The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

There were many 19th century examples of attacks on Enlightenment concepts, parody, and playfulness in literature, including Lord Byron's satire, especially Don Juan ; Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Alfred Jarry's ribald Ubu parodies and his invention of ' Pataphysics ; Lewis Carroll's playful experiments with signification ; the work of Isidore Ducasse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde.

During this Council, Isidore fervently defended the union between the Churches of East and West, but he was opposed only by the secular representative from Russia-ambassador Foma ( Thomas ) of Tver.

Directly or indirectly, Dante came to read Saint Augustine's works, the De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boëthius, Saint Thomas Aquinas's works and some encyclopedic dictionaries like the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville and the Livre du Tresor by Brunetto Latini.

Wells, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Tony Duquette, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Crawford, Noël Coward, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl S. Buck, Charles Lindbergh, Max Reinhardt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, the Duke and Duchess of Alba, the King and Queen of Siam, Austen Chamberlain, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko ,, and Sir Harry Lauder.

Admirers of her work included her close friend G. B. Stern ( with whom she collaborated on two books about Jane Austen ), Thomas Hardy, and Noël Coward.

Noël ( 1810 ); Greek by Thomas Morell ( 1762, new ed.

He also directed international tours of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Rocky Horror Show as well as national tours of plays by Noël Coward, Daphne du Maurier and Dylan Thomas.

Factional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983.

With the coming to power of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in 1983, relations between Ghana and Burkina became both warm and close.

With the coming to power of Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso in 1983, relations between Ghana and Burkina became both warm and close.

Factional infighting developed between moderates in the CSP and radicals led by Captain Thomas Sankara, who was appointed prime minister in January 1983.

Thomas Sankara came to power through a military coup d ' état on August 4, 1983.

The flag was adopted following the coup of 1983 which brought Thomas Sankara to power.

Thomas Sankara was the son of Marguerite Sankara ( died March 6, 2000 ) and Sambo Joseph Sankara ( 1919 – August 4, 2006 ), a gendarme.

It was written by the former president Thomas Sankara and adopted in 1984, when the country adopted its present name, and replaced the Hymne Nationale Voltaïque, or national anthem of Upper Volta.

Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo ( born June 30, 1942 ) was President of Upper Volta ( now Burkina Faso ) from 8 November 1982 to 4 August 1983, when he was overthrown in a coup d ’ état which brought Thomas Sankara into power.

On 4 August 1983, Ouédraogo was deposed by Thomas Sankara.

He aided the conspirators who ousted Kwame Nkrumah from power in 1966, took part in the coup against Mathieu Kérékou in 1977, and was suspected of involvement in the 1987 coup that removed Thomas Sankara from power in Burkina Faso.

The national anthem of Burkina Faso is " Une Seule Nuit ", written by Thomas Sankara.

* Thomas Sankara ( 1949-1987 ), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso ( from 1983-1987 )

He has said that the man he most admires is former Chilean ruler Gen. Augusto PinochetHe praises him for helping make Chile prosperous through economic market reforms. He also admires Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara and George W. Bush.

* How Imperialist ' Aid ' Blocks Development in Africa by Thomas Sankara, The Militant, April 13, 2009

Under Thomas Sankara, Ouédraogo was appointed to the government as Minister of Planning and Popular Development on August 31, 1984, remaining in that position for three years.

* Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso

Yako is known for its large mosque, and as the birthplace of Thomas Sankara.

* St. Thomas Mount Post Office is located next to Sankara Nethralaya

The revolution in Burkina Faso in 1982 brought a new regime with the young Thomas Sankara determined to solve every issue including this territorial issue.

The two presidents, Thomas Sankara and Moussa Traoré, also had strained relations for a while.

In mid-January 1986, at an ANAD summit in Yamoussoukro, Côte d ' Ivoire, Presidents Moussa Traoré of Mali and Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso agreed to withdraw their troops to pre-war positions.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

Secondary Coach Emmitt Thomas was named interim coach for the final three games of on December 12.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

Beaux received her first introduction to lithography doing copy work for Philadelphia printer Thomas Sinclair and she published her first work in St. Nicholas magazine in December 1873.

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont, who was now governing New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the " trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd " to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships.

Mike Mullen | Mullen ( CNO in December 2006 ) with some of his predecessors: Vern Clark | Clark, James D. Watkins | Watkins, Thomas B. Hayward | Hayward and Jay L. Johnson | Johnson

They contacted Thomas and his first poetry volume, 18 Poems, was published in December 1934.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Thomas ' father " DJ " died on 16 December 1952 and his mother Florence in August 1958.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

He was one of the four knights who assassinated Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in December 1170.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

In 1982, the so-called TTAPS team ( Richard P. Turco, Owen Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan ) undertook a computational modeling study of the atmospheric consequences of nuclear war, publishing their results in Science in December 1983.

*" Shortcuts " by Thomas Jones, discusses the term " political correctness " in British discourse, London Review of Books, December 1, 2005

Contrary to von Moll's report, the fossil was not missing ; it was being studied by Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, who gave a public lecture about it on 27 December 1810.

New Worlds author Thomas Disch would not earn better quotes from Budrys in the December 1966 review for his " ineptly written " The Genocide, a work of " unrelieved trash " which was filled with a horde of " dumb, resigned victims.

Thomas Edison's first successful light bulb model, used in public demonstration at Menlo Park, December 1879

Decommissioned on December 1, 1983, Thomas A. Edison was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on April 30, 1986.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Thomas Nast ( September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902 ) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the " Father of the American Cartoon ".

Thomas Brackett Reed, ( October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902 ), occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U. S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1889 – 1891 and from 1895 – 1899.

He held the latter office until December 17, 1799, when he was succeeded by Thomas McKean.