He also argues that John's " poor " Greek is a literary device since Galileans were known to have excellent Greek.

Much of John's literary inspiration is late Hebrew and Greek, but John's dragon is more likely to have come originally through the Near East.

Pandulf's role in King John's reign made him a character in later literary and dramatic works that deal with the monarch, like Shakespeare's King John and Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda.

The New Testament is an unusual collection of texts -- John's Book of Revelation, though not the first of its kind, essentially defines apocalypse as a literary genre.

John's writings are excellent at clarifying the literary and scientific position of 12th century Western Europe.

Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky made a witches ' sabbath the theme of a ' musical picture ' titled St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (), completed on 23 June 1867 ( St. John's Eve ).

Born in Shanghai in 1887, Koo attended Saint John's University, Shanghai, and Columbia College, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society, a literary and debating club, and graduated in 1908.

In the early 20th century, the society became renowned for its literary and musical events, and remained one of the most active and influential fraternal societies in St. John's until the 1990s.

Apart from Captain Beefheart and some of Dr. John's early output, there was little precedent in popular music.

It was a family secret for 600 years and even ( Sir John's ) mother, who died shortly before we visited, refused to reveal the secret.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

Here, as Head states, " for five happy years we worked together on week-ends and holidays in the quiet atmosphere of his rooms at St. John's College.

From Sheridan Morley's authorised biography: " Accustomed as we have now become to ... the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, it is almost impossible to conceive how revolutionary John's idea was for the West End of 1937, where there had simply been nothing like it since the heyday of Henry Irving and the actor-managers more than fifty years earlier.

Hall & Oates covered Elton John's " Philadelphia Freedom " on the 1991 John / Taupin tribute album " Two Rooms ", saying in the booklet, " We chose ' Philadelphia Freedom ' because the music is so close to our hearts, and the lyrics represent the way we feel about Philadelphia.

In February 2011, during Defence Committee hearings in St. John's before an audience which included the family and co-workers of mariners lost at sea in recent accidents on the Atlantic, Gallant remarked, " In Ontario we have inland seas, the Great Lakes, and it would never occur to any of us, even up in the Ottawa River, to count on the Coast Guard to come and help us.

In the case of " John believes everything that Mary says ", if we try to capture the content of John's beliefs, we would need to form an infinite conjunction such as the following:

You've just shown Canada what we first saw in St. John's.

In a letter published in Varsity at the end of the year 1971-2, Harry Newman wrote, " Varsity began over a bottle of sherry in John's, matured over a bottle of port in Caius and blossomed with a firkin of ale over the Victoria Cinema, where we pecked out the first issue on trestle tables ( without chairs ).

From the title, as given in the only manuscript, we learn John's name and the fact that he was prior of Hexham.

On 9 November, John's co-star June Brown ( who plays Dot Branning ) confirmed that we would see Jim again on Christmas Day.

The closing words of John's Gospel state explicitly concerning the Beloved Disciple that " It is this disciple who testifies to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true.

In the 1990s, Taco John's slogan was: " A Whole Lotta Mexican ," which accompanied a jingle that stated " Once we getcha, then we gotcha .... gotcha comming back for more!

" Sir John's passion in promoting the value of research will be invaluable to the Medical Research Council as we enter a further period of change.

In a 1975 interview with Rolling Stone, John Lennon recalled, " I remember hearing Elton John's ' Your Song ,' heard it in America — it was one of Elton's first big hits — and remember thinking, ' Great, that's the first new thing that's happened since we ( The Beatles ) happened.

After the Reformation the crown sold it to the St John family and for a time it was called St John's Ripton before it became known by the name we know it today.

# Samuel Sass, 1976: ( Buchanan familiar with Berkshires ) " A Berkshire St. John's: The college we lost.

John's parents ( Roy E. Glenn, Beah Richards ) fly up from Los Angeles to the Draytons ' dinner but don't know that Joanna is white until they meet her.

While at work on St. John's Night I didn't sleep at night and actually finished the work on the eve of St. John's Day, it seethed within me so, and I simply didn't know what was happening within me ...

According to Dirk and Sondra's reenacting of Farmer John's parents naming him, he was named " Far " after his father's desire to know how " far " he goes in life and " Mer " after a relative of Farmer John's mother.

But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.

Astronomical reconstruction of the Jewish Lunar calendar tends to favor John's chronology, in that the only year during the governorship of Pontius Pilate when the 15th Nisan is calculated as falling on a Wednesday / Thursday was 27 CE, which appears too early as the year of the crucifixion, whereas the 14th of Nisan fell on a Thursday / Friday in both 30 CE and 33 CE.

John's son, Henry III, was only 9 years old when he became king ( 1216 – 1272 ).

The Gospel of John does not record the baptism directly, but only by John's description afterward ( John 1: 32-33 ).

For his part in the potential marriage alliance, Henry II transferred the castles of Chinon, Loudun and Mirebeau into John's name ; as John was only five years old his father would continue to control them for practical purposes.

The new peace would only last for two years ; war recommenced in the aftermath of John's decision in August 1200 to marry Isabella of Angoulême.

John's only remaining possession on the Continent was now the Duchy of Aquitaine.

Seen more critically, John may have been motivated by the potential of the royal legal process to raise fees, rather than a desire to deliver simple justice ; John's legal system also only applied to free men, rather than to all of the population.

Llywelyn came to terms that included an expansion of John's power across much of Wales, albeit only temporarily.

At Limassol, Frederick demanded that John give up not only the regency of Cyprus, but also John's own lordship of Beirut on the mainland.

John's request for safe conduct only saw Philip agree to allow him to come in peace, but that his return would only occur if it were allowed after the judgment of his peers.

Located here is a campus of the University of New Brunswick, as well as southwestern New Brunswick's largest health care centre, the Saint John Regional Hospital, and Saint John's only completely French school, Samuel de Champlain.

The growth of the UNBSJ campus is particularly notable, for the campus began with only 96 students spread throughout various buildings in Saint John's central business district.

Another motive was John's conviction that it was only by making peace with France that it would be possible to release sufficient manpower to enforce his claim to the throne of Castile.

When Aunt March overhears Meg rejecting John's declaration of love, she threatens Meg with disinheritance because she suspects that Brooke is only interested in Meg's future prospects.

It is also one of only two parts of the Trans-Canada system in which the highway is officially designated as north-south, the other being Autoroute 85 / Route 185 from Autoroute 20 in Quebec to the New Brunswick border ( the Trans-Canada is otherwise designated as east-west from Nanaimo to St. John's, although there are significant north-south sections north of Hope BC, Sault Ste.

John's closest adviser was his only intimate friend, John Axouch, a Turk captured as a child at the Siege of Nicaea, who had been given as a gift to John's father.

Orosius succeeded only in obtaining John's consent to send letters and deputies to Pope Innocent I of Rome ; and, after having waited long enough to learn the unfavourable decision of the Synod of Diospolis ( Lydda ) in December of the same year, he returned to North Africa,

* Esther " Grandma " Walton ( Ellen Corby, appears regularly in season 1 until Corby's stroke midway through season 5 ; returns in the last episode of season 6 and remains through the end of season 7 ; then appears only occasionally in seasons 8 and 9 ( and subsequently in five of the six sequels ), John's mother

" Although it's only because of the brilliance of John's deciding that I should sing " Danke Schoen " on the float in the parade.

St. John's Episcopal Church ( Hampton, Virginia ) | St. John's Church is the oldest English-speaking church in continuous existence in the United States and the only colonial structure in downtown Hampton.