The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

The general semantics concept " non-Aristotelian logic ", influenced the science fiction of the most prolific, best selling, influential authors of the genre during its flowering and height.

It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games, selling 70, 000 arcade cabinets.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

The General Baptists encapsulated their Arminian views in numerous confessions, the most influential of which was the Standard Confession of 1660.

John Wesley has historically been the most influential advocate for the teachings of Arminian soteriology.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

Alcuin of York is the most influential teacher in Europe as he set the basis of the syllabus for European schools.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Although still actively involved in running his many businesses, Carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines, most notably the Nineteenth Century, under the editorship of James Knowles, and the influential North American Review, led by editor Lloyd Bryce.

Although he is sometimes regarded as among the first and most influential architects of Nordic modernism, a closer examination of the historical facts reveals that Aalto ( while a pioneer in Finland ) closely followed and had personal contacts with other pioneers in Sweden, in particular Gunnar Asplund and Sven Markelius.

The so-called Weil conjectures were hugely influential from around 1950 ; they were later proved by Bernard Dwork, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Artin, and Pierre Deligne, who completed the most difficult step in 1973.

His work on sheaf theory hardly appears in his published papers, but correspondence with Henri Cartan in the late 1940s, and reprinted in his collected papers, proved most influential.

It is, however, in algebraic geometry and related fields where Grothendieck did his most important and influential work.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

Armour was the single most influential factor in the development of firearms that revolutionised warfare.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

His numerous disciples — some of whom were very influential and who, for the most part, were also disciples of Samuel — amplified and, in their capacity as instructors and by their discussions, continued the work of Rav.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

The contributors often came from other countries and included the world's most respected authorities in their fields.

It is most prevalent today in North America and Europe, with popular contributors such as Brutal Truth and Nasum.

He was one of the most influential contributors to modern concepts of management.

'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.

Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the World started a drive for donations to complete the project that attracted more than 120, 000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar.

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

The initiative concluded that " the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.

He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded ; for his highly influential series The Spirit ; for his use of comics as an instructional medium ; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novel as a form of literature with his book A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories.

The prize recognizes outstanding contributors to planetary science, and is awarded annually to scientists whose lifetime achievements have most advanced our understanding of planetary systems.

Chateaubriand, the most prominent of the anti-Villèle ultras, had combined with others opposed to press censorship laws ( a new law had reimposed it on 24 July 1827 ) to form the Société des amis de la liberté de la presse ; Choiseul-Stainville, Salvandy and Villemain were among the contributors.

It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. W. C. Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon.

Torrey's strategy of building through the draft turned out very well ; nearly all of the major contributors on the 1980 champions were home-grown Islanders or had spent most of their NHL careers in the Islanders organization.

With Bure gone and Messier in the last year of his contract, several previously under-achieving players began developing into key contributors for the team, most notably Naslund and Bertuzzi.

Since 1959, 323 coaches, players, referees, contributors, and teams have been inducted, with the most recent class entering on September 7, 2012.

Although Bleek and Lloyd interviewed other individuals during 1875 and 1876 ( Lloyd doing this alone after Bleek's death ), most of their time was spent interviewing only six individual | xam contributors.

Charles Sanders Peirce ( and his pragmatic maxim ) deserves most of the credit for pragmatism, along with later twentieth century contributors William James and John Dewey.

A third of the 30 reprints of Marxism Todays feature articles that appeared in The Guardian during the 1980s were articles or interviews by or with Hobsbawm, making him by far the most popular of all contributors.

The contributors strongly felt that the best and most effective way to prevent nuclear war was to prevent the use of atomic weapons.

From its founding, in 1848, until the Texas Mexican Railroad opened up in 1883, Rio Grande City was one of the most significant hubs of trade between Texas and Mexico, and was one of the major contemporary contributors to the American romanticized concept of the “ wild West .”

While most of the contributors are relatively unknown, the album includes two versions of a remix of " Dead London " by Apollo Four Forty and other remixes by house-music pioneer Todd Terry.

Moreover, he was one of the most prominent Japanese contributors to Nihilist philosophy prior to World War II.

Ford and his co-workers in ecological genetics were at least as important ; and Cyril Darlington, the chromosome expert, was a notable source of facts and ideas. An analysis of the ' authorities cited ' index of Evolution the modern synthesis shows indirectly those whom Huxley regarded as the most important contributors to the synthesis up to 1941 ( the book was published in 1942, and references go up to 1941 ).

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