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4 unusual facts about The Wars


Bailleul, Nord

This area is also a setting in the Timothy Findley book The Wars.

Coenraad Bloemendal

He then worked with the late pianist on two other occasions: a cello solo which Gould wrote for him to play in his radio program "The Quiet in the Land" and a cello and bass piece which he played with Joel Quarrington as part of a film score Gould wrote for the Canadian movie "The Wars" directed by Robin Phillips shortly before he died.

Mackenzie Gray

He performed in independent films in the UK, but his first North American feature film was The Wars in 1983.

The Wars

His main distinction between The Wars and works like War and Peace, The Naked and the Dead, From Here to Eternity, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms is the compressed size of The Wars, usually being under two hundred pages (depending on the edition).



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Alte Pinakothek

After the reunion of Bavaria and the Electorate of the Palatinate in 1777, the galleries of Mannheim, Düsseldorf and Zweibrücken were moved to Munich, in part to protect the collections during the wars which followed the French revolution.

An Cléireach

His hereditary responsibility brings him to the Spanish Netherlands, to Bohemia where he takes part in the Battle of White Mountain as a musketeer in captain Somhairle Mac Domhnaill's company, and from there to the Irish College of St Anthony in Leuven (Louvain), in the company of Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and Father Brian Mac Giolla Coinnigh, and finally back to Ireland during the wars of the Irish Catholic Confederation and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

Antonio Rivera Cabezas

He worked to reestablish schools that had been destroyed during the wars of independence and introduced new schools in Chiquimula.

Barrier town

The barrier towns were present-day Belgian towns, heavily fortified by the Dutch, on the Austrian Netherlands's border with France, and as such were particularly important in the wars between the Dutch Republic and Ancien Régime France.

Battle of Pichincha

By that time, the tide of the wars of independence in South America had turned decisively against Spain: Simón Bolívar's victory at the Battle of Boyacá (August 7, 1819) had sealed the independence of the former Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada, while to the south, José de San Martín, having landed with his army on the Peruvian coast on September, 1820, was preparing the campaign for the independence of the Viceroyalty of Perú.

Bertram Wallis

Between the wars, Wallis also made a number of films, including The Cost of a Kiss (1917), as Lord Darlington; Victory and Peace (1918), as Bob Brierley; The Wandering Jew (1933), as Prince Bohemund; A Dream of Love (1938), as Liszt 'old'; Chips (1938), as Smuggler; A People Eternal (1939), as The English Prince; and Shipbuilders (1944), as Caven Watson.

Blaye

It was early an important stronghold which played an important part in the wars against the English (who burnt it in 1352) and the French Wars of Religion (when it was the site of a Spanish naval victory in 1593).

Bwlch y Groes

Bwlch y Groes is also known as the Hellfire Pass, and was used between and after the wars by the Austin Motor Company and the Standard Triumph Motor Company to test prototype cars and their performance during hillclimbing.

Charles Muñoz

After serving as a WWII navy aerial gunner in torpedo bombers, Muñoz next worked as a United States Merchant Marine radio officer, contentedly sailing on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships until, the world being what it was, he sailed for several years on munitions ships bound for duty in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Chihab al-Umari

His works also provide a basis for the Muslim side on the wars of Amda Seyon I against Ifat, Adal, and other regions.

Clan Mackenzie

During the Wars in India, Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.

Clifton-upon-Teme

During the time of the wars with the Welsh, the manor of Clifton became established and was granted Royal Borough status by Edward III of England in 1377, allowing it to hold a weekly market on Thursdays and an annual four-day fair.

Cultural depictions of Henry V of England

Michael Pennington in the BBC series The Wars of the Roses (1989), which included all of Shakespeare's history plays performed by the English Shakespeare Company

David Callahan

Callahan has published two books on U.S. foreign policy:Dangerous Capabilities, a biography of Paul Nitze, and Unwinnable Wars, a study of U.S. involvement in such ethnic conflicts as the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Lebanon, and Biafra.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

Ekumeku Movement

In the south, the British had to fight many wars, in particular the wars against the Ijebu (a Yoruba group) in 1892, the Aro of Eastern Igboland in 1901–1902, and from 1883–1914, the Anioma.

George Cattermole

He was largely employed by publishers, illustrating the Waverley Novels and the Historical Annual of his brother Richard Cattermole (his scenes from the wars of Cavaliers and Roundheads in this series are among his best engraved works), and many other volumes besides.

German Americans in the Civil War

Rosengarten, Joseph George, The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1890.

Hinckley Priory

In March 1399 Hinckley was removed from the control of Lyre Abbey and granted to the Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, for the duration of the wars.

Joan Gilabert Jofré

The Order's founder, the Catalan Peter Nolasco, tutor to King James I of Aragón, had fought in the wars of the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula.

Joeli Bulu

He served first at Lakeba and then at Rewa, and after that the station was closed because of the wars, at Viwa.

Latin American wars of independence

Evolving from the wars Revolutionary France fought with the rest of Europe, the Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving Britain, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Russia and Austria at different times, from 1799 to 1815.

Legio XIV Gemina

Some subunits of Fourteenth fought in the wars against the Mauri, under Antoninus Pius, and the legion participated to the Parthian campaign of Emperor Lucius Verus.

Ligugé Abbey

The invasion of the Saracens, the wars of the dukes of Aquitaine with the early Carolingians, and lastly the Norman invasion were a series of disasters that almost destroyed the monastery.

Lord Lisle

Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, played a major role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms including time as Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1646 to 1647 under the courtesy title Lord Lisle

Manuel Canaverys

Their daughter, María married Juan de Michelena, son of the Captain Juan Ángel Michelena, military born in the city of Maracaibo and supporter of the king's forces during the wars for independence.

Marsh Giddings

In January 1874 the best he could do was to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of those cowboys who had shot up a Hispanic dance in Lincoln murdering four men, the seminal event starting the wars.

Mission creep

For instance, many of the wars of Louis XIV's France began with small limited goals, but quickly escalated to much larger affairs.

Neil Campbell

Sir Neil Campbell, known as Niall mac Cailein (died 1316), hero of the Wars of Scottish Independence

Netherthorpe School

Francis Rodes, by will, 29th of robert was here Elizabeth, left a yearly rent charge of £20 per annum, to be taken forth of his manor of Elmton; £8 thereof to the Grammar school, at Staveley Netherthorpe, £8 for two scholarships in St. John's, Cambridge, and £4 for the relief of soldiers who should be sent to the wars out of Staveley, Barlborough, and Elmton.

Parmigianino

In 1521, Parmigianino was sent to Viadana (along with painter Girolamo Bedoli who was to marry his cousin) to escape the wars between the French, Imperial, and papal armies.

Ponthoile

After the ravages of the wars against the English and Burgundians, according to English statistics, there were only 48.

Richard Neville

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), known as "Warwick the Kingmaker", English noble, fought in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), Yorkist leader during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485), father of the 16th Earl of Warwick

San Francisco Review of Books

The publication continued well into the late 1990s with various owners, while Nowicki left to interview the last survivors of the Warsaw cabaret for his first book, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (Mercury House, 1992), about cabaret and coffeehouse life between the wars in Warsaw.

Șipet,Timiş County

Early in the nineteenth century Șipet came into the hands of the Duca family when it was awarded to Field marshall Petre Duca (1755–1822) because of his success in the wars against Napoleon.

Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School

Another house, Tower — named after Jezreel's tower in Gillingham and intended for boys from that borough — was disbanded between the wars.

Stormed Fortress

It is also volume five of the Alliance of Light, the third story arc in the Wars of Light and Shadow.

Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

Her best known statue is The Hiker, a monument commemorating the soldiers who fought in the wars of the United States' turn of the 20th Century Manifest Destiny territorial expansion, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Boxer Rebellion.

Thomas McDonnell

He received the New Zealand Cross on 31 March 1886, and published fragmented memoirs, as well as a fanciful 'Maori history' of the wars.

United States non-interventionism

In 1823, President James Monroe articulated what would come to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, which some have interpreted as non-interventionist in intent: "In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken part, nor does it comport with our policy, so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded, or seriously menaced that we resent injuries, or make preparations for our defense."

Wars of Kappel

The wars of Kappel (Kappelerkriege) is a collective term for two armed conflicts fought near Kappel am Albis between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.

Wars of Light and Shadow

The Wars of Light and Shadow is a series of fantasy books by Janny Wurts.

William Oliphant

William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie (died 1329), Scottish knight during the Wars of Scottish Independence

Winter Soldier

Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, an inquiry into American war crimes during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, held in 2008

Zutphen

Having been fortified the town withstood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch against Spain, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.