Khama III - Khama III Khama III (1837?-1923), also known as Khama the Good, was the kgosi (king) of the BamaNgwato people of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), who made his country a protectorate of the United Kingdom to ensure its survival against Boer and Ndebele encroachments. Khama became king in 1875, after overthrowing his father Sekgoma and his brother Kgamane. He inherited a realm best by problems, with constant Ndebele incursions from the north (in what is now Zimbabwe) exacerbated by a new threat from Boer trekkers from the south and German colonialists from the West, all hoping to the seize the territory. He responded by aligning himself with the British, and particularly with the missionaries. Not only did he convert to Christianity; he also enforced the religion on his.
Seretse Khama - Seretse Khama Seretse Khama (1921-1980) was the first President of Botswana. He was the grandson of tribal king Khama III, and was proclaimed king himself in 1925. He attended Fort Hare University College in South Africa, and trained as a barrister at Inner Temple in London. He married an English woman, Ruth Williams. He was exiled from Bechuanaland in 1951, and then allowed back in 1956, as a private citizen. In 1961 he founded the Bechuanaland Democratic Party, which won elections in 1965, and he himself won presidential elections in 1966. He remained president until his death in 1980..
History of Botswana - early 1880s. Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule. In the late 19th century, hostilities broke out between the Batswana and Boer settlers from the Transvaal. After appeals by the Batswana leader Khama III for assistance, the British Government on March 31, 1885 put "Bechuanaland" under its protection. The northern territory remained under direct administration and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa. Despite South African pressure, inhabitants of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland (now Lesotho), and Swaziland in 1909 asked for and received British assurances that they would not be included in the proposed Union of South.
Kenneth III of Scotland - Kenneth III of Scotland Kenneth III of Scotland was king of Scotland from 997 to 1005. He was the son of King Dubh, fourth cousin of the previous king Constantine III, and first cousin of his successor Malcolm II. Kenneth was the last king of Scotland to succeed to the throne through the system of tanistry, whereby the succession was shared between two family lines and the dying king named the person from the other family line who was to succeed him. The system was much discredited as it ensured the two royal families of Scotland were in a constant state of war with each other. Kenneth and his son Giric were both killed in battle at Monzievaird, Tayside in 1005. It was his first cousin Malcolm,.
King William III - King William III The name William III has been borne by two monarchs: William III of England (1650-1702), also called William of Orange, Stadtholder of the Netherlands and King of England together with his wife Mary II of England; William III (Alexander) of the Netherlands (1817-1890), King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg, father of Queen Wilhelmina..
King Tim III (Personality Jock) - King Tim III (Personality Jock) "King Tim III (Personality Jock)'" is a 1979 (see 1979 in music) song by the Fatback Band from the disco album XII. Released a few month's before "Rapper's Delight" (which is often cited as the first commercially released hip hop song), this song has become perhaps the band's most famous and influential and is often cited as the beginning of recorded hip hop..
James III of Scotland - James III of Scotland James III of Scotland (May 1452 - June 11, 1488), son of James II and Mary of Gueldres, created Duke of Rothesay at birth, king of Scotland from 1460 to 1488. James was an unpopular and ineffective monarch owing to an unwillingness to administer justice fairly, a policy of pursuing alliance with England, and a disastrous relationship with nearly all his extended family. His reputation as the first renaissance monarch in Scotland has sometimes been exaggerated, based on late chronicle attacks on him for being more interested in such unmanly pursuits as music than hunting, riding and leading his kingdom into war. In fact the artistic legacy of his reign is slight, especially when compared to that of his son, James IV and.
James III - James III See: James III of Scotland James Francis Edward Stuart; the Old Pretender This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
James Bowdoin III - James Bowdoin III James Bowdoin III (1752-1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He has born to James Bowdoin on September 22, 1752 in Boston. He attended Harvard and graduated in 1771. James then studied law at Oxford and traveled widely in Europe until 1775. When he got the news of the Battle of Lexington he returned home. He served in the state Assembly and on the council before attending the Massachusetts' constitutional convention in 1779 and 1780. James devoted several years to scholarly pursuits, until he was appointed the United States minister to Spain in 1804. He arrived in Madrid in May, 1805. In March of 1806 he and John Armstrong of New York were named commissioners to negotiate boundaries and other issues with.
James III of Cyprus - James III of Cyprus James III of Cyprus (August 1473 - 1474) was the only child of James II of Cyprus and Catherine Cornaro. He died as a infant, leaving his mother as the last Queen of Cyprus. His death paved the way for Venice to gain control of Cyprus. Preceded by: James II Kingdom of Cyprus Followed by: Catherine Cornaro.
John III of Poland - John III of Poland John III of Poland John (Jan) III Sobieski (1629-1696), king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1674-1696). Personal data: Born: August 17, 1629, at Olesko (now in the Ukraine) Parents: Jakub (James) Sobieski (1580-1646), Governor of Ruthenian Voivodship and Castellan of Krakow, Zofia Teofillia (Daniłowicz). Elected king: 28 May 1674 Crowned: 2 February 1676 Died: 17 June 1696 at Wilanow now part of Warsaw, Poland Royal titles: Official Latin version: Joannes III, Dei Gratia rex Poloniae, magnus dux Lithuaniae, Russie, Prussiae, Masoviae, Samogitiae, Livoniae, Smolenscie, Kijoviae, Volhyniae, Podlachiae, Severiae, Czernichoviaeque, etc. English translation: John III, by God's grace King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (Ukraine & Belarus), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, Kiev, Volhynia, Podlachia, Sewierz and, Czernichow, etc. Biography In 1668 King Jan.
John George III of Saxony - John George III of Saxony John George III was born in 1647 to the house of Wettin. He was the Elector of Saxony, one of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire . John George III Wettin married Anne Sophia of Denmark. They had a son named Frederick Augustus (the Strong)..
John W. Dean III - John W. Dean III John W. Dean III was the counsel to US president Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1972. He was charged with obstruction of justice and spent four months in prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up. Before becoming presidential counsel, Dean served as Chief Minority Counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, the Associate Director of a law reform commission, and Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He wrote the Watergate memoirs Blind Ambition (1976) and Lost Honor (1982). Dean is now an investment banker in Beverly Hills, and writes political and news commentary articles..
John III Ducas Vatatzes - John III Ducas Vatatzes John III Ducas Vatatzes (1193-1254) was Byzantine Emperor, in exile in the Empire of Nicaea, from 1222 to 1254. He earned for himself such distinction as a soldier that in 1222 he was chosen to succeed his father-in-law Theodore I Lascaris. He reorganized the remnant of the Byzantine Empire, and by his administrative skill made it the strongest and richest principality in the Levant. Having secured his eastern frontier by an agreement with the Seljuk Turks, he set himself to recover the European possessions of his predecessors. While his fleet harassed the Latins in the Aegean Sea and extended his realm to Rhodes, his army, reinforced by Frankish mercenaries, defeated the Latin emperor's forces in the open field. Though unsuccessful in a siege.
Kardashev scale - and increasing logarithmically: Type I - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available on a single planet. Type II - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single star. Type III - A civilization that is able to harness all of the power available from a single galaxy. Human civilization is currently somewhere below type I as of this writing, as it is able to harness only a portion of the energy that is available on Earth. A hypothetical type II civilization might employ a Dyson sphere or other similar construct in order to utilize all of the energy output by a star, or perhaps more exotic means such as feeding stellar mass into a black hole to generate.
Kaiser - English usage the title is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871 - 1918). The Kaisers of the German Empire were: Wilhelm I (1871 - 1888) Friedrich III (1888) Wilhelm II (1888 - 1918).
Karl Otfried Müller - been translated being issued in Germany in 1841 (4th ed. by E Heitz, 1882). Chapters i.-xxii. were translated by Sir George Cornewall Lewis; chapters xxiii.-xxxvi. by JW Donaldson, who carried the work down to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. It remained one of the best books on the subject for many years. Müller also published an admirable translation of the Eumenides of Aeschylus with introductory essays (1833), and new editions of Varro (1833) and Festus (1839). See memoir of his life by his brother Eduard, prefixed to the posthumous edition of Müller's Kleine deutsche Schriften (1847); F Lucke, Erinnerungen an K.O. Müller (Göttingen, 1841); F Ranke, K.O. Müller, ein Lebensbild (Berlin, 7870); C Bursian, Geschichte der klassischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883), ii. 1007-1028; C Dilthey, Otfried Müller (Göttingen, 1898);.
Karl Felix Halm - for the Teubner series, the most important of which are Tacitus (4th ed., 1883); Rhetores Latini minores (1863); Quintilian (1868); Sulpicius Severus (1866); Minucius Felix together with Firmicus Maternus De errore (1867); Salvianus (1877) and Victor Vitensis's Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae (1878). He was also an enthusiastic collector of autographs. See articles by W Christ and G Laubmann in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie and by C Bursian in Biographisches Jahrbuch; and JE Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, iii. 195 (1908). This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Karl August von Hardenberg - of the board of domains (Katnmerrat); but, finding his advancement slow, he set out--on the advice of King George III--on a course of travels, spending some time at Wetzlar, Regensburg (where he studied the mechanism of the Imperial government), Vienna and Berlin. He also visited France, the Netherlands and England, where he was kindly received by the king. On his return he married, by his father's desire, the countess Reventlow. In 1778 he was raised to the rank of privy councillor and created a count. He now again went to England, in the hope of obtaining the post of Hanoverian envoy in London; but, his wife becoming entangled in an amour with the prince of Wales, so great a scandal was created that he was forced to leave the Hanoverian service..
Karl Lachmann - of the unaccomplished project of Bentley. Lachmann was the first major editor to break from the Textus Receptus, seeking to restore the most ancient reading current in manuscripts of the Alexandrian text-type, using the agreement of the Western authorities (Old Latin and Greek Western Uncials) as the main proof of antiquity of a reading where the oldest Alexandrian authorities differ. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius (1850), which was the principal occupation of his life from 1845, is perhaps his greatest achievement of scholarship. He demonstrated how the three main manuscripts all derived from one archetype, containing 302 pages of 26 lines to a page. Further, he was able to show that this archetype was a copy of a manuscript written in a minuscule hand, which in itself was a copy of a.
