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Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.
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* The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, two sets of people falsely convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) in the 1970s.
An affirmed monarchist, Bishop, along with fellow Ministers, Nick Minchin and Tony Abbott supported the ' No ' campaign leading up to the failed 1999 Republican referendum and on one occasion spoke to Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, warning of the " Seven deadly myths of the republican debate ".
The Guildford Four were convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), and the Maguire Seven were convicted of handling explosives found during the investigation into the bombings.
In his first term, as a member of the Gang of Seven, a group of first-term Republican Representatives, Taylor worked to expose the congressional corruption in the internal bank of the U. S. House ( Rubbergate ).
At 0522 the Regiment received Corps Frag Plan Seven, which adjusted its zone and objective and directed all Corps units to move east to attack units of the Republican Guard.
Seven subway workers who belonged to Clan na Gael, a longstanding Irish nationalist organization that had received an influx of veterans of the Irish Republican Army in the 1920s, and who were inspired by the socialism and trade union work of James Connolly, met to discuss formation of a trade union.
Robert Charles Mardian ( October 23, 1923 – July 17, 2006 ) was a United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, but was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations.
Seven and senators
Seven female senators previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives — a distinction long held by only Margaret Chase Smith — Mikulski, Boxer, Snowe, Lincoln, Stabenow, Cantwell, and Gillibrand.
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* 1759 – Seven Years ' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.
* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.
* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".
* 1960 – Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist, composer, and producer ( Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway )
Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).
* 1598 – Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.
* 1761 – Seven Years ' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
* 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( Taylor Publishing: Dallas, Texas, 1989 ), pp. 178 – 181, reprinted at website Religious Affiliation of Comics Book Characters: " The Significant Seven: History's Most Influential Super-heroes " < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ ref >
Series of this type include the Famous Five ( 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog ), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, ( 15 novels, 1943 – 1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police ) as well as The Secret Seven ( 15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries ).
Seven and William
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.
* 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William ( continuing the English rebellion from Rome ), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
On 30 June, the Immortal Seven secretly requested William — then in the Netherlands with Mary — to come to England with an army to depose James.
During Britain's participation in the Seven Years War, for example, the powers of government were divided equally between the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, leading to them both alternatively being described as Prime Minister.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).
* June 30 – A high-powered conspiracy of notables ( the Immortal Seven ) invite Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange and Princess Mary to " defend the liberties of England " and depose King James VII and II.
William V was hereditary stadtholder when the Republic of the Seven United Provinces was invaded by the French Revolutionary armies in 1794.
* In 1954 William Willis sailed alone from Peru to American Samoa on the small raft Seven Little Sisters.
Seven years later the folio volume Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies appeared ; this edition is now called the First Folio.
On 30 June 1688 — the same day the bishops were acquitted — a group of political figures known afterward as the " Immortal Seven ", sent William a formal invitation.
The poet William Wordsworth has long been characterized as an opponent of the panorama, most notably for his allusion to it in Book Seven of The Prelude.
Seven of Delaware's governors have come from Milford: Daniel Rogers ( who served 1797-99 ), Joseph Haslet ( 1811 – 14 ), William Tharp ( 1847 – 1851 ), Peter F. Causey ( 1855 – 59 ), William Burton ( 1859 – 63 ), William T. Watson ( 1895 – 97 ), and Ruth Ann Minner ( 2001 – 09 ).
First granted in 1767 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven Years War.
Long Branch is home to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park, named for the United States presidents who visited the fashionable resort town, including Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson and James Garfield.
Seven men met to draft the invitation to the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William, Prince of Orange, to invade England and assume the throne.
In 1688, a group of politicians known as the Immortal Seven invited Prince William of Orange, husband of James's Protestant daughter Mary, to invade England and remove James from power, though the plan became public knowledge very quickly.
Seven Mary Three formed in 1992 when Jason Ross and Jason Pollock met while attending The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Following a string of French victories in 1757 in North America, coupled with military setbacks in Europe, William Pitt gained full control of the direction of British military efforts in the Seven Years ' War.
West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).
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