Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 ( Ascension Day ) and was buried at Jarrow.

Indeed, his mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter.

: Upon a certain Ascension Day King Arthur had come from Caerleon, and had held a very magnificent court at Camelot as was fitting on such a day.

G. E. Moore died on 24 October 1958 and was interred at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, England, with his wife.

The New Testament was written down after the Ascension.

At 22: 00 on 12 September 1942, U-156 was patrolling off the coast of West Africa midway between Liberia and Ascension Island.

Mage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio.

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

A submarine cable en-route to Britain from Cape Town was landed in November 1899 and extended to Ascension by December and was operated by the Eastern Telegraph Company.

The first islanders left to work at Ascension Island in 1921, which was made a dependency of St Helena in 1922.

As part of the Lend-Lease agreement, America built Wideawake airport on Ascension in 1942, but no military use was made of St Helena.

For the next 20 years, many could find only low-paid work with the island government and the only available employment overseas for the islanders was restricted to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, a period during which the island was often referred to as the “ South Atlantic Alcatraz ”.

At the same time, a shuttle service between St Helena and Ascension was planned, for the many Saint Helenians working there and on the Falklands.

An airport was built on Ascension during World War II to be used as a staging point for aircraft being ferried from factories in Canada and the United States to the war in North Africa.

At the end of the war the airport was abandoned, subsequently re-opening when Ascension started to be used as base for monitoring space launches and ICBM tests.

The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 was made by HM the Queen and the Privy Council on 8 July and is expected to come into operation shortly thereafter.

The Bank of Saint Helena was established on Saint Helena and Ascension Island in 2004.

He was disgruntled at the way a potential studio album had been sacrificed in favour of the Keys to Ascension releases, as well as how a Yes tour was being arranged without his input or agreement.

If they were given the opportunity, the Protestants would get an official answer to their grievance by the next Friday ( seeing as this was all taking place on the eve of Ascension Day and they all must observe the holy day ).

João da Nova discovered Ascension in 1501 and Saint Helena in 1502 ; Tristão da Cunha was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name 1506.

* 1969 – Burton C. Bell, American vocalist ( Fear Factory and Ascension of the Watchers )

Another American label in this vein was Tess Records, which featured This Ascension and Faith and the Muse.

The Ascension Factor ( 1988 ) is the fourth and final science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom.

Curtis John Arceneaux ( October 25, 1947 – November 25, 2011 ) better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.

* Ascension ( comics ), a comic book series created by David Finch and published by Top Cow Productions

During the events of War of Kings: Ascension, it is revealed that Darkhawk is now ' the most wanted man in the galaxy ' and will play a role in future issues of Nova-it seems unlikely he will rejoin the Loners in comic book limbo for the foreseeable future.

Outside of Rebirth ’ s comic incarnation in Batman Beyond Limited Series issues 01 & 02, and one story set within season 1 of the television series in issue 03, Blight makes his one and only appearance post his apparent death in the episode Ascension, in issue 18 of the main Batman Beyond comic.

* Ascension Collected Editions # 1-2 ( prestige format comic books, collects Ascension # 1-4, Top Cow, May – July, 1998 )

This struggle eventually led to the point on the timeline occupied by the book called Ascension.

The final book in the line, Ascension implies that the tenth sphere is the sphere of Ascension ( in as much as spheres are practically relevant at that point in the story ).

The book stands alone but the story is continued-and embellished with more details of the Moonbase project and the history of the clones-in Herbert ’ s other novels The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect and The Ascension Factor, co-authored by Bill Ransom.

The series ran for four hardback books ; one for Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Mage: The Ascension respectively, with the fourth book delegated to each of the remaining settings.

As with other continuity errors and discrepancies thrown up during the course of the Loners miniseries, no explanation is given as to the drastic change in the group's purpose between series — though miniseries writer C. B. Cebulski ( the third writer to tackle the team-after Brian K. Vaughan / Robert Kirkman-and the only one to use this direction for the team ) has attempted to suggest some answers directly to fans who frequent the Newsarama forums rather than within the pages of the book itself, though many suggestions ( notably those centering on Darkhawk ) were later debunked by events in canon titles such as Nova and War of Kings: Ascension.

The book Ascension of Isaiah is one of the Pseudepigrapha.

For example, Origin-produced Ultima VIII: Pagan and Ultima IX: Ascension were developed quickly under EA's ownership, over the protests of Ultima creator Richard Garriott, and these two are widely considered to be subpar compared to the rest of the series.

In the series finale, Monica is up for promotion to supervisor, pending the outcome of a difficult case in which she must defend Zack ( Scott Bairstow ), an innocent drifter accused of causing a boiler explosion at a school two years ago in the small town of Ascension, Colorado.

* Ultima IX: Ascension, the final part of the computer role-playing game series Ultima

* God of War: Ascension, the next installment in the God of War series

In the second series, Emp had taken a more alien appearance in preparation for his ' Ascension ', a process which ultimately cost him his physical body but freed his spirit.

* Guillaume Lasconjarias, " Ascension sociale et logique du prestige: Abel Servien ( 1593-1659 ), Marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin, Plénipotentiaire aux Traités de Westphalie, Surintendant des finances ", in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, ( Le Mans ), 1999, 3rd series vol.

* The Royal Mail chose to depict the telescope as J for Jodrell Bank in their alphabetical landmarks stamp series ; it has also previously featured on stamps from Haiti, Hungary, Ascension Island, Barbuda, Liechtenstein and Tanzania.

War Of Kings: Darkhawk brought closure to Chris Powell's earthbound human relationships with his family and fellow Loners team members, and serves to establish a clean slate for the sequel series, War Of Kings: Ascension, written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.

Darkhawk is involved with the War of Kings Event in a four-issue series written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning called War Of Kings: Ascension.

With the Loners series ending with low sales and unlikely to be followed with a sequel series, series writer CB Cebulski was assigned to write a two-issue War of Kings: Darkhawk series, with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning co-scripting the second issue to ensure it tied into their own ' Ascension ' series.

Ultima IX: Ascension ( 1999 ) is the ninth and final part of the main series of the role-playing video game series Ultima.

It is not included on the series by name as the Tristan da Cunha chain was originally not politically incorporated into the St. Helena and Ascension Colony at the time of the currency's official release.

One drawing from this series was used as the album cover to Glenn Branca's album " The Ascension ".