Henry IV (German: Heinrich IV; 11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) was Holy Roman

Emperor from 1084 to 1105, King of Germany from 1054 to 1105, King of Italy and
Burgundy from 1056 to 1105, and Duke of Bavaria from 1052 to 1054. He was the son
of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor—the second monarch of the Salian dynasty—and Agnes
of Poitou. After his father's death on 5 October 1056, Henry was placed under his
mother's guardianship. She made grants to German aristocrats to secure their
support. Unlike her late husband, she could not control the election of the popes,
thus the idea of the "liberty of the Church" strengthened during her rule. Taking
advantage of her weakness, Archbishop Anno II of Cologne kidnapped Henry in April
1062. He administered Germany until Henry came of age in 1065.
Wiglaf succeeded Ludeca, who was killed campaigning against East Anglia. His first
reign coincided with the continued rise of the rival Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex
under Ecgberht. Ecgberht drove Wiglaf from the throne in 829, and ruled Mercia
directly for a year. Wiglaf recovered the kingdom in 830, probably by force,
although it may be that Wiglaf remained subject to Ecgberht's overlordship. Mercia
never regained the south-eastern kingdoms, but Berkshire and perhaps Essex came
back into Mercian control. The causes of the fluctuating fortunes of Mercia and
Wessex are a matter of speculation, but it may be that Carolingian support
influenced both Ecgberht's ascendancy and the subsequent Mercian recovery. Although
Wiglaf appeared to have restored Mercia's independence, the recovery was short-
lived, and later in the century Mercia was divided between Wessex and the Vikings.
Wiglaf died in about 839, and was eventually succeeded by Beorhtwulf, though one
tradition records his son, Wigmund as having reigned briefly. Wiglaf is buried at
Repton, near Derby.

Hinault started cycling as an amateur in his native Brittany. After a successful

amateur career, he signed with the Gitane–Campagnolo team to turn professional in
1975. He took breakthrough victories at both the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic and
the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race in 1977. In 1978, he won his first two
Grand Tours: the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France. In the following years, he
was the most successful professional cyclist, adding another Tour victory in 1979
and a win at the 1980 Giro d'Italia. Although a knee injury forced him to quit the
1980 Tour de France while in the lead, he returned to win the World Championship
road race later in the year. He added another Tour victory in 1981, before
completing his first Giro-Tour double in 1982. (Full article...)

Pentland served in the fledgling Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), and later the
Royal Air Force, before going into business in 1927. His ventures included
commercial flying around the goldfields of New Guinea, aircraft design and
manufacture, flight instruction, and charter work. In the early 1930s, he was
employed as a pilot with Australian National Airways, and also spent time as a
dairy farmer. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, he re-enlisted in the RAAF,
attaining the rank of squadron leader and commanding rescue and communications
units in the South West Pacific. Perhaps the oldest operational pilot in the
wartime RAAF, Pentland was responsible for rescuing airmen, soldiers and civilians,
and earned the Air Force Cross for his "outstanding courage, initiative and skill".
He became a trader in New Guinea when the war ended in 1945, and later a coffee