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  JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
JOHN (1371-1419), called the Fearless (Sans Peur), duke of Jurgundy, son of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Mar-;aret of Flanders, was born at Dijon on the 28th of May 1371.
JOHN (1468-1532), called the Steadfast, elector of Saxony fourth son of the elector Ernest, was born on the 3oth of June 1468.
JOHN, DON (1545-1578), of Austria, was the natural son of the emperor Charles V. by Barbara Blomberg, the daughter of an opulent citizen of Regensburg.
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 John, Duke of Burgundy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John was the son of Philip II, the Bold and Margaret III, Countess of Flanders.
John fought in the battle of Nicopolis (September 25, 1396) with such enthusiasm and bravery that he was given the nickname of Fearless.
Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless, on the Bridge of Montereau, in 1419.—Facsimile of a Miniature in the "Chronicles" of Monstrelet, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, in the Library of the Arsenal of Paris.
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 Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a child Jacqueline was married to John of Valois, Duke of Touraine and second son of Charles VI of France, who on the death of his elder brother Louis became dauphin.
By the mediation of John the Fearless, a treaty of partition was concluded in 1419 between Jacqueline and John of Bavaria; but it was merely a truce, and the contest between uncle and niece soon began again and continued with varying success.
There, declaring that her marriage with John of Brabant was illegal and obtaining a divorce from one of the rival Popes, Benedict XIII, she married Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (son of Henry IV of England) in 1422.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacqueline,_Countess_of_Hainaut   (648 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John the Fearless (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John the Fearless 1371–1419, duke of Burgundy (1404–19); son of Philip the Bold.
In 1413, John was again forced to flee Paris as a result of a reaction against the violence of his supporters, the Cabochiens.
John negotiated both with Henry V and with the dauphin (later King Charles VII), who now led the Armagnacs.
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 PHILIP THE GOOD - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIP THE GOOD
(1396-1467), duke of Burgundy, son of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of Bavaria, was born at Dijon on the i3th of June 1396, and succeeded his father on the 10th of September 1419.
The natural outcome of the assassination of John the Fearless (q.v) was to drive his successor to the English side.
By a treaty concluded by Philip at Amiens in April 1423 with the dukes of Brittany and Bedford, John, duke of Bedford, married Philips sister Anne, and Arthur of Brittany, earl of Richmond, became the husband of Philips sister Margaret.
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 John the Fearless - Encyclopedia.com
John the Fearless 1371-1419, duke of Burgundy (1404-19); son of Philip the Bold.
In 1413, John was again forced to flee Paris as a result of a reaction against the violence of his supporters, the Cabochiens.
Born in Indianapolis, John Cooper Fitch is descended from the steam-boat inventor John Fitch.
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 JOHN (1371–1419) - Online Information article about JOHN (1371–1419)
John endeavoured to strengthen his position by marrying his daughter Margaret to the dauphin Louis, and by betrothing his son Philip to a daughter of Charles VI.
John's victory over the Liegeois at Hasbain on the 23rd of September 1408, enabled him to return to Paris, where he was reinstated in his See also:
December 1409 gave John the guardianship of the dauphin.
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 Jean sans Peur/John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy
John and a number of others were taken prisoner and released on the payment of a 200,000 florin ransom.
John also sought to portray himself as protector of the king against the avarice and influence of his uncle.
John prevailed in the first rounds of fighting, strengthened his alliances with the workers and intellectuals in Paris to maintain their support and made a fateful alliance with the English for military support.
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 Armagnacs and Burgundians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The rivalry for power between Louis d’Orléans, brother of the recurrently insane King Charles VI, and his cousin John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, led to Louis’s murder in 1407.
John the Fearless at first held control of the government, but in 1413 the Cabochiens were ousted by another Parisian faction and John was forced to flee the city.
John took advantage of French defeats to return to Paris and seize the king (1418); in the ensuing massacre of the Armagnacs, Bernard VII and numerous followers were killed.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Parvus
The Duke of Burgundy, on the contrary, was very popular; he was regarded as a friend of the commoners and an opponent of taxation and abuses, while the university was grateful to him for his lack of sympathy with the Avignon pope.
At this juncture, Pope John XXIII left Constance (20 March, 1415) and withdrew from the council, while the King of France and the Duke of Burgundy made peace by the Treaty of Arras (22 February, 1415).
From that moment the trial of John Parvus became the battleground of the ambassadors of France and of the Duke of Burgundy, and even of the Emperor Sigismund.
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 Profiles of Faith: John: The Apostle of Godly Love - The Good News Magazine July/August 2001 Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Originally John appears to have been a disciple of John the Baptist (he is apparently the unnamed disciple in John 1:35,40).
John was faithful to Christ in all these things in spite of the threat of persecution and death.
At one point John heard a loud voice from heaven commend all Christians who overcome Satan: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb (Jesus’shed blood) and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death” (Revelation 12:11).
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 | John Peel | Unofficial website of The Undertones | TheUndertones.net |
BBC celebrates the 60th birthday of John Peel in Aug 1999 - ironically a few months after he was nearly axed.
John Peel, broadcasting legend, radio original and indie music champion, is to have two dedicated theme nights on the BBC to celebrate his 60th birthday this month.
Other programmes include Fatherhood, a short film shot at his home Peel Acres in which he talks about his life as a son and a father, and John Peel: TV Personality, tracing some of his reluctant appearances in front of the cameras including his often comic appearances on Top Of The Pops.
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 John, Duke of Bedford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
After the death of Henry V in 1422, John vied with his younger brother, (Click link for more info and facts about Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester) Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, for control of the kingdom.
He was declared regent of (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France, the boy king being technically heir to the throne of that country as well as to (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
John had been governor in (A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie) Normandy between 1422-1432, according to
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john,_duke_of_bedford.htm   (304 words)

  
 John Cusack, Sam Jackson, Mikael Håfström | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
John Cusack, Mary McCormack and Samuel L. Jackson wondered aloud what they would do if actually faced with checking into a hotel room where more than 50 people died.
Sam and John never worked together, although they always had the ambition to do so, and as you say, they are different kinds of actors, but they enjoyed the energy they gave each other.
John, it would seem like there was a big challenge in acting all alone all those weeks.
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 Hero - Green Lantern
John was both fearless and honest, the two main requirements for being a CORPS member, and he learned fast.
The first thing John did was abandon the mask, for he had nothing to hide.
HAL trained John in the hows and whys of being GREEN LANTERN, though they often differed on the whys--John being of the mind that such power gives you the right to use it to take action against moral wrong.
www.unstable.com /whoswho/johnstewart.htm   (584 words)

  
 John Duykers, tenor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Duykers has had a close association with a number of contemporary composers, notably John Adams and Philip Glass.
John Duykers has received critical acclaim in numerous productions of George Coates Performance Works, the Paul Dresher Ensemble and the A.Ga.Pe Performance Group which have been seen on the world's most important contemporary music and theater stages.
Then John Duykers again almost saving the day, as much as it could be saved, as the Visitor in the otherwise bizarrely wrong and utterly disappointing Philip Glass wreck of Kafka's In the Penal Colony at ACT.
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 BBC NEWS | Health | Filthy secrets of medieval toilets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
To prove their case, the curators have put on display the city's oldest water-closet, which was used by the de facto King of France between the years 1409 and 1413.
John the Fearless had a toilet that enjoyed all the facilities that the technology of the day had to offer.
As for wiping material, John the Fearless had the advantage of a supply cotton and linen rags.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/2960146.stm   (617 words)

  
 John Fahey - RIP - A Eulogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John Fahey embraced all, for as all great men, he was on a search for the truth or maybe a search for what it's really all about.
I loved the fact that he was a grown adult and a child at the same time.
John didn't like adulation, he simply wanted love and care in its purist form for what he himself was; just like all honest people.
www.cascadeblues.org /History/JohnFahey.htm   (859 words)

  
 Introduction: John Pilger
John Pilger was born and educated in Sydney.
In the book's 600+ pages, Australian-born John Pilger ranges over many key social events of our times: unemployment and the arms industry in Britain; the decline of social welfare and the collapse of unions in Australia and Britain; the "triumphs" of the US military machine in the Gulf War, to name a few.
Based on his extensive travel in each country John Pilger reveals the impact on the ordinary people of repression and exploitation in East Timor, Vietnam, Burma and South Africa.
www.robert-fisk.com /johnpilger/introduction_johnpilger.htm   (513 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for fearless
He later served as a mediator between John the Fearless and the dauphin, Charles VII.
The rivalry for power between Louis d' Orléans, brother of the recurrently insane King Charles VI, and his cousin John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, led to Louis's murder in 1407.
A bigger picture: Houston Fearless 76 uses expertise in photo processing to move into a growing market for industrial strength pollution control systems for manufacturers.
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 ITV - John Pilger - Home
John Pilger describes Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' as "one of the finest, most lyrical pieces of fl music ever written and performed.
As the news reveals a study that puts civilian deaths in Iraq at 655,000, John Pilger recalls the words of a song by the great Chilean balladeer, Victor Jara, to describe those who see themselves as rational and liberal are, in fact, complicit in an unrecognised crime.
John Pilger reaches behind the news of war and suffering and is inspired by the rise of popular resistance throughout the world: from Lebanon to Latin America, to an unprecedented level of political awareness in Britain.
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 Additional Reading (from John) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
He was John Cage, a minimalist and an avant-garde developer of the percussion orchestra, the prepared piano, the happening, aleatory, or chance, composition, performance art, and music as extended silence.
After John Milton, the greatest literary genius produced by the Puritan movement in England was John Bunyan.
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.
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 Dijon, Burgundy : John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy
Dijon, Burgundy : John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy
Philip the Bold John the Fearless Philip the Good Charles the Bold
John negotiated both with Henry V and with the dauphin (later King Charles VII), who now led the Armagnacs.
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 Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John was much more interested in French politics than in the culmination of the Arts in his duchy.
John the Fearless like all noblemen of his time was a patron of the Arts and surrounded himself with beautiful things much like his father had done, but the history books focus more upon John's involvement in politics than his endeavors in the arts, while they focus on his fathers patronism more than his policies.
It is known that John The Fearless housed a group of secular musicians who performed at his court functions and for his pleasure.
www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/f98/burgundy.htm   (2437 words)

  
 Fischtank - Book - Fearless Faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A fearless faith, then, is one that takes full advantage of the prayer of Jesus.
A fearless faith is a faith that is not driven by comfort, safety, and security.
A fearless faith does not need a cultural identity to thrive, for it thrives and flourishes in the heart of the believer.
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 Jazz News: John Coltrane's "Fearless Leader" In Stores Today
Nearly 40 years after his untimely departure at the age of 40, John Coltrane remains one of the most emotionally compelling and profoundly influential figures of contemporary culture; a symbol of passionate commitment, consummate artistry and the spiritual potential to which humanity can aspire.
These resulted in 11 separate albums, bringing the phenomenal tenor saxophonist, composer and visionary international acclaim along with the controversy that would be a constant companion for the remainder of his life.
Fearless Leader provides enormous insight into Coltrane's creative process, and his highly personal and singular approach to blues, rhythm and improvisation that would always be front and center, regardless of his surroundings.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=11202   (391 words)

  
 Fearless Philosophy For Free Minds: John Locke, Fearless Philosopher
John Locke was a fearless philosopher because he dared to challenge the notion of Divine Right and advanced the rights of life, liberty, property, and religious tolerance for all individuals.
The free world owes a debt of gratitude to the memory of John Locke for the clarity he brought to the cause of freedom.
The purpose of the Fearless Philosophers Series is to introduce the reader to past and present individuals who advance freedom of thought, reason, and individuality despite the popular beliefs and fallacies of their time.
fpffressminds.blogspot.com /2005/11/john-locke-fearless-philosopher.html   (3387 words)

  
 John Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
John has been racing Go-Karts since he was 6.
When he is not racing, John enjoys swimming, fishing, playing video games and wrestling with his older brothers.
The crowd was holding their breath until john got out and smiled and waved.
www.dfwmotorsport.com /Kart/JonesJohn   (128 words)

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