Under the terms of the Twelfth Amendment, the presidential election fell to the House of Representatives, which was to choose from the top three candidates: Jackson, Adams, and Crawford.

Gender masquerade as a dramatic device was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, such as this scene from Twelfth Night painted by Frederick Richard Pickersgill | Frederick Pickersgill.

At fourteen he emigrated to the USA to serve in the U. S. Army during the Civil War, although he had to wait until he was fifteen to serve in the Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry, where he was a drummer.

The Twelfth Amendment was proposed by the Congress on December 9, 1803, and was ratified by the required number of state legislatures on June 15, 1804.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

The initial site was bounded by Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets and Harrison and Franklin Streets in downtown Oakland.

Under the system in place in 1796, electors had two votes, but both were for president ; the runner-up in the presidential race was elected vice-president ( this was prior to the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, which, in accommodating the notion of running mate, required that electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president ).

To rectify the flaw in the original presidential election mechanism, the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, was added to the United States Constitution, stipulating that electors make a discrete choice between their selections for president and vice-president.

* The first Monday after Twelfth Night of January ( any time between 7 January and 14 January ) was Plough Monday.

He was a Twelfth Dynasty Pharaoh

He was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt

Saiedi states the exalted identity the Báb was claiming was unmistakable, but due to the reception of the people, his writings appear to convey the impression that he is only the gate to the Hidden Twelfth Imam.

The possibility that Shakespeare may have used the Gesta, Bandello and / or Painter is strengthened by the fact that he definitely consulted all three sources later in his career ; the Gesta provided some of the details for King Lear, Bandello was the primary source for Twelfth Night, and Painter was used during the composition of All's Well That Ends Well.

But it was a general victory for William, and is still celebrated by the Protestant Orange Order on the Twelfth of July.

What was celebrated on " The Twelfth " was not William's " victory over Popery at the Battle of the Boyne ", but the extermination of the elite of the Catholic Irish at Aughrim, thereby ending the fear of having to surrender the planted lands.

Indeed, Sir Toby in Twelfth Night is seen saying, in reference to Sir Andrew's hair, that " it hangs like flax on a distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off ;" the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that " Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face?

In the first edition a page of dialogue was omitted from Fit the Twelfth.

For the first time before or since, the Senate was charged with electing the Vice President under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment.

By at least the Twelfth dynasty she was overshadowed as Amun's consort by Mut, but she remained locally important in the region of Thebes where Amun was worshipped, and there she was seen as a protector of the pharaoh.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

On Monday Night Football that week, the 49ers ' win was not included in the famous halftime highlights.

It marked the beginning of summer and was linked to similar festivals held elsewhere in Europe, such as the Welsh Calan Mai and the Germanic Walpurgis Night.

The format was used in Australia in the form of Friday Night Live from Series 5 until Series 8.

A separate " award " was soon enacted for Night BASE jumping when Mayfield completed each category at night, becoming Night BASE # 1, with Smith qualifying a few weeks later.

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, an artist whose creativity was influenced by mental illness

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

A sequel, entitled Night of the Ghouls, was finished in 1959, but due to last-minute financial problems, was not released until 1987.

There was a month long wait between the release of his second production, A Night Out, to his third, The Champion.

* The Return of the Sorcerer was adapted for an episode of the television series Night Gallery, starring Vincent Price and Bill Bixby.

Jazz was an important influence in Alston's work and socila life, representing itself in other works like Jazz ( 1950 ) and Harlem at Night.

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

In 2009, Anderson was the television host of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.

For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

He further states that the month was named after a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

This was done, and the proceedings were ratified by a feast.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

In the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.

The feast day of Titus was not included in the Tridentine Calendar.

The Fête de la Fédération on the 14 July 1790 was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

The accusation occurred in front of the bishop of Hexham of the time, Wilfrid, who was present at a feast when some drunken monks made the accusation.

The feast was also known as Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin from which the word Céitean derives.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

The general pattern of Bible reading in 1549 was retained ( as it was in 1559 ) except that distinct Old and New Testament readings were now specified for Morning and Evening Prayer on certain feast days.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

Her feast day, at the time, was not included in the Roman Calendar.

When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, April 29, as now, but because of a conflict with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which was also on April 29, it was moved in 1628 to the new date of April 30.