" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

* Queen ( band )' s Roger Meddows Taylor included the track " Interlude in Constantinople " on Side 2 of his debut album Fun in Space.

In May 2010 Dartmouth joined the Matariki Network of Universities ( MNU ) together with Durham University ( UK ), Queen ’ s University ( Canada ), University of Otago ( New Zealand ), University of Tübingen ( Germany ), University of Western Australia ( Australia ) and Uppsala University ( Sweden ).

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

In 1556 King ’ s County and Queen ’ s County were created and the Kingdom of Connacht was broken up into the counties of Galway, Mayo and Sligo, while Leitrim was separated from Roscommon in 1565.

* Queen Victoria ’ s Rifles

The meaning of Dromio ’ s line has not been satisfactorily explained by critics, but Oxfordians say the line is somehow connected to the fact that de Vere was given a £ 1, 000 annuity by the Queen, later continued by King James.

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

* Appeals of summary conviction offences go first to the highest trial court within the jurisdiction ( e. g. provincial superior court in Alberta is the Court of Queen ’ s Bench ).

England ’ s declaration against " cruel and unusual punishments " was approved by Parliament in February 1689, and was read to King William III and his wife Queen Mary II on the following day.

A costume associated with Cockneys is that of the Pearly Kings and Queens | pearly King ( or pearly Queen ) worn by London costermonger s who sew thousands of pearl buttons onto their clothing in elaborate and creative patterns.

Due to her patience and understanding Shirin becomes one of the most respected Queen regent | Queen s in the One Thousand and One Nights.

Drusilla ’ s paternal grandmother, the Queen of Mauretania Cleopatra Selene II, was a daughter of the Ptolemaic Greek Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony.

When King You replaced Queen Shen with the concubine Baosi ( and designated Baosì's son as the crown prince ), the former queen ’ s powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong to sack the western capital of Haojing in 770 BC.

The general ill will against Struensee, which had been smouldering all through the autumn of 1771, found expression at last in a secret conspiracy against him, headed by Rantzau-Ascheburg and others, in the name of the Queen Dowager Juliana Maria, who in this way was willing to wrest power away from the king, and secure her and her son ’ s position of power for many years to come.

As the number of pupils outgrew the capacity of Tudor Hall, so the school was transferred in 1932 to a new site in Queen ’ s Road, which backed on to the Stapylton field.

She was privately educated at Queen ’ s Park School, a girls ' school in Oswestry.

The Royal Navy plans to operate the F-35 Lightning II | F-35B from the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier | Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier s, replacing the BAE Harrier II | Harrier-equipped Invincible class aircraft carrier | Invincible-class aircraft carrier s. In the Persian Gulf, the RN sustains a number of commitments in support of both national and coalition efforts to stabilise the region.

Lex boasts some distinguished alumni who have gone on to make careers in business and government – including Nigel Lawson ( former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer ), Richard Lambert ( CBI director and former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee ), Martin Taylor ( former chief executive of Barclays ), John Makinson ( chairman and chief executive of Penguin ), John Gardiner ( former chairman of Tesco ), David Freud ( former UBS banker and Labour adviser, now a Conservative peer ), John Kingman ( former head of UKFI and a banker at Rothschild ’ s ), George Graham ( RBS banker ), Andrew Balls ( head of European portfolio management at PIMCO ) and Jo Johnson ( Conservative Member of Parliament for Orpington ).

Born in Bristol, England ; Long studied at the University of the West of England's College of Art during the years of 1962-5, then to St Martin ’ s School of Art and Design, London during 1966-68.

It was his best series with 306 runs ( 51. 00 ) and when Ted Dexter retired after losing 1-0 to Bobby Simpson ’ s Australia in 1964 Smith was made captain for England's last tour of South Africa before the Basil d ' Oliveira Crisis.

Most significant, the Colt factory ’ s machines mass-produced interchangeable parts that could be easily and cheaply put together on assembly lines using standardized patterns and gauges by unskilled labor as opposed to England's top gunmakers.

Enraght ’ s belief in the Church of England's Catholic tradition, his promotion of ritualism in worship, and his writings on Catholic worship and church-state relationships, led him into conflict with the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

As well the new Norman rulers were interested in discovering who it was they had reigned over, which fuelled demand for legends of England's early Kings, such as Geoffrey ’ s King Arthur.

Hazell was chosen for England's highly successful senior tour of New Zealand and Australia in June 2003 and played in the 23 – 9 victory over New Zealand Māori in New Plymouth, before flying to Vancouver to become a member of England ’ s Churchill Cup winning side in 2003 and returned again the following year.

She scored her first international goal in England ’ s victory over the Netherlands in September 2004, and scored twice more in her home town of Walsall during England's 4 – 1 friendly win over the Czech Republic in May 2005.

Like many of England's top brass players, Ian ’ s playing flourished quickly in the brass band scene, having been principal trombonist in the National Youth Brass Band at age 13, and for four years, principal with the Yorkshire Imperial Band, during which time they won the British, National and Yorkshire championships.

In 1880 she sang in England's first complete performance of Hector Berlioz ’ s La damnation de Faust at the Hallé Concerts, Manchester.

He returned to Trinidad and Tobago in 1952, and stood as a Test umpire in the 4th Test between West Indies and England at Port of Spain in March 1953, a high-scoring draw in which West Indies scored an imposing 681 for 8 declared, with the 3 " W " s ( Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott ) all scoring centuries in West Indies ' first innings, and Peter May and Denis Compton doing the same in England's 537 in reply.

He manifests there that " No social ideal, from the point of view of anarchism, could be referred to as absolute in a sense that supposes it ’ s the crown of human wisdom, the end of social and ethical quest of man.

The individual ’ s sternum had been split open from top to bottom and around the skull there was a crude lead crown.

Mount Tlaloc, the jewel in the crown of Tlaloc ’ s places of worship, was situated directly east of the pyramid.

It is an international retaliation to Louis XIV ’ s acceptance in 1700 of the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who became Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain.

In 823, Paschal crowned and anointed Lothair I as King of Italy, which set the precedent for the pope ’ s right to crown kings, and to do so in Rome.

These early licences were granted to specific individuals to seize the king ’ s enemies at sea in return for splitting the proceeds between the privateers and the crown.

" Anne ’ s masques, scaling unprecedented heights of dramatic staging and spectacle, were avidly attended by foreign ambassadors and dignitaries and functioned as a potent demonstration of the English crown ’ s European significance.

" It was later reported that the attack included " one of Google ’ s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide.

As a crown corporation, the CBC operates at arm ’ s length ( autonomously ) from the government in its day-to-day business.

Apart from these four crown courts ( ILCC Newington, Southwark, Wesminster, Blackfriars ) Southwark ’ s local magistrates sit at two courts in the borough, Tower Bridge and Camberwell Green Magistrates Courts.

In art, Nekhbet was depicted as the white vulture ( representing purification ), always seen on the front of pharaoh ’ s double crown along with Wadjet.

The death of John, lord of the Isles heralded a state of dissension between the lordship and the crown that was to last for two generations and which even Robert III ’ s successor James I was unable to deal with properly.

In Ivan ’ s will “ the golden captain ” was mentioned for the first time ; this cap is identified with the well-known Monomakh ’ s crown, the main crown's of Russian sovereigns.

He described their speeches and proceedings, caricatured their motives, denounced the exercise of the right of private judgment, and set forth the divine right of bishops in such strong language that one of the queen ’ s councillors held it to amount to a threat against the supremacy of the crown.

Instead, he takes the Queen ’ s crown for his shield.

According to Dion C. Smythe, Anna “ felt cheated ” because she “ should have inherited .” Indeed, according to Anna Komnene in the Alexiad, at her birth she was presented with “ a crown and imperial diadem .” Anna ’ s “ main aim ” in the depiction of events in the Alexiad, according to Vlada Stankovíc, was to “ stress her own right ” to the throne and “ precedence over her brother, John .”

As the practitioner inhales, s / he also breathes the Reiki energy in through the crown Chakra in order to purify the body and make it fit for the flow of Reiki, and is drawn down into the tanden.

belongeth only to the king ’ s court of the old right of his crown, used and approved in the time of all his progenitors kings of England ," proceeds to condemn the practice of papal translation, and after rehearsing the promise of the three estates of the realm to stand with the king in all cases touching his crown and his regality, enacts " that if any purchase or pursue, or cause to be purchased or pursued in the court of Rome, or elsewhere, any such translations, processes, and sentences of excommunications, bulls, instruments or any other things whatsoever ... he and his notaries, abettors and counsellors " shall be put out of the king's protection, and their lands escheat.

In Belgium a constitutional provision explicitly states that no act of the Monarch is valid without the signature of ( a ) member ( s ) of the government, which thereby becomes solely responsible, hence excluding any reserve power for the crown.

The original Spanish settlers appealed to the Spanish crown to recognize the village they founded, which it did in 1526, with land divided among the Spaniards of Orozco ’ s expedition.