In the second half of the 16th and the first half of the 17th century, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth was a huge state in central-eastern Europe, with an area approaching one million square kilometers.

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth – three partitions which took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth (; ), resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Their situation changed radically, during the reign of Catherine II, when the Russian Empire acquired rule over large Lithuanian and Polish territories, which were heavily populated by Jews, especially during the second ( 1793 ) and the third ( 1795 ) Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The second element, yaga, is from Proto-Slavic ( j ) ęga, " Jędza " Polish, which is probably related to Lithuanian ingis (" lazybones " or " sluggard "), Old Norse ekki (" pain "), and Old English inca (" question, scruple, doubt ; grievance, quarrel ").

All other elections over the first decade of the second Lithuanian independece weren't very successful for the party: between 1992-1996 party had 8 seats, in the election in 1996 it won 7 seats and also 5 seats in single-seat constituencies.

He was the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania's ( SDPL ) candidate at the Lithuanian presidential election, 2009, coming in the second place with 11. 83 % of the votes.

Lithuania, adjacent to East Prussia, would be in the German sphere of influence, although a second secret protocol agreed in September 1939 assigned the majority of Lithuanian territory to the Soviet Union.

However, after the city sent huge military forces to support the second home guard, it remained without sufficient protection, and on September 22, 1612 one of the Lithuanian extortionate groups seized Vologda without effort.

This act, seen as a bold provocation, sparked the Lithuanian attack, at first repulsed by the Knights but soon followed by a second strike by Jogaila's forces.

The second process, which took place after the end of the 16th century, was introduction of ideas of Christianity into the Lithuanian environment, using Lithuanian culture's symbols and traditions.

He was also recognized for the second time for his support of Lithuanian youth.

In support of the second proposal, the Lithuanian language has words with a stem-vyt in such personal names as Vytenis, furthermore, vytis has a structure common to words constructed from verbs.

The second stanza lyrics were changed to state that Lenin had lit the path to freedom, helped by the Russian people, led by the party ( Reimeris changed the word " Stalin " to " party ") and exhorted the Lithuanian people to work with peoples of the other Soviet Republics.

The second theory proposed that the first Lithuanian population of the territory which later became Lithuania Minor appeared only after the war had ended.

Lithuanian farmers used to flee to the Sudovian forest, which lain in the Trakai voivodeship, and live here without dues, what was possible until the agrarian reform of Lithuania, performed during the second half of the 16th century.

The new side was allowed in to the Lithuanian second division, and then returned to the top division next season.

After finishing second in 2008 A Lyga championship the club's president announced that the club were being demoted from the A Lyga in favour of LFF I Lyga, the 2nd tier of Lithuanian football system, but as conflict with LFF intensified, FBK Kaunas was relegated to LFF II lyga ( consisting of amateur teams ).

In the 2008 – 09 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, Rangers drew 0 – 0 with Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas at Ibrox on 30 July 2008 and lost the return leg 2 – 1.

The second leg was played at the Lithuanian national football stadium, Tauras took the lead due to some poor defending only for Chris Llewellyn to equalise.

LKAL-Lietuvos Krepšinio A Lyga ( English: Lithuanian Basketball A League ), was the second Lithuanian basketball league until it ceased to exist in the spring of 2005.

* June 17, 809 (): In the 4th year of Emperor Heizei's reign, he fell ill and abdicated ; and the succession ( senso ) was received by Kammu's second son Saga, the eldest son having become a Buddhist priest.

K. notices a priest who seems to be preparing to give a sermon from a small second pulpit, and K. begins to leave, lest it begin and K. be compelled to stay for its entirety.

Rowan Atkinson makes his second appearance, this time as a fully fledged but gaffe-prone priest conducting his first wedding ceremony through his connection as a friend of the family.

His father, Jirosaku, was the second son of the head priest of the Shinto Hiyoshi shrine in Shiga Prefecture.

The year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.

1 ) The son of Maaseiah, the " second priest " in the reign of Zedekiah, often mentioned in Jeremiah as having been sent from the king to inquire ( Jer.

Her mother, Joan ( Bridge ) Baez, referred to as Joan Senior or " Big Joan ", was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest descended from the Dukes of Chandos.

The second row of initiates were led by Iakchos, a priest who held torches for the ceremonies.

After 200 BC at any given time there were two priests of Apollo, who were in charge of the entire sanctuary ; Plutarch, who served as a priest during the late first century and early second century AD, gives us the most information about the organization of the oracle at that time.

His six-year-old first son Ichiman had already been killed during political turmoil in Kamakura, while his second son Yoshinari at age six was forced to become a Buddhist priest under the name Kugyō.

The second source which is more famous than Sánchez ' and goes into more detail about Juan Diego is the Huei tlamahuiçoltica ( which include " Nican Mopohua ") written in Classical Nahuatl by Mexican priest and lawyer Luis Laso de la Vega and published in 1649.

Either way, he was given the task of rebuilding the Temple in the second year of the reign of Darius I ( 520 BC ), along with the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak.

The second is Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, then Jethro, priest of Midian both pagan priests of their era.

Since 1917 Kaller served as priest at Berlin's second oldest Catholic Church, Saint Michael's.

The mystery series follows Father Tom Christmas, a priest in an English village, who often stumbles upon murder. The second, Eleven Pipers Piping, is scheduled for publication in late October 2012.

" This view is witnessed to by the prayers of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, when the priest says: " Accept, O God, our supplications, make us to be worthy to offer unto thee supplications and prayers and bloodless sacrifices for all thy people ," and " Remembering this saving commandment and all those things which came to pass for us: the cross, the grave, the resurrection on the third day, the ascension into heaven, the sitting down at the right hand, the second and glorious coming again, Thine own of Thine own we offer unto Thee on behalf of all and for all ," and "… Thou didst become man and didst take the name of our High Priest, and deliver unto us the priestly rite of this liturgical and bloodless sacrifice …"

In 1944 he directed Going My Way, a story about an enterprising priest, the youthful Father Chuck O ' Malley, played by Bing Crosby, for which he won his second Best Director Oscar.

Rocky's priest friend Father Carmine ( Paul Micale ) makes his second of two appearances in the Rocky series, the first being in Rocky II.

For a time he could not make up his mind whether he wanted to be a naval officer or a priest, but at the age of seventeen, he decided on a military career and gained a commission as a second lieutenant in the French Army based at Navarre.

He concluded that the Hermetic writings attributed to Trismegistus were not the work of an ancient Egyptian priest, but in fact dated to around the second and third centuries of the Common Era.

The second vision portrays seven angels bringing Levi seven insignia signifying priesthood, prophecy, and judgement ; in the vision, after the angels anoint Levi, and initiate him as a priest, they tell him of the future of his descendants, mentioning Moses, the Aaronid priesthood, and a time when there would be priest-kings ; this latter point was of particular interest to the Maccabean period of John Hyrcanus, who was both a high priest, and warrior-king, though according to textual scholars this is to be expected, since the Testament of Levi was written during Maccabean rule, between 153BC and 107BC, and closer to the latter date.

A French-born priest, René Ménard, composed motets around 1640, and a second Canadian-born priest, Charles-Amador Martin, is credited with the plainchant music for the Sacrae familiae felix spectaculum, in celebration of the Holy Family feast day in 1700.