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We only know of Andrew through references in other writers: see especially William of Rubruck's in Recueil de voyages, iv.
The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").
It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.
In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.
Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).
The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, Herbert A. Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability to anticipate moves, plays an essential role in chess-playing.
Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
In April 2011, a representative for Andrews McMeel received a package from a " William Watterson in Cleveland Heights, Ohio ", which contained a 6 " x 8 " oil-on-board painting of Cul De Sac character Petey Otterloop, done by Watterson for the Team Cul de Sac fundraising project for Parkinson's Disease.
We know from a reference in William Langland's Piers Plowman, that ballads about Robin Hood were being sung from at least the late 14th century and the oldest detailed material we have is Wynkyn de Worde's collection of Robin Hood ballads printed about 1495.
Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne.
* The central battle was conducted by Philip Augustus and his chief knights-William des Barres, Bartholomew of Roye, Girard Girard said the Scophe Truie, William of Garland, Enguerrand III de Coucy and Gautier de Nemours.
* The left wing, composed of knights and foot soldiers was led by Robert de Dreux, Count William of Ponthieu.
* The right flank, under the command of Renaud de Dammartin, also includes the Brabant infantry and English knights-under the command of Count William of Salisbury Longespée.
The cynical attitude toward recruited infantry in the face of ever more powerful field artillery is the source of the term cannon fodder, first used by François-René de Chateaubriand, in 1814 ; however, the concept of regarding soldiers as nothing more than " food for powder " was mentioned by William Shakespeare as early as 1598, in Henry IV, Part 1.
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A justification had to be given for the rejection of King John in whose name William Wallace and Andrew de Moray had rebelled in 1297.
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
Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.
Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.
The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.
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Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

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William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.
Language expert William Safire in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express a " little bit of arcana ".
The term retronym was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times.
* William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History ( 2004 ) ISBN 978-0-393-05931-1.
Author and political commentator William Safire, in his political dictionary, traced the term " trickle-down economics " ( common in the Reagan era ) to Bryan's statement that some believe that government should legislate for the wealthy, and allow prosperity to " leak through " on those below.
He attacked his adversaries with relish, hurling unusual, often alliterative epithets — some of which were coined by White House speechwriters William Safire and Pat Buchanan — including " pusillanimous pussyfooters ", " nattering nabobs of negativism " ( written by Safire ), and " hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ".
* Safire, William.
The application of the term to specifically nuclear and radiological weapons is traced by William Safire to the Russian phrase " Оружие массового поражения " – oruzhiye massovogo porazheniya ( weapons of mass destruction ).
Even several public opponents of " non-sexist language ", such as William Safire, were finally convinced that Ms. had earned a place in English by the case of US Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro.
In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.
The development was originally to be named " Sunnydale ", but William Safire, a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his mind.
" 07 May 2010 .< http :// www. worthpoint. com / blog-entry / buying-hype-trophy-antiques-collectibles >.</ ref > William Safire claimed that the term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989 and immediately entered common usage.
Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.
On November 14, 2002, The New York Times published a column by William Safire in which he claimed " has been given a $ 200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.
However, a wide perception that Hutton had not been punished enough ( for example, the New York Times William Safire claimed that the $ 2. 75 million fine amounted to " putting a parking ticket on the Brink's getaway car "), led several customers to pull their accounts with Hutton, and many of the firm's star performers fled to other firms.
In his review of Garner's Modern American Usage, David Foster Wallace referred to the " Colonel Blimp's rage " of Prescriptivist journalists like William Safire.
* 1978: William Safire, New York Times, " for commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
The idea that voters are susceptible to such effects is old, stemming at least from 1884 ; William Safire reported that the term was first used in a political cartoon in the magazine Puck in that year.
At some point in the past, a sign on the bridge informed travelers, " In event of attack, drive off bridge ", New York Times columnist William Safire wrote in 2008.
William Safire of the New York Times said " His Way ... turns out to be the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.
William Safire in his Ode on a G-String quoted the usage of the word " G-string " for loincloth by Harper's Magazine 15 years after John Hanson Beadle's 1877 usage and suggested that the magazine confused the word with the musical term G-string ( i. e., the string for the G note ).
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