Prominent citizens of Ithaki participated in the secret " Filiki Etairia " which was instrumental in organizing the Greek Revolution of 1821 against Turkish rule, and Greek fighters found refuge there.

Prominent fighters within the organization such as Bas Rutten and Guy Mezger have adamantly claimed that these accusations are false.

) Prominent citizens of villages were often taken as hostages and executed if the resistance fighters did not surrender.

Prominent goods and services imported by Cyprus in 2008 were consumer goods, machinery, petroleum and other lubricants, transport equipments and intermediate goods.

Prominent opponents of the Crusaders were Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, viscount of Carcassonne, and his feudal overlord Peter II, the king of Aragon, who held fiefdoms and had a number of vassals in the region.

Prominent amongst the missionaries and immigrant aid workers were Rev.

Prominent Communists who became victims of these purges and were defendants in the Prague Trials included Rudolf Slánský, the party's general secretary, Vlado Clementis ( the Foreign Minister ) and Gustáv Husák ( the leader of an administrative body responsible for Slovakia ), who was dismissed from office for " bourgeois nationalism ".

Prominent among the Creoles demanding change were the bourgeois nationalist H. C. Bankole-Bright, General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Branch of the National Congress of British West Africa ( NCBWA ), and the socialist I. T. A.

Prominent Sikh Gurus were killed by Mughals for opposing Mughal persecution of minority religious communities.

Prominent contributors were Gunnar Nordström, Hermann Weyl, Arthur Eddington, Theodor Kaluza, Oskar Klein, and most notably, Albert Einstein and his collaborators.

Prominent scholars and teachers were again invited from India.

Prominent among the candidates for the papacy were the great historian Baronius and the famous Jesuit controversialist Robert Bellarmine.

Prominent among these anatomists were Mondino de Liuzzi and Alessandro Achillini.

Prominent New Left members were Jan Nagel, André van der Louw and Bram Peper.

Prominent merchant families and private businesses were allowed to occupy industries that were not already government-operated monopolies.

Prominent legal challenges in the 1950s were brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group whose beliefs preclude swearing loyalty to any power other than God, and who objected to policies in public schools requiring students to swear an oath to the flag.

Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.

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Prominent buildings in Hanoi were also constructed during the period French rule, such as the Hanoi Opera House and the Hanoi University of Technology.

Prominent persons involved in this conference were Ebrahim Rasool, Cheryl Carolus, Faried Esack, and Julia Martin.

Prominent citizens were placed on the engine of the train so that it might be understood that in every accident caused by the hostility of the inhabitants their compatriots will be the first to suffer.

Prominent musicians from major orchestras around the country were recruited and the conductor Pierre Monteux was hired as well to work with the orchestra in its formative months.

Prominent people held as prisoners in the crypt of the Agricola Tower were Richard II and Eleanor Cobham, wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and Andrew de Moray, hero of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Prominent artists appearing for the society in 1856 were Jenny Lind, Clara Schumann and Charles Hallé.

Prominent members of Georgian Menshevik Party were Noe Ramishvili, Evgeni Gegechkori, Akaki Chkhenkeli, Nikolay Chkheidze and Alexandre Lomtatidze.

Prominent writers of the 1970s and 1980s were identified with intellectual and moral issues in their attempts to raise social and political consciousness.

Prominent individuals of Korean descent in the world of the yakuza have included Hisayuki Machii, the founder of the Tosei-kai, Tokutaro Takayama, the president of the 4th-generation Aizukotetsu-kai, Jiro Kiyota, the president of the 5th-generation Inagawa-kai, Hirofumi Hashimoto, the head of the Kyokushinrengo-kai ( a powerful Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate ), and the bosses of the 6th / 7th Sakaume-gumi.

* Ibrahim Ahmad, Prominent Sudanese politician, first Sudanese head of the University of Khartoum, first Secretary of Treasury, the first chairman of the Bank of Sudan, co-founder of Umma party, Author and negotiator of the Sudanese Declaration of Independence

Prominent members of the Executive included former Unionist Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as Chief Executive, SDLP leader Gerry Fitt as Deputy Chief Executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John Hume as Minister for Commerce and leader of the Alliance Party Oliver Napier as Legal Minister and head of the Office of Law Reform.

Prominent weblogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003, as did the former head of Wired Digital Andrew Anker.

Prominent members of the new party included Stephen Rainbow ( a former member of the Wellington city council ), Guy Salmon ( head of the Maruia Society, forerunner to today's Ecologic Foundation ), and Gary Taylor ( a former Waitemata City city councillor ).

The modifications were headed up Prominent modifications were a switch from a billet steel crank to cast iron ( with a crank damper ), different con-rods, oil filter relocation to the other side of the engine, and to remove the oil feed from the exhaust side of the cylinder head.

Prominent Egyptian campaigners taking part included Nasserist MP Hamdeen Sabahy, Galal Aref, head of the Egyptian Journalists ' Union, and Ma ' mun al-Hodeiby, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Prominent teachers / lecturers there include the Bangladeshi writer and scientist, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, who is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering as well as the head of the department.

Prominent bearers of this surname include Koo Chen-fu ( Taiwanese diplomat, businessman and former head and heir to the Koos Group ) and Gu Hongming ( Malaysian-born intellectual and polyglot ).

" Prominent civil liberties and human rights campaigners argued: " The worst excesses of the war on terror have been revealed by open courts and a free media.

Prominent Pakeha Maori such as Judge F Manning, who had considerable war experience and spoke fluent Maori, offered to act as their leader in liasing with the government.

Prominent Islamic scholars wrote works such as the Jafr telling faithful Muslims that the brutal civil war was the great conflict between good and evil.

Arrested by Allied troops after the war, Amann was deemed a Hauptschuldiger ( Prominent Guilty Party ) and sentenced to ten years in a labour camp on 8 September 1948 but was released in 1953.

Prominent among post-World War I Distinguished Service Cross recipients for acts before that war was J. Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff of the Army from 1906 to 1910.

Prominent figures in Mexico's war for independence were Father José María Morelos, Vicente Guerrero, and General Agustín de Iturbide.

Prominent traditional musicians include Fairuz, an icon during the civil war, Sabah, Wadih El Safi, Majida El Roumi, and Najwa Karam who built an international audience for the genre.

" Prominent left-wing intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy agreed the war was " a bad idea ", but was sympathetic to the neoconservative point of view and disagreed with what he perceived to be the film's " core " argument, that " we have no reason to be interfering " in the Middle East.

Prominent figures called for the removal of Buell and a more aggressive conduct of the war such that it be brought to a swift end.