The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".

Moses appears as the central character in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie, also called The Ten Commandments, in which he is portrayed by Charlton Heston.

* He appears as the character " Lord Cecil " in the opera Roberto Devereux ( 1837 ) by Gaetano Donizetti

Even as Elizabeth rebukes the hawks ( privateers ) in her council ( both Walsingham and Sir Francis Drake ), with hopes of peace ( encouraged by Cecil, who is now Lord Burghley ), the Spanish Armada appears on the horizons of England.

Cecil appears to have employed Golding as his nephew's receiver for several years, for two of his dedications are dated from Cecil House, and in 1567 he dated a dedication from Barwicke, one of the de Vere manors near White Colne, Essex.

He appears briefly, again in a negative light, in Ronald Welch's Knight Crusader ( 1954 ): the description owes much to his portrayal in Cecil B. de Mille's The Crusades, mentioned below.

PRR GG1 4821 appears briefly in the 1952 film The Greatest Show on Earth, pulling the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train into Philadelphia's Greenwich Yard, with the movie's director Cecil B. DeMille narrating the scene of their arrival.

Cecil also appears in Dissidia Final Fantasy, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.

It appears to have involved collaborative efforts by three employees of the refuge-Leo Young, G. Hortin Jensen and Cecil Williams.

Cecil R. Parkin ( Jeffrey Holland ) Station Master-the new station master at Hatley who appears midway through the first episode.

Other Looney Tunes characters make cameo appearances, including Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Tasmanian Devil, Pepe Le Pew, Beaky Buzzard, Babbit and Catstello, Hubie and Bertie, Witch Hazel, Michigan J. Frog, Rocky and Mugsy, Marvin the Martian, Hippety Hopper, Gossamer, Count Blood Count, Cecil Turtle, Nasty Canasta, The Crusher, Pete Puma, Goofy Gophers, and latter-day Warner cartoon star Cool Cat who appears in some form in most of the episodes.

Proponents of this view claim that the character of Polonius in Hamlet is a parody of Cecil, an interpretation which a minority of mainstream scholars have agreed with.

Cecil has been a character in many works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign.

* William Cecil Clayton, fictional character in Tarzan of the Apes

Similarly, the Beany and Cecil cartoon series also had a beatnik character, Go Man Van Gogh ( aka " The Wildman "), who often lives in the jungle and paints various pictures and backgrounds to fool his enemies, first appearing in the episode, " The Wildman of Wildsville.

Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil was designed to resemble actor David Hyde Pierce, who also played the brother of Grammer's character on the show Frasier.

He decided to incorporate elements of Grammer's other show into the character of Sideshow Bob, and designed Cecil to resemble Grammer's brother on Frasier.

Their comments were positive ; they only expressed concern with a very brief scene in which Cecil talks to a visible character whom he refers to as " Maris ".

* Cecil Parker ( 1897 – 1971 ), English character and comedy actor

It is a comment on the character of Port Deposit that he rose to become Cecil County's first millionaire as well as its greatest philanthropist.

Day-Lewis gained further public notice with A Room with a View ( 1986 ), in which he portrayed an entirely different character: Cecil Vyse, the proper upper class fiancé of the main character ( played by Helena Bonham Carter ).

* Cecil " Spike " Wilson, a character in the Sugar and Spike universe

Amongst his pupils at St John's were William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, who married Cheke's sister Mary, and Roger Ascham, who in The Scholemaster gives Cheke the highest praise for scholarship and character.

" The following year the BBC's Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern — who had initially feared that viewers would not accept such an unusual name for the leading character — noted in reference to the impending launch of the rival ITV network that: " Had competitive television been in existence then, we would have killed it every Saturday night while Quatermass Experiment lasted.

The Mayerling character states that he used to be one of the three great directors of the silent era, along with D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille ; many film critics agree that Stroheim was indeed one of the great early directors.

Guest, composer Cole Porter and British photographer Cecil Beaton In 1957's Paramount movie musical Funny Face, the character of Maggie Prescott ( as portrayed by Kay Thompson ) was based on Vreeland.

A member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history.

His biography, The Unquiet American, was written by Cecil Currey and published in 1988 ; the title refers to the common, but incorrect belief, that the eponymous character in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American was based on Lansdale.

Visitors to Farmleigh gain some insight into the character of Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Lord Iveagh, from the landscaped gardens, the classical architecture, and the symmetrical, sober layout.

According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, an animated character based on a hand puppet ; Pierson accordingly described the alien he had met as a Puppeteer, given some resemblance of the head and neck with Cecil.

Audiobooks of many of the Jeeves stories and novels have been recorded by British actors, including Simon Callow, Jonathan Cecil, Martin Jarvis, Frederick Davidson, and Alexander Spencer.

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer ( 7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960 ), whose novels and short stories, some humorous ( the Berry books ), some thrillers ( the Chandos books ), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

Under the name Cecil Waye, Street produced four novels: The Figure of Eight ; The End of the Chase ; The Prime Minister's Pencil ; and Murder at Monk's Barn.

With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim ( Gene Wilder ), also known as " The Waco Kid " (" I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille "), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception.

Nowell's letter to Cecil stating: " I clearly see that my work for the Earl of Oxford cannot be much longer required " and his departure after eight months has been interpreted as either a sign of the thirteen-year-old Oxford's intractability as a pupil, or an indication that his precocity surpassed Nowell's ability to instruct him.

In October 1595 Oxford wrote to his brother in law, Sir Robert Cecil of friction between himself and the ill-fated Earl of Essex, partly over his claim to the property, terming him ' the only person that I dare rely upon in the court '.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I ; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.

* William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.

He displayed some sympathy to the Puritan ( but not to the Separatist ) cause, writing to Robert Cecil, Secretary of State to James I in 1604:

" I Vow to Thee, My Country " was written between 1908 and 1918 by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and became known as a response to the human cost of World War I.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley ( sometimes spelled Burleigh ), KG ( 13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598 ) was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State ( 1550 – 1553 and 1558 – 1572 ) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.

But service under Warwick ( by now the Duke of Northumberland ) carried some risk, and decades later in his diary, Cecil recorded his release in the phrase " ex misero aulico factus liber et mei juris " (" I was freed from this miserable court ").

) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: " Seeing great perils threatened upon us by the likeness of the time, I do make choice to avoid the perils of God's displeasure.

Engraving of Queen Elizabeth I, William Cecil and Sir Francis Walsingham, by William Faithorne, 1655

His younger son, Sir Robert Cecil ( later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbury ), inherited his political mantle, taking on the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I.

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I ( Yale University Press, 2008 )

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* Lionel Smith, Cecil Moore: Serial I / O and Math Utilities for the 8049 Microcomputer, Application Note AP-49, January 1979, Intel Corporation.

* In the TV miniseries Elizabeth I, Cecil is played by Toby Jones.

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Sir William Drury reported to Sir William Cecil, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I of England, that the Queen was in continuous ill-health " for the most part either melancholy or sickly ".

The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since.