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  William Lyon Mackenzie King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King's promise not to impose conscription contributed to the Liberals' re-election in the 1940 election.
King was not alone in his forced emigration of Japanese Canadians, as the United States government had a similar plan in effect during the war years.
King was considered a minor player in the war by both United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, despite hosting a wartime conference in Quebec City in 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King   (1710 words)

  
 King, William Lyon Mackenzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE.
King acted as conciliator in a number of strikes, his major legislative achievement being the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907, which delayed strikes or lockouts in public utilities or mines until a conciliation board achieved a settlement or published a report.
King insisted on Canadian autonomy in relations with the UK and contributed to the definition of Dominion status at the 1926 Imperial Conference.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004312   (977 words)

  
 William King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
WILLIAM KING was born in London in 1663, the son of Ezekiel King, a gentleman.
King soon found a friend as idle and thoughtless as himself in Upton, one of the judges, who had a pleasant house called Mountown, near Dublin, to which King frequently retired; delighting to neglect his interest, forget his cares, and desert his duty.
King was resolved to counteract his sullenness, and at the expence of a few barrels of ale filled the neighbourhood with honest merriment.
www2.hn.psu.edu /Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/king   (1060 words)

  
 John William King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John William King is a white supremacist who was convicted of murdering James Byrd, Jr.
He was found guilty of kidnapping and murder on February 23 and was sentenced with the death penalty, on February 25.
King had previously been gang-raped in prison by fl prisoners and, although he had no previous record of racism, had allegedly joined a white-supremacist prison gang for self-protection.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_William_King   (181 words)

  
 William II, king of England. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
His first act as king was to put down the effort of his uncle, Odo of Bayeux, to seat William I’s eldest son, Robert II, duke of Normandy, on the English throne.
William ruled England with a strong hand and aroused the hatred particularly of the church, for which he had utter contempt.
William was killed by an arrow while on a hunting party, and there is some evidence to suggest that his death was not an accident.
www.bartleby.com /65/wi/Will2Eng.html   (469 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
WILLIAM H. William Henry King was born in Fillmore, Utah, on 3 June 1863, the son of William and Josephine Henry King.
During his service in the Senate, King was a strong advocate of a "hands off" policy on the part of the United States toward Latin America, and was recognized by the government of Haiti in 1936 for his role in terminating U.S. intervention in the affairs of that nation.
In 1936 King was defeated in his bid to be elected a delegate to the national Democratic party convention, and was targeted for defeat for the Senate when party liberals passed a direct primary law in the 1937 legislature.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/k/KING,WILLIAM.html   (548 words)

  
 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
William, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy, spent his first six years with his mother in Falaise and received the duchy of Normandy upon his father's death in 1035.
In 1047, William reasserted himself in the eastern Norman regions and, with the aid of France's King Henry I, crushed the rebelling barons.
William was enraged and immediately prepared to invade, insisting that Harold had sworn allegiance to him in 1064.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon22.html   (740 words)

  
 History of the Monarchy > The Normans > William I
William's claim to the English throne was based on his assertion that, in 1051, Edward the Confessor had promised him the throne (he was a distant cousin) and that Harold II - having sworn in 1064 to uphold William's right to succeed to that throne - was therefore a usurper.
William's wholesale confiscation of land from English nobles and their heirs (many nobles had died at the battles of Stamford Bridge and Senlac) enabled him to recruit and retain an army, by demanding military duties in exchange for land tenancy granted to Norman, French and Flemish allies.
William bequeathed Normandy as he had promised to his eldest son Robert, despite their bitter differences (Robert had sided with his father's enemies in Normandy, and even wounded and defeated his father in a battle there in 1079).
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page18.asp   (1785 words)

  
 The Death Penalty and John William King
The death penalty only supports King's mistaken idea that he is the victim, and his death at the hands of the state will only confirm the suspicions of white supremacists who believe that the government has been co-opted.
King chose Byrd as his victim merely because he was fl and because he was convenient.
While King has brought much pain in his short life (he's only 24 years old), if allowed to live, he would probably have many more years that could be used to bring enrichment, and even joy, to other people.
www.rtis.com /reg/bcs/pol/touchstone/april99/penalty.html   (885 words)

  
 King William's War - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The first of the French and Indian Wars, King William's War (1689–97), was the North American theater of the War of the Grand Alliance (1688–97) fought principally in Europe between the armies of France under Louis XIV and those of a coalition of European powers including England.
King William's War started when William III of England joined the League of Augsburg against France.
William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /king_william%27s_war.htm   (300 words)

  
 William Marshall
William Marshal was the epitome of knighthood and chivalry.
William Marshal was the main force and impetus for the defeat of Philip II of France, even leading the attack to relieve Lincoln castle in May 1217 though he was seventy years old.
William Marshal was a man who lived his life according to his sense of honour, and his sense of honour was defined in the laws and customs of feudalism and knighthood.
www.castlewales.com /marshall.html   (2740 words)

  
 CNN.com - Larry King: Prince William at 20 - June 21, 2002
And it's engrossing the nation, and Prince William will be at home with his brother, Prince Harry, and his father, Prince Charles, and a few friends watching the soccer to see what's going to happen.
The monarchy will need the media, in a way, and yet William is so anti-media that when he heard there was a film planned of the five years since his mother died he really wanted to bring a lawsuit and had to be talked out of it.
KING: Now Harold, we know that -- or the reports were, that Diana, when she married Charles, had a total lack of a sexual history.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/06/21/lkl.william   (5590 words)

  
 Loyalists myths: King Billy, the 12th of July and the Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
William and his wife Mary were installed as joint monarchs of England after they had agreed a Bill of Rights and an Act of Settlement (which limited the royal succession exclusively to Protestants, even marriage to a Catholic being a disqualification).
William of Orange, on the other hand, was fighting for the independence of Holland against Louis and as such was very interested in having England on his side.
William laid siege to the city of Limerick, and leaving his army under the command of baron de Ginkel, King Billy left for England.
flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/king_billy.html   (2183 words)

  
 William the Conqueror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
William survived but he was forced to accept Ralph of Wacy as his guardian and leader of his armed forces.
William was furious and on mounted an attack on the king's territory.
King William and the chief men loved gold and silver and did not care how sinfully it was obtained provided it came to them.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDwilliam1.htm   (3143 words)

  
 William King
William King was born on February 9, 1768, in Scarboro, Maine, then still part of Massachusetts.
King also owned extensive real estate, was a principal owner of Maine's first cotton mill in Brunswick, and was a founder and president of Bath's first bank.
Elected its first governor, King served until 1821, when he was appointed commissioner to work on the treaty with Spain, a post he held for three years.
www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/king_w.cfm   (262 words)

  
 King William County History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
King William III, also known as William of Orange, was born on November 14, 1650 in The Hague, Netherlands.
William and Mary were invited to England by seven leaders of the English political parties, the Tory and Whig, who were concerned about James' absolutist royal leanings, his inability to cooperate with Parliament and Catholic succession to the throne following the birth of a son to James in 1688.
The new monarchs were crowned King William III and Queen Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland during a coronation in Westminster Abbey on April 11, 1689.
www.co.king-william.va.us /history_tourism.htm   (4653 words)

  
 William of Orange & the borders of Nord/Pas-de-Calais
William was a life-long opponent of French king Louis XIV
When he became king of England, William was already an experienced battle-hardened general from years of fighting in Flanders.
But William died in 1702, and the "War of the Spanish Succession" ended in 1713 with the French withdrawing to more-or-less the present borders, and Austria taking over what was left, apart from the Dutch republic.
www.theotherside.co.uk /tm-heritage/background/william-orange.htm   (896 words)

  
 Frederick William IV, King of Prussia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Born in 1795, Frederick William IV was the oldest of seven surviving children of Frederick William III and Queen Luise.
After his father's death in June 1840, Frederick William responded to pressures for change in Prussian society by embarking upon a series of experiments (the United Committees of 1842, the Evangelical General Synod of 1846, and the United Diet of 1847), to transform state and church on the basis of his organic-corporative ideals.
Although the king had reacted with some decisiv eness to the events of March 18-21, a "mixture of resignation, weakness, apathy, desperation" (Leopold von Gerlach) characterized his mood in his Potsdam retreat in the weeks that followed.
www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/fred.htm   (999 words)

  
 William Thomson: king of Victorian physics (December 2002) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
Thomson was a leading figure in the creation of thermodynamics, he researched problems as diverse as the age of the Earth and the design of the nautical compass, and was intimately involved in the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
William's father -­ James Thomson -­ was the largely self-taught son of a Ballynahinch farmer.
William's father wrote a number of successful textbooks on arithmetic, calculus and trigonometry, which brought in a comfortable income for the family.
physicsweb.org /article/world/15/12/6   (4145 words)

  
 William IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
William agreed that he would do this and when the Lords heard the news, they agreed to pass the Reform Act.
William IV resented the fact that Lord Grey had forced the Reform Act on him.
The king had never attached any value to that popularity which results from the effervescence of the moment - that which is not felt to be due to, and to arise from, a sense of the correct and honourable discharge of duty.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwilliamIV.htm   (1379 words)

  
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On Friday, June 2, 1820, Governor William King addressed the new State's Legislature, assembled in Portland, with the first of Maine's "state of the state" addresses.
King who had represented Maine in the General Court of Massachusetts, and was also in the forefront of the Maine's move for separation (serving as the President of the Brunswick Convention of 1816 and the Constitutional Convention of 1819) fittingly became the 1st Governor of Maine, the 23rd State of the Union.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representation.
www.state.me.us /sos/arc/general/admin/king.htm   (2112 words)

  
 King, William Rufus de Vane --  Encyclopædia Britannica
son of William I the Conqueror and king of England from 1087 to 1100; he was also de facto duke of Normandy (as William III) from 1096 to 1100.
The source of the play was a two-part drama generally known as The Troublesome Raigne of John King of England.
King Philip II was one of the most important figures in world history.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9045508?&query=william   (792 words)

  
 San Antonio Conservation Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The King William District occupies land that was once irrigated farm land belonging to the Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo.
The area call the King William Neighborhood of today was subdivided into lots in the 1860s and laid out with the present streets.
In the early 1900s the King William District began to wane as a fashionable neighborhood and by 1920 many of the original home builders died and their children moved to other parts of San Antonio.
www.saconservation.org /tours/sitevisits_kingwilliam.htm   (380 words)

  
 William I, king of England
Earnest and resourceful, William was not only one of the greatest of English monarchs but a pivotal figure in European history as well.
William I, king of England: Duke of Normandy - Duke of Normandy The illegitimate son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, and Arletta, daughter of a...
William the Conqueror - William the Conqueror: see William I, king of England.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0852295.html   (134 words)

  
 William P. King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
King's research is at the intersection of Mechanical Engineering Transport Science and Nanotechnology/MEMS.
During Dr. King's time with IBM Research, the Zurich group invented key technology for Thermomechanical Data Storage - an advanced MEMS-based data storage technique that uses heat transfer to write, read, and erase nano-mechanical data bits.
Dr. King's work at Georgia Tech involves transport physics at small scales, building MEMS tools for nanoscale thermal processing, M/NEMS design and manufacture in advanced materials, and micro/biofluidics.
www.me.gatech.edu /me/people/academic.faculty/King_William.html   (442 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: Laws of William the Conqueror
We decree also that every freeman shall affirm by oath and compact that he will be loyal to king William both within and without England, that he will preserve with him his lands and honor with all fidelity and defend him against his enemies.
And let every Frenchman who, in the time of king Edward, my kinsman, was a sharer in the customs of the English, pay what they call "scot and lot", according to the laws of the English.
This also I command and will, that all shall have and hold the law of the king Edward in respect of their lands and all their posessions, with the addition of those decrees I have ordained for the welfare of the English people.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/will1-lawsb.html   (765 words)

  
 William Shakespeare: King John
Most certain of one mother, mighty king- That is well known- and, as I think, one father; But for the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.
It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life, And on the winking of authority To understand a law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns More upon humour than advis'd respect.
The King, I fear, is poison'd by a monk; I left him almost speechless and broke out To acquaint you with this evil, that you might The better arm you to the sudden time Than if you had at leisure known of this.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rbear/shake/kj.html   (15352 words)

  
 King Lear Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
The scenes in which a mad Lear rages naked on a stormy heath against his deceitful daughters and nature itself are considered by many scholars to be the finest example of tragic lyricism in the English language.
Shakespeare took his main plot line of an aged monarch abused by his children from a folk tale that appeared first in written form in the 12th century and was based on spoken stories that originated much further into the Middle Ages.
That very question stands at the divide between traditional critics of King Lear who find a heroic pattern in the story and modern readers who see no redeeming or purgative dimension to the play at all, the message being the bare futility of the human condition with Lear as Everyman.
www.allshakespeare.com /kl   (287 words)

  
 William Rufus King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
His early King ancestors came from the north of Ireland, and settled on the James River, in the colony of Virginia.
Afterwards he studied law in the office of William Duffy, of Fayetteville, N.C., and was admitted to the bar in 1805.
At the age of twenty-four, in 1810, he was chosen to the United States congress, continuing as a member and supporting the measures of the Madison administration until 1816 when he was offered the position of secretary of legation to the American embassy at Petersburg.
www.alabamastuff.com /wrk.html   (679 words)

  
 William I, king of England
The king who lived on for 300 years; BILLY KENNEDY looks back 300 years to the untimely and quite bizarre death of William of Orange, of illustrious fame on an Irish battlefield.(Features) (The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland))
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING, ELIZABETH HARVIE, AND EDNA: A PROSTITUTE RESCUING INITIATIVE IN LATE VICTORIAN TORONTO.
I was born to be King, it's my duty - and my inspiration and role model is the Queen; On his 21st birthday, Prince William pledges his commitment to the Monarchy and tells of the invaluable guidance he receives from his 'amazing' grandmother.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852295.html   (314 words)

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