Had the two " non-Han " imperial families not thought themselves as continuing the " Mandate of Heaven " of the Middle Kingdom — the cosmological center of their known world — it would be hard to explain why they retained the costly tradition.

Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, where the two sang two duets, " Virgin Mary Had One Son " and " We Are Crossing Jordan River ".

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

Had his father not been deposed, there would have been only two monarchs during his lifetime ; his father and himself.

It was followed by " She's All I Ever Had " which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

In June 1778 " By the ill conduct of his wife found it necessary to send her into Wales in order to work a reformation on her ", the cause of this appears to have been that Jane Nash " Had imposed two spurious children on him as his and her own, notwithstanding she had then never had any child " and she had contracted several debts unknown to her husband, including one for milliners ' bills of £ 300.

O ' Connor released two songs from her album Theology to download for free from her official website: " If You Had a Vineyard " and " Jeremiah ( Something Beautiful )".

Had the Allied commander realised that Luxembourg had split his army in two, he might have overwhelmed the isolated French left before the right came into position, but he did not.

Had this happened, Rundstedt's forces would have been in no state to give chase: they were exhausted after two months of ceaseless combat.

Cilla registered eleven Top Ten singles on the British charts between 1964 and 1971, including two No. 1's (" Anyone Who Had a Heart " and " You're My World ").

Had the point not been deducted, the fight would have been a draw, as Robinson was only ahead by one point on two scorecards.

The two worked together on the film Before It Had a Name.

Had Eclipse Park not burned down, forcing cancellation of the final two games, the team would probably have financially broken even.

Nearly two dozen other books followed ; described by Stan as " cartoon essays ," the titles included Marital Blitz, How To Teach Your Children About Sex Without Making A Complete Fool of Yourself and Have A Baby, My Wife Just Had A Cigar!

Had it come loose, the two ships might have gone down together.

* " Spain " was number one for two weeks and " It Had To Be You " was number one for five weeks in 1924 ; and,

It follows two other solo albums, Little Songs ( 1998 ) and Morning Orbit ( 2001 ), and precedes a fourth solo album, If God Had Curves ( 2005 ).

Had the injury been more severe, Cernan would have been medically dropped from the flight and Young would have commanded the last two Apollo Moon landings.

: Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,

Had Gonzalez fielded the ball, the Cubs could have ended the half-inning with a double play, still ahead by two runs.

The Cowardly Lion is also the only character in the movie who has two solo song numbers -" If I Only Had the Nerve ," performed after his initial meeting with Dorothy, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man in the forest, and " If I Were King of the Forest ," performed while he and the others are awaiting their audience with the Wizard.

Had he not notably misjudged a Jim Northrup fly ball ( ruled a triple ) with two out in the seventh inning of game 7 of the 1968 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, the Cardinals might have won their third championship of the decade ; Detroit scored twice on the play, with Northrup later coming in for a 3-0 lead, and won the game 4-1.

Had the hull of the Vizcaya been clean, Schley would have found himself chasing two ships and not fighting one.

Thanks to the fact that his publisher, Aldon Music, was acquired by Screen Gems, two of his songs were recorded by The Monkees, and other hits in this period written by Sedaka included The Cyrkle's version of " We Had a Good Thing Goin '" and " Workin ' on a Groovy Thing ", a Top 40 R & B hit for Patti Drew in 1968, and a Top 20 pop hit for The 5th Dimension in 1969.

Had it not been for a general amnesty for those involved in the Kapp putsch passed by the Reichstag on 8 August 1920, it is quite likely that Raeder's career would have ended in 1920 with a dishonourable discharge for high treason.

In terms of her music career, she is most famous in the UK for her singles " Anyone Who Had A Heart " ( 1964 ), " You're My World " ( 1964 ), and " Step Inside Love " ( 1968 ).

Had a brief but successful career as a boxing promoter ; Promoting George Foreman's comeback, Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Charles Murray, and Micky Ward, early on in their careers.

Had he played, it is possible that Spahn would have finished his career behind only Cy Young in all-time wins.

Had he been given the opportunity of designing some great public building, it is possible that he would have shown himself a true disciple of Chambers ; ( 2 ) but his career as a government architect coincided with the Napoleonic wars, and his premature death deprived him of participation in the metropolitan improvements of the reign of George IV.

Had Alexander the Great decided to continue his campaign in India, he may very well have been vanquished by the much more powerful, more able and more technologically advanced army, but it is more likely he would have adopted the weapons and techniques of such a foe to augment and improve his own forces and strategic aimss, as he had done throughout his career.

Had Michel run in the 1994 elections and won, he would have served in a Republican-controlled House for the first time in his entire Congressional career.

" Had he lived he would have sustained the same kind of legendary career that Sinatra had ...

Had not injury intervened – and the presence of such peers as Bryan Redpath and Andy Nicol – Gary would surely have won many more caps in an international career that began in 1988.

The play's failure nearly derailed Miller's career, and it remained one of his least known works until 1990, when the Bristol Old Vic staged The Man Who Had All The Luck with Iain Glen in the lead role.

Had the injury occurred a couple of years later he would have been able to have pioneering keyhole surgery, which could potentially have saved his career.

Had a career in public health in Portland, Oregon.

Had Ferrara not suffered this injury, many believe he would have been one of the stars of France ' 98, as he was at the peak of his career.

Had White been hit near his previously injured eye during the fight, his career could have been in jeopardy.

Blažeković began his career at the Zagreb Film studio with short films such as Gorilla Dance ( 1968 ), The Man Who Had to Sing ( 1970 ) and Man: The Polluter ( 1973 ).

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Had he played in another era uninterrupted by war, it has often been said that Greenberg would have hit between 500 and 600 home runs and driven in 1800 to 2000 runs.

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

Had I warned him about the scaffolding, tomorrow he'd be hit by a taxi.

One of the early female singers to use scat was Aileen Stanley who included it at the end of a duet with Billy Murray in their hit 1924 recording of " It Had To Be You "( Victor 19373 ).

His 1939 composition " He Had It Coming " was a hit for Louis Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald under the new title " Stone Cold Dead in the Market ".

He played an integral part in the development of rock music, releasing the hit singles " Work With Me, Annie " and answer songs " Annie Had a Baby " and " Annie's Aunt Fannie " with his Midnighters.

It became The Midnighters ' first major R & B hit, spending seven weeks at number 1 on the R & B charts and also selling well in mainstream markets, along with the answer songs " Annie Had a Baby " and " Annie's Aunt Fannie "; all were banned by the FCC from radio air play.

Her fourth single, " Anyone Who Had a Heart ," released in December 1963, was Warwick's first top 10 pop hit (# 8 ) in the U. S. and also an international hit.

The group had a string of international hit singles including " I Ran ( So Far Away )", " Space Age Love Song ," " Wishing ( If I Had a Photograph of You )" and " The More You Live, the More You Love ", and became notable in the 1980s for their MTV video for the song " I Ran ( So Far Away )".

* Had a hit with " Laura " by David Raksin, the title tune of Otto Preminger's movie of the same name ( 1944 )

Had a UK No. 1 hit with Mark Rhodes and their cover of With a Little Help from My Friends, originally performed by The Beatles.

Had Hugo hit Savannah, it would have been the first major hurricane to make landfall in Georgia since Hurricane Seven of the 1898 season.

Under Mercury, Columbia, and Epic in the 1970s, Page recorded a series of country singles, beginning with 1970's " I Wish I Had a Mommy Like You ," which became a Top 25 hit, followed by " Give Him Love ," with similar success.

Ballard's group gained fame for originating " The Twist ", later a monster dance craze and hit for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame excludee Chubby Checker, and for its risque series of " Annie " songs, including " Work With Me Annie " and " Annie Had a Baby.

Fitzgerald had a hit in the 1970s with " If I Had Words " and was fairly well known in the Netherlands.

" I Natt Jag Drömde " a Swedish version of " Last Night I Had A Strangest Dream " was a massive hit in Sweden but divided the band to a degree being a folk-song.

The Bobby Braddock-penned " Texas Tornado " became his sixth number-one hit in mid-1995, followed by another number 2 in " If the World Had a Front Porch ".

Her second album, the equally multi-platinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit " You Had Me ", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date.

The lead single, " You Had Me ", became her biggest hit to date when it rose to number nine in the UK.

The album's first single, " You Can't Lose What You Never Had ", peaked outside the Top 40, but the second single, " What I've Learned from Loving You ", was a Top 20 hit.

In 1971, the Dells ' " The Love We Had Stays on My Mind " became another Top Ten hit on the R & B charts, also reaching the pop Top 30.

Had this object hit Earth, it would probably have detonated high in the atmosphere.