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1. Vespasian
   (July 1, 69), first by the army in Egypt, and then by his troops in Judaea (July 11). Nevertheless, Vitellius, the occupant of the throne, had on his side the veteran legions of Gaul and the Rhineland, Rome's best troops. But the feeling in Vespasian's favour quickly gathered strength, and the armies of Moesia, Pannonia and Illyricum soon declared for him, and made him in fact master of half of the Roman world. His troops entered Italy on the north-east under the leadership of Antonius Primus, defeated the army of Vitellius at Bedriacum (or Betriacum) (which had awaited him in Mevania),
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2. Ken Russell
   TV film about the life of Frederick Delius, as seen through the eyes of Eric Fenby, was also well-received. His first major feature film was 1969's Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to his homosexuality, and The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a highly controversial role as a nun. By the 1990s, Russell's work had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable, and
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3. Konosuke Matsushita
   the founder of Matsushita Electric, a company based in the suburb of Kadoma (on the Keihan line), Osaka in Japan. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Matsushita's Early Life 2 Management Practices 3 Matsushita and the Post-war period Matsushita's Early Life Konosuke Matsushita was born in 1894 in the farming village of Wasa in Wakayama Prefecture, the son of a landlord. Poor investment decisions by his father in rice speculation ruined the family's finances, and Matsushita was sent to Osaka to work. In 1910, at the age of 16, Matsushita was taken on as a wiring assistant at the Osaka Electric Light
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4. Jacques Necker
   find himself a public position. He accordingly became a syndic or director of the French East India Company, and, after showing his financial ability in its management, defended it in an able memoir against the attacks of André Morellet in 1769. Meanwhile he had made loans to the French government, and was appointed resident at Paris by the republic of Geneva. Madame Necker entertained the leaders of the political, financial and literary worlds of Paris, and her Fridays became as greatly frequented as the Mondays of Madame Geoffrin, or the Tuesdays of Madame Helvétius. In 1773 Necker won the prize of
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5. Jacques-Donatien Le Ray
   with Admiral Charles-Hector Estaing, the Commander of the French Fleet, Le Ray's support for the American cause involved having his shipyards refit a merchant vessel into a warship that he then gifted to America under the name USS Bonhomme Richard for use by Captain John Paul Jones. When the War ended with the treaty of 1783 signed in Paris, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray had a portrait medallion made of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Nini. Today, it is Franklin's most recognized profile. And, when Franklin was recalled to America in 1785, Le Ray honored him with a commissioned portrait painted by Joseph Siffred
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6. Jacques Auguste de Thou
   letter of March 31, 1611, addressed to the president Pierre Jeannin, he described his labours. His materials were drawn from his rich library, which he established in the Rue des Poitevins in the year 1587, with the two brothers, Pierre and Jacques Dupuy, as librarians. His object was to produce a scientific an 2000 d unbiased work, and for this reason he wrote it in Latin, giving it as title Historia sui temporis. The first 18 books, embracing the period from 1545-1560, appeared in 1604 (1 vol. folio), and the work was at once attacked by those whom the author himself calls les
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7. Jacques Laffitte
   France and president of the Chamber of Commerce (1814). He raised large sums of money for the provisional government in 1814 and for King Louis XVIII of France during the Hundred Days. It was with him that Napoleon deposited five million francs in gold before leaving France for the last time. Rather than permit the government to appropriate the money from the bank, Laffitte supplied two million from his own pocket to cover the arrears of the imperial troops after the Battle of Waterloo. He was returned by the department of the Seine to the Chamber of Deputies in 1816, and
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8. Jean-Baptiste Colbert
   Cardinal Mazarin left Paris, Colbert served as an advisor. In April 1655, Colbert published a notable letter in defense of the cardinal. In 1659, Colbert helped suppress the revolts in Normandy, Anjou and Poitou, events which resulted in the execution of Bonnesson. The Death of Mazarin and Colbert's Rise Colbert's earliest recorded attempt at tax reform was a mémoire to Mazarin, showing that of the taxes paid by the people, not one-half reached the King. The paper also contained an attack upon the Superintendent Fouquet. The letter was read by the postmaster of Paris, a spy of Fouquet's, leading to a
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9. Jean-Luc Dehaene
   of Social Affairs and Institutional Reform, until 1988, when he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Traffic and Institutional Reform. Dehaene I (1992-1995) In 1992, after both Guy Verhofstadt and Melchior Wathelet had failed, he managed to form a governing coalition of christian-democrats and social-democrats. This became one of Belgium's most important governments, because it successfully transformed Belgium into a federal state. In March 1993, Dehaene offered the King the resignation of his government, because of diverging views on how to handle the public finances. However, within a week the differences were put aside. After the death of King Baudouin,
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10. Jean Ann Kennedy
    would go on to attend Mahattenville College, a Sacred Heart school, where should would meet and befriend two future sisters-in-law: Ethel Skakel who would marry her brother Robert in 1950, and Virginia Joan Bennett whom would marry her baby brother Edward in 1958. She herself would marry on May 19, 1955 in the small chapel of St. Patricks Cathedral to Stephan Edward Smith, a bussinessman who helped run the Cleary Brothers Company, the family boat and shipping bussiness. He would, in time, not only take over the Kennedy families' finances, he would also become a political advisor and campaign manager for
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11. Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
    March 1824), French lawyer and statesman, is best remembered as the author of the Code Napoléon, which still forms the basis of French law. Cambacérès was homosexual, and is widely, but not altogether accurately, given credit for decriminalising homosexuality in France. Early career Cambacérès was born at Montpellier in southern France, into a family of the legal nobility (noblesse de la robe). In 1774 he graduated in law and succeeded his father as councillor in the Montpellier court of accounts and finances. He was a supporter of the French Revolution of 1789, and was elected to represent Montpellier at the meeting
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12. Joseph Priestley
    he went to Warrington, the biggest of the dissenting academies in England, as a tutor in belles-lettres. By this time his religious ideas had matured to a form of Unitarianism, Socinianism. At Warrington, he associated with other liberal-minded tutors and found an intelligent printer, William Eyres, willing to publish Priestley's work. It was here that he published his grammar book in 1761 (a remarkably liberal grammar for its day) and other books on history and educational theory. He taught anatomy and astronomy and led field trips for his students to collect fossils and botanical specimens. Both modern history and the sciences
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13. John Deacon
    youngest member of Queen. He is the author of the hits Another One Bites the Dust and I Want to Break Free, which show that his contribution to Queen was significant. His first song 'Misfire' was on their third album 'Sheer Heart Attack'. It was a nice, but unnoted song. But his second song for the band You're my best friend was a world wide hit. He was the 'quiet' member of the band, and the others said that he was in charge of most of the finances. His only solo effort is listed below. The Immortals: No Turning Back (Single
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14. John Law
    national wealth depended on trade. Law urged the establishment of a national bank to create and increase instruments of credit, and the issue of paper money backed by land, gold, or silver. He had the almost socialist idea of abolishing minor monopolies and private farming of taxes and creating a bank for national finance and a state company for commerce and ultimately exclude all private venue. This would create a huge monopoly of finance and trade run by the state, and its profits would pay off the national debt. The Conseil des Finances, merchants, and financiers objected to this plan. In
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15. Video game publisher
    internal staff of developers called a studio. The large video game publishers also distribute the games they publish, while some smaller publishers instead hire distribution companies (or larger video game publishers) to distribute the games they publish. Other functions usually performed by the publisher include deciding on and paying for any license that the game may utilize; paying for localization; layout, printing, and possibly the writing of the user manual; and the creation of graphic design elements such as the box design. Large publishers may also attempt to boost efficiency across all internal and external development teams by providing services such
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16. Investment bank
    assist corporations in raising funds in the public markets (both equity and debt). They may also advise private individuals who have sufficient wealth (known as Private Equity or Private Banking). They are often confused with Brokerages, which are firms which assist people in choosing and buying stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Investment banks will typically be concerned with several business units, including Corporate Finance (concerned with managing the finances of corporations, including mergers, acquisitions and disposals), Equities (concerned with research and valuation of company shares) and Trading (concerned with buying and selling shares both on behalf of the bank's clients and
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17. International Graphoanalysis Society
    1929, when Milton N. Bunker formed The American Grapho Analysis Society. Around 1957, that organization was replaced by The International Graphoanalysis Society, which was run by V. Peter Ferrara. Upon V. Peter Ferrara's death, ownership of the company fell to Kathleen Kusta. From the early seventies 1000 through the early eighties, the organization put energy into graphological research, the most important being Crumbaugh & Stockholm (1977) and Stockholm (1980), (1983). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Members 2 The Courses 3 The Dissenters 4 See Also 5 Reference Texts Members IGAS was a privately held corporation. As such, information about its finances, membership
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18. Ireland in the 20th Century
    Street is blown up by republicans. The All-Ireland Champions are Cork (hurling) and Galway (football) 1967 The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) is founded. 3 people are killed when an Aer Lingus plane crashes in Dublin. Censorship is lifted on all books this year. Minister for Education, Donagh O'Malley, announces free secondary school education. The All-Ireland Champions are Kilkenny (hurling) and Meath (football) 1968 Plans to merge Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are scrapped. Crisis in the North Oct. 5: Two days of rioting follows after a banned civil rights march in Derry is broken up by RUC
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19. Isaac I Comnenus
    had them carefully educated at the monastery of Studion, and afterwards advanced them to high official positions. During the disturbed reigns of Basil's seven immediate successors, Isaac by his prudent conduct won the confidence of the army; in 1057 he joined with the nobles of the capital in a conspiracy against Michael VI, and after the latter's deposition was invested with the crown, thus founding the new dynasty of the Comneni. The first care of the new emperor was to reward his noble partisans with appointments that removed them from Constantinople, and his next was to repair the depleted finances of
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20. Isaac Rosenberg
    Isaac Rosenberg Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) was an English poet of the First World War. Born in Bristol and brought up in a poor district of London, he left school at fourteen, but was already interested in both poetry and art, and managed to find the finances to attend the Slade School. He was taken up by Laurence Binyon and Edward Marsh, and began to write poetry seriously, but he suffered from ill-health. Nevertheless, he enlisted in 1915 and was sent to
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