* Nicholas Piantanida is killed while attempting to break the world balloon altitude record.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Her stepfather's brother Frederick became Pope Stephen IX, while both of the following two popes, Nicholas II and Alexander II had been Tuscan bishops.

Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.

* May 11 – Otsu Incident: Tsesarevich Nikolay Alexandrovich ( the future Czar Nicholas II ) of Russia survives an assassination attempt while visiting Japan.

French designers like François de Cuvilliés, Nicholas Pineau and Bartolomeo Rastrelli exported Parisian styles in person to Munich and Saint Petersburg, while the German Juste-Aurèle Meissonier found his career at Paris.

On October 1, 1213, while Nicholas de Romanis was working to bring about the end of the Interdict, the citizens of Oxford sent him a letter asking him to resolve their problems with the scholars who had taught there.

In musical tuning, Jing Fang ( 78 – 37 BCE ) realized that 53 perfect fifths was approximate to 31 octaves while creating a musical scale of 60 tones, calculating the difference at < sup > 177147 </ sup >⁄< sub > 176776 </ sub > ( the same value of 53 equal temperament discovered by the German mathematician Nicholas Mercator, i. e. 3 < sup > 53 </ sup >/ 2 < sup > 84 </ sup >).

Bari, while today an industrialised port and university city, still maintains strong traditions based on its patron Saint Nicholas.

Largely under the influence of the Hungarian-born economists Nicholas Kaldor and Thomas Balogh, an idiosyncratic " Selective Employment Tax " ( SET ) was introduced that was designed to tax employment in the service sectors while subsidising employment in manufacturing ( the rationale proposed by its economist authors derived largely from claims about potential economies of scale and technological progress, but Wilson in his memoirs stressed the tax's revenue-raising potential ).

The Monte Carlo method was coined in the 1940s by John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam and Nicholas Metropolis, while they were working on nuclear weapon projects ( Manhattan Project ) in the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A French political cartoon depicting Qing dynasty | China as a king cake is about to be carved up by Queen Victoria ( British Empire | Britain ), Wilhelm II ( German Empire | Germany ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicolas II ( Russian Empire | Russia ), Marianne ( Third French Republic | France ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan | Japan ) while a Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | Mandarin official helplessly looks on.

Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.

However, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, an expert on the Thule Society, finds that while Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess had been Thule members, other leading Nazis had only been guests of the Thule or entirely unconnected with it.

Nicholas Wheeler is a prominent solidarist, while Hedley Bull and Robert H. Jackson are perhaps the best known pluralists.

In his novel Hawksmoor ( 1985 ) the historical Hawksmoor is refigured as the fictional Devil-worshiper Nicholas Dyer, while the eponymous Hawksmoor is a twentieth-century detective charged with investigating a series of murders perpertrated on Dyer's ( Hawksmoor's ) churches.

Other popes elected in Viterbo were Gregory X ( 1271 ) and John XXI ( 1276 ) ( who died in the papal palace when the ceiling of the recently-built library collapsed on him while he slept ), Nicholas III and the French Martin IV.

In his 2000 Dimbleby lecture, Who's afraid of modern art, Sir Nicholas Serota advocated such kinds of " difficult " art, while quoting opposition such as the Daily Mail headline " For 1, 000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces.

Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by Deputy U. S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963. From 1826 to 1846, Tuscaloosa was the capital of Alabama.

A few accused Nicholas of betraying them, while others settled down to wait for God to change his mind, since they believed that it was unthinkable he would not eventually do so.

Nicholas did not survive the second attempt across the Alps ; back home his father was arrested and hanged under pressure from angry families whose relatives had perished while following the child.

Charles Dickens and his illustrator Hablot Browne ( Phiz ) stayed at the King's Head in Barnard Castle while researching his novel Nicholas Nickleby in the winter of 1837-38.

The two men sang " Stille Nacht " for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse.

According to many academics, the Court of Chancery really began to expand its caseload during the 15th century ; Margaret Avery reports a massive increase in cases during the 1440s, while Nicholas Pronay suggests that the real expansion came during Yorkist rule ( 1461 – 85 ), when the number of cases submitted each year quadrupled.

Each song on the album was penned at least in part by Black ; four of them were attributed solely to him, while the rest were collaborations with Nicholas.

In 2004, Garner starred in the movie version of Nicholas Sparks ' The Notebook alongside Gena Rowlands as his wife ( portrayed in flashbacks by Rachel McAdams, while the younger version of Garner's character was played by Ryan Gosling ), directed by Nick Cassavetes, Rowlands ' son.

Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 officer recently stationed in Beirut who had previously believed in Philby's innocence, was tasked with attempting to secure Philby's full confession.

While Nicholas was attempting to maintain the status quo in Europe, he adopted an aggressive policy toward the Ottoman Empire.

Absorbed by Clan Smoke Jaguar for attempting to use their words of Nicholas Kerensky to sidestep a Grand Council ruling that ran against them and to justify their actions and defend actions considered by their fellow Clans to be " un-clanlike " Being then deemed unfit to rule, by the Grand Council, the Council called a Trial of Absorption.

* Nicholas Mercator and William Brouncker discover an infinite series for the logarithm while attempting to calculate the area under a hyperbolic segment.

While Nicholas was attempting to maintain the status quo in Europe, he adopted an aggressive policy toward the Ottoman Empire.

He also often is depicted as a minor character or diplomat on the world stage, particularly as an emissary of Nicholas II attempting to stem the chaos which eventually led to the First World War.

* Writ in Blood ( 1997 ) features St. Germain as a secret agent of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, attempting to patch the ties of blood between the European royal families and prevent the outbreak of World War I.

As Banner is an enemy of the colony after attempting to kill Sir Nicholas Fury, Dougan attempts to execute him.

Nicholas unknowingly activates the egg and sends himself and Allegra into the Outer Dimension, where they find themselves as part of an intrepid group attempting to save Galidor, which is being targeted by the sinister Gorm.

James Marcello was accused of murdering Nicholas D ' Andrea, in 1981, attempting to kill Nicholas Sarillo, Sr. in 1982, and murdering brothers Anthony " Tony the Ant " Spilotro and Michael Spilotro in 1986.

In 1960, Nicholas Poppe presented what was in effect a heavily revised version of Ramstedt ’ s volume on phonology that has since set the standard in Altaic studies.

Nicholas had long had his heart set on marrying Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt.

The Prince of Wales planned Alexander's funeral and also set a date for the new Emperor Nicholas II's wedding to Alix.

He opposed the political policies of Louis IV of Bavaria as Holy Roman Emperor, which prompted Louis to invade Italy and set up an antipope, Nicholas V. Pope John XXII faced controversy in theology involving his views on the Beatific Vision, and he opposed the Franciscan understanding of the poverty of Christ and his apostles.

Louis IV invaded Italy, entered Rome and set up Pietro Rainalducci as Antipope Nicholas V in 1328.

Pope Nicholas V set aside part of the Vatican grounds in 1447 for a garden of medicinal plants that were used to promote the teaching of botany, and this was a forerunner to the University gardens at Padua and Pisa established in the 1540s.

Directed by Johnny Simons, and co-starring Avner Eisenberg and Nicholas de Wolff, the development of the play was supervised by Crumb, who also served as set designer, drawing larger-than-life representations of some of his most famous characters all over the floors and walls of the set.

This programme, led by architect Nicholas Rank, is set to cost something in the region of £ 3 million of works.

*" King Nicholas I " changed his name by deed poll from Nick Copeman and set up a new empire from his royal seat a caravan just outside town.

Nicholas Sparks set his novel, The Notebook, in the city.

On December 14, around 1, 200 British sailors and Royal Marines under Captain Nicholas Lockyer set out to attack Catesby's force.

Nicholas, who was at army headquarters in Mogilev, prorogued the Duma, but the deputies refused to leave and instead set up their own rival government.

After consulting Rodzyanko at the Mariinsky Palace in Petrograd, Michael advised Nicholas to dismiss his ministers and set up a new government led by the leader of the majority party in the Duma.

This body had been set up earlier to draw up plans for a new form of government for Finland, in light of the events surrounding the February Revolution and the abdication of Nicholas II as Emperor of Russia and Grand Duke of Finland.

Upon leaving the Plaza Suite, Gravano called Garafola and set up an ambush outside the club, involving Garafola, Milito, D ' Angelo, Nicholas Mormando, and Michael DeBatt in the plan.

Had the series been picked up by a network, it would have featured Xander ( voiced by Nicholas Brendon ) in more adventures set during Buffys first season.

* Esarhaddon is a character in Nicholas Guild's The Assyrian, a historical novel about the adventures of a fictional prince, Tiglath-Ashur, set during the reign of king Sennacherib in ancient Assyria.

In 2007, Nicholas Hare Architects were appointed to produce detailed designs for the first set of new buildings.

Hare Court was named after Nicholas Hare, who built the first set in 1567.

However, the name did not become canon until its mention in Star Trek VI, and it was included only after Peter David, who authored the film's comic book adaptation, visited the set and persuaded director Nicholas Meyer to insert it.

Although the novel is set in the present, it revolves around a plot initiated in 1917 by Britain's King George V and the nefarious Sir Basil Zaharoff to rescue Czar Nicholas from the hands of the Bolsheviks.

The Germans were thus able to set a trap which resulted in the capture of Jack Agazarian who had been sent with Nicholas Bodington to investigate the fate of the Prosper network.

Colonists, such as Phillip Schuyler, Nicholas Herkimer, William Johnson, trading with the Iroquois set the stage for commercial and military competition between European nations, leading to the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.