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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Henry the Lion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1168 Henry married Matilda (1156 -1189), the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and sister of Richard Lionheart.
Henry XI Heinrich (Henry) II, (born 1107, died January 13, 1177), Count Palatine of the Rhine 1140-1141, Margrave of Austria from 1141 to 1156, Duke of Bavaria from 1143 to 1156, Duke of Austria 1156-1177, was a prince from the dynasty of Babenberg.
HENRY FITZ HENRY (11551183), second son of Henry II., king of England, by Eleanor of Aquitaine, became heir to the throne on the death of his brother William (1136), and at the age of five was married to Marguerite, the infant daughter of Louis VII.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Henry-the-Lion   (2990 words)

  
 Henry X, Duke of Bavaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, and Wulfhild, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony, and thus a member of the Welf family, and, what was quite important, senior heir of the Billung family.
After the marriage, Henry took part in the warfare between the king and the Hohenstaufen brothers, Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (who was Henry's brother-in-law, having been married with his sister Judith), and Conrad, Duke of Franconia, afterwards the German king Conrad III.
Henry's duchy of Bavaria was given to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria, a half-brother of the new king Conrad.
www.tocatch.info /en/Henry_II%2C_Duke_of_Saxony.htm   (559 words)

  
 Henry the Black - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria from 1120 to 1126, see Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria.
Henry was the slave and interpreter of Magellan to the natives in the Philippines.
Néstor Enríquez is a descendant of Henry the Black.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_the_Black   (1780 words)

  
 Henry the Lion - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Henry the Lion
His refusal in 1176 to accompany Frederick Barbarossa to Italy led in 1180 to his being deprived of the Duchies of Bavaria and Saxony.
Henry led several military expeditions to conquer territory in the East.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Henry+the+Lion   (134 words)

  
 Henry the Navigator - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator (right, with hat), Prince of Portugal, with St Vincent and the Portuguese royal family, from an altarpiece by Nuno Goncalves (c.
Though not a navigator himself, Henry was a great patron of navigators and voyages of discovery, and encouraged the development of navigational instruments and cartography.
Portuguese prince, the fourth son of John I. He is credited with setting up a school for navigators in 1419 and under his patronage Portuguese sailors explored and colonized Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Azores; they sailed down the African coast almost to Sierra Leone.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Henry%20the%20Navigator   (159 words)

  
 wcr:04/17/2000 -- Henry forgives Black for personal attack
In his article, Henry defended the workers' right to strike and took Black to task for insulting his workers, failing to consider their legitimate demands, and adopting an intransigent approach to the dispute.
In his reply, Black, a Catholic convert, referred to Henry as a "jumped-up little twerp of a bishop" and a "useful idiot" to the labour leaders involved in the Herald dispute.
The statement is signed by Henry, Bishop Stephen Kristenson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada, the Rev. Jim Wallace of the Calgary Evangelical Ministerial Association, Anglican Bishop Barry Hollowell and the Rev. Bill Phipps of the United Church.
www.wcr.ab.ca /news/2000/0417/personalattack041700.shtml   (723 words)

  
 Henry the Black   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Another Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria from 1120-1126, was the first of the three Henries of the Welf dynasty.'' Enrique of Malacca or ('''"Henry the Black"''') or Enrique de Molucca, may be historically significant as the first person to circumnavigate the world.
It is a subject of dispute as to whether he is originally from Sumatra in Indonesia, Malacca in Malaya or Cebu in the Philippines.
Nestor Enriquez is a descendant of Henry the Black.
henry-the-black.area51.ipupdater.com   (735 words)

  
 Reflections on Black History - Thomas C. Fleming
Henry knew everyone in town, and one of his close friends was a white boy named Tommy Stewart, whose father owned a spread of land in which he had built a slaughterhouse.
Henry and I frequently went out to their ranch, where we could ride a donkey or horse, or a goat if we wished.
Henry and I used to fish in a backwater of the Sacramento River that was named after Sam Chilsom, a fl man who had lived in the area years before.
www.sfmuseum.org /sunreporter/fleming14.html   (1032 words)

  
 Black's Law Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black's Law Dictionary is the definitive law dictionary for the law of the United States.
As many legal terms derive from Latin, the Dictionary gives a pronunciation guide for such terms and the applicable entries provide pronunciation transcriptions consistent with those found among North American practitioners of law or medicine.
The second edition of Black's Law Dictionary (1910) is now in the public domain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black's_Law_Dictionary   (430 words)

  
 Welcome to the Department of Preventative Medicine
HENRY R. Henry R. Black, MD, is a board-certified nephrologist with about three decades of experience in preventive cardiology.
Black is frequently invited to speak throughout the United States and abroad.
Black is currently funded for two NIH-sponsored studies, the Antihypertensive and Lipid Lowering Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) and the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI).
www.rushu.rush.edu /prevent/faculty_black.html   (266 words)

  
 Henry, Lenny
Henry was recruited by BBC producer Paul Jackson, for a prime-time sketch show Three Of A Kind (1981-83) in which he appeared with Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield.
Henry was influenced by comedians from the United States such as Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Bill Cosby, and became the first British comedian to make a live stand-up comic film, Lenny Henry Live And Unleashed (1989), in the tradition of U.S. comics such as Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy.
Most of all perhaps, the series is a landmark programme in the sense that Henry plays a character who just happens to be fl; the fact of his flness does not limit the narrative or the audience the series reaches.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/henrylenny/henrylenny.htm   (976 words)

  
 Black Facts Online: Henry McNeal Turner Born
Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina.
This helper to Henry was moved to another plantation, and he was again left to his own resources.
His mother hired a white lady to give him lessons every Sabbath, but the neighbors were so indignant that they threatened to have the law on her, as it was then against the law to teach a Negro the alphabet.
www.blackfacts.com /fact.asp?ID=2610   (527 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Henry Louis Gates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Black work cannot be appreciated or criticized on the basis of a Western cultural aesthetic.
Gates proposed the theory that fl writers, as Andrew Delbanco explained in the New Republic, "throw off the oppressive weight of their predecessors by first incorporating, then transforming, them." Gates labels this parodic technique "Signifyin(g)" — indicating the omission of the final "g" as is often done in the fl vernacular.
The absence of fl works in the artistic cultural milieu, according to Gates, is coupled with an improper depiction in the popular cultural environment.
www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/gates_h.htm   (2916 words)

  
 frontline: the two nations of black america: interview with henry louis gates, jr.
You had fringe groups like the Black Panther Party which had moved to an economic analysis and certainly to the advocacy of violence and guns and self defense and protection, but they were being annihilated systematically by the FBI and they were totally annihilated eventually.
Most fl leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
A fl think tank as it were, a fl Brookings and I recently became a member of the board of the Brookings Institution.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/gates.html   (2231 words)

  
 Profiles In Black Class 8 Henry Highland Garnet
Black Nationalism in particular was as much thought about and advocated in the middle of the 19th century as it is now.
Black People, he said, could not be freed by agents; nor, he added, could they be freed by white friends.
His concern that Blacks have the benefit of religious training was based on his belief that it was necessary to building character, strength and discipline.
www.asetbooks.com /Us/AsetU/Courses/ProsInBlack/PIF8.html   (917 words)

  
 Henry Comics with Black Themes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Henry dresses for a masquerade party as devil.
Henry is walking and meets a crying fl child with kinky hair.
Henry ponders and takes the child home for glass of milk.
www.the-forum.com /ephemera/blackhen.htm   (292 words)

  
 icWales - Plumtree: Henry's my tip for All Black post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
FORMER Wales supremo Graham Henry is now the firm favourite to replace John Mitchell as coach of New Zealand.
Hansen was disqualified from applying for the role of All Blacks coach under New Zealand Rugby Union regulations.
Henry and Mitchell were the only candidates for the top job in New Zealand when applications closed yesterday after Hurricanes coach Colin Cooper decided not to enter the race.
icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0500rugbyunion/0200news/content_objectid=13705766_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Plumtree--Henry-s-my-tip-for-All-Black-post-name_page.html   (680 words)

  
 Lenny Henry, comedian actor, "Lenny Henry: In Pieces"
Lenny Henry, the fl British comic quickly rose to fame as a teenaged impressionist.
Henry went on to headline a number of other variety series before eventually turning to character comedy.
Lenny Henry is married to Dawn French of "French and Saunders".
www.tv-celebrity.co.uk /comedy/lenny-henry.htm   (171 words)

  
 playboy.com / arts & entertainment / playboy.comversation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born Henry Garfield in Washington, DC, Rollins was a shy kid at an all-boys school when punk rock crash-landed in the late Seventies.
Henry Garfield, manager of a DC Häagen-Dazs, relocated to Los Angeles to become Henry Rollins, badass singer for Black Flag.
It was during his tenure in the drill-camp conditions of Black Flag that Rollins solidified his extreme work ethic.
www.playboy.com /arts-entertainment/comversation/rollins   (456 words)

  
 Facts About Lt. Flipper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The young fl Lieutenant began to run into officers of higher rank who were given to showing their open dislike of him.
He wrote the first personal narrative by a fl man on the Western Frontier and was one of the first fls in the United States to gain prominence in the engineering profession.
The Thomas County Public Library, Heritage Foundation, Inc. and the Jack Hadley fl history memorabilia, Inc., are honored to present to the people of Thomas County a bronze bust of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, sculpted by nationally renowned sculptor Eddie Dixon of Lubbock, Texas.
www.rose.net /flipper.htm   (2747 words)

  
 BLACK PREACHING by Henry Mitchell ($15.95)*
Henry H. Mitchell has completely revised and integrated his popular books The Recovery of Preaching and Black Preaching for seminarians and pastors--both Black and White---who are seeking to add power and vision to their sermons.
Mitchell persuasively demonstrates that Black culture and preaching style are vital for the empowerment of Black congregations and have much to offer the preaching method of all preachers.
One pleasure I experienced after writing the first edition of Black Preaching that I hope will not be subject to change is the volume of response from mature preachers who reported the healing of their own self-esteem as practitioners of the Black tradition.
www.deaconsil.com /catalog/product263.html   (839 words)

  
 Henry Louis Gates-"HNIC"
College enrollments among Blacks and Latinos have sharply declined by as much as 50% in California.
Now, Henry Louis Gates, the epitome of a house negro, is ACCURATELY identified as the Head Negro in Charge (HNIC) by the White editor of Boston Magazine.
To acknowledge the existence of this buffer class of deluded house slaves, is to acknowledge the existence of a behind-the-scenes White Massa.
www.blacksandjews.com /HNIC.html   (917 words)

  
 African American Registry: Henry Cheatham advocated Black contributions
He was a Black politician and a member of the House of Representative in North Carolina.
In 1887 he received his MA degree from Shaw University and in that same year was one of the founders and incorporators of an orphanage for Black children at Oxford, North Carolina.
He was also interested in securing funding for the appointment of a bi-racial panel to conduct and publish a census of the educational, financial, and social progress of Black Americans; again the House failed to adopt his proposals.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/587/Henry_Cheatham_advocated_Black_contributions   (347 words)

  
 CNN.com - Henry named as new All Black coach - Dec. 19, 2003
Henry has had a long-held ambition to coach the All Blacks.
Kiwi Henry, whose methods were widely criticized by Lions players during the 2-1 series defeat to Australia in 2001, also had moderate success with Wales before being replaced.
Henry, a former Auckland coach, has held a long-term ambition to coach the All Blacks, one which seemed likely to be denied when he left New Zealand in 1998 to coach Wales.
www.cnn.com /2003/SPORT/12/18/nz.abcoach.ap/index.html   (489 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Black Spring: Books: Henry Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Black Spring contains some of his best work and displays his dazzling use of language and the exhilarating build-up of detail.
Black Spring is the antithesis of the "small talk" which defines commercial literature.
Black Spring is one of Miller's earlier efforts belonging to the Paris-written era of The Tropic's of Cancer and Capricorn.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802131824   (972 words)

  
 Henry County Sheriffs Office Ten Most Wanted
Carpenter is described as a fl male, 19 years old, 5 ft. 3 in.
Brown is described as a fl male, 32 years old, 6 ft. 5 in.
Lewis is described as a fl male, 54 years old, 5 ft. 7 in.
www.henrycty.com /sheriff/fugitives.html   (1101 words)

  
 Black History Month: The life and times of Pharmacist Aaron Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born of sharecropper parents in 1922, Aaron Henry was raised with the minimal schooling provided to the largely rural Mississippi African Americans of the period.
Henry’s activism resulted in the bombing of his home and pharmacy as well as his being arrested and jailed.
Henry was an early leader in the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), which coordinated civil rights activities in the early 1960s.
www.pharmacist.com /articles/h_ts_0723.cfm   (527 words)

  
 Press Release: America Behind the Color Line by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
That the story of Black life in America is one of class distinction comes as no surprise.
But it is pretty unusual to read about the division that has existed since slavery, between Blacks who live in the city and those in the country-a notion that may not be widely known outside the Black community.
It is ultimately the divided Black community that lies at the center of these interviews.
www.twbookmark.com /books/16/0446532738/press_release.html   (528 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Black Flag (Henry Rollins 1st band)
Just like Van Gogh,they never got popular in their times,not to mention countless member changes,fights with the police & record labels,poverty & like some bands,making poor music & drifting away until forgotten.But now they are a band that people who got more popular than them still look up too.
Black Flag (Henry Rollins 1st band) hasn't posted a blog yet.
Black Flag (Henry Rollins 1st band) hasn't posted any shows yet.
www.purevolume.com /blackflaghenryrollins1stband   (239 words)

  
 Powell's Books - John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
John Henry Days is either a remarkable historical novel, an illuminating counterpoint of Reconstruction Then and Now, or the year's most spot-on contemporary satire, depending where you look.
John Henry Days is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power that juxtaposes history and popular culture, the blatant bigotry of the past with the more insidious racism of the present, and laugh-out-loud humor with unforgettable poignancy.
From the author of The Intuitionist comes a retelling of the legend of John Henry that sweeps across generations and cultures in a stunning, hilarious, and unsettling portrait of American society.
www.powellsbooks.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0385498209-3   (685 words)

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