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At the old nest, the queen will in the early fall cease to lay the fertilized eggs that will produce females.
Q2 is the longest early edition, although it omits 85 lines found in F1 ( most likely to avoid offending James I's queen, Anne of Denmark ).
She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.
Byrd's small output of church anthems ranges in style from relatively sober early examples ( O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our queen ( a6 ) and How long shall mine enemies ( a5 ) ) to other, evidently late works such as Sing joyfully ( a6 ) which is close in style to the English motets of Byrd's 1611 set, discussed below.
Because the queen is the most powerful piece, many times beginners develop it as quickly as possible, in the hope of plundering the enemy position and possibly even delivering an early checkmate ( such as Scholar's mate ).
A drawback of the queen is that she is easily harassed, and if developed too early will often be vulnerable to attacks by weaker pieces.
Nonetheless, there are some openings with early queen development that are sometimes used by high level players.
Some surviving early medieval pieces depict the piece as a queen, and the word fers became grammatically feminized in several languages, for example alferza in Spanish and fierce or fierge in French, prior to its replacement with names such as reine or dame ( lady ).
An early twelfth-century Latin poem refers to a queened pawn as a ferzia, as opposed to the original queen or regina, to account for this.
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.
William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset ( a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young Edward VI.
AD 1500 ), under régimes of the early national monarchies of Western Europe, the bourgeoisie acted in self-interest, and politically supported the king or the queen against the legal and financial disorder caused by the greed of the feudal lords.
Joseon Dynasty Korea in the early 1870s was in the midst of a struggle between isolationists under the King Gojong's father ( Heungseon Daewongun ), and progressives, led by the queen ( Empress Myeongseong ), who wanted to open trade.
Although she was initially known as a " scream queen " because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.
The early 20th Century Cunard passenger liner RMS Berengaria was named in her honour, the first Cunard ship to be named for a British queen.
Anne Boleyn, the second queen consort of King Henry VIII of England, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn had inherited it in 1505.
From these, it is known that an early king or mayor of Harran had married an Eblaite princess, Zugalum, who then became " queen of Harran ", and whose name appears in a number of documents.
However, he also consistently names her as a queen ( regina ), the only one such known in early Roman Britain.
" A Spanish man of war " translates the queen, remembering a tradition of arrival of a Spanish galleon beaten out of its course in the early days of exploration of the Pacific.
An early icon of the Virgin as queen is in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, datable to 705-707 by the kneeling figure of Pope John VII, a notable promoter of the cult of the Virgin, to whom the infant Christ reaches his hand.
This lack of preparation and education is seen in the heavy influence during the early years of Henry's reign of older statesmen such as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and the queen Catherine of Aragon, his elder by five years.
Bede, writing in the early 8th century, reports that Paulinus wished to convert the Northumbrians, as well as provide religious services to the new queen.
One of her last official engagements was to represent the Queen at the funeral of Queen Louise ( queen consort of Sweden ) in early March 1965.

early and attack
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.
Thus, a robust surveillance system involving human clinicians and veterinarians may identify a bioweapons attack early in the course of an epidemic, permitting the prophylaxis of disease in the vast majority of people ( and / or animals ) exposed but not yet ill.
This early version of biological terrorism continued on into the 14th century where the bubonic plague was used to infiltrate enemy cities, both by instilling the fear of infection in residences, in hopes that they would evacuate, and also to destroy defending forces that would not yield to the attack.
While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.
While Constantius was away from the eastern frontier in early 337, Shapur assembled a large army, including war elephants, and launched an attack on Roman territory, laying waste to Mesopotamia and putting Nisibis under siege.
Maoists and other ' anti-revisionists ' viciously attack the changes after Mao Zedong's death, calling them the precise " capitalist road " Mao had pledged to fight during the early existence of the PRC.
As early as 82, or possibly 83, he went to Gaul, ostensibly to conduct a census, and suddenly ordered an attack on the Chatti.
This was picked up by right-wing political factions and used as a form of attack against the SPD-led early Weimar government, which had come to power in the German Revolution of November 1918.
The Red Guards seized the early initiative in the war, taking control of Helsinki, the capital, in the early hours of 28 January, and gaining first advantage with an " attack phase " that lasted till mid-March.
After this fierce combat, with more than 50 % losses in some of the attacking units, the Whites re-organized their troops and their plans, and resumed the attack in the early hours of 3 April.
General Baratieri planned to surprise the larger Ethiopian force with an early morning attack, expecting that his enemy would be asleep.
In early 1915, attempting to seize a strategic advantage by capturing Constantinople, the British authorised an attack on the peninsula.
Given the Greek fleet's unpreparedness resulting from the premature outbreak of the war, such an early Ottoman attack might well have been able to achieve a crucial victory.
It was known that early versions of BitchX were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in that they could be caused to crash by passing specially-crafted strings as arguments to certain IRC commands.
) In the USSR early development was focused on missiles able to attack European targets.
In the early 2000s, it was noticed that energy companies were increasingly coming under attack from hackers.
In summer and early autumn, typhoons, grown from tropical depressions generated near the equator, attack Japan with furious rainstorms.
Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the East of the front, safe from German invasion and air attack.
* 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
He was " taken ill in early hours " of 27 May 1964 and died in " early afternoon " on same day, and his death was announced to Lok Sabha at 1400 local time ; cause of death is believed to be heart attack.
In the early medieval period, the region's peoples resisted Christianisation and became subject to attack in the Northern Crusades.

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