Klas Pontus Arnoldson - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Klas Pontus Arnoldson (October 27, 1844- February 20, 1916) was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908..
1908 - Davis, US-american actress (+ 1989) April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (+ 1989) April 7 - Percy Faith, composer, musician (+ 1976) April 15 - Eden Ahbez, hermit, musician April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (+ 1965) May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (+ 1989) May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (+ 1982) May 20 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor May 23 - John Bardeen, physicist (+ 1991) May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet May 28 - Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books (+ 1964) May 30 - Mel Blanc, voice actor May 31 - Don Ameche (actor) August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor August 27 - Don Bradman, cricket player August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of the United States August 28 -.
Nobel Peace Prize - 1902 : Élie Ducommun (Switzerland) and Charles Albert Gobat, honorary secretaries of the Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne. ; 1903 : Sir William Randal Cremer (UK), secretary of the International Arbitration League. ; 1904 : Institut de droit international (Gent, Belgium). ; 1905 : Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (Austria), writer, honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. ; 1906 : Theodore Roosevelt (USA), president of the United States, for drawing up the peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War. ; 1907 : Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy), president of the Lombard League of Peace. : Louis Renault (France), professor of International Law. ; 1908 : Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden), founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. : Fredrik Bajer (Denmark), honorary.
Namesdays in Sweden - Olivia Patrik Elias Valdemar Olaus Petri Amalia Anselm Albertina Georg Vega Markus Teresia Engelbrekt Ture Tyko Mariana May Valborg Filip Göta Monika Gotthard Sigmund Gustava Åke Jonatan Esbjörn Märta Charlotta Linnea Halvard Sofia Hilma Rebecka Erik Alrik Karolina Konstantin Henning Desideria Ragnvald Urban Vilhelmina Blenda Ingeborg Baltsar Fritjof Isabella June Nikodemus Rutger Ingemar Holmfrid Bo Gustav Robert Salomon Börje Svante Bertil Eskil Aina Håkan Justina Axel Torborg Björn Germund Flora Alf Paulina Adolf Johannes Döparen David Rakel Selma Leo Petrus Elof July Aron Rosa Aurora Ulrika Melker Esaias Klas Kjell Götilda Anund Eleonora Herman Joel Folke Ragnhild Reinhold Alexis Fredrik Sara Margareta Johanna Magdalena Emma Kristina Jakob Jesper Marta Botvid Olof Algot Elin August Per Karin Tage Arne Ulrik Sixten Arnold Sylvia (*) Roland Lars Susanna Klara Hillevi Ebbe Stella Brynolf.
Pontus - Pontus In Greek mythology, Pontus ("sea") was an ancient sea-god, son of Gaia and Aether. With Gaia, he was the father of Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia. With Thalassa, he was the father of the Telchines. Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine (Black Sea), which was often called simply Pontos (the Main), by the Greeks. The exact signification of this purely territorial name varied greatly at different times. The Greeks used it loosely of various parts of the shores of the Euxine, and the term did not get a definite connotation till after the establishment of the kingdom founded beyond the Halys during the troubled period.
Pontus de Tyard - Pontus de Tyard Pontus de Tyard (c. 1521 - September 23, 1605) was a French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade". He was born at Bissy in Burgundy, of which he was seigneur, but the exact year of his birth is uncertain. He became a friend of Antoine Héroet and Maurice Scève. His first published work, Erreurs amoureuses 1549, was augmented with other poems in successive editions till 1573. His work anticipated that of Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay, but on the whole his poetry is inferior to that of his companions. However, he was one of the first to write sonnets in the French language (preceded by Melin de Saint-Gelais). He is also said to have introduced the sestine, originally a.
Mithridates VI of Pontus - Mithridates VI of Pontus Mithridates VI of Pontus, (132 BC- 63 BC), called Eupator Dionysius, was the king of Pontus in Asia Minor and one of Rome's most formidable and successful enemies. Mithridates was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, called Euergetes. Mithridates spent much of his early career as a fugitive. To clear his path to the throne of the kingdom of Pontus, he killed off many of his brothers, but not his sister, Laodice, whom he married. He was ambitious, and sought to invade a number of neighbours, including Bithynia, which brought him into conflict with the expanding Roman Republic during its later years. A massacre of Roman citizens in western Anatolia in 88 BC brought matters to a head. During the First Mithridatic War.
Laodice III Princess of Pontus - Laodice III Princess of Pontus Laodice III Princess of Pontus was the wife of Antiochus III and is presumed to be the mother of Cleopatra I Princess of Syria..
Katrine Gislinge - cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud, the violinist Augustin Dumay and the violist Gérard Caussé; solo concerts at international festivals (fx. Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico and 'Le Festival de Radio France et Montpellier'and soloist performances conducted by among others Eri Klas, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Michael Schønwandt, Okko Kamu, Heinrich Schiff, Kurt Sanderling, Adam Fischer and Sylvain Cambreling..
Kidinnu - BC) was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician. Strabo of Amaseia in Pontus and Pliny the Elder called him Kidenas or Cidenas. Kidinnu was born in Babylon. He was a contemporary of Eudoxus of Cnidus and his student Callippus of Cyzicus, and principal of the astronomical school in the Babylonian city of Sippar in Akkad (now Abu Habbah, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq). Probably Kidinnu had made complex methods and equations for calculating the irregular movements of the Moon and other planets and specially of the Sun. Because he was not as attached as Greek astronomers to the constant velocity of planets he was able to get good approximations for their movements. For the Sun, the apparent angular velocity is a minimum in aphelion, when the Earth is farthest from it. So Kidinnu.
Jan-Erik Enestam - Finnish Fisheries Associations, Vice Chairperson, 1986-1994 Advisory Board on Regional Policy, Member, 1987-1991 Advisory Board on Achipelago Affairs, Member, 1988 onwards, Chairperson, 1994 onwards Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, Board Member, 1993-1995 Spouse: Solveig Enestam, 1970 onwards, Business College Graduate, Bank Officer Children: Pontus, b. 1970; Petra, b. 1973; Jan-Anton, b. 1988.
Jacob De la Gardie - General of Livonia in 1621, and Lord High Constable in 1628. Born in Reval, or Tallin, Estonia, as a son of Pontus De la Gardie and Sofia Johansdotter Gyllenhielm. Togeather with Ebba Brahe, whom he married in 1618, he had 14 children and among them Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie born in 1622. Jacob died 1652 in Stockholm. The city of Jakobstad is named after him. See also: List of Swedish politicians.
Jean Daurat - his pupil. His son, Louis, showed great precocity, and at the age of ten translated into French verse one of his father's Latin pieces; his poems were published with his father's. Jean Daurat became director of the College de Coqueret, where he had among his pupils Antoine de Baif, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau and Pontus de Tyard. Joachim du Bellay was added by Ronsard to this group; and these five young poets, under the direction of Daurat, formed a society for the reformation of the French language and literature. They increased their number to seven by the initiation of the dramatist Etienne Jodelle, and thereupon they named themselves La Pléiade, in emulation of the seven Greek poets of Alexandria. The election of Daurat as their leader proved the weight of.
Julius Caesar - his legates were his cousins Lucius Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, Titus Labienus and Quintus Tullius Cicero (Cicero's younger brother). Caesar waged war against various peoples, defeating the Helvetii (in Switzerland in 58 BC, the Belgic confederacy and the Nervii in 57 BC and the Veneti in 56 BC. In 55 BC he attempted an invasion of Britain and, in 52 BC he defeated a union of Gauls led by Vercingetorix at the battle of Alesia. His accounts of these campaigns were recorded in his commentaries De Bello Galico ("On the Gallic Wars"). According to Plutarch, the whole campaign resulted in 800 conquered cities, 300 subdued tribes, one million men sold to slavery and another three million dead in battle fields. Ancient historians are notorious for exaggerating numbers of this kind;.
Judea - the Roman Empire. It is also used in modern times as a geographical reference for the Southern half of the West Bank of the Jordan River, in Israel. The first interference of Rome in the region dates from 63 BCE, following the end of the Third Mithridatic war. After the defeat of Mithridates VI of Pontus, general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) remained back, to secure the area. Judea at the time was not a peaceful place. Queen Alexandra had recently died and her sons were scourging the country with a civil war for power. They were Hyrcanus and Aristobulus. In 63 BCE, Aristobulus was besieged in Jerusalem by his brother's armies and the situation was desperate. He sent and envoy to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, Pompey's representative in the area..
Heraclides Ponticus - philosopher and miscellaneous writer, born at Heraclea in Pontus, flourished in the 4th century BC. He studied philosophy at Athens under Speusippus, Plato and Aristotle. According to Suidas, Plato, on his departure for Sicily, left his pupils in charge of Heraclides. The latter part of his life was spent at Heraclea. He is said to have been vain and fat, and to have been so fond of display that he was nicknamed Pompicus, or the Showy (unless the epithet refers to his literary style). Various idle stories are related about him. On one occasion, for instance, Heraclea was afflicted with famine, and the Pythian priestess at Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a golden crown to that philosopher. This was.
Volos - and Sesklo with the remains of the oldest acropolis in Greece (6000 BC), as well as the foundations of a palace and mansions among the most typical examples of neolithic civilisation. According to a Byzantine historian of the 14th century Volos was called "Golos". The most widely accepted theory for the derivation of the city's name is that Volos is a corruption of the Mycenaean Iolkos, which was distorted through the ages to "Golkos", then "Golos" and subsequently "Volos". Others claim that it originates from Folos, who according to mythology was a wealthy landlord of the region. Volos is a relatively new city, that began growing in the mid 19th century where an insignificant Turkish hamlet used to be. After its annexation to Greece from the Ottoman Empire in 1881, it.
Hellenic Holocaust - By 1923, at least 2.5 million had been massacred, with the rest fleeing for their lives to Greece and the then-USSR, or had been converted to Islam by force. The term "Pontus" comes from the Greek word for coast, and was applied to the Greek civilization which had lived on the south-eastern coast of the Black Sea. It had been an area populated by ethnic Greeks since at least the days of Alexander the Great, once forming a part of the Byzantine Empire, but ever since the Turkish invasion of Asia Minor they had been in conflict with the Turks. In an effort to rid Turkey of all Christianity, the Greek people of Pontus and Asia Minor were systematically wiped out, just like the Armenian people were wiped out during the.
Howard Hughes - for his wealth, after his death in 1976, the institute grew dramatically to become one of the most significant philanthropical organizations devoted to biological and medical research with a 2002 endowment of $11 billion. Hughes and espionage In 1972, Hughes was approached by the CIA to help secretly recover a Soviet nuclear submarine which had sunk near Hawaii four years before. He agreed. Thus the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a special-purpose salvage vessel, was born. Hughes's involvement provided the CIA with a plausible cover story, having to do with civilian marine research at extreme depths. In 1974 the Glomar Explorer successfully raised the Soviet boat, which yielded two nuclear-tipped torpedoes and some cryptographic machines. Hughes the recluse As time passed, Hughes descended into a reclusive, drug-addled life locked in darkened rooms and.
Hugh Edwin Strickland - papers to the Geological Society of London (1833 - 1834). He also gave much attention to ornithology. Becoming acquainted with Roderick Murchison he was introduced to William John Hamilton (1805 - 1867) and accompanied him in 1835 on a journey through Asia Minor, the Thracian Bosporus and the island of Zante. Hamilton afterwards published the results of this journey and of a subsequent excursion by himself to Armenia in Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia (1842). After his return in 1836 Strickland brought before the Geological Society several papers on the geology of the districts he had visited in southern Europe and Asia. He also described in detail the "drift deposits in the counties of Worcester and Warwick, drawing particular attention to the fluviatile deposits of Cropthorne in which remains.
