John Martin Carruthers Garrod, military commander and administrator, born 29 May 1935; died 17 April 2009.
A gifted commander and administrator, he expanded his rule until at its height in the early 1880s it extended from the Upper Volta region in the west to the Fouta Djallon in the east.
Chavundaraya, a minister in the Western Ganga court was a valiant commander, able administrator and an accomplished poet in Kannada and Sanskrit.
Sir Martin Garrod, who has died aged 73, rose to be commandant general of the Royal Marines and built up an exceptional record both as a military commander and an administrator in such sensitive places as Northern Ireland and Whitehall during defence policy upheavals.
"When the first Americans set foot on Mars, they will be following in the footsteps of one of the finest astronauts in the history of the space program, my friend, Commander Scott Kelly,"NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said following the announcement of Kelly's retirement.
The centrally controlled early Piast monarchy had been based on a system of fortified settlements from which an official called the castellan tended to the ruler's domain and acted as administrator, military commander, judge, and tax collector.
1532 Plymouth, England November 12, 1595 Atlantic Ocean, Puerto Ricoo Sir John Hawkins, Hawkins also spelled Hawkyns (born 1532, Plymouth, Devon, Eng. died Nov. 12, 1595, at sea off Puerto Rico) English naval administrator and commander, one of the foremost seamen of 16th-century England and the chief architect of the Elizabethan navy.
But searchers said the "mystery object" did not turn out to be a sunken fishing boat reported to contain $2.31 billion of gold and precious stones seized from Greek Jews by Max Merten, an SS commander and Hitler's administrator in the northern Greek city of Salonika.
Lt. Col. Jean-Michel Mechain, 46, has denied giving journalists documents describing tensions between French commanders and the United Nations administrator in Kosovo.
