Search results for "Ambassador" - New World Encyclopedia
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- by Lady Wentworth, the wife of the English ambassador, to accompany her to London. One of her first works there was a portrait of actor and playwright ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- men at arm's length. The British ambassador and poet Sir Thomas Wyatt ... an excellent rapport with the French ambassador, Giles de la Pommeraye ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- Silas Deane was sent to France as a minister (ambassador) of the Congress. American ports were reopened in defiance of the Navigation Acts. ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- * Ángel Sanz Britz, Spanish ambassador in Budapest who saved about 5,000 Hungarian Jews * Oskar Schindler, savior of many Jews from the Auschwitz ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- was cut short when his country needed him to be ambassador to UNESCO and later to Moscow. He was also elected to the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946. ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- Persia Khosrau II, his reception of the Persian ambassador depicted in one of the paintings in the Ajanta caves. The Chinese traveler Hsuan Tsang, who ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 23:43, 2 December 2022
- send the explorer Sebastian Vizcaino aa ambassador to Japan, with the added ... "I was formerly dispatched as ambassador of Idate Masamune, who ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- In the early sixteenth century the Oba sent an ambassador to Lisbon, and the king of Portugal sent Christian missionaries to Benin. Some residents of ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
- beloved daughter, who in 1786, married the ambassador of Sweden and became Madame de Staël. But neither Necker nor his wife cared to remain out of office ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- also decorated. Although it is rare for an ambassador in Paris to be awarded the Légion d'honneur, a posthumous exception was made for the United ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- * Sergio Balanzino, ambassador * Maurizio Cheli, astronaut * Umberto Guidoni, astronaut * Maria Montessori, educator * Luca di Montezemolo, CEO ...13 KB (1,764 words) - 13:09, 3 May 2023
- His duel with a son of the French ambassador led to his being returned to the Caucasian army, where he distinguished himself in hand-to-hand ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- to visit the daughter of American Ambassador Joseph Grew. However, when Berg arrived he immediately went to the roof of the hospital which was ...35 KB (5,253 words) - 23:47, 29 May 2024
- Empire and Foreign Minister Safvet Pasha and Ambassador to Germany Sadullah Bey on behalf of the Ottoman Empire. The treaty was provisional because ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- shell for Apollo, and in return was appointed ambassador of the gods with the caduceus as a symbol of his office. Tyson, 494 Another tale suggests ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- offered him the position of Swedish ambassador in Paris. Grotius accepted ... Grotius served, with mixed success, for ten years as ambassador for ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- on Nanyue could be created. The Han ambassador Tang Meng (唐蒙) secured ... had married while he served as an ambassador to Han—were both in favor ...44 KB (7,021 words) - 13:34, 31 January 2022
- took place on the roof of New York's Ambassador Hotel. ... On August 15, 1926, Valentino collapsed at the Hotel Ambassador in ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- Lisbon, Paris and Rome at the invitation of the Ambassador of Portugal to Japan. In 1969, he visited Israel and America, and in 1971 he received a medal ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- Tilden to play. The president told the American ambassador in Paris to disregard the U.S. Davis Cup team captain, and to select Tilden for the team ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
