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Moreover, China's perceived enemy, the Dalai Lama, leader of another Buddhist school but recognized universally as Tibetan Buddhism's foremost figure and the leader of a Tibetan government in exile, has joined in demanding the Karmapa's release, saying that it was wrong to prevent him from taking up his religious duties and the higher studies he has said he went to India to pursue.

Romola - George Eliot Set in Renaissance Florence, Eliot's 1862 novel charts the political and religious upheaval of the period, as well as many of its foremost figures, including Machiavelli and Savonarola.

Mr. Cunningham ranks among the foremost figures of artistic modernism and among the few who have transformed the nature and status of dance theater, visionaries like Isadora Duncan, Serge Diaghilev, Martha Graham and George Balanchine.

In 1872 Clark traveled to Europe, where he met the foremost figures in horse racing there and developed the idea of establishing a jockey club in Louisville to sponsor races and highlight the city's champion racing stock.

October 10, 1777 Jefferis' Ford, Pennsylvania April 2, 1839 Wilmington, Delaware Hezekiah Niles, (born October 10, 1777, Jefferis Fordd, Chester county, Pennsylvania, U.S. died April 2, 1839, Wilmington, Delaware) editor and newspaper publisher who was one of the foremost figures in early American journalism.

Hezekiah Niles, (born October 10, 1777, Jefferis Fordd, Chester county, Pennsylvania, U.S. died April 2, 1839, Wilmington, Delaware) editor and newspaper publisher who was one of the foremost figures in early American journalism.

The two foremost figures to emerge from the aftermath of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Mr. Rafsanjani and Mr. Khamenei were once close allies.

Born Sophie Henrietta Gertrude Tauber, in Davos, Switzerland in 1889, she was one of the foremost figures of the rebellious Dada art movement.

October 9, 1906 Asyūṭ, Egypt August 29, 1966 Cairo, Egypt Sayyid Quṭb, in full Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Shādhilī Sayyid Quṭb (born Oct. 9, 1906, near Asyūṭ, Egypt died Aug. 29, 1966, Cairo) Egyptian writer who was one of the foremost figures in modern Sunni Islamic revivalism.

Abovian is regarded as one of the foremost figures not just in Armenian literature but Armenian history at large.

The brilliant, enigmatic Frenchman whose name is thus remembered comes vividly to life in this fascinating new biography, by one of Britain's foremost literary figures and philosophers.