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- Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...ennius]], she united with her mother, Irene, in a vain attempt to prevail upon Alexius I during his last... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
21: ...ear, she lobbied the [[U.S. Army]] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefi... - Aenesidemus (3613 bytes)
18: ...endeavour is the conclusion that all endeavour is vain and illogical. The main tendency of this destruct... - Pyrrho (3149 bytes)
5: ...stress and emotion which belong to the contest of vain imaginings. This drastic skepticism is the first ... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
43: ... with the [[Yuezhi]] against the [[Xiong-Nu]], in vain). The Chinese emperor [[Emperor Wu of Han China|W...
57: The [[Roman Senate|Senate]] issued, in vain, several edicts to prohibit the wearing of silk, ... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
91: ...ere are other planets, since God makes nothing in vain, they must be inhabited; but how can their inhabi...
103: ... having erred in the writing of the book, through vain ambition, ignorance, and inadvertence. He was the...
107: ... promise to denounce others who held his prior viewpoint. Galileo did everything the church requested ...
123: The viewpoints of White and similar-minded colleagues were ... - World War II (58065 bytes)
70: ...arge of the German forces, a Field Marshal in the vain hope it would deter him from surrendering. It did... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
21: ...wpoint, which clashed with the strong [[Tory]] viewpoint of the British leadership.
31: ...et Burgoyne, went, instead, to Philadelphia, in a vain attempt to end the war by capturing the American ... - Dolphin (13554 bytes)
147: ...'', including entire chapters written from the viewpoint of his dolphin characters. - Giordano Bruno (15356 bytes)
31: ...]] for six years before he was tried. He tried in vain to obtain an audience with [[Pope Clement VIII]],... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
64: [[Image:Wpdms oregon territory 1848.png|frame|The [[Oregon T...
68: [[Image:Wpdms_mexican_cession.jpg|frame|right|The [[Mexican ...
69: ...ders back. Santa Anna's efforts, however, were in vain, as Generals Zachary Taylor and [[Winfield Scott]... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
6: ...f Panama, astonished at this daring adventure, in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally ... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
62: ...lack of [[rigour]] meant that he spent himself in vain attempts to solve the impossible problems that of... - Aphrodite (14648 bytes)
25: ...y of the myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is... - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
40: ...f the gods. Zeus's wife, [[Hera]], a jealous and vain goddess, discovered the affair while Semele was p... - Christmas (35108 bytes)
156: ... snow-covered streets on Christmas Eve, trying in vain to sell her matches, and peeking in at the celebr... - Dobermann (9580 bytes)
66: Aside from these more vain reasons of putting the animals through a procedur... - James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
95: ...een moved to Elberon, a seaside community, in the vain hope that the fresh air and quiet there might aid... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
39: ...d up the river as far as they could, searching in vain for the Coronado expedition. They had given up an... - Swearing (812 bytes)
3: ...e or trivial circumstances (''"taking The Name in vain"'') was considered wrong and sinful. The use of t...
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