Word: knighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sources: U.N.D.P. (2); AP; CAGW.org AP (2), Knight-Ridder; Reuters
...Christian knight Godfrey (Liam Neeson) enlists his illegitimate son Balian in the Crusades. Godfrey's hope is that they can fashion "a kingdom of conscience, a kingdom of heaven" where "there is peace between Christian and Muslim." Well, one way for peace to come to the region would be for the Christians to leave. That doesn't suit Godfrey and his men. They are soldiers for Christ. They have a mission to achieve, and they will do it, by God. Their God, that...
...paintings and thousands of book and magazine illustrations of dinosaurs, early humans and adventure scenes. Some 400 of his works are on exhibit through July 10 at the Prague Castle Riding Hall. The late U.S. paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould ranked Burian's work alongside that of American Charles R. Knight, the world's most celebrated painter of dinosaurs. Burian earned a cult following in the Czech Republic, particularly during the totalitarian era. "Burian, who along with his nation was denied freedom in the second half of his life, was able to encode it into most of his works," Vladim?r Prokop...
...Knight sent Kanki a letter on April 1 which stated that the University was right to be concerned about the scope of the grant, but that Bloom had taken steps that impeded Kanki’s ability to fulfil the terms of the grant, according to a professor familiar with the contents of the letter...
...AAUP letter from Knight questioned the operating principles set forth by Bloom because they inhibited Kanki’s right to speak freely with colleagues about how the grant is being supervised and its terms implemented...