He was appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries by Sir John A. Macdonald in 1888, and kept that position in subsequent Conservative cabinets until 1894, under PMs Sir John Abbott and Sir John Sparrow David Thompson.

Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 15 Prime Ministers ( 19 counting acting PMs ).

Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 15 Prime Ministers ( 19 including acting PMs ).

At the left, the room is fitted out like a studiolo with a range of built-in cabinets whose fronts can be unlocked and let down to reveal intricately fitted nests of pigeonholes forming architectural units, filled with small mineral specimens.

These blankets are usually mounted in vertical quick-release cabinets so that they can be easily pulled out and wrapped round a person whose clothes are on fire.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

That year, Robinson was one of ten students named to the school's Order of the Mast and Dagger ( Omicron Mu Delta ), awarded to students performing " outstanding service to the school and whose scholastic and citizenship record is worthy of recognition.

The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

In 1916, Robinson, whose name appeared as " J. Russel Robinson ", collaborated with W. C. Handy on the song " Ole Miss Rag ".

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character ( whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer )— a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.

Other than Jackie Robinson ( whose number was retired by the entire MLB ), Ryan is currently the only major league baseball player to have his number retired by at least 3 different teams: the Angels, Astros, and Rangers.

The line is further blurred by novelists such as Kim Stanley Robinson, whose alternate-history novel The Years of Rice and Salt has a character talking of historians ' use of counterfactuals, within the novel's alternate history.

* Daniel Defoe – author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders ( whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison )

Entering the 2002 – 03 season, the team knew it would be memorable for at least two reasons, as David Robinson announced that it would be his last in the NBA and the Spurs would begin play at their new arena, the SBC Center, named after telecommunications giant SBC, whose corporate headquarters were located in San Antonio ( SBC became AT & T after its acquisition of its former parent company ).

His eulogy was read by Brock Peters, whose character, Tom Robinson, was defended by Peck's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

From 1805 to 1810 settlements developed along such streams as St. Francois River, Doe Run Creek, and Flat River which are familiar to locals today ; by such personages as Squire Eleazer Clay, John Robinson, Isaac and John Burnham, Lemuel Halsted, Samuel Rhoades, Solomon Jones and Mark Dent, many of whose descendants still reside in the county.

In 1836 Dred Scott met a teen-aged slave named Harriet Robinson whose master was Major Lawrence Taliaferro, an army officer from Virginia.

A few days later Robinson contacted his brother and sister-in-law, who had been unable to adopt a baby through traditional channels, and informed them that he knew of a baby whose mother had committed suicide.

For a $ 5, 500 fee to an imaginary lawyer, Don and Helen Robinson received Tiffany Stasi ( whose identity was confirmed by DNA testing in 2000 ) and a set of authentic-appearing adoption papers with the forged signatures of two lawyers and a judge.

A review in Variety magazine included: " Fritz Lang's production and direction ably project the sordid tale of the romance between a milquetoast character and a gold-digging blonde ... Edward G. Robinson is the mild cashier and amateur painter whose love for Joan Bennett leads him to embezzlement, murder and disgrace.

The invaders were a mixed bunch led by Culture Club, whose sound has been described as ' recycled Smokey Robinson ' or ' torchy American schmaltz and classic Motown '", adding that, " Boy George's drag-queen appearance made the group a natural for the visual demands of cable television ".

A number of books and resources charting the history of Birchinlee and the dambuilders have been written by Professor Brian Robinson ( whose mother was born and lived in Tintown ) and Doctor Bill Beven, Peak District National Park archaeologist.

Robinson, whose name appeared as " J. Russel Robinson ", was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

starring Tony Robinson and Michelle Collins, about a bank manager whose dull life is suddenly changed when he accidentally becomes involved in a robbery from his own bank.

Her brother, Robinson Elsdale ( 1744 – 1783 ), was a celebrated privateer, whose unpublished exploits formed the basis of the novel by Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman ( 1846 ).

Some tracks include retained songs from the Mr. Crowe's Garden era such as " Could I've Been So Blind " and " She Talks to Angels ", whose riff had been written years ago by then-17 years old Rich Robinson and whose lyrics were inspired to Chris by a heroin-addicted girl he " kinda knew " in Atlanta.

At this conference, intended to allow scholars to arrive at a group consensus concerning the definition of gnosticism, James M. Robinson, an expert on religion, assembled a group of editors and translators whose express task was to publish a bilingual edition of the Nag Hammadi codices in English, in collaboration with the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

He is alleged to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al-Qassim Province.

The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.

* the Pomme d ' Or overlooking Liberation Square in St. Helier, which during the occupation served as the German Navy Headquarters and from whose balcony the Liberation force raised the Union Flag on Liberation Day, 9 May 1945 ;

It was the birthplace of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope Pius II, in whose employ Alberti served.

It was in the possession of the counts of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Landeck, whose arms, differenced by an escutcheon of the Imperial eagle, served as the arms of Landau until 1955.

In examining the origins of the monastic cloister, Walter Horn found that " as a manorial entity the Carolingian monastery ... differed little from the fabric of a feudal estate, save that the corporate community of men for whose sustenance this organization was maintained consisted of monks who served God in chant and spent much of their time in reading and writing.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish ; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like them was punished.

: Joshua 24: 15 " But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.

* Vlaams Parliament (" Flemish Parliament "; originally styled Vlaamse Raad " Flemish Council ") served both the Flemish Community ( whose same it uses ) and, in application of a Belgian constitutional option, of the region of Flanders ( in all matters of regional competence, its decisions have no effect in Brussels )

Their daughter Alvina was a learned woman whose customs served as the basis for later halakhic decisions.

" My Country, ' Tis of Thee ", whose melody is identical to " God Save the Queen ", the British national anthem, also served as a de facto anthem.

He has served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the Amazon Conservation Association, whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus had served as consul in 16 BC, also serves in the Armenia campaigns.

A more balanced view suggests a highly capable military ruler whose oft-reviled peculiarities seemed to have served him well, but who neglected his base in Sweden in pursuit of foreign adventure.

Massamba-Débat, whose powers had been curtailed by the CNR, resigned on September 4, and Prime Minister Alfred Raoul served as acting head of state until December 31, 1968, when the CNR formally became the country's supreme authority and Ngouabi, as head of the CNR, assumed the presidency.

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he is said by some sources to have served as a Chief Administrator to the Muslim caliph of Damascus before his ordination.

Eating fresh " garden " peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage, Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, ca 1660-80.

Before the Roman conquest of northern Gaul, Reims, founded circa 80 BC as * Durocorteron (" round fortress "; in Latin: Durocortōrum ), served as the capital of the tribe of the Remi — whose name the town would subsequently echo.

Code talkers are people who talk using a coded language, most notably the 400-500 Native American Marines who served in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages.

* Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, served as regent from 1944 to 1950 for his older brother king Leopold III of Belgium, whose position had come under scrutiny after the Second World War and his marriage to Lilian Baels.

Major-General Stringer Lawrence, first commander-in-chief of British troops in India, under whose command Robert Clive served, was born in Hereford.

Louis Armstrong served as a model for Cab Calloway, whose 1930s scat solos inspired Gershwin's use of the medium in his Porgy and Bess ; it was from the 1926 recording of " Heebie Jeebies " arose the techniques that would form the foundation of modern scat.

Champagne is usually served in a Champagne flute, whose characteristics include a long stem with a tall, narrow bowl, thin sides and an etched bottom.

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