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William and Orange
Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.
The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.
* 1533 – William I of Orange ( d. 1584 )
Wilhelmine Carolina was a daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange and Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange.
But with the flight of James in 1688 and the arrival of the Calvinist William of Orange the position of the parties changed.
The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572
A big fire in 1554 destroyed 75 % of the houses but by 1560 these had been rebuilt with the help of William I of Orange.
This followed the deaths in 1584 of the allies William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and Francis, Duke of Anjou, and the surrender of a series of Dutch towns to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Philip's governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
* 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
The fort was named " Fort William "' after William of Orange, and the settlement that grew around it was called " Maryburgh ", after his wife.
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England ( James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland ) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau ( William of Orange ).
This changed the existing line of succession by displacing the heir presumptive, his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, with young James as heir apparent.
Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange to England, which the stadtholder, who feared an Anglo-French alliance, had indicated as a condition for a military intervention.
Mary had a husband, her cousin William Henry of Orange.
When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.
In 1566 William of Orange, a convert to Calvinism and the father of his people, started the Eighty Years ' War to liberate the Dutch from the Catholic Spaniards and the brutality of the Duke of Alba.
From that point, there were various factions pressing for his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband, Prince William III of Orange, to replace him in what became known as the Glorious Revolution.
Neither this, nor his moves towards absolutism, provoked outright rebellion, as it was believed that he would be succeeded by his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange.

William and learns
In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.
Though William also learns of Colville's identity, he instead continues the match, further earning Colville's respect.
* " Fool for Love " 2nd flashback: Months after being sired, William, now called Spike, has through acts of public mayhem forced Angelus ' vampire group ( himself, Spike, Drusilla, and Angelus ' sire / paramour Darla ) to flee London ; Spike first learns of the existence of the Vampire Slayer.
When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, a poet whom he idolizes but of whom accountant Blake himself is ignorant.
When James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) learns that Spock's spirit, or katra, is held in the mind of Dr. Leonard " Bones " McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), Kirk and company steal the Enterprise to return Spock's body to his home planet.
" While William learns, Judith is chastised by her parents should she happen to pick up a book, as she is inevitably abandoning some household chore to which she could be attending.
Tarzan finally meets Jane in Wisconsin where they renew their acquaintance and he learns the bitter news that she has become engaged to William Clayton.
A few days later he learns that Damian died in Delhi after exposure to a virus to which he had no immunity, and it is known that Damian was able to travel there using a forged cover made while William was in Shanghai.
When Oskar talks to William Black, he learns that the vase used to belong to William's father.
Realizing that he is a danger to himself and those around him unless he learns to control his powers, Aren decides to accompany William home to receive proper magical training.
Questioning Selana, William learns that while she was responsible for the pirate attack, she knows nothing about the griffin.
As Captain Forbes learns, the “ Red Fox ” was considered too lenient towards his fellow countrymen and now William Reid is his successor as the King's factor.
However, the man did not kill Kellar, who learns that his captor is an American, a former CIA wetworks operative, William Lennox.

William and Eliza's
William married Eliza's niece Marion Templeton.
Amazingly, within a year of his death ten of his close relatives died, including his sister Abigail, his wife Eliza, his brother-in-law William L. Storrs, Joseph and Eliza's daughter Eliza, their son-in-law Lucius Robinson and Lucius ' father David Robinson.

William and mission
Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.
The Reverend William Arthur Phillips of the Nyasa Industrial Mission in Blantyre had established a Baptist mission there in 1905, serving an area of and 50, 000 souls.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, stated that " The incidental advancement of a religious mission, or the perceived endorsement of a religious message, is reasonably attributable to the individual aid recipients not the government, whose role ends with the disbursement of benefits.
His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.
Many scholars since William Wrede ( in 1901 ) have remarked on the so-called Messianic secret in the Gospel of Mark, whereby Jesus ' true nature and / or mission is portrayed as unseen by many, including by his inner circle of disciples.
In 1127, William Clito, a potential claimant to the English throne, seemed likely to become the Count of Flanders ; Stephen was sent by the king on a mission to prevent this, and in the aftermath of his successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation.
** Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 ( Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson ) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an 84-day mission.
Ohio Governor William Dennison, Jr. charged him with a mission to travel to Illinois to acquire musketry and to negotiate with the Governors of Illinois and Indiana for the consolidation of troops.
It is also possible that while Frederick was away on a diplomatic mission in Europe, a problem within the diocese forced William to seek the archbishop's assistance.
William was, however, sent by Alexander as an ambassador to Emperor Manuel, and Manuel then sent him on a mission to the Principality of Antioch.
The tapestry begins with a panel of Edward the Confessor sending Harold to Normandy .< sup >( scene 1 )</ sup > Later Norman sources say that the mission was for Harold to pledge loyalty to William but the tapestry does not suggest any specific purpose.
MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which flew the first mission beyond low earth orbit to the Moon, enabling its crew, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders to become the first human beings to see the Earth as a whole, as well as becoming the first to view the Moon up close ( as well as the first to view its farside at all ).
They are described by the historian Stephen Tomkins as " a network of friends and families in England, with William Wilberforce as its centre of gravity, who were powerfully bound together by their shared moral and spiritual values, by their religious mission and social activism, by their love for each other, and by marriage ".
Having returned to England, in 1093 Edgar went to Scotland again on a diplomatic mission for William to negotiate with Malcolm, who was dissatisfied with the Norman failure to implement in full the terms of the 1091 treaty.
William McPherson was a rancher, scholar, and collector from Orange County, California who donated his extensive collection of mission documents, primarily from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, to Special Collections in 1964.
In Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Aire Company, most notable for the involvement of artist William David Simmons, is to this day active in its mission to bring local artists in touch with classical painting traditions.
In 1688, William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in-law from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.
According to author William Stevenson in A Man called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson ( no relation ), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.
Since William Camden, Burgh Castle has been suggested as the site of " Cnobheresburg ", the unknown place ( a castrum or fort ) in East Anglia, where in about 630 the first Irish monastery in southern England was founded by Saint Fursey as part of the Hiberno-Scottish mission described by Bede.
In 1792 Major Alexander Truman, his servant William Lynch and guide / interpreter William Smalley were sent by George Washington on a peace mission.
It was a reaction to the failure of an English diplomatic mission to The Hague seeking a joining of the Commonwealth by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, after the States of Holland had made some cautious overtures to Cromwell to counter the monarchal aspirations of stadtholder William II of Orange.
William Cameron " Willie " McCool ( September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.

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