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Arthur and Philip
* Norton, Arthur Philip.
Arthur was supported by the majority of the Breton, Maine and Anjou nobles and received the support of Philip II, who remained committed to breaking up the Angevin territories on the continent.
The powerful Anjou nobleman William de Roches was persuaded to switch sides from Arthur to John ; suddenly the balance seemed to be tipping away from Philip and Arthur in favour of John.
John and Philip negotiated the May 1200 Treaty of Le Goulet ; by this treaty, Philip recognised John as the rightful heir to Richard in respect to his French possessions, temporarily abandoning the wider claims of his client, Arthur.
When John still refused to come, Philip declared John in breach of his feudal responsibilities, reassigned all of John's lands that fell under the French crown to Arthur – with the exception of Normandy, which he took back for himself – and began a fresh war against John.
Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.
John agreed to heavy terms, including the abandonment of all the English possession in Berry and 20, 000 Marks of Silver, but Philip in turn recognised John as king, formally abandoning Arthur I of Brittany, whom he had thitherto supported, and recognised John's suzerainty over the Duchy of Brittany.
Then in 1202, disaffected patrons petitioned the French king to summon John to answer their charges in his capacity as John's feudal lord, and, when the English king refused to appear, Philip again took up the claims of Arthur, to whom he betrothed his six-year-old daughter, Marie.
Philip, again acting as John's liege lord, summoned his vassal to appear before the Court of the Twelve Peers of France, to answer for the murder of Arthur of Brittany.
Richard forgave John when they met again and, bowing to political necessity, named him as his heir in place of Arthur, whose mother Constance of Brittany was perhaps already open to the overtures of Philip II.
King John soon regained the upper hand, for Philip Augustus having deserted Arthur by the treaty of Le Goulet ( 22 May 1200 ), John made his way into Anjou ; and on 18 June 1200 was recognized as count at Angers.
In 1202 he refused to do homage to Philip Augustus, who, in consequence, confiscated all his continental possessions, including Anjou, which was allotted by the king of France to Arthur.
The three earliest governors of the colony, Arthur Phillip, John Hunter, and Philip Gidley King, were continually in correspondence with him.
The later works include Pendennis, a sort of bildungsroman depicting the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a kind of alter ego of Thackeray's who also features as the narrator of two later novels, The Newcomes and The Adventures of Philip.
* Converse, Philip E .; Miller, Warren E .; Rusk, Jerrold G .; Wolfe, Arthur C. " Continuity And Change In American Politics: Parties and Issues in the 1968 Election.
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL ( 9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 ) was an English poet and novelist.
* Lowe, Ivan, Edwin Arthur, and Philip Saunders.
* Saunders, Philip and Eddie Arthur.
* Arthur Eddie & Sue, Saunders Philip & Heather.
The original production featured Kenneth Cranham as Inspector Goole ( later played by Barry Foster and Philip Whitchurch ), Richard Pasco as Arthur Birling ( later played by Julian Glover, Edward Peel and William Gaunt ), Barbara Leigh Hunt as Sybil Birling ( later played by Judy Parfitt, Margaret Tyzack and Marjorie Yates ), Diana Kent as Sheila Birling ( later played by Sylvestra Le Touzel ) and Louis Hillyer as Gerald Croft.
Kenneth Cranham recreated his role as Inspector Goole with Philip Bosco as Arthur Birling and Rosemary Harris ( later Siân Phillips ) as Sybil Birling.
* Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ( 1953, second edition 1979, with John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard )
King John receives an ambassador from France, who demands, on pain of war, that he renounce his throne in favour of his nephew, Arthur, whom the French King, Philip, believes to be the rightful heir to the throne.

Arthur and Dent
While trapped on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect see Slartibartfast's signature deep inside a glacier in ancient Norway.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says " This must be Thursday.
The title derives from a joke early in the series, when Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy consists, in its entirety, of the word " Harmless ".
After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).
One day, Trillian arrives on Lamuella, and presents Arthur with Random Dent, a teenage girl she claims is his daughter, conceived by Trillian via artificial insemination using the only human sperm samples available, those given by Arthur to pay for his space travels.
The version released on CD contains an even longer set of alternate endings, including one set after the events of the twelfth radio episode ( with Arthur Dent and Lintilla ), and on an alternate Earth where Arthur Dent and Fenchurch engage in a stand-off against Mr Prosser, together.
In 2006, actor Martin Freeman, who had played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new edition of the audiobook.
Arthur Dent has hitch-hiked through the galaxy and is dropped off on a planet in a rainstorm.
In So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, Arthur Dent purchases a computer for the purpose of star mapping ; Adams makes only one disparaging comment about this decision.
In 2006, actor Martin Freeman, who had played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new unabridged edition of the audiobook.
The sketch was an interview with Simon Jones in character as Arthur Dent, conducted by Sheila Steafel on her show Steafel Plus in 1982, written entirely by Adams.
He is the only character other than the protagonist, Arthur Dent, to appear throughout the entire Hitchhiker's saga.
As the menial labourer on the Heart of Gold spaceship, he grew immensely resentful of the insistence of his new masters ( Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trillian ; later also Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent ) that he open doors, check airlocks and pick up pieces of paper.
The ship turns out to be a Haggunenon battle cruiser, and the entire group, including Marvin, but excluding Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent, who escape, are eaten by its crew.
For the Puritan author and minister see Arthur Dent ( Puritan ).
In the Doctor Who episode, " The Christmas Invasion ", the Tenth Doctor, saving the world in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, compares himself to Arthur Dent, whom he describes as a " nice man ", possibly suggesting that the Doctor has at some point inhabited the same universe as the characters in the Hitchhiker's Guide.
The radio drama Adventures in Odyssey uses the character Arthur Dent in the Novacom Saga who embodies the characteristics of outright ignoring, at first, the deception and weirdness that is occurring around him.
* Arthur Dent ( Puritan writer )
* BBCi's page on Arthur Dent

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