His father was James Fitzsimmons, born in County Armagh, Ireland and his mother was Jane Strongman, born in St Clement, Cornwall ; making Fitzsimmons half Irish and half Cornish by blood.

* Jon Andersen ( born 1972 ), professional wrestler also known by the ring names Jon Strongman and Strong Man

To maintain the competitive base as well tapping the obvious public interest, other events sprang up and by the mid-1980s a number of other international gatherings had become regular features, most notably the World Muscle Power Championships and the World Strongman Challenge.

:: Edited by Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers.

In 1987 his win in the World Muscle Power was accompanied by a win in the World Strongman Challenge and he is one of only three athletes to have won all three titles.

* The record for the tire deadlift ( in which Hummer tires are used as weight ) under Strongman rules ( in which lifting straps are allowed ) is by the Lithuanian strongman Žydrūnas Savickas at the Arnold Strongman Classic 2012 ( Columbus, Ohio ).

Strongman Takeda Nobuhiro ( 1431-1494 ), progenitor of the Kakizaki ( later Matsumae ) house, established a fort ( tate ) in Kaminokuni leading to the settlement of the area by other Wajin merchants and fishermen.

** Strongman ( voiced by Mike Reynolds ): This was Kamen Rider Super-1.

The final slab prior to the reopening was laid by the Lord Mayor and Mrs Elizabeth Strongman, who was previously married to former Nottingham Panthers captain, Les Strongman.

The same can be said for General Rahimuddin Khan, often termed as the " Strongman of Balochistan ", whose post as martial law administrator was junior to that of then head of state, Zia-ul-Haq, but still phenomenally powerful.

The most famous competition of this type is World's Strongest Man and the " World's Strongest Man Super Series ", however North American Strongman, Inc. ( NAS ) and the Canadian Federation of Strength Athletes ( CFSA ) hold amateur and other meets throughout the United States and Canada.

; Mighty Ness: Another strong monster dressed in Circus Strongman clothes.

At the height of his fame in 1985, the game Geoff Capes Strongman was released on the Amstrad CPC, the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64, featuring a truck pulling and tug-of-war, allowing control of each muscle group.

* 1984-Deranged federalist former soldier Denis Lortie goes on a shooting spree at the National Assembly on May 8 with the intention to kill René Lévesque.

* Stephen Wraysford-The protagonist of the novel, Stephen goes to Amiens in France to learn more about the manufacturing process at René Azaire's factory.

Coming from Old Orchard ( the United-States ), on the occasion of the 1st Atlantic crossing by plane, the young flamboyant crew included Jean Assolant, René Lejevre and Armant Lotti, and the story goes that a stowaway named Alfred Schreiber who was responsible for the accident.

I Married a Witch is a 1942 fantasy romantic comedy film, directed by René Clair, and starring Veronica Lake as a witch whose plan for revenge goes comically awry, with Fredric March as her foil.

However, it is Edith that accidentally goes with René.

He finished 3 ’ 30 ” ahead of Albert Lemaître ( Peugeot ), followed by Doriot ( Peugeot ) at 16 ’ 30 ”, René Panhard ( Panhard ) at 33 ’ 30 ’’ and Émile Levassor ( Panhard ) at 55 ’ 30 ”.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

The dominant view Newton opposed was devised by René Descartes, and was supported ( in part ) by Gottfried Leibniz.

After assurances of legality on Allende's part, the murder of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General René Schneider and Frei's refusal to form an alliance with Alessandri to oppose Allende – on the grounds that the Christian Democrats were a workers ' party and could not make common cause with the oligarchs – Allende was chosen by a vote of 153 to 35.

Illustration of dualism by René Descartes.

* Cartesian dualism, the philosophy of the distinction between mind and body developed by René Descartes

Endorsed by all provincial governments except that of Quebec ( led by René Lévesque ), this was the formal Canadian Act of Parliament that achieved full and final political independence from the United Kingdom.

The invention of Cartesian coordinates in the 17th century by René Descartes ( Latinized name: Cartesius ) revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church mentions as the main streams of succession deriving from episcopi vagantes in the twentieth century those founded by Arnold Mathew, Joseph René Vilatte, and Leon Chechemian.

The “ perennialist ” or “ traditionalist ” school is represented by authors like the French René Guénon ( 1886 – 1951 ), the Indian Ananda Coomaraswamy ( 1877 – 1947 ), the Swiss Frithjof Schuon ( 1907 – 1998 ), the Italian Julius Evola ( 1898 – 1974 ), the Iranian Seyyed Hossein Nasr ( born in 1933 ), both scholars and esotericists.

However, Chiron did compete the following year, when he was beaten by René Dreyfus and his Bugatti and finished second, and took victory in the 1931 race driving a Bugatti.

The historical, continental rationalism expounded by René Descartes is often regarded as antithetical to empiricism, while some contemporary rationalists assert that reason is strongest when it is supported by or consistent with empirical evidence and hence relies heavily on empirical science in analyzing justifications for belief.

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

The elections were won by René Préval, who had a strong following among the poor, with 51 % of the votes.

Overall the philosophers were inspired by the thoughts of René Descartes, the skepticism of the Libertins and the popularization of science by Bernard de Fontenelle.

John Calvin at 53 years old in an engraving by René Boyvin

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

According to René Descartes, rationality is built first upon the realization of the absolute truth " I think therefore I am ", which requires no faith.

René Descartes, with " je pense donc je suis " or " cogito ergo sum " or " I think, therefore I am ", argued that " the self " is something that we can know exists with epistemological certainty.

History and legend has given René the title " Good King René of Provence ", though he only lived in Provence in the last ten years of his life, from 1470 to 1480, and his political policies of territorial expansion were costly and unsuccessful.

George Grey Barnard ( May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938 ) was an American sculptor, " an excellent American sculptor ", the French art dealer René Gimpel reported in his diary ( 1923 ), " very much engrossed in carving himself a fortune out of the trade in works of art.

Serving with the Catholic League as an official observer was the future " father of modern philosophy ", René Descartes.

During the carrying out of his coffin from the church, the crowd spontaneously began to applaud and sing Quebec's unofficial national anthem " Gens du pays ", replacing the first verse with Mon cher René ( My dear René ), as is the custom when this song is adapted to celebrate one person.

*" René Lévesque's Separatist Fight ", in the CBC Archives Web site

* Nouvelles orientales ( short stories, 1938 ) – translated Oriental Tales, ISBN 1-85290-018-0 ( includes " Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé ", first published 1936, filmed by René Laloux )

He is widely credited with being one of main authors of the important " Manifesto of the 121 ", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Antelme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, René Char, Henri Lefebvre, Alain Resnais, Simone Signoret and others, which supported the rights of conscripts to refuse the draft in Algeria.

The brain in a vat is a contemporary version of the argument given in Hindu Maya illusion, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Zhuangzi's " Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly ", and the evil demon in René Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy.

" Father-in-law wants a big trial which will illuminate everything ", René de Chambrun told Laval's lawyers: " If he is given time to prepare his defence, if he is allowed to speak, to call witnesses and to obtain from abroad the information and documents which he needs, he will confound his accusers.

In 1955, Berry was inspired to write a new calypso-style song, " Louie Louie ", based on the Rhythm Rockers ' version of René Touzet's " El Loco Cha Cha ", and also influenced by Chuck Berry's " Havana Moon ".

He therefore bought an English edition of Euclid's Elements which included an index of propositions, and, having turned to two or three which he thought might be helpful, found them so obvious that he dismissed it " as a trifling book ", and applied himself to the study of René Descartes ' Geometry.

* In the Paris Métro station Porte des Lilas ( Line 11 ) there is a mural portrait of Brassens along with a quote from his song " La Porte des Lilas ", written for the 1957 film " Porte des Lilas " by René Clair.

A reproduction of " The Treachery of Images ", René Magritte ’ s 1928 – 29 painting

This culminated on 1 June, dubbed by the Tories " Black Friday ", when Speaker René Beaudoin reversed a ruling he had made the previous evening which would have allowed the Opposition to continue the debate past the deadline.

After the 2002 French presidential election, in which far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen arrived second behind conservative candidate Jacques Chirac, many analysts put the blame of the surprising result on working class, accused of engaging themselves in " protest vote ", that is in support of fringe candidates belonging to the far-left or the far-right, or even to people who present themselves as alien to the political world ( in France, environmentalist René Dumont in 1974, comedian Coluche in 1981 — but he withdrew his candidacy before the elections — environmentalist Pierre Rabhi who unsuccessfully tried to present himself in 2002, as well as TV showman Nicolas Hulot who almost stood for the election for 2007, before putting aside his idea, thus leaving electoral space for José Bové, a figure of the alterglobalization movement who recently decided to present himself as an independent candidate ).

French linguist René Lepelley has proposed that the name commes from the Old Norrois " almr balkr ", or " splitting of the elm ".

* René Grémaux: " Woman Becomes Man in the Balkans ", in Gilbert Herdt, ed.

Amnesty International has criticized the U. S. treatment of the Cuban Five as " unnecessarily punitive and contrary both to standards for the humane treatment of prisoners and to states ’ obligation to protect family life ", as the wives of René Gonzáles and Gerardo Hernández have not been allowed visas to visit their imprisoned husbands.