* 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.

Statutes forbidding it and other sports were enacted in the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and other monarchs.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.

In 1695, William III of England replaced the corrupt governor Benjamin Fletcher, known for accepting bribes of one hundred dollars to allow illegal trading of pirate loot, with Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont.

Ken Olsen was not supportive of this project, so de Castro left DEC along with another hardware engineer, Richard Sogge, and a software engineer, Henry Burkhardt III, to found Data General ( DG ) in 1968.

Edward V and his 10-year old brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London and their uncle made himself king as Richard III.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

House of Cards draws heavily from Shakespeare's Macbeth and Richard III, both of which examine issues of power, ambition and corruption.

Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.

* 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

In January, he played the title role in Richard III in St. Louis and then made his Chicago debut.

In May 1862, he made his Boston debut, playing nightly at the Boston Museum in Richard III ( May 12, 15, and 23 ), Romeo and Juliet ( May 13 ), The Robbers ( May 14 and 21 ), Hamlet ( May 16 ), The Apostate ( May 19 ), The Stranger ( May 20 ), and The Lady of Lyons ( May 22 ).

Following his performance of Richard III on May 12, the Boston Transcript < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > review the next day called Booth " the most promising young actor on the American stage ".

Back in Washington in April, he played the title roles in Hamlet and Richard III, one of his favorites.

A 13th-century depiction of John and his legitimate children, ( l to r ) Henry III of England | Henry, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | Richard, Isabella of England | Isabella, Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor, and Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland | Joan

Sam Mendes directed Spacey in a Shakespeare's Richard III.

Thus Richard Blackmore's epics Prince Arthur ( 1695 ) and King Arthur ( 1697 ) feature Arthur as an allegory for the struggles of William III against James II.

Richard III of England increased this to ten for every tun.

Like Richard III, but without that character's perversely appealing exuberance, Macbeth wades through blood until his inevitable fall.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

( Ian Richard Netton, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Third Series, Vol.

The first building society to be established was Ketley's Building Society, founded by Richard Ketley, the landlord of the Golden Cross inn, in 1775.

* Distributism as a means of achieving third way economics, a paper for the Secular Party of Australia written by Richard Howard of the Humanist Society of New South Wales

* Wetzel, Richard D. Frontier Musicians on the Connoquenessing, Wabash, and Ohio: A History of the Music and Musicians of George Rapp's Harmony Society ( 1805 – 1906 ).

* Wetzel, Richard D. " The Music of George Rapp's Harmony Society: 1805 – 1906.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.

Despite this uncertainty, fourteen individuals have been identified as having verifiably attended Lunar Society meetings regularly over a long period during its most productive eras: these are Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of intellectuals in London ; it originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries.

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.

The Richard III Society, founded in 1924 as " The Fellowship of the White Boar ", is the oldest of several groups dedicated to improving his reputation.

On 24 August 2012, the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, announced that they had joined forces to begin a search for the mortal remains of King Richard.

* Richard III Society, American Branch — includes links to online editions of many primary texts and secondary sources

In 1885 Richard Hodgson's report on Theosophical Phenomena expressed the opinion that the founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrova Blavatsky, was " neither the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor ... a mere vulgar adventuress ; we think she has achieved title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting imposters in history ".

Richard Carnac Temple, Hakluyt Society, London 1914.

* Rowe, Mary & Bendersky, Corinne, " Workplace Justice, Zero Tolerance and Zero Barriers: Getting People to Come Forward in Conflict Management Systems ," in Negotiations and Change, From the Workplace to Society, Thomas Kochan and Richard Locke ( eds ), Cornell University Press, 2002

** Richard Martin, Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( d. 1834 )

Every year there is a Richard Somers Day celebration in Somers Point, which is co-sponsored by LibertyandProsperity. org and the Somers Point Historical Society.

* The Nazi Olympics ( Sport and Society ), by Richard D. Mandell

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.