Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, it was directed by Nicholas Hytner, who also translated the libretto, and starred Ann Murray in the title role, with Valerie Masterson as Romilda, Christopher Robson as Arsamene, and Lesley Garrett as Atalanta.
During the High Renaissance period, Christopher Columbus traveled to what later become known as America ( though he was, in fact, searching for a faster trade route to India ) and Nicholas Copernicus discovered that Earth exists in a heliocentric solar system, contrary to the geocentric belief of centuries prior that held that the Earth is central and stationary, with all heavenly bodies orbiting it, even though this had been known ever since the antiquity.
Together the Carradines played the Younger brothers in The Long Riders ( 1980 ) along with three other sets of acting brothers: Stacy and James Keach, Dennis and Randy Quaid, and Christopher and Nicholas Guest.
He had close links to fellow Maastricht rebels Nicholas Budgen and Christopher Gill, even giving the eulogy at Budgen's funeral at Lichfield Cathedral.
* Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater ( b. 1942 )
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Nicholas and wrote
And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.
" In a letter to Nicholas Kratzer in 1524, Dürer wrote " because of our Christian faith we have to stand in scorn and danger, for we are reviled and called heretics.
In 1833, an anonymous English-language writer wrote a poetic defence of Captain Nicholas Nicholls, who had been sentenced to death in London for sodomy:
Her letters to her son and his family have since almost all been lost ; but in one that survives, she wrote to Nicholas: " You know that my thoughts and prayers never leave you.
When Eadmer wrote a life of Dunstan some decades later, he included an account of Edward's parentage obtained from Nicholas of Worcester.
Charles Thomson's painting, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, as Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely " signature piece " for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art.
In addition to his numerous letters to various notables and foreign rulers ( including Simeon of Bulgaria ), Nicholas Mystikos wrote a homily on the sack of Thessalonica by the Arabs in 904.
The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.
" Alexandra wrote Nicholas on 13 March 1916 that Tatiana was the only one of their four daughters who " grasped it " when she explained her way of looking at things.
" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on 6 December 1916.
" My little Malama came for an hour yesterday evening ," wrote Alexandra to Nicholas on 17 March 1916.
" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on December 6, 1916.
Irina's first cousin, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, whom she had been close to when they were girls, was disdainful of Felix: " Felix is a ' downright civilian ,' dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing ; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes – a man idling in such times ," Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas II, on 5 March 1915 after paying a visit to the Yusupovs.
The only extant relic of the saint is the arm and hand with which he wrote his Commentary on the Sentences, which is now conserved at Bagnoregio, in the parish church of St. Nicholas.
Her stepson Nicholas Mosley is a novelist who also wrote a critical memoir of his father for which Diana reportedly never forgave him, despite their previously close relationship.
During the later part of his life, Nicholas Barbon wrote extensively on economic theory.
Barham was a contributor to the Edinburgh Review and the Literary Gazette ; he wrote articles for John Gorton's Biographical Dictionary ; and a novel, My Cousin Nicholas ( 1834 ).
Michael rejected the notion, proposed by his friends, that he keep her as a mistress, and in July 1906 he wrote to Nicholas asking permission to marry her.
At the start of the war, Michael wrote to Nicholas asking him to legitimise his son so, he argued, that the boy would be provided for in the event of Michael's death at the front.
He wrote to his godmother, Baroness Alfhild Scalon de Coligny, who had connections at the Russian court, to help him enter the Nicholas Cavalry School.
A wide range of Elizabethan poets wrote songs, including Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Nashe and Robert Southwell.
Whittingham also wrote a preface to Nicholas Ridley's ‘ Brief Declaration of the Lord's Supper ’ ( Geneva?
Starting from the 19th century Taormina became a popular tourist resort in the whole of Europe: people who visited Taormina include Oscar Wilde, Nicholas I of Russia, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nietzsche ( who here wrote his Also sprach Zarathustra ), Richard Wagner and many others.

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