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101Simon Vigor — (b. at Evreux, Normandy, about 1515; d. at Carcassonne, 1 November1575) was a French Catholic bishop and controversialist.LifeSon of Raynaud Vigor, a court physician, he went to Paris about 1520, where his studies included Greek, Hebrew, and… …
102Karl Ludwig von Phull — (or Pfuel) (6 November 1757 ndash; 25 April 1826) was a German general in the service of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire. Phull served as Chief of the General Staff of King Frederick William III of Prussia in the Battle of Jena… …
103History of Lebanon under Ottoman rule — The Ottoman Turks were a Central Asian people who had served as slaves and warriors under the Abbasids. Because of their courage and discipline they became the masters of the palace in Baghdad during the caliphate of Al Mutasim (833 42). The… …
104William R. Boggs — William Robertson Boggs (March 18, 1829 ndash; September 11, 1911) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was noted as a civil engineer who constructed the military fortifications that protected some of the …
105Robert Alesch — (b. Aspelt, Luxembourg, 1906, d. by firing squad at Fort de Montrouge Arcueil, France, 1949, was a priest and collaborator with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.BiographyPriesthoodAlesch was ordained in 1933, and settled in France in 1935 …
106Ferdinand III — 1. See Ferdinand II (def. 1). 2. 1608 57, king of Hungary 1625 57, king of Bohemia 1627 57, king of Germany 1636 57; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1637 57 (son of Ferdinand II). * * * born July 13, 1608, Graz, Inner Austria died April 2, 1657 …
107Daniels, Josephus — born May 18, 1862, Washington, N.C., U.S. died Jan. 15, 1948, Raleigh, N.C. U.S. editor, administrator, and diplomat. He published a newspaper in Raleigh, N.C. (1885–1933), and became influential in the Democratic Party. In the 1912 presidential… …
108Ethiopian Orthodox church — Independent Christian patriarchate in Ethiopia. Traditionally thought to have been founded by the preaching of the apostle Matthew or the eunuch of the Acts of the Apostles, the church was established in the 4th century by St. Frumentius and his… …
109Owen, Robert — born May 14, 1771, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales died Nov. 17, 1858, Newtown Welsh manufacturer and philanthropist. At his New Lanark cotton mills (Lanarkshire, Scot.), in partnership with Jeremy Bentham, he set up innovative social and… …
110Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie — ▪ Jesuit missionary Amiot also spelled Amyot born February 8, 1718, Toulon, France died October 9, 1793, Beijing, China Jesuit missionary whose writings made accessible to Europeans the thought and life of East Asia. Amiot entered… …
