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The hyper-wealthy general and politician of the late Roman Republic, Crassus ( who fought in the war to defeat Spartacus ), was said by Pliny the Elder to have had ' estates worth 200 million sesterces '.
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In 1829 he married Henrietta Preston, sister of Kentucky politician and future civil war general William Preston.
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 1765 – Petros Mavromichalis, Greek general and politician, Prime Minister of Greece ( d. 1848 )
* 1911 – Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician
Germanicus was a popular general and politician.
Germanicus, Agrippina's father, was a very popular general and politician.
Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend ( 1814 ), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans ( 1815 ).
He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.
* 1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general and politician, 10th President of Pakistan
* 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician ( b. 1918 )
* 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician ( d. 1934 )
* 1844 – Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician ( b. 1768 )
Domitia Longina was the younger daughter of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, a respected general and honoured politician.
Alcibiades is a historical figure from fifth century BC Athens, a politician and a general in the Peloponnesian War.
* 1915 – Aung San, Burmese general and politician ( d. 1947 )
An astute financier but a less astute politician, Necker overplayed his hand by demanding and obtaining a general amnesty, losing much of the people's favour.
280 BC – 203 BC ) was a Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in Rome in 203 BC.
* 1917 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran general and politician, President of El Salvador ( d. 2003 )
* 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
* 1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician ( d. 1874 )
* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )
* 1917 – Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician ( d. 2002 )
* 1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician ( d. 1823 )
Marcus Antonius, commonly known in English as Mark Antony ( Latin: ) ( January 14, 83 BC – August 1, 30 BC ), was a Roman politician and general.
* 1921 – Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general ( d. 2009 )
general and late
Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.
Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.
He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.
These orchestral works are mainly in the galant style and though they show some development toward the late classical they reflect a general weakness in comparison to his operatic works of the same and later periods.
The French general returned to France without his army late in the year, leaving Kléber in command of Egypt.
The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.
The inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.
The transition from Miacidae to Carnivora was a general trend in the middle and late Eocene, with taxa from both North America and Eurasia involved.
In the late 1990s Wilfried Sieg analyzed Turing's and Gandy's notions of " effective calculability " with the intent of " sharpening the informal notion, formulating its general features axiomatically, and investigating the axiomatic framework ".
" To have a butcher's ", meaning to have a look, originates from " butcher's hook ", an S-shaped hook used by butchers to hang up meat, and dates from the late 19th century but has existed independently in general use from around the 1930s simply as " butchers ".
However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.
In general, English spelling does not reflect the sound changes in the pronunciation of the language that have occurred since the late fifteenth century.
In late 1895 in Paris, father Antoine Lumière began exhibitions of projected films before the paying public, beginning the general conversion of the medium to projection ( Cook, 1990 ).
* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Modern warfare since the late Renaissance has relied upon firearms, with wide-ranging effects on military history and history in general.
Consisting of sixteen books written in Latin on the invitation of Archbishop Absalon, Gesta Danorum describes Danish history and to some degree Scandinavian history in general, from prehistory to the late 12th century.
The move has been qualified " Too little, too late " by pan-democrats in general.
It is named for Hans Hahn and Stefan Banach who proved this theorem independently in the late 1920s, although a special case was proved earlier ( in 1912 ) by Eduard Helly, and a general extension theorem from which the Hahn – Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by Marcel Riesz.
Before insurance was established in the late 17th century, " friendly societies " existed in England, in which people donated amounts of money to a general sum that could be used for emergencies.
Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century however, policies such as Woodrow Wilson's mission to " make the world safe for democracy " were often backed by military force, but more often effected from behind the scenes, consistent with the general notion of hegemony and imperium of historical empires ..
But in general, from late 1943 to mid-1944, the Foreign Office was second only to the SS in terms of power in France.
The two warriors are the historical general Guan Yu from the late Han Dynasty and the bodhisattva Skanda, who appears in the Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang.
In the late 19th century it was extended to the more general scientific study of metals and alloys and related processes.
Arriving late to the 16-bit arena afforded the new processor more transistors ( roughly 40000 active versus 20000 active in the 8086 ), 32-bit macroinstructions, and acclaimed general ease of use.
By the late ancient period, however, the " traditionalist " Asharite view of Islam had in general triumphed.
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