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  Toowoomba City Council Home - John Alexander French, V.C. - Local Hero
John Alexander French was born on July 15, 1914 in Crow’s Nest, north of Toowoomba.
John was renowned for his sense of fair play and protected those who were weaker.
John French was awarded the British Commonwealth’s highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross.
www.toowoomba.qld.gov.au /empire/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=380&Itemid=375   (470 words)

  
  John French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres was the commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in World War I, during 1914-15.
John French is also the name of the drummer who played with Captain Beefheart.
John French was follower of Paracelsus’ school of alchemy/chemistry, which was skeptical of certain alchemical traditions yet dedicated to seeking medical uses for various chemicals and compounds.
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 Alexander John Cuza -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Cuza vetoed it, then held a plebiscite to alter the constitution, in the manner of (Nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873)) Napoleon III.
His plan to establish universal male suffrage, together with the power of the prince to rule by decree, passed by a vote of 682,621 to 1,307.
Prince Alexander spent the remainder of his life as an exile, chiefly in Paris, Vienna and Wiesbaden.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_john_cuza.htm   (955 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander VI
Not to be outdone, the French Cardinal Briconnet erected SS.
Alexander earned the enmity of Spain, the obloquy of many narrow minded contemporaries, and the gratitude of posterity, by his tolerant policy towards the Jews, whom he could not be coerced into banishing or molesting.
Alexander cannot be held responsible for the second "barbarian" invasion of Italy, but he was quick to take advantage of it for the consolidation of his temporal power and the aggrandizement of his family.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01289a.htm   (5465 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Alexander: The Great Mystery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Alexander's Macedonian veterans—the hard men he had led to victory after victory, the nucleus of his forces—could not believe that their beloved young leader was dying.
Alexander himself had made known his wish to be buried at the well-known temple of the supreme Egyptian god Ammon Ra in the remote oasis of Siwa, in the Egyptian-Libyan desert.
Alexander's body had been, in A. Bosworth's phrase, "the talisman of the Ptolemaic house." As Rome's imperial power grew, its leaders too had not hesitated to invoke Alexander's name and legend for their own purposes, and their admiration of his greatest accomplishment: empire from the Danube to the Ganges.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: France
Joan of Arc, who saved the French monarchy, as the heroine of Christendom, and believed that the Maid of Orléans meant to lead the king of France on another crusade when she had secured him in the peaceful possession of his own country.
During the course of the nineteenth century French diplomacy at Rome and in the East has aimed at safeguarding the prerogatives of France as patron of Oriental Christendom, and of thus justifying the traditional trust of the Orientals in the "Franks" as the natural champions of Christianity in the Ottoman Empire.
John the Baptist de la Salle, and who had 123 classes in 1719, when their founder died, and 550 classes in 1789.
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 JOHN ALEXANDER MCCLERNAND - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN ALEXANDER MCCLERNAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
At the Restoration,Gerard rode at the head of the kings life-guards in his triumphal entry into London; his fOrfeited estates were restored, and he received lucrative offices and pensions.
Phillips, Memoirs of the Givil Wa~ in Wales and the Marches, 16 4249 (2 vols., 1874); and the duke of Manchester, Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne (2.
The free grammar s~hool, originally founded in 5502 by Sit John Percival, was refounded in 1552 by Edward VI., and a commercial school was erected in 1840 out of its funds.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MC/MCCLERNAND_JOHN_ALEXANDER.htm   (2188 words)

  
 ALEXANDER BARCLAY - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER BARCLAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
All the evidence in Barclays own work goes to prove that he was sincere in his reproof of contemporary follies and vice, and the gross accusations which John Bale i brings against his moral character may be put down to his hatred of Barclays cloth.
Certayne Ecloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, written in his youth, were probably printed as early as 1513, although the earliest extant edition is that in John Cawoods reprint (I57o) of the Ship of Fools.
The first three eclogues, in the form of dialogues between Coridon and Cornix, were borrowed from the Miseriae Curialium of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II.), and contain an eulogy of John Alcock, bishop of Ely, the founder of Jesus College, Cambridge.
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 Schenectady County, New York: Genealogy - Glen Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Alexander Glen, the third youngest son of Jacob Alexander Glen, Sr., was born November 15th, 1685, removed to Schenectady, and on the 18th of December, 1714, married Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Swits.
Captain Alexander Glen was justice of the peace for the county of Albany; but in the troublesome times of 1689, when most of the citizens of Schenectady belonged to, or sided with, the Leslerian faction, Jacob Lesler appointed Myndert Barentse Wemp, a brother-in-law of the Captain, a justice in his stead.
John Alexander Glen, the third and youngest son of Alexander Lindsey Glen (commonly called Major Coudre, his designation by the French and Indians), was born November 5th, 1648, and died November 6th, 1731, at the advanced age of eighty-three years.
www.schenectadyhistory.org /resources/yates/gen-glen.html   (1189 words)

  
 John Buridan
John Buridan was born sometime before 1300 at or near the town of Béthune in Picardy, France.
Pironet, Fabienne: 1993, “John Buridan on the Liar Paradox: Study of an Opinion and Chronology of the Texts,” in Argumentationstheorie: Scholastische Forschungen zu den logischen und semantischen Regeln korrekten Folgerns, ed.
Zupko, Jack: 2001, “John Buridan on the Immateriality of the Intellect,” Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 1 (2001): 4-18.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/buridan   (9052 words)

  
 History of the Monarchy > The Angevins > John Lackland
John was an able administrator interested in law and government but he neither trusted others nor was trusted by them.
Heavy taxation, disputes with the Church (John was excommunicated by the Pope in 1209) and unsuccessful attempts to recover his French possessions made him unpopular.
When John died in 1216 England was in the grip of civil war.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page64.asp   (306 words)

  
 John White Alexander Online
John White Alexander in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
John White Alexander at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. John White Alexander at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. Swope Art Museum, Indiana
All images and text on this John White Alexander page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/alexander_john_white.html   (298 words)

  
 Post Comment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Alexander is the son of a British aristocrat and a French opera singer.
Alexander is her teacher and almost a father.
Alexander sees the hurt he is causing her and gives his blessing for her to marry George.
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 John Arthur Shreve Alexander
His great grandfather, Thomas Alexander, was a fugitive slave who escaped from a plantation in Kentucky and settled in Anderdon Township near Amherstburg, Ontario in the 1840's.
John, now 76, continues to work four days a week as a barber, the occupation he took up after the war.
The extent of those injuries did not become clear until 1952, when John was playing with their oldest daughter, Pam, then 2 1/2 years old.
www.mnsi.net /~wishc/heritageroom/alexander.htm   (856 words)

  
 John Alexander: Virtuoso Draughtsman, essay by Edmund P. Pillsbury, Ph.D.
John Alexander: Virtuoso Draughtsman, essay by Edmund P. Pillsbury, Ph.D. Editor's note: The following essay is rekeyed and reprinted with permission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.
Alexander remained in rural isolation in southeast Texas for high school and college before entering graduate school in Dallas' S.M.U. in 1969, where he stubbornly adhered to traditional painting in defiance of the predominant interest in minimalism and conceptual art among his fellow students.
What John Alexander shares with all his elders is an uncanny ability to infuse a subject with life through the deft touch of the hand.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa504.htm   (1201 words)

  
 HamiltonBio
Alexander Hamilton was born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11
Alexander Hamilton On the Adoption of the Constitution, http://www.nationalcenter.org/AlexanderHamilton.html (providing a portrait of Hamilton at his desk).
Alexander Hamilton, a portrait, http://earlyamerica.com/portraits/hamilton.html (providing a drawing of Hamilton sitting at his desk).
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/HamiltonBio.htm   (3045 words)

  
 Horton Journal of Canadian History
Sir John A. Macdonald was one of Canada’s founding fathers.
While he was leader of the country he faced his own share of political obstacles, including Confederation, the Metis rebellion and threats of an American he is among the greatest leaders Canada has ever seen and played a significant part in the forming of Canada as a country.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815.
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 Sir John Brown --  Encyclopædia Britannica
John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow
John F. Kennedy is still considered one of the most popular U.S. presidents.
Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001839?tocId=9001839   (763 words)

  
 Colonial Hall: Biography of Alexander Hamilton, Page 1
The chief debater in the convention which framed the federal constitution, and the chief advocate of that instrument after its completion, was Alexander Hamilton.
It was resolved to possess them, and, to prevent jealousies, the attack of the one was committed to the Americans and of the other to the French.
Eight of the enemy fell in the action; but notwithstanding the irritation lately produced by the infamous slaughter in Fort Griswold, not a man was killed who had ceased to resist.
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 Sir John Macdonald --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Macdonald, John A. The first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald held that office from 1867 to 1873 and again from 1878 to 1891.
He had a genius for leadership and was guided throughout his life by his loyalty to the British Commonwealth and his wish to maintain his country's independence from the United States.
In 1892 the outstanding jurist and Conservative statesman John Sparrow David Thompson became prime minister of Canada.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049681?tocId=9049681   (697 words)

  
 French Defence & Sicilian Defence
The books are organized by games (448 for the Sicilian, 401 for the French), filled rather densely by sub-games and annotations; and there are exercises on strategy and tactics at the back of the book.
There are very few of these in the Sicilian book but many in the French volume; obviously they are scant substitute for the real investigation of a position, but they may be helpful markers.
On the other hand, their scope is broader than most openings books, there are suggestions and notes unfamiliar to the Western reader, and fans of these openings may be drawn to the large number of annotated games.
www.jeremysilman.com /book_reviews_jw/jw_french_n_sicilian_defen.html   (384 words)

  
 Fed Cup - News Article
John ‘JA’ Alexander has been appointed Captain of the Australian Fed Cup Team for the 2005 campaign.
John is the first male since Neale Fraser, 1976-1978, to hold the captaincy of the women’s team.
He was runner-up in the Wimbledon doubles in 1977 and French Open doubles in 1975.
www.fedcup.com /news/newsarticle.asp?id=10548   (202 words)

  
 Churchyard/Orr Family Museum (Genealogy) -- Data (Mostly Negative) on the English Origins of Matthias St. John
John lines are almost unique in being traceable in the male line back into the early days of the Norman conquest of England.
JOHN, and the monumental inscription was erected by Sir JOHN ST. JOHN Bt.
John was connected with the families of the nobility or gentry.
www.crossmyt.com /hc/gen/stjoneng.html   (4190 words)

  
 The Alexander Home Page
Alexander was born on October 18, 1996, somewhere east of the Mississippi River.
Alexander sails the waterways of South Florida with the notorious Barnacle Steve!
Alexander spent Christmas with his grandmother and many other family members.
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 Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada - John Alexander Media Awards
To recognize the contribution made by the late John Alexander in increasing public awareness of multiple sclerosis in Canada.
John Alexander, an MS Society volunteer until his death in 1990, was a veteran of the advertising world.
Alexander is also remembered for helping to organize the Canadian Children’s Foundation, which implemented the Kids Help Phone and the Ontario Centre for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
www.mssociety.ca /en/awards.htm   (886 words)

  
 Chenoweth: [JOHN: WILLIAM: JOHN] John
John married, at the age of 20, Mary Jane Skidmore, the daughter of Andrew Skidmore and Margaret Johnson.
John was a farmer and seven of his eight children would stay and raise families in Randolph County.
9 John Martin Chenoweth b: December 10, 1899 in Marshall Co., WV d: December 14, 1971 in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH Burial: Greenwood cemetery, Wheeling, WV +Mae Porter b: Abt.
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This ten light entryway chandelier is finished in French marble with natural hand carved alabaster and crystal accents.
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The French Provincial finish is adorned by sparkling Swarovski spectra crystals.
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 JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN (... - Online Information article about JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN (...
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Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat.
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Alexander, Mary Catherine Keebler, Statement of conversion, 1915--thought to have been written shortly before her death, copy of this document sent to Louise Kyle Baldwin Waterman by Mary Virginia Alexander Houts, in whose home Mary C. Alexander died.
French, George D., Memorial to Mary C. Keebler Alexander in Midland Methodist (n.p.: Midland Methodist, 7 Jun 1916).
Letter from Frank Alexander to his children, 8 Dec 1915, copy made by Louise Kyle Baldwin Waterman, Collection of Lissa Soergel, Alexandria, Virginia.
www.whollygenes.com /alexandb.htm   (300 words)

  
 Francesca Alexander ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Francesca Alexander, Portrait of Luise Ristori, circa 1870
Alexander Campbell of Possil 18-19th century oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Scottish
John Alexander is among the most internationally recognized artists from Texas.
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 Europublic - Speaker Profiles
John lectures in English and Swedish and is also accustomed to making presentations in Denmark and Norway in what he calls 'SAS skandinaviska'.
Born in Australia in 1952, John Alexander came to Europe in the 1970s, living mainly in the UK and working in the publishing industry, and then moved to Stockholm where he completed a PhD in Narratology/Media Studies.
John Alexander is a frequent guest on Swedish television and radio, debating subjects ranging from new management trends to media and cultural issues.
www.europublic.com /en/A88.html   (431 words)

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