Family Affairs - Family Affairs Began on Channel Five in 1997. This UK daily soap opera initially focused on the Hart family consisting of parents Chris and Annie, adult children Duncan, trainee solicitor Holly, and Melanie a police constable. Youngest child was Jamie, a school boy. There was also Annie's parents Jack and Elsa Gates, and Chris's father Agnus. Associated characters were Duncan's friend Roy Farmer, Chris's business associate Nick Trip, Annie's friend Maria Simons, Melanie's friend Claire Twomey. Later Maria's ex-husband, villainous Pete Callan arrived. Within a brief period of time in late 1998 the Gates were killed-off, and in January 1999 all the Harts were killed in a boat explosion. Roy was also aboard but was the only survivor. Thereafter a more varied bunch of new characters.
Karl Renner - (Moravia) and died in Vienna. Renner was born as the 18th child of a poor farmer's family but because of his talents he was allowed to go to high school and study law at university. Renner has always been interested in politics and became librarian in parliament and member of the Austrian social democrats party (SPÖ) in 1896. He started to represent the party in the Imperial Diet in 1907. Afterwards, Renner was Chancellor of Austria and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1918 until 1920. The peace treaty in St. Germain was as well under the leadership of Karl Renner and from 1931 to 1933 he was President of the Representative Assembly. He always plead for the annexation of Austria with Germany but distanced himself from politics during the wartime. After.
King of Ireland - version of the United Kingdom was abolished when twenty-six of Ireland's counties were formed into the Irish Free State in 1922. Under the 1922 Constitution of the Free State, the King became king in Ireland. However evolution in the concept of the monarchy in the late 1920s replaced the British Empire's concept of a shared crown with a multiple crown, whereby the sovereign became king separately in each of his dominions. This change, introduced in the Royal Titles Act, recreated the office of King of Ireland. In this role, the King exercised a role in the Irish state independent to his role in Britain. The full meaning of this fact was shown when in 1931 the King as 'King of Ireland' signed an international treaty on Ireland's behalf as King of.
Korean Buddhism - numerous temples. It is also important to make note of the degree of "reverse impact" of Silla Buddhism on Chinese Buddhism. The eminent stature of Uisang in Chinese Huayan circles has been alluded to above, but it is probably Weonhyo who had the greater overall effect, as his commentaries and essays held strong sway with one of China's giants in Buddhist philosophy, Fazang. Another Korean monk known for his impact in China was Weonchuk (631-696) who became a major disciple of the eminent Chinese Consciousness-only master and translator Xuanzang (596-664). Weonchuk's commentary on the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra-sūtra had a strong influence in Tibetan Buddhism as well. The other Chinese schools of thought that are traditionally recorded as having been in existence through the rest of the Silla are the Gyeyul school, receiving impetus.
Kristen Nygaard - Bruun Kristensen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen and Birger Moeller-Pedersen). The language is now available on a wide range of computers. Nygaard was in the first half of the 1980s chairman of the steering committee of the Scandinavian research program SYDPOL (System Development and Profession Oriented Languages), coordinating research and supporting working groups in system development, language research and artificial intelligence. Also in the 1980s, he was chairman of the steering committee for the Cost-13 (European Common Market Commission)-financed research project on the extensions of profession-oriented languages necessary when artificial intelligence and information technology are becoming part of professional work. Nygaard's research from 1995-1999 was related to distributed systems. He was the leader of General Object-Oriented Distributed Systems (GOODS), a three-year Norwegian Research Council-supported project starting in 1997, aiming at enriching object-oriented languages.
Japan - along with other economic, social and military reforms that transformed Japan into a world power. As results of Sino-Japanese war and Russo-Japanese war, Japan acquired Taiwan, Korea, and other territories. The early 20th century saw Japan come under increasing influence of an expansionist military, leading to the invasion of Manchuria, a second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Japanese leaders felt it was necessary to attack the US naval base in Pearl Harbor (1941) to ensure Japanese supremacy in the Pacific. However, the entry of the United States into World War II would slowly tilt the balance in the Pacific against the Japanese. After a long Pacific campaign, Japan lost Okinawa in the Ryukyu islands and was pushed back to the four main islands. The United States made fierce attacks on Tokyo, Osaka, and.
Jan Peter Balkenende - the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He became a member of the CDA faction in the lower house of parliament (the Tweede Kamer) on May 19, 1998, while the party was in opposition. He became the financial spokesman of the CDA and was also involved with social affairs, justice and internal affairs. He became the fraction chairman of the CDA on October 1, 2001, as successor of Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. On November 3, 2001 he was appointed lijsttrekker (head of the list of candidates) for the CDA for the May 2002 parliamentary elections. On July 4, 2002 Queen Beatrix asked Balkenende to form a new government, in the wake of the resignation of Prime Minister Wim Kok. Balkenende currently resides with his family in Capelle aan den IJssel. He also rents.
Jack Lynch - Fianna Fáil Early Life John Mary Lynch was born on the 15 August 1917 in Cork City. From his youth he was known as Jack. Jack was the youngest of seven children and was always regarded as the wild boy of the family. He was educated in Cork at the North Monastery Christian Brothers School. He sat his Leaving Certificate in 1936 and applied for a job in the Civil Service. From his youth Jack showed accomplishment as a sportsman. His particular passion was for hurling, however he also enjoyed rugby, soccer and gaelic football. Jack captained the Cork Hurling team in 1939, 1940 and 1942. He was a prominent member of the team also when Cork won the All-Ireland Finals in 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946. Jack won an.
Jacques Mesrine - USA and Canada. Jacques René Mesrine was born in Clichy, France in a middle-class family. He was expelled from two schools due to aggressive behavior. He was briefly married 1955-1956 and served in French troops during Algerian War of Independence. 1959 he returned to France. Mesrine was arrested for the first time in 1962 with three accomplices before an attempt to rob a bank. He had been a professional criminal for years at that time. He was sentenced for 18 months in prison and was released 1963. He got a job in an architectural design company but was fired in the next downsizing in 1964. He went back to his old tricks. December 1965 Mesrine was arrested from a villa in Palma de Majorca. He got only 6 months and claimed.
Jackie Coogan - sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. The legal battle did, however, bring attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill. As he grew older, Coogan's popularity as an actor waned, though he had several well-publicised love affairs with leading Hollywood starlets, including a three-year marriage to Betty Grable. He left film entirely for several years, beginning in 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II to serve as a flight officer in the Airforce. He served in Asia, and flew gliders for the transportation of Orde Wingate's Chindits in the Burma Campaign. After the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television. His most famous TV role.
James Henry Leigh Hunt - had superseded it. By a simple return to the traditional, he effected for English poetry in the comparatively restricted domain of metrical art what William Wordsworth had already effected in the domain of nature; his is an achievement of the same class, though not of the same calibre. His poem is a triumph in the art of poetical narrative, pervaded by a free, cheerful and animated spirit, despite the tragic nature of the subject. It has been remarked that it does not contain one hackneyed or conventional rhyme. But the writer's occasional flippancy and familiarity, often degenerating into the ludicrous, made him a target for ridicule and parody. In 1818 appeared a collection of poems entitled Foliage, followed in 1819 by Hero and Leander, and Bacchies and Ariadne. In the same.
James Sevier Conway - when it became a state in 1836. Conway focused his administration on schools and roads. He established a state militiary to patrol the western frontier and worked to have a federal arsenal established at Little Rock, Arkansas. He worked to get funding for a state penitentiary. He pushed for the establishment of a state library and university but was unsuccessful. Conway left office in 1840 and returned to his plantation. He continued to be active in public affairs. James S. Conway is buried at the Conway Cemetery Historic State Park near Bradley, Arkansas. James Sevier Conway was the brother of Arkansas Governor Elias Nelson Conway, brother of Congressman Henry Wharton Conway, first cousin of Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier and Governor Henry Massey Rector. He was third cousin of Confederate General James.
Jan Baptist van Helmont - Belgian chemist, physiologist and physician, a member of a noble family, was born at Brussels. He was educated at Louvain, and after ranging restlessly from one science to another and finding satisfaction in none, turned to medicine, in which he took his doctor's degree in 1599. The next few years he spent in travelling through Switzerland, Italy, France and England. Returning to his own country he was at Antwerp at the time of the great plague in 1605, and having contracted a rich marriage settled in 1609 at Vilvorde, near Brussels, where he occupied himself with chemical experiments and medical practice until his death. Van Helmont presents curious contradictions. On the one hand he was a disciple of Paracelsus (though he scornfully repudiates his errors was well as those of most.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 10th Earl of Dalhousie - England 5 References Early life James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was the third and youngest son of George Ramsay 9th earl of Dalhousie (1770-1838), one of Wellington's generals, who, after being Governor General of Canada, became commander-in-chief in India, and of his wife Christina Broun of Coalstoun, a lady of noble lineage and distinguished gifts. From his father he inherited a vigorous self-reliance and a family pride which urged him to prove worthy of the Ramsays who had not crawled through seven centuries of their country's history, while to his mother he owed his high-bred courtesy and his deeply seated reverence for religion. The 9th earl was in 1815 created Baron Dalhousie in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and had three sons, the two elder of whom died early. His youngest son,.
Jefferson Davis - 6 Imprisonment and retirement Early life and first military career Jefferson Davis was born on a farm in Christian County, Kentucky (now called Todd County). He was the last of ten children of Samuel and Jane Davis. The Davis family relocated several times during Jefferson's youth, to Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana in 1811, and to Wilkinson County, Mississippi the next year. Davis began his education in 1813, together with his sister Mary, at a log-cabin school a mile from their home. Two years later, he entered the Catholic school of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Washington County, Kentucky. He went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821. Davis entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1824.
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Périer - he was elected general councillor of the Aube, and was sent by the same department to the chamber of deputies in the general elections of 1876, and he was always re-elected until his presidency. In spite of the traditions of his family, Casimir-Périer joined the group of Republicans on the Left, and was one of the 363 on the Seize-Mai (1877). He refused to vote the expulsion of the princes in 1883, and resigned as deputy upon the enactment of the law, because of his personal connexions with the family of Orléans. On August 17 1883 he became under-secretary of state for war, a post he retained until January 7 1885. From 1890 to 1892 he was vice-president of the chamber, then in 1893 president. On December 3 he became prime-minister,.
Jeb Bush - of Neil Bush, and second son of former President George H. W. Bush. Bush was born in Midland, Texas. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in Latin American Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He got his start in Florida by helping to start a real estate development company in 1980. From 1987 to 1988, he served as Florida's Secretary of Commerce. He launched an unsuccessful bid for the Governor's Office in 1994 against incumbent Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles. In 1998, he handily defeated Democratic opponent Buddy MacKay to become Governor, after courting moderate voters and Hispanics. Simultaneously, his brother George W. Bush won a landslide victory to become Governor of Texas, and the Bush brothers became the first siblings to govern two states.
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villele - successful campaign of 1823. Meanwhile he had consolidated the royal power by persuading Louis XVIII to swamp the liberal majority in the upper house by the nomination of twenty-seven new peers; he availed himself of the temporary popularity of the monarchy after the Spanish campaign to summon a new Chamber of Deputies. This new and obedient legislature, to which only nineteen liberals were returned, made itself into a septennial parliament, thus providing time, it was thought, to restore some part of the ancien regime. Villèle's plans were assisted by the death of Louis XVIII and the accession of his bigoted brother. Prudent financial administration since 1815 had made possible the conversion of the state bonds from 5 to 4%. It was proposed to utilize the money set free by this operation.
Jessica Lynch - criticized the US government for releasing false information, stating "They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff..." [1] Though Pentagon statements claimed that Lynch emptied her gun fighting off her attackers, later reports and Lynch herself indicated that this was not the case; in fact her gun jammed on the first round and she did not offer any resistance to her capture. The story is now believed to have stemmed from the mistranslation of an intercepted Iraqi message which referred to one of her male fellow soldiers. Amended reports by the Washington Post, which initially reported dramatic stories of Lynch's ordeal, indicated that U.S. officials made no attempt to downplay exaggerated or incorrect reports in the media. The dramatic rescue, with heavy force ready for an unknown situation,.
Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi - they migrated from Dauphiné to Switzerland at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. It was not till after Sismondi had become an author that, observing the identity of his family arms with those of the once flourishing Pisan house of the Sismondi, and finding that some members of that house had migrated to France, he assumed the connexion without further proof and called himself De Sismondi. The Simondes, however, were themselves citizens of Geneva of the upper class, and possessed both rank and property, though the father was also a village pastor. The future historian was well educated, but his family wished him to devote himself to commerce rather than literature, and he became a banker's clerk at Lyons. Then the Revolution broke out, and as it affected Geneva the.
