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This was not, however, the point in which Alfred came to be known as King of England ; in fact he would never adopt the title for himself.
Alfred the Great's victory at Edington in 878 stemmed the Danish attack ; however, by then Northumbria had devolved into Bernicia and a Viking kingdom, Mercia had been split down the middle, and East Anglia ceased to exist as an Anglo-Saxon polity.
Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl however were convicted and sentenced to death by hanging.
Unlike the Induction and the main plot however, there is a recognised source for Shakespeare's sub-plot, first suggested by Alfred Tolman in 1890 ; Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi ( 1551 ), which Shakespeare used either directly or through George Gascoigne's English prose translation Supposes ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ).
By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.
Between 645 and 1097, the community was attacked many times by raiders, including the Vikings, however it was of such note as both a religious and intellectual centre that King Alfred summoned help from the monastic community at St David's in rebuilding the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Wessex.
During the opening ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond addressed the King on the behalf of committee, saying that ' it was hoped to make the museum so complete that every one who took part in the war, however obscurely, would find therein an example or illustration of the sacrifice he or she made ' and that the museum ' was not a monument of military glory, but a record of toil and sacrifice '.
He also wrote a history of Alfred the Great ( 1816 ); a life of St. Vincent de Paul ; translated passages from the works of St. Augustine, and also wrote meditations on the Holy Scriptures, which, however, together with the Büchlein der Liebe, and the polemical pamphlet Kurze Abfertigung des langen Schmähschrifts des Hofrats Voss, did not appear until after his death.
In literature, one of its earliest uses to refer to Arthur is in Alfred Tennyson's poem Lancelot and Elaine, where, however, it appears as a title of Arthur rather than as a surname, following contemporary speculation that " pendragon " had been a term for an ancient British war-chief.
With his friend Alfred Rambaud he conceived the plan of L ' Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours, to which, however, he contributed nothing.
He later returned to writing however, enthused by the success of Alfred Lord Tennyson ; and in 1844 he published a small volume of Poems, which was original but uneven.
The most common definition is that premature ejaculation occurs if the man ejaculates within two minutes of penetration ; however, a survey by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s demonstrated that three quarters of men ejaculate within two minutes of penetration in over half of their sexual encounters.
" And the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg said on the 29th of May 1938 on the Steckelburg in Schlüchtern: " It is however certain that all of us share the fate of Europe, and that we shall regard this common fate as an obligation, because in the end the very existence of White people depends on the unity of the European continent.
Musicologist Alfred Einstein suggested, however, that a minuet in Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K. 498a, is the missing movement.
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, however, refused all terms, and the Diet and government fled to Debrecen, Kossuth taking with him the Crown of St Stephen, the sacred emblem of the Hungarian nation.
In 1928, however, after a disastrous showing at the polls ( the party's share of votes fell from 21 % in 1924 to 14 %), Alfred Hugenberg, leader of the party's hardliner wing, became chairman.
To the numerous enemies he made due to the inflexibility and intensity of his partisanship, however, he was a bitter misanthrope and poor would-be ( Alfred Kerr ).
When the fires died away, a body was found inside the boot of a car with a face so charred it was impossible to determine the identity of the man ; the numberplate of the car was intact, however, and traced to an Alfred Arthur Rouse.
In many cases, however, the pressure to restrict religious or external influence has come from the society and culture and not directly from the state ; several US presidential candidates, and candidates for other office, including John F. Kennedy, later president, and Alfred Smith, faced pressure from citizens who would not support members of the Catholic Church as elected officials, fearing that they would be overly subject to influence from the Vatican and thus potentially act contrary to the will of their own country's populace.
In his religious views, Dárre would belong to the Pagan faction within the Nazi movement ( see: Religious aspects of Nazism ); however, unlike Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg, he has not become a figure of interest in the speculation about Nazi occultism.
There was clearly an important element here of Alfred exercising his dominance ; however, the source material provides no hint as to the wider implications of this in terms of territory or otherwise.
Nordic theory was strongly embraced by the racial hygiene movement in Germany in the early 1920s and 1930s ; however, they typically used the term " Aryan " instead of " Nordic ", though the principal Nazi ideologist, Alfred Rosenberg, preferred " Aryo-Nordic " or " Nordic-Atlantean ".
Unlike most Northeasteners, however, he supported William G. McAdoo over Alfred E. Smith for the presidential nomination.
By 1898, Alfred had begun exhibiting severe symptoms of the syphilis he had acquired as a Guards officer, and was therefore absent from his parents ’ silver wedding celebrations on 22 January 1899 ; however, the reason for his absence was announced as nervous depression.

Alfred and was
Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.
One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
Alfred was getting too sick to stay in his own home.
Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.
Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.
Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.
He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).
The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood.
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

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