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12 unusual facts about chancellor


Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte

Married at Ajaccio, 25 June 1763 Nicola Luigi Paravisini, Chancellor of the City of Ajaccio (ca 1739, Ajaccio – 8 May 1813, Ajaccio).

Golden Twenties

Before long, the Weimar Republic under Chancellor Gustav Stresemann managed to tame the extreme levels of inflation by the introduction of a new currency, the Rentenmark, with tighter fiscal controls and reduction of bureaucracy, leading to a relative degree of political and economic stability.

Grand Chancellor

a Grand Chancellor, a senior governmental post under an emperor, monarch or president

Josef Klaus

Josef Klaus started many reforms and is remembered for administrating the government efficiently, but he lost the 1970 election against Bruno Kreisky (SPÖ), who was his successor as Chancellor.

Joseph Jessing

From that time to the present, the institution has been under the direction of the Congregation for Seminaries, with the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States as its Chancellor.

Prime Minister of Portugal

Over time, the role of principal officer of the Crown was falling upon the chanceler-mor (Chancellor), the mordomo-mor (Mayor of the Palace) and the escrivão da puridade (King's private secretary).

Pro-vice-chancellor

In the National University of Ireland, each president of the constituent universities (being University College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Galway and National University of Ireland, Maynooth), holds the title of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the NUI, though they generally only use this title at conferring ceremonies.

Rightful Heir

Klingon Chancellor Gowron arrives, saying he has a test which will indisputably prove if Kahless is genuine.

Sri Lanka Law College

Justice V. Manicavasagar- former Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Chancellor of the University of Jaffna

The Three Clever Kings

The Prime Minister and Chancellor turns to Aldovrand, asking questions regarding the kingdom.

The Political Council: These one-dimensional, stock characters consist of Prime Minister, Chancellor, Commander-in-Chief, and Lord High Admiral.

University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston

Prior to 1972, the GSBS Dean had direct access to the Chancellor in Austin and all Board of Regents meetings.


1527 in poetry

Łukasz Górnicki, (died 1603), Polish humanist, writer, poet, secretary and chancellor of Sigismund August of Poland

5 Fingers

He would photograph top-secret documents and turn the films over to Franz von Papen, the former German chancellor, at that time German ambassador in Ankara, via the intermediary Moyzisch, a commercial attaché at the embassy.

A Small Town in Germany

The West German Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, was, like Karfeld, a former committed Nazi, who had joined the NSDAP in 1933.

Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis

He married Agnes Crichton, daughter of William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, Chancellor of Scotland, but had no surviving children.

Aram Chobanian

He had succeeded controversial B.U. President John Silber (1971-1996), who had become chancellor in 1996, but had stepped down as chancellor and reassumed the presidency on an interim basis after B.U. President Jon Westling (1996-2002) resigned to return to teaching.

Arvinder Singh Bubber

Arvinder Singh Bubber is the first chancellor of Kwantlen Polytechnic University located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

Castle Mill

Oxford University donors, such as Michael Moritz, and the University's Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Andrew Hamilton, have also been targeted with letters by the protesters, warning that the buildings "blot out the unique view of Oxford's Dreaming Spires from Port Meadow".

Chancellor University

The most notable alumni of Chancellor University are oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller, rubber and tire trailblazer, Harvey Firestone, and accounting and professional services pioneer, Theodore Ernst.

Chronique de la Pucelle

Shorty before Agincourt, Charles d'Orléans, soon to be made captive, appointed Cousinot his chancellor; Cousinot administered the affairs of the duchy during Charles' interminable captivity in England.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Cromwell Lee

However he resided principally in Oxford itself, where in 1590 he was granted licence by the Vice-Chancellor of the University to eat meat in Lent.

Edward Mardigian

Pleased with the work of the Armenian Research Center and with the generosity of the Mardigians towards the University, which has extended beyond their original contributions, the then Chancellor of the Dearborn campus, William A. Jenkins, recommended to the President of The University of Michigan, at that time Harold Shapiro, that the University name the campus library the Edward and Helen Mardigian Library.

Ernst Strasser

Austrian vice-chancellor and ÖVP leader Josef Pröll had called for the deputy's "immediate resignation from all political posts," describing his behaviour as "unacceptable".

Esther Valentine

Tommy Garrett of Canyon News praised Linder's portrayal of Esther when the character was grieving over the loss of Katherine Chancellor in 2008.

George Throop

George R. Throop (1882–1949), former chancellor of Washington University

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Hans-Christian Ströbele

On 31 October 2013, Ströbele met with Edward Snowden in Moscow to discuss the possibility of the NSA whistleblower testifiying before a German parliamentary committee set to investigate the claims of American intelligence services spying on German government officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Harold Robinson

Harold Roper Robinson (1889–1955), physicist, FRS, academic, Vice-Chancellor

Humboldt Gymnasium

In 2009, the school won the 361-Degree Tolerance competition, which was started by YouTube, and which had the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, as patron.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

Ibrahim Shekarau

He also hosted some world leaders like the former German Chancellor Schroeder, Prince Charles, among others.

In My Time of Dying

"In My Time of Dying" was played during Led Zeppelin's 1975 and 1977 concert tours, where Robert Plant sarcastically dedicated the song to the British Labour Party's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, for the tax exile issues the band was facing.

Ipswich Cardinals

The name comes from one of Ipswich's most famous sons, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII's Lord chancellor (Chief advisor to the king).

James Madden

James Loomis Madden (1892–1972), acting chancellor of New York University, 1951–1952

János Szalárdi

He served as Secretary of the Chancellery (1644–1649) during the reign of George I Rákóczi when the position of Chancellor was vacant since 1634, the death of István Kovacsóczy.

Jurisdiction in Liberties Act 1535

This section, save as relating to the temporal Chancellor, was repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

Justice King

Peter King, 1st Baron King, a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chancellor of England

Longfeng Baochai Yuan

Yang Guozhong (楊國忠) is the chancellor during Emperor Xuanzong's reign.

Lý Nhân Tông

Initially, the regency of the young emperor was placed in the hand of the chancellor (Vietnamese: thái sư) Lý Đạo Thành and the Empress Mother Thượng Dương but she was soon dismissed by Lý Nhân Tông after the influence from the emperor's natural mother Ỷ Lan.

Mitchell Campbell King

Bismarck's letters to him are preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress, while some of King's letters are kept by the Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg (Germany), which is a commemorative German Government Foundation in memory of the Chancellor of the German Empire (similar to the Presidential libraries in the United States).

Musikkens Hus

But when the Vice-Chancellor of Aalborg University, Sven Caspersen, and Vice-Rector of the Royal Academy of Music North Denmark, Peter Wang, during a tennis match come up with the idea of establishing a research and educational unit in Musikkens Hus, new life is breathed into the project.

Owen Chadwick

As Vice-Chancellor he guided Cambridge through turbulent times in the late 1960s; and was Chancellor of the University of East Anglia between 1984 and 1994.

R. K. Sinha

Randolph Quirk, Former Vice-Chancellor University of London, It, commemorative volume is a thoroughly worthy objective, for the eminent Professor R K Sinha.

Red brick university

While the University of Liverpool is generally considered to be the original "red brick" university, the University of Birmingham was the first of the civic universities to gain independent university status in 1900 and the University has stated that the popularity of the term "red brick" owes to its own Chancellor's Court, constructed from Accrington red brick.

Robin Deacon

He become known for his works in political biography, with a series of performances on the lives of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell (2004 – 08) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2005).

Rolph Payet

Rolph Payet FRGS is an international policy expert, researcher and speaker on environment, climate and island issues, and was the first President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Seychelles.

Sepp Straffner

He was one of the three national presidents who on 4 March 1933 resigned his office during a debate on a railway strike, precipitating a constitutional crisis, the dissolution of parliament and the seizure of power by the Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss as dictator.

Shrum

Gordon Shrum (1896–1985), Canadian physicist and first chancellor of Simon Fraser University

Smooth Sax Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire

The album was released on May 11, 2004 on Tribute Records and was produced by both Burrell and Chancellor, Jr.

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.

Terry Budge

Terry Budge is an Australian banking executive and the current Chancellor of Murdoch University, located in the suburb of Murdoch, Western Australia.

The Center for Arts Education

The publication includes a companion DVD "A Decade of Progress" DVD Nominated for ARTS PROGRAMING AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE by Ovation (TV channel), December 13, 2007 narrated by Anna Deavere Smith and provides exclusive segments with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then-School’s Chancellor Joel Klein, and United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten about the importance of and need for arts education in schools and the community.

The Obsolete Man

Wordsworth compares the Chancellor to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and asks "History teaches you nothing, does it?"

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

Tucker McCall

He hires Adam Newman (Michael Muhney) and plans to sell off Chancellor Industries piece by piece, including Jabot Cosmetics.

Walter Wallmann

The ministry was established by chancellor Helmut Kohl on June 6, 1986 in response to the Chernobyl disaster and formed from departments of the Ministries of the Interior, of Agriculture and of Health.

William Graham-Harrison

He took silk in 1930 and was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham in 1934, the Diocese of Truro in 1935, the Diocese of Gloucester in 1937, and the Diocese of Portsmouth in 1938.

Wonder Boys

During a party, Leer shoots and kills the chancellor’s dog and steals her husband’s prized Marilyn Monroe collectible: the jacket worn by the actress on the day of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio.

Yom HaShoah

Ismar Schorsch, former Chancellor of Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary of America held that Holocaust commemoration should take place on Tisha b'Av.