Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Verner posited that the labor was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100, 000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20, 000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.

Karl Verner was the first scholar to note the factor governing the distribution of the two outcomes.

Karl ( Adolph ) Verner (; 7 March 1846 in Århus – 5 November 1896 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish linguist.

Verner, whose interest in languages was stimulated by reading about the work of Rasmus Christian Rask, began his university studies in 1864.

* Verner Moore White ( 1863-1923 ), born in the county, was a noted landscape and portrait artist.

His father was Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra ( 1869 – 1947 ) of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.

This was won in 1925 by Morley Horder and Verner Rees who located the main entrance in Keppel Street.

Oscar Verner Peterson ( August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942 ) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

She was styled The Lady Helen Windsor until her marriage, on 18 July 1992, to Timothy Verner Taylor ( b. 8 August 1963 ), an art dealer and the eldest son of Commander Michael Verner Taylor, RN and Susan G. Percy.

This law reinstated the Sherbert Test, which was set forth by Sherbert v. Verner, and Wisconsin v. Yoder, mandating that strict scrutiny be used when determining if the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing religious freedom, has been violated.

Leaving government service, he practiced law with the Washington firm of Arnold and Porter between 1969 and 1975 ; was a television news commentator in Washington DC, 1972 – 1976 ; was a professor of law at Howard University, 1973 – 1974 ; ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia, 1974 ; and became a partner in the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Alexander, 1975.

He was later awarded the Elizabeth O ’ Neill Verner Governor ’ s Award for “ Lifetime Achievement in the Arts “ in May 2001.

He was born Johan Verner Ölund in the village of Nyby, Bjurholm Municipality,

One example was Sherbert v. Verner, where the Court overturned the state Employment Security Commission's decision to deny unemployment benefits to a practicing member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who was forced out of a job after her employer adopted a 6 day work week, which would have required her to work on Saturdays against the dictates of her religion.

The American businessman and missionary Samuel Phillips Verner was sent to Africa in 1904 under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ( St. Louis World Fair ) to bring back an assortment of pygmies to be part of an exhibition.

Verner was unable to persuade any villagers to join him until Benga spoke of how the muzungu had saved his life, the bond that had grown between them, and his own curiosity about the world Verner came from.

For his efforts, Verner was awarded the gold medal in anthropology at the Exposition's close.

Verner eventually arranged for Benga to stay in a spare room at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City while he was tending to other business.

Meanwhile, Verner was struggling financially and had made little progress in his negotiations with the museum.

In Sherbert v. Verner ( 1963 ), for example, the Court upheld a Seventh-day Adventist's claim to unemployment benefits even though she declined to make herself available to work on Saturday ( her Sabbath ) as the law required.

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam ( Swedish )

Other architects that worked for the Commission, or won competitions for the Commission memorials, included Harold Chalton Bradshaw, Sawley Nicol, Verner Owen Rees, Gordon H. Holt, and Henry Philip Cart de Lafontaine.

* 1968: Verner E. Suomi for his imagination, ingenuity, and versatility in conceiving and designing diverse meteorological sensors which have helped to transform the satellite as a meteorological probe from a dream to a reality.

* 2001, Elizabeth O ' Neill Verner Governor's Award for " Lifetime Achievement in the Arts "

Well-known graduates of Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1930-1950s include: Yuri Neprintsev, Nikolai Timkov, Alexander Laktionov, Piotr Vasiliev, Piotr Belousov, Mikhail Kozell, Gleb Verner ( Isaak Brodsky workshop ), Sergei Osipov, Gleb Savinov, Elena Skuin, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Olga Bogaevskaya, Lev Orekhov, Victor Teterin, Ivan Godlevsky, Evgenia Antipova, Evgenia Baykova ( Alexander Osmerkin workshop ), Alexei Eriomin, Nikolai Baskakov, Valery Vatenin, Nina Veselova, Maya Kopitseva, Leonid Steele, Oleg Lomakin, Valentina Monakhova, Nikolai Mukho, Anatoli Nenartovich, Mikhail Natarevich, Semion Rotnitsky, Mikhail Trufanov, Yuri Tulin, German Yegoshin ( Boris Ioganson workshop ), Andrei Mylnikov, Boris Korneev, Anatoli Vasiliev, Nikolai Pozdneev, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Irina Getmanskaya, Elena Kostenko, Alexander Koroviakov, Victor Otiev, Alexander Sokolov ( Victor Oreshnikov workshop ), Boris Lavrenko, Yuri Belov, Mikhail Kaneev, Nikolai Galakhov, Piotr Litvinsky ( Rudolf Frentz workshop ).

Verner discovered Ota Benga while ' en route ' to a Batwa village visited previously ; he negotiated Benga's release for a pound of salt and a bolt of cloth.

'" Shapiro v. Thompson Relevant constitutional restraints apply as much to the withdrawal of public assistance benefits as to disqualification for unemployment compensation, Sherbert v. Verner or to denial of a tax exemption, Speiser v. Randall or to discharge from public employment, Slochower v. Board of Higher Education.

It was subsequently specified that he was appointed parliamentary secretary to Josée Verner for his experience as opposition critic for International Co-operation rather than for La Francophonie.

In " The History of the Rifle Brigade ", Willoughby Verner describes how the newly arrived 1st Battalion of Detachments fought for the first time near the village of Grijó ( Vila Nova de Gaia ):

Verner concludes that based on the position of a mason's inscribed Year 1 date from Neferefre's reign which was found " on a large corner block situated at the end of the tunnel for the descending corridor ... at about two thirds of the height of the extant core of the monument ", Neferefre reign lasted " not longer than about two years.

The only artifacts known for Shepseskare's reign are several clay sealings from Abusir, where the king may have been buried, and two cylinder seals, according to the respected Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner.

This was changed to ' the Orange Order ' as the ‘ wreckers ’ became more organized under the leadership of Blacker and James Verner, an attorney and agent for the Armagh estates of absentee landlord, Lord Charlemont.

After the Conservative victory in the 2006 federal election, he was appointed as parliamentary secretary to Josée Verner, who was serving as the Minister for International Cooperation, Minister responsible for Official Languages, and Minister responsible for La Francophonie.

Verner negotiated with the curator Henry Bumpus over the presentation of his acquisitions from Africa and potential employment.

Benga had been freed from slave traders in the Congo by the missionary Samuel Phillips Verner, who had taken him to Missouri.

Benga accompanied Verner when he returned the other Africans to the Congo, and briefly lived amongst the Batwa while continuing to accompany Verner on his African adventures.

Not feeling that he belonged with the Batwa, Benga chose to return with Verner to the United States.

At the suggestion of Bumpus, Verner took Benga to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Phillips Verner Bradford, the grandson of Samuel Phillips Verner, wrote a book on the Congolese entitled Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo ( 1992 ).

* 2002, Ota Benga was the subject of the short documentary Ota Benga: A Pygmy in America directed by the Brazilian Alfeu França, who incorporated original movies recorded by Verner in the early 20th century.