The whole of this intermediate period is full of plots and counterplots, some still inexplicable, as, for instance, the Fersen murder on June 20, 1810 evidently intended to terrorize the Gustavians, whose loyalty to the ancient dynasty was notorious.

However, there was one instance when Clark did bring them up and that was when one of his sons was put on the prison ship, Jersey, notorious for its brutality.

Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship.

For instance, no proceedings were taken against the publishers of Cleland's notorious Fanny Hill ( 1763 ).

A player may, for instance pretend to be a truthful person, a notorious liar, a constantly lucky roller, or one that usually tries to get at players beyond the next player.

Draeseke could be sharply critical and this sometimes led to strained relations, the most notorious instance being with Richard Strauss, when Draeseke attacked Strauss ’ s Salome in his 1905 pamphlet Die Konfusion in der Musik — rather surprising, as Draeseke was a clear influence on the young Strauss.

At the peak of its popularity, No Limit became notorious for producing lengthy albums that consisted of up to 20 tracks and featured numerous cameo appearances by other No Limit artists ( Fiend's 1998 release, There's One in Every Family, for instance, contained fifteen ), in addition to the cheap packaging of its CDs in cases that consisted mostly of cardboard stock and a small amount of plastic, as well as spearheading the movement of garish Pen & Pixel-designed album covers.

In one notorious instance of unrest, Sikh soldiers ran riot, looking for anyone who looked as if they could speak Persian ( the language used by the clerks who administered the Khalsa's finances ) and putting them to the sword.

* POWs would be force-marched until their deaths from exhaustion, a practise that had already been made notorious by the Japanese military ( see, for instance: Bataan Death March ).

For instance, the notorious Bermudan and multiple capped, world-renowned international rugby professional known to some as ' Bermuda ' and to others as ' Allan ' ( put them together and you get ' Bermuda Allan ', simple ), was recently given the honour of University of Southampton Athletic Union President and has undertaken an instrumental role in turning the University's AU into the ' best ' in the United Kingdom leading to their ' domination ' of the BUCS league in various disciplines.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

Fanny came from a notably Loyalist background ( including Crean Brush, notorious for acts during the Siege of Boston, from whom she inherited land in Vermont ), but they were both smitten, and the marriage was a happy one.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.

By the 1930s, Genosha Bay later became a United States extraterritorial prison which hold prisoners of the worse cases from around the world and was notorious for practicing inhumane punishments on its prisoners ranging from sleep deprivations and water torture.

The clearances followed patterns of agricultural change throughout Britain, but were particularly notorious as a result of the late timing, the lack of legal protection for year-by-year tenants under Scots law, the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system, and the brutality of many evictions.

The Marx Brothers were notorious for deviating from the script they were given, their ad libs often becoming part of the standard routine and making their way into their films.

Doom was and remains notorious for its high levels of violence, gore, and satanic imagery, which have generated much controversy from a broad range of groups.

Even if he was willing and able to escape Berlin and reach the north, it was unlikely that Dönitz, whose only concern was to negotiate a settlement with the western Allies that would save Germany from Soviet occupation, would want such a notorious figure as Goebbels heading his government.

The bureau receives a threat against the 75th annual Miss United States beauty pageant in San Antonio, Texas, from notorious domestic terrorist " The Citizen ".

Another example was the case of the province of Venice, which was handed to the Franciscan inquisitors, who quickly became notorious for their frauds against the Church, by enriching themselves with confiscated property from the heretics and the selling of absolutions.

The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures.

Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

Plymouth Hoe has become notorious over recent years for the development of the sport known locally as ' tombstoning ' generally undertaken by youths taking spectacular leaps from the waterfront cliffs and fortifications into the sea.

1, " A penalty that is latae sententiae, whether medicinal or punitive, holds for one who is aware of his own delict in both fora public and private ; but prior to a declaratory sentence, the delinquent is excused from observing the penalty any time that he cannot observe it without infamy, and in the external forum no one can compel the observance of that penalty from him unless the delict is notorious, with due regard for Can.

The SLA became internationally notorious for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old and her 26-year-old boyfriend Steven Weed from their home in Berkeley, California.

When Theseus appeared in the town, his reputation had preceded him, having travelled along the notorious coastal road from Troezen and slain some of the most feared bandits there.

From early in life, the notorious rivalry led to several outbreaks of civil war.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the computer press had often sought Commodore, one of the industry's leading players, and its colorful management for information, despite the company's notorious reputation.

On December 1, an incident took place that sealed punk rock's notorious reputation: On Thames Today, an early evening London TV show, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

One notorious early example was the " Prosperity Club " or " Send-a-Dime " letter.

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

Some of Joseph's inventions were quite important, including an early internal-combustion engine and a notorious circus machine, the " Whirlwind of Death ", an automotive loop-the-loop that was quite a success until a fatal accident at the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1903.

Compared with the roving Danish court, where King Frederick was notorious for gargantuan meals, heavy drinking and restless behaviour ( including marital infidelity ), Güstrow provided Anne with a frugal and stable life during her early childhood.

According to alternate theories of the term's origin, " Free State of Jones " came to be associated with Jones County for one of two reasons: 1 ) in reference to the county's reputation as a sparsely populated " backwater " of the young state, whose few residents were notorious for their disdain for organized governmental authority, or 2 ) due to a period of time in the early 1840s when, due to low population numbers and lack of legal proceedings, the county was left without duly-inducted legal and / or civil authorities.

Yenko Chevrolet, one of largest and most notorious custom muscle car shops of the late 1960s and early 1970s, was also located in Canonsburg.

An early use of the phrase appears in a comment Davy Crockett made about another notorious Irish slum in Manhattan, Five Points.

Their most famous performance was heavily influenced by an early similar act by the notorious Barrison Sisters.

Between 1915 and the early 1920s, when he virtually ceased performing in public, Ornstein was one of the best known ( by some lights, notorious ) figures in American classical music.

During the Second World War, the town was bombed by the Luftwaffe at around midnight on 7 April 1941, as part of a series of raids on the Greater Glasgow area during early 1941, which included the notorious Clydebank Blitz some three weeks earlier.

Later optical standards have been known to suffer similar problems, including a notorious batch of defective CDs manufactured by Philips-DuPont Optical in Europe during the early 1990s.

Such demurrals may have been self-interested, as his early poems are said to include Stalinist panegyrics, including an ode, entitled " Brygada Dzierżyńskiego " ( The Dzerzhinsky Brigade ), extolling the " acumen for vigilance " of the first Bolshevik secret-police chief, Felix Dzerzhinsky, a figure particularly notorious in the annals of totalitarian oppression and genocide.

Much was heard of him in his early days ; he was notorious for his debauchery and cruelty, and he was hated in Kabul, where he was regarded as a maniac.

* There was a notorious Rutland, Vermont Thrashcore / Noise Rock band named Morpheus which lasted from 1997-2007 and, in their early material, wrote lyrics about nightmares.

One prominent, or notorious, early Goldfield resident was George Graham Rice, a former check forger, newspaperman, and racetrack tipster, turned mining stock promoter.

In their early days, he was able to project a notorious image of The Jesus And Mary Chain, which had often courted violence and loutish behaviour.

During July and August 1967, the promoter and manager Giorgio Gomelsky booked shows all along the Côte d ' Azur with the band's most notorious early gig taking place in the village square of Saint-Tropez.

The suspension was also improved with the upper control arms lowered to reduce the notorious bump steer found in the North American Falcon ( and early Mustangs ), that this model was based on.

Matthew Brady ( 1799 – 4 May 1826 ) was a notorious bushranger in Van Diemen's Land ( now known as Tasmania ) in the early 19th century.