Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.

Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.

" According to the BBC, Verity Linn's " diary mentioned the teachings of self-proclaimed prophet Jasmuheen who believes people can draw nourishment from the ' divine life force in the form of liquid light '.

The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.

As described by Dave Laing, " The model for self-proclaimed punk after 1978 derived from the Ramones via the eight-to-the-bar rhythms most characteristic of The Vibrators and Clash.

They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a self-proclaimed " Sweet Transvestite " from Transsexual, Transylvania.

The self-proclaimed Sultan of Zanzibar, Seyyid Khalid Bin Barghash, was exiled in St Helena from 1917 to 1921 before being transferred to the Seychelles.

He is a self-proclaimed genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutch's borrowed skill, a talent for all things mechanical.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

The areas allotted to the Ukrainian SSR in 1940 became part of the new independent Ukraine since 1991, while the area roughly corresponding to Transnistria became the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic separate from the government of the Republic of Moldova.

The Saracens established a self-proclaimed sultanate on the Southern Italian coast under Mofareg-ibn-Salem which, at its peak reached, from Bari to Reggio and lasted from approximately 853 – 871.

English indie rock band Cherry Ghost took its name from a lyric from the Wilco song " Theologians " ( from A Ghost Is Born )— lead singer Simon Aldred is a self-proclaimed " massive Wilco fan ".

The prosecutor was Gabriel-Faustin M ' Boudou, the Chief Prosecutor of the CAR, who called various witnesses to testify against Bokassa, which included remembering victims ranging from political enemies to a newborn son of a palace guard commander who had been executed for attempting to kill Bokassa in 1978 when he was the self-proclaimed emperor.

Wu Zetian ( ( c. 625 – 705 ), also known as Wu Zhao or Wu Chao and as Wu-hou or Wu Hou (), and during the Tang Dynasty as Tian Hou ( 天后 ), Dynasty ), and in English translation as Empress Consort Wu, or the deprecated term " Empress Wu " was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed " Zhou Dynasty ", from 690 to 705 ; however, she had previous imperial positions, under both Taizong and his son Gaozong, of the Tang Dynasty, in China.

* The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus separates the self-proclaimed and internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from the Republic of Cyprus.

By the time of Minnie the Moocher ( 1932 ), Betty Boop was in a class of her own, and by August 1932, starting with Stopping the Show, the Talkartoon series was renamed as Betty Boop Cartoons ; by now, as noted from even the opening song from Stopping the Show, Betty clearly became the self-proclaimed " Queen of the Animated Screen.

Coming from the same area of Liverpool as The Beatles they're the self-proclaimed new Messiahs of jangle pop, promising the one true path to a world of peace, purity, free love and Oasis.

The campaign planned by the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia's political and military leadership from May 1992 to March 1993 and erupting the following April, was meant to implement objectives set forth by Croat nationalists in November 1991.

Many Bosnian Army officers and intellectuals were suspicious regarding foreign volunteers arrival in central part of the country, because they came from Split and Zagreb in Croatia, and were passed through the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia without problems unlike Bosnian Army soldiers who were regularly arrested by Croat forces.

In the Kashgar region on November 12, 1933, Uyghur separatists declared the short-lived and self-proclaimed East Turkestan Republic ( ETR ), using the term " East Turkestan " to emphasize the state's break from China and new anti-China orientation.

Introduced as a self-proclaimed " rogue demon hunter ", Wesley reveals that he was fired from the Watchers ' Council for incompetence, but is soon accepted into supernatural detective agency Angel Investigations, working alongside Angel and Cordelia ( effectively filling the gap left by the death of Doyle ( Glenn Quinn )).

A protracted 1997 flame war erupted between newsgroup users and Mike Enlow, the self-proclaimed " world's most-respected information broker / technology marketing consultant ", who spammed the newsgroups with an advertisement that included a picture of himself.

A self-proclaimed " low-brow " historian, his topics included Ethan Allen, the railroads, the timber industry, the Wobblies, and eccentrics of the Pacific Northwest.

For Croats it was a very important connection between the Lašva Valley and Herzegovina, two territories included in the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia.

The ARBiH launched an operation known as Operation Neretva ' 93 against the HVO and Croatian Army in September 1993 to end the siege of Mostar, and recapture areas of Herzegovina that were included in the self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

Coming to the throne at age nine, his reign began with immediate civil war between his designated regent, his father's friend John Kantakouzenos, and a self-proclaimed council of regency composed of his mother Anna, the patriarch John XIV Kalekas, and the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos.

None of the early player pianos was a success, though John McTammany ( self-proclaimed " inventor of the player ") credited Brown as the first to organize, in a practical manner, the ideas others had developed over the previous 20 years.

* In 1998, Bell spoke with John Titor, a self-proclaimed time traveler from 2063 who made all kinds of fantastic predictions and discussed time travel.

A self-proclaimed hustler who spent teenage summers swindling tourists in French towns, Oldham's interest in the pop culture of the 1960s and the Soho coffeehouse scene led to working for Carnaby Street mod designer John Stephen and later as an assistant to then emerging fashion designer Mary Quant.

In June 1826, the Council of the French Langues — a self-proclaimed revival of the Order of Malta ( the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta ) in France — sought to raise through private venture, funded by subscription, sufficient money to restore a homeland for the resurrected society.

* John Titor-A self-proclaimed time traveler supposedly sent to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100

Father Divine, a self-proclaimed God and leader of the movement, was given the estate by a follower, John Devoute, in 1953.

Victor John Ostrovsky an author, artist and self-proclaimed former katsa ( case officer ) for the Israeli Mossad ( foreign intelligence service ) has stated in his non-fiction book about his service with the Mossad: By Way of Deception, that Yisrael Galili

Now incorporated in Elijah's freak show, Ricky meets the other freaks: Ortiz the Dog Boy ( Keanu Reeves ), the self-proclaimed " Leader of the Freaks "; Worm ( Derek McGrath ), the half-man, half-worm ; Nosey ( Jeff Kahn ), whose entire head is one big nose ; Cowboy ( John Hawkes ), the half-man, half-cow ; the Bearded Lady ( Mr. T ); Sockhead ( Bobcat Goldthwait ), who has a sock puppet for a head ; The Eternal Flame ( Lee Arenberg ), who has constant flaming flatulence ; Rosie the Pinhead ; The Hideous Frogman ( Tim Burns ), a Frenchman in a scuba suit ; and the skeleton of Paul Lynde.

* " Willie Landum " ( Performed by John Hanson ) ( the self-proclaimed " Fishing Guide to the Stars " -- the name is a spoof of " will he land them?

Chief Warrant Officer Four Paul Brenner ( John Travolta ), a Vietnam Veteran of the 196th LIB, is in Georgia masquerading as First Sergeant Frank White at a local army base, to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fighter.

Ragtime reached Australia in the 1890s in the form of syncopated cakewalk march music and syncopated " coon-song " and many white and black ragtime artists of repute toured Australia, including the black ragtime vocalist, Ernest Hogan, and white artists Ben Harney ( the self-proclaimed ' originator ' of ragtime ) and Gene Greene ( the Emperor of Ragtime ).

The Dubliners also gained popularity amongst famous musicians such as Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason, who were all self-proclaimed Dubliners fans.

Roy discovers that Ishmael is not as skilled as he first thought, as Ishmael's self-proclaimed 270 average is based on a 15-frame game, instead of the standard 10 frames – based on the notion that the Amish are obligated by tradition to do everything " half-again " as much as everyone else.

Practitioners of BDSM vary hugely in their perception of what activities are integral to BDSM, and some borderline activities ( light bondage, hot wax, blindfolds ) may be practiced by people identifying as " vanilla " ( i. e., not into BDSM ) – so inclusion in the community is usually dependent on self-proclaimed identification with the community.

He attended the University of Chicago, where he participated in the Ryerson Astronomical Society, received a bachelor of arts in self-proclaimed " nothing " with general and special honors in 1954, a bachelor of science in physics in 1955, and a master of science in physics in 1956 before earning a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960.

Ena was the street's busybody, battleaxe and self-proclaimed moral voice.

In addition, the self-proclaimed artificial island micronation of Rose Island used Esperanto as its official language in 1968.

Brain, who knows Snake, tells him that the self-proclaimed " Duke of New York " ( Isaac Hayes ), has the President and plans to lead a mass escape across the mined and heavily guarded 69th Street Bridge, using the President as a human shield.

If Christians were persecuted, it is likely to have been part of Domitian ’ s larger policy suppressing all opposition to his self-proclaimed divinity.

In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the " Good Times " virus hoax as an exercise to " prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed " experts " on the Internet.

Al-Manar, the self-proclaimed " Station of the Resistance ," ( qanat al-muqawama ) is a key player in what Hezbollah calls its " psychological warfare against the Zionist enemy " and an integral part of Hezbollah's plan to spread its message to the entire Arab world.

The radical Islamists al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad reject entirely democracy and self-proclaimed Muslims they find overly moderate, and preach violent jihad, urging and conducting attacks on a religious basis.

This self-proclaimed " Army of God " marched on London, taking the capital as well as Lincoln and Exeter.

The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.

Gaddafi also aided Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-proclaimed emperor of the short-lived Central African Empire.

* 218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.

* Republic of Jamtland, a self-proclaimed republic in the county of Jämtland, Sweden.

There are considerably few self-proclaimed neutral monists, most of the philosophers who are seen to have this view were classified after their deaths.

At the same time, many self-proclaimed Modern Orthodox Jews do not have a problem with historical scholarship in this area.

In America, the most famous pragmatist and self-proclaimed postmodernist was Richard Rorty.

Fuhrmann was replaced in the early 1980s by Peter W. Schutz, an American manager and self-proclaimed 911 aficionado.