Gilborn remembered Conrad's exact words.

In Conrad's words, regarding Heart of Darkness: In a letter to Henry-Durand Darvay, dated April 10th 1902, Joseph Conrad wrote ( French: translated below ):

Conrad's words for stepping onto the Moon were " Oooh, is that soft and queasy.

Innocent therefore moved to Anagni to wait for Manfred's reaction to the event, especially as Conrad's heir, Conradin, had been entrusted to the Papal tutorage by the King's testament.

Both asserted afterwards that Conrad had, in full possession of his mental powers, handed the royal insignia to Frederick and indicated that Frederick, rather than Conrad's own six-year-old son, the future Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, should succeed him as king.

The current holder of the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen is Maximilian, Margrave of Baden ( b. 1933 ), a grandson of the last chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Max von Baden, who seems to have revived the Zähringen title after it apparently had not been in official usage since the death of Berthold V. Another branch were the Dukes of Teck, descendants of Duke Conrad's son Adalbert, whose line became extinct in 1439.

When Frederick II deposed his eldest son, Conrad's rebellious older brother Henry, in 1237 had Conrad elected King of the Romans in diet in Vienna.

Although Spike Jonze had never acted in a movie before, Russell wrote the part of Conrad Vig specifically for him, and the two practised Conrad's southern accent over the phone while Jonze directed his first feature film, Being John Malkovich.

Gisela of Burgundy ( c. 975 – July 21, 1006 ) was the daughter of Conrad the Peaceful, King of Burgundy and Adelaide of Bellay, Conrad's second wife whom he probably married for love, as he had already produced an heir ( Rudolph III ) by his first, more dynastic, marriage and was thus free to wed as he pleased.

In an incident described by the Itinerarium Peregrinorum ( which is generally hostile to Conrad ), the Old French Continuation and Sicardus of Cremona's second chronicle ( now known through quotations by Salimbene di Adam and Alberto Millioli ), Saladin presented Conrad's aged father, William V of Montferrat, who had been captured at Hattin, before the walls of the city.

) There were also objections on grounds of canonical ' incest ', since Conrad's brother had previously been married to Isabella's half-sister, and Church law regarded this kind of " affinity " as equal to a blood-relationship.

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

Richard had supported Guy, and was suspected of involvement in Conrad's death.

Conrad's great grandfather had been raised to the nobility in 1816 adding " von Hötzendorf ", the surname of his wife from the Palatinate, as his predicate.

After his death, his position on Conrad's crew was filled by Alan Bean, who had been his commander on the Gemini 10 backup crew.

The Grebels had been a prominent Swiss family for over a century before Conrad's birth.

It was discovered that Kaczynski had used various formulations of Conrad's name-Conrad, Konrad, and Korzeniowski, Conrad's original surname-in order to sign himself into several hotels in Sacramento.

It is said that one of the two Hashshashin responsible had entered Balian's household in Tyre some months previously, pretending to be a servant, in order to stalk his victim ; the other may have similarly infiltrated Reginald of Sidon's or Conrad's own household.

The king, influenced by his councillors, had the Babenberg duke executed and appointed Conrad's son Conrad the Younger Duke of Franconia in 906.

Some of Conrad's experiences in the Congo and the story's historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost.

Hugh was technically regent of Jerusalem as well, both for Conrad and for Conrad's son Conradin after Conrad died in 1254.

Conrad's failure to make anything of his position in Italy, causing him to return in 1130 without anything to show for it, assured at least a partial victory for Lothair.

* 1902: Although not explicitly cited, the Congo River provides the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1902 novel Heart of Darkness.

Mieszko II was compelled to give up his royal title and for the remainder of his troubled rule became the Duke of Poland and Conrad's vassal.

The renewal of the German alliance remained the principal orientation of Manuel's foreign policy for the rest of his reign, despite the gradual divergence of interests between the two empires after Conrad's death.

" His legacy of death and destruction in the Congo region is considered an inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Brooke was also a model for the hero of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim, and he is briefly mentioned in Kipling's short story " The Man Who Would Be King ".

If you don't know what to do, don't do anything .— Conrad's advice for working in space, quoted in the book From the Earth to the Moon.

Support for Conrad's work has come from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the State University of New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

In 2006, the full hour-long recording of Conrad's Joan of Arc was released, a 1968 recording for the soundtrack to Piero Heliczer's like-named short film.

Conrad's first musical release, and only release for many years, was a 1972 collaboration with the German " Krautrock " group Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate, published by Caroline ( UK ) in 1973.

Although best known for television series, he won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for the novel Conrad's War ( Blackie, 1978 ).

Conrad's ex-wife, Theodora, was still living in the mid-late 1190s, when she was having the monastery of Dalmatios converted into a convent, possibly for her own residence.

He sat for artists such as Sir William Rothenstein, who painted Don Roberto as The Fencer ; Sir John Lavery whose famous Don Roberto: Commander for the King of Aragon in the Two Sicilies for many years graced the cover of the Penguin Books edition of Conrad's Nostromo and whose equestrian portrait of Don Roberto on his favourite horse Pampa ; G. P. Jacomb-Hood who painted his official portrait on entering parliament, who along with Whistler were personal friends.

Conrad's mother refused to believe that her son was unintelligent, and she set about finding him a suitable school.

Conrad's murder was one of the charges against him.

Only Conrad's rival Duke Reginar of Lorraine refused to give him his allegiance and joined West Francia.

Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by marrying Isabella himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, whom he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir.

After Conrad's death, Henry succeeded him as Count Palatine and so came into possession of the castle.

Recognizing Conrad's past loyalty, Hessler spares his life, but has him transferred to fuel services.

Soon, a Death Tower terminator opens Conrad's cell and tries to kill him, but he runs off and finds his gun, which he uses to kill the terminator.

There, he is rescued by a man that introduces himself as John O ' Conner, who tells him that the Morphs beat him to Conrad's ship, and leaves him a few items " of interest " ( a PDA and a handgun ), before he destroys the camera.

The anonymous author of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi wrote that Balian was a member of a " council of consummate iniquity " around Conrad, accused him of taking Conrad's bribes, and said of Maria and Balian as a couple:

Against this backdrop, a schizophrenic spiritualist " of intense but undisciplined powers ", Lilah Kemp, accidentally sets Kurtz free from page 92 of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and is forced to find a Marlow to defeat him.