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  Michael VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael VII Ducas or Parapinakes, was the eldest son of Constantine X Ducas and Eudocia Macrembolitissa.
The feebleness of Michael, whose chief interest lay in trifling academic pursuits, and the avarice of his ministers, was disastrous to the empire.
As the result of anarchy in the army, the Byzantines lost Bari, their last possession in Italy, to the Normans in 1071, and were forced to cede a large strip of Asia Minor which they were unable to defend against the Seljuk Turks (1074).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_VII   (193 words)

  
 Michael IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael IV, "the Paphlagonian," (1010 December 10, 1041) (in Greek Μιχαήλ Παφλαγών, meaning "from the province of Paphlagonia") was Byzantine emperor (April 11, 1034 to December 10, 1041).
He owed his elevation to Empress Zoë, daughter of Constantine VIII and wife of Romanus III, but becoming enamoured of Michael, her chamberlain, poisoned her husband and immediately married her attendant, both in 1034.
Michael, however, being of a weak character and subject to epileptic fits, left the government in the hands of his brother, John the Eunuch, who had been first minister of Constantine and Romanus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_IV   (269 words)

  
 Michael - CHAPTER IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael had recognised him at once as he rushed across the platform; his shouting to Sylvia had but confirmed the recognition; and here on the day of his entering into his new kingdom of liberty was one of its citizens almost thrown into his arms.
Michael felt himself lured from the ordinary aloofness of attitude and demeanour, which had been somewhat accustomed to view all strangers with suspicion.
Michael was seized with a fit of shyness at the idea of talking to Falbe about himself.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/Michael/chap7.html   (1817 words)

  
 IV: A MICHAEL LECTURE
The Michael period into which the world has entered ever since the last third of the 19th century, and into which human beings will have to enter with increasing consciousness, is very different from former periods of Michael.
Michael will be the true spiritual hero of Freedom; he lets men do, and he then takes what becomes of human deeds, receives it and carries it on and out into the cosmos, to continue in the cosmos what men themselves cannot yet do with it.
Michael is the Spirit from whom no impulses come, to begin with; for his characteristic period of rulership is that which is now coming, when things are to arise out of human freedom.
wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/19240113p01.html   (5078 words)

  
 The Mint Museums: Archived Exhibition Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael’s representations of nature resemble underwater life forms, dazzling constellations, or a complex surface membrane that hints at an underlying structure.
Michael’s FIELD series investigates the tension between surface texture and the illusion of space within the picture plane.
Exploring the fusion of elements taken from painting, sculpture and drawing, Michael applies paint to a convex, curved panel, thereby encouraging the viewer to experience both physical and illusionist space.
www.mintmuseum.org /exhibit.php?exhibit_id=50   (122 words)

  
 Michael McDowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael McDowell was born on the 18th of July 2347 in Delft, the Netherlands.
Michael was one of the Engineers who was assigned to the project as part of the team that was responsible for the new propulsion suite.
Michael was assigned to Delta shift as duty shift Officer and all went relatively well until the end of the mission at the Gryphon Asteroid Belt.
www.galaxy.imndesigns.com /bios/biomcdowell.htm   (3679 words)

  
 Hassler Family
Michael Hassler III was born in York County, PA, October 29, 1778, and died in Roane, TN in 1853.
Michael IV was a farmer and a miller.
In 1872, Michael IV was in the state of GA as shown in Roane Deed Book (K, p 444) in which Simeon was settling with his brother Michael IV, for their respective parts to three tracts of land and a mill.
www.roanetn.com /hassler.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1076 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael hardly escaped being taken prisoner whilst crossing the Hellespont, but he was soon released from his fear, in consequence of the Russian fleet being destroyed by storm.
Michael formed a plot with Basil to assassinate Bardas ; and soon afterwards the Caesar was treacherously killed by Michael, Basil, and a band of assassins hired for the purpose (866), Thereupon Basil rose to emi­nence,,and was proclaimed Caesar.
No sooner was this done than John re­moved Zoe from the administration of the state, by keeping her a prisoner in her palace; and as Michael was unfit to reign, he seized the supreme power without aspiring to the name.
ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2184.html   (1037 words)

  
 The Mint Museums: News Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In each series Michael investigates perception and conceptual insight as he explores the way images are built layer upon layer through the use of multiple, repetitive marks.
According to Michael, the title of this series is an abbreviation for "field of vision." The inspiration for the imagery was derived, in part, from the personal experiences the artist has had with ocular migraines.
Michael employs a compositional maze of light and color to probe the fragile beauty that can be found between order and chaos.
www.mintmuseum.org /news_detail.php?news_id=29   (566 words)

  
 The Age of Chivalry - Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor 1261-1282   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael Palaeologus was the man who reunited the Byzantine Empire and founded the last imperial dynasty of Constantinople that would rule until the Ottoman Turks finally took the city in May 1453.
Michael staved off an Angevin invasion from Sicily by uniting Rome with the Orthodox Church, the effect of which was achieved at the Second Council of Lyons in July 1274.
Michael manoeuvred with haste to support Peter III of Aragon’s claim on Sicily for his wife Constance, who was the daughter of Manfred the king of Sicily until a papal-sanctioned invasion by Charles of Anjou removed him in 1266.
www.taoc.co.uk /content/view/34/43   (900 words)

  
 Today in his story - September 5, 2004
Michael F. Hanley IV, whose ancestors bought a homestead in the 1850s and turned it into what now survives as the Southern Oregon Historical Society’s Hanley Farm, paid a visit to the historic site Saturday.
In 1983, Hanley IV received a letter from a distant relative in Virginia who was a descendant of the long-lost John Hanley.
Before leaving this weekend, Michael Hanley IV and his son planned to get on their horses and have their photograph taken in front of the old farm house, replicating an old photograph of his father and grandfather.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/0905/local/stories/15local.htm   (1355 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Michael Caerularius
The only explanation of Michael Cærularius's conduct is that he belonged from the beginning to the extreme wing of that party, and had always meant to break with the pope as soon as he could.
In 1042 Monomachus became emperor peaceably by marrying Zoe, a descendant of Basil the Macedonian (Basil I, 867-86) and widow of both Romanus III (1028-34) and Michael IV.
Michael VI (1056-7) was not sufficiently submissive, so Cærularius worked up a revolution, deposed him, went himself to cut off his hair, and shut him up in a monastery.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10273a.htm   (1738 words)

  
 Michael IV -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael IV [Categories: Byzantine emperors, 1041 deaths, 1010 births]
Michael IV, "the Paphlagonian," (1010 - December 10, 1041) (in (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek Μιχαήλ Παφλαγών, meaning "from the province of (Click link for more info and facts about Paphlagonia) Paphlagonia") was (Click link for more info and facts about Byzantine emperor) Byzantine emperor (April 11, 1034 to December 10, 1041).
Michael, however, being of a weak character and subject to (A person who has epilepsy) epileptic fits, left the government in the hands of his brother, John the Eunuch, who had been first minister of Constantine and Romanus.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_iv1.htm   (229 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Michael IV [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael IV, "the Paphlagonian," (1010 - December 10, 1041) (in Greek Μιχαήλ Παφλαγών, meaning "from the province of Paphlagonia") was Byzantine emperor (April 11, 1034 to December 10, 1041).
He owed his elevation to Empress Zoë;, daughter of Constantine VIII and wife of Romanus III, but becoming enamoured of Michael, her chamberlain, poisoned her husband and immediately married her attendant, both in 1034.
In the north the Serbs achieved a successful revolt (1040), but a dangerous rising by the Bulgarians and Slavs which threatened the cities of Thrace and Macedonia was repressed by a triumphant campaign which the decrepit emperor undertook in person shortly before his death on December 10, 1041.
encyclozine.com /Michael_IV   (298 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A capable ruler of poor health, Michael fought hard battles to subdue rebel Slavs in Macedonia and Serbia, but died before a planned campaign against prince Stefan Vojislav, founder of the most significant 11th c.
Michael's reversal of his predecessors' policies, and insistence on payment of certain taxes in cash rather than in kind, led to several Slavic revolts in the Balkans, including that of prince Vojislav.
To aggravate matters, the latter also appropriated a shipwrecked treasure of gold coins destined for the emperor - which, despite Michael's demands and punitive expeditions, was never to be returned.
www.suc.org /exhibitions/byz_coins/present/src/Michael_IV   (135 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Michael Psellus: Chronographia: Complete Text
To most folk it seemed that this malady was a pretext and veil for Michael's scheming, and the suspicion would have been justified, were it not for the fact that, when he became emperor, he still continued to suffer from this derangement.
To their surprise, she persisted in her support of Michael, with unwavering loyalty; there was no question of reason in the matter, for her judgment of the man was inspired by sentiment.
Michael's elder brother approached her on the subject privately (he was the [58] eunuch John, a man of outstanding intellect, as well as a man of action).
www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/psellus-chrono00.html   (20836 words)

  
 MICHAEL IV, Ethiopia, Orthodox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael IV, Al-Habis was a Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria said to have been dispatched on a mission to Ethiopia to dissuade the Ethiopians from interrupting the flow of the Nile to Egypt.
It appears that the Egyptians attributed exceptionally low flood waters, resulting in famine, to Ethiopian intervention at the source of the Nile subsequent to the dispute with Egypt arising from the activities of Abunä Säwiros.
1100 A.D., Michael IV was sent to Ethiopia, according to the thirteenth century Coptic historian al-Makin, by the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir (1035-1094 A.D.), and took with him many gifts to placate the Emperor.
www.dacb.org /stories/ethiopia/michael_4.html   (176 words)

  
 Michael V Calaphates --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The nephew of Michael IV, Michael Calaphates was adopted by his uncle's elderly wife, Empress Zoe.
An uprising erupted, however, and to stem it Michael hurriedly recalled her.
(or Michael, or Mihai) (born 1921), king of Romania, born in Sinaia, Romania; in 1927 succeeded his grandfather, Ferdinand I, his father, Carol II, having given up his rights to the throne; regency during reign, which lasted until father's return to throne in 1930; again king 1940 when his father abdicated; abdicated 1947.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052450?tocId=9052450   (740 words)

  
 News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | Yogurt Shop Murders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She also conversed with Tony Diaz, Michael Scott’s attorney, while the grand jury hearings were ongoing.
Michael Scott was in the post and attended a craft session the day after the murders.
Michael Scott was in the process of legally adopting her daughter when he was arrested.
www.news8austin.com /content/special_coverage/yogurt_shop_murders?ArID=49518   (1606 words)

  
 Rider Biography
Michael has been awarded the USET Show Jumping Championship Trophy an unprecedented six times, the last being in June of 1995 at the Festival of Champions in Gladstone, NJ.
Michael was also honored by being asked to carry the US flag in the closing ceremonies of the Games.
Michael chose a few select Grand Prix for the young horses and captured 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in the $30,000 Battenkill Grand Prix in Vermont with 'Above All', 'Judgement' and 'Katja' respectively.
www.stadiumjumping.com /aga/cfm/rider_profile.cfm?rider_id=82   (745 words)

  
 Michael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The given name Michael or Micha'el (מיכאל "who is like God?" or "likened unto God"; Standard Hebrew Miḫaʾel, Tiberian Hebrew Mîḵāʾēl; Septuagint Greek Μιχαηλ, Mikhaēl) derives from the name of the archangel Michael mentioned in the Bible, who is also considered a saint by Catholics.
The name has been particularly popular in Orthodox nations, and was borne by several rulers of the Byzantine and Russian empires.
Prince Michael of Kent is a prominent member of the British Royal Family.
www.yotor.com /wiki/en/mi/Michael.htm   (110 words)

  
 The Kansas Rattennes
His children are Michael the V, Christopher James (C.J.) and their youngest Luke Alexander Rattenne.
Oh, Michael wants to be sure you all get the pronunciation of his name correctly: It's Rattenne' (that's Rat-ten-nay).
Michael IV, Dot, Tammy, cousin Ken, Mike III, Round Tuit Ranch 1984.
www5.pair.com /rattenne/Family/mikedot.htm   (194 words)

  
 Byzantine Coins June 1998 Coins of the Month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A histamenon nomisma of what is now considered Michael IV minted in Thessalonica during the last year of his reign were he resided during the war with the Bulgarians, instead of Michael V minted in Constantinople.
It depicts the Archangel Michael on the left and Michael IV on the right.
All of the other known specimens have a weakness (or wear) in the loros of Michael IV, whereas, this piece is fully struck.
www.byzantinecoins.com /June1998.html   (335 words)

  
 Discussion thread
IV insulin, Michael Gibney, RN, Jan 6, 2004 at 13:51
The utilization of IV insulin appears to vary from hospital to hospital.
Iv insulin can be given IV push to get rapid initiation of treatment.
www.ismp.org /forum/thread.asp?m=2347   (142 words)

  
 MICHAEL IV - Online Information article about MICHAEL IV
MICHAEL IV - Online Information article about MICHAEL IV Online Encyclopedia
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MICHAEL_IV.html   (259 words)

  
 Speaker Series IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Michael Small joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1981.
He has worked on various compex global issues in Ottawa for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as Co-ordinator for the Canadian delegation for the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and more recently as the Director of the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division in Ottawa from 1996 - 2000.
Michael Small earned a B.A. in Politics from Princeton University (1978), a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto (1980) and a M.Phil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (1981).
hcs.harvard.edu /~canuck/speakers/2003-04.php   (160 words)

  
 Michael Yon : Online Magazine: The Battle For Mosul IV
In a previous dispatch I stated that the only true martyrs I've seen in Iraq are these men, ordinary in most respects, who step forward and put everything on the line, for the idea of Iraq.
I’ve seen children who were intentionally and horribly mutilated so they would evoke pity as beggars.
Michael Yon, author of "Danger Close," is an independent, informed observer chronicling the monumentally important events in the efforts to stabilize Iraq.
michaelyon.blogspot.com /2005/10/battle-for-mosul-iv.html   (12918 words)

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