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unusual facts about agitator



A Place Called Freedom

John Wilkes - A British politician and agitator from the period.

Adam Lux

On 17 July 1793 Lux witnessed the execution of the Girondist Charlotte Corday, who had assassinated the radical agitator Jean-Paul Marat.

Albert Raes

Raes was pursued meanwhile by the baron Benoît de Bonvoisin, accusing him of being a KGB agent and having accused the baron as an agitator of the extreme right.

Cory Maye

Maye's case attracted little attention until late 2005, when Reason magazine senior editor and police misconduct researcher Radley Balko brought it to light on his blog The Agitator.

Deckert

Josef Deckert (1843–1901), Austrian Catholic priest and anti-Semitic agitator

Dennis Bonvie

On April 20, 2008, in an AHL playoff game against the Hershey Bears, Bonvie was involved in his final career scrap against agitator Louis Robitaille.

Eric Nagler

Most unusual is his "Sewerphone", made of 10 feet of ABS plastic and the agitator from a clothes washer, and functions similarly to a tuba, as described in his "My Lovely Sewerphone" (Come On In! 1985).

Ferrand Martinez

Ferrand Martinez (fl. 14th century) was a Spanish cleric and archdeacon of Écija most noted for being an antisemitic agitator whom historians cite as the prime mover behind the series of pogroms against the Spanish Jews in 1391 beginning in the city of Seville.

Hecker Uprising

Joseph Fickler had emerged as a local agitator in the Vormärz period before the failed March revolutions of 1848.

Henry Payne

Henry Nevil Payne (died c. 1710), British dramatist and Roman Catholic agitator

Howard Elliott

Howard Leslie Elliott (1877–1956), New Zealand Baptist minister, sectarian agitator and editor

Johan Nygaardsvold

He took jobs in British Columbia in Canada, and Kalispell, Montana, and Spokane, Washington in USA before returning to Norway in 1907, having followed a career as an Industrial Workers of the World agitator.

Levi Tafari

Levi self-identifies as an Urban Griot (the griot being the traditional consciousness raiser, storyteller, newscaster and political agitator).

Lilburne

Elizabeth Lilburne (fl. 1641–1660), English political agitator; wife of John Lilburne.

Patkul

Johann Patkul, Livonian politician and agitator of Baltic German extraction

PM Press

2010 saw an edition of Peter Marshall’s history of anarchism, Demanding the Impossible, a radical new examination of the politics of pirates by Gabriel Kuhn, the first English-language edition of writings by German agitator and theorist Gustav Landauer, and Tunnel People by photojournalist Teun Voeten, as well as From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader and anthologies of works by Paul Goodman.

Spa Fields riots

Arthur Thistlewood and three other Spencean leaders were arrested and charged with high treason as a result of the riot; James Watson was on trial during June 1817 with Messrs Wetherell and Copley as their defence counsel.


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