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Art-O-Graf

The company had offices in the Guardian Trust Bldg Denver, Colorado and Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Bob Cornuke

Cornuke travels to Axum, where today he believes the Ark is kept in absolute isolation at Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion by a man referred to as "The Guardian of the Ark of the Covenant".

Carlos María de Alvear

He was born Santo Ángel in the northern part of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate (now in Rio Grande do Sul) to a Spanish nobleman father, Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León, and a criollo mother, María Balbastro and baptised Carlos Antonio del Santo Ángel Guardián.

Christ of Europe

A key element in the Polish view as the guardian of Christianity was the 1683 victory at Vienna against the Turks by John Sobieski III.

Codename: Sailor V

He calls her "Sailor Venus" and tells her she has a mission to protect Earth in the name of her guardian planet Venus.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Duchy of Silesia

Upon the death of his cousin Duke Casimir I of Opole, son of Mieszko I Tanglefoot, in 1230, he acted as guardian of his minor nephews, thereby once again ruling over whole Silesia.

Ecotricity

In 2007 Vince ran a now famous advertisement on the back page of The Guardian newspaper inviting Richard Branson to his place for a solution to climate change and a carbon-free breakfast.

Electro-kinetic road ramp

The idea was dismissed as Talk of 'kinetic energy plates' is a total waste of energy in the Guardian by David MacKay, the professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Fikret Alić

In the summer of 1992, in response to media interest roused by rumours about atrocities being committed by Bosnian Serb forces in ad hoc prison camps, the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić invited journalists including Roy Gutman, a British film crew from ITN, and the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy to visit the camps.

Fort Perch Rock

The nights were called "Nautical" and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.

Fred J. Broomfield

Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s, where he gained employment as an accountant, Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age.

George Lewith

A 2006 BBC documentary series, Alternative Medicine, was criticised by several people, including Lewith, in the Guardian over a controversial sequence in which acupuncture appeared to be used as a replacement for general anaesthesia during open heart surgery.

Gerhard VI, Count of Oldenburg

In 1440–1463 Gerhard VI ruled in Delmenhorst as regent and in 1464–1482 (after the death of his brother Maurice) as the guardian of his nephew Jakob.

Henderson, Texas

The 1970 science-fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project mentions Henderson as the site of the fictitious Henderson Air Force Base, the target of a retaliatory ICBM fired by Colossus' Soviet counterpart, the defense supercomputer "Guardian".

Herpyllis

Nicomachus was quite young when Aristotle wrote his will, as can be seen from the fact that Nicanor, Aristotle's nephew by his sister Arimneste, is appointed guardian until Nicomachus came of age.

Imaginations Through the Looking Glass

The set has a typical Blind Guardian fantasy-style artwork painted by Leo Hao, mixed with photos from the show, with several humorous elements included such as a picture of Legolas, Gimli and Gollum buying tickets for the concert.

Jennifer Higdon

Among less favorable assessments, Andrew Clements in the Guardian gave a CD of Higdon's music a minimal one-star rating.

John Bullock

On 4 September 1439, Bishop Bullock appended his seal to the contract between Joan Beaufort, Queen Dowager, and Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, a contract that made Livingstone guardian of the boy king, James II of Scotland.

Józef Charyton

It was described in the essay of Marian Brandys, The Guardian of the King's Tomb (1984), based on the long correspondence of Brandys with Charyton.

Juan Bautista

He was also a definitor of the province, and became Guardian of Tezcuco twice (1595 and 1606), of Tlatelolco (1600), and of Tacuba in 1605.

Kesz Váldez

Kesz together with his guardian Harnin Manalaysay founded the Championing Community Children, an organization which aims at giving hope and showing the street children they can transform their own lives and inspire others to do so as well.

Llywelyn Bren

In 1315, Edward II, who was guardian of the three sisters and heiresses of the estate of Gilbert de Clare replaced de Badlesmere with a new English administrator, Payn de Turberville of Coity, who persecuted the people of Glamorgan, then (like many in northern Europe at the time) in the throes of a serious famine.

Lone Scouts

A Lone Scout must meet the membership requirements of the Scouting organization to which they belong and have an adult Scout leader or counselor who may be a parent, guardian, minister, teacher, or another adult.

Marie of Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme

At François's death in 1495, she became guardian of their minor son Charles de Bourbon, and managed the lands he inherited from his father as well as her own.

Mariota, Countess of Ross

King Henry IV of England sent his own emissaries the following year to negotiate an alliance against Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, the Guardian of Scotland who was controlling Euphemia and the earldom.

Marius Dewilde

Dewilde, a railway guardian, lived in a house by the tracks close to the railway station at Quarouble, Nord, France.

Mary Alfred Moes

During the summer of 1865, the Guardian of the Franciscan friars in the United States, Father Pamfilo da Magliano, O.S.F., summoned Sister Alfred to St. Bonaventure Friary, in Allegany County, New York, along with the first postulant to the community, Mary Ann Rosenberger.

Matthew Herbert

In 2010 he produced a new project at the invitation of London Sinfonietta called One Day in which he set to music a Saturday edition of the Guardian newspaper, performed at London's Southbank Centre in the London Jazz Festival.

Mga Basang Sisiw

Lola Lagring – portrayed by Caridad Sanchez, the dirty old bag woman who eventually adopts and becomes the guardian of the children.

Michel de Marillac

Michel was the guardian of Louis' natural daughter Louise de Marillac, who became a nun, was a follower of Saint Vincent de Paul, with whom she founded the Daughters of Charity on 29 November 1633.

Miraflor Natural Reserve

There are 236 species of birds, among which one can observe Quetzal, Emerald Toucanet, Pájaro Campana (Procnias tricaruntulata), Chestnut-headed Oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri), and the national bird of Nicaragua, Turquoise-browed Motmot, Guardabarranco (Guardian of the stream).

Nalknad Palace

After the death of the Kodagu king, Lingaraja I in 1780 AD, Hyder Ali captured Kodagu under the pretext of being a guardian to Lingaraja's sons, Dodda Veerarajendra and Linga Rajendra who were of tender age.

No. 381 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF

To date 381ECSS has assisted in Operations Warden/Stabilize (East Timor), Gold (Sydney Olympics), Relex (bare base activation to support maritime interdiction operations), Gaberdine (Immigration Support), Guardian (CHOGM Support), Slipper (Global War on Terrorism), Bastille and Falconer (Iraq War).

Peter Preston

Preston was also editor when the Guardian was forced to hand over leaked government documents which were then traced to a Foreign Office copier, leading to Sarah Tisdall who was subsequently imprisoned under the Official Secrets Act 1911.

San Vidal, Venice

The interior houses an Annunciation by Sebastiano Ricci, a Guardian Angel with St Anthony of Padua and St Gaetano of Thiene by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and the main altarpiece is a San Vidal on Horseback (1514) by Carpaccio.

Sarah Tisdall

Although The Guardian successfully argued that it was protected by section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 from providing the information, the judgement by Justice Scott was almost immediately overturned.

Schutzengel

Schutzengel (German for "Guardian Angel") is the second studio EP released by the Neue Deutsche Härte band Unheilig.

Seyamak R. Payek

Payek is a Jurist Guardian Council of the Guardian Council of the Constitution of Iran in the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Shakti Chattopadhyay

He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the City College to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant.

St. Anselm Hall

St Anselm Hall (or "Slem's" as it is known to most students as a result of a misprint or 'typo' that appeared in The Manchester Guardian) is a hall of residence in the Victoria Park campus of the University of Manchester.

Tanaquil

Tanaquil's prophecy was eventually realized for Tarquin - he eventually became friends with King Ancus Marcius, who made Tarquin guardian of his children.

Task Force Argos

The unit's name was derived from Greek mythology in which Argus Panoptes or Argos, was a primordial “all seeing” giant with multiple eyes and who was guardian of lo.

The Changing of the Guardian

The title "The Changing of the Guardian" is a pun on the term the changing of the guard.

The Ruby in her Navel

Writing in the Guardian, John Julius Norwich said that the novel made him feel what it felt like to live, work and travel in the Sicily of that time.

The Terrible Dogfish

In the anime manga series MÄR, Pinocchio's Guardian ARM Fastico Galleon is a giant whale-like creature based on Monstro from the Disney movie.

Tribal-state compacts

As Marshall had already confirmed in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia where he labeled tribes as having a ward relationship to the "guardian" national government.

Wendy Boase

After her death Julia Eccleshare (Children's Book Editor of the Guardian newspaper and chairman of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize) and Anne Marley (Head of Children’s, Youth & Schools Services for Hampshire Library & Information Service) decided to create an annual award named the Branford Boase Award in commemoration of both Wendy Boase and her colleague Henrietta Branford who also died of cancer the same year.

Yorick van Wageningen

In 2011 he appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with Daniel Craig, in the role of Nils Bjurman, the sexually abusive guardian of Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara).


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