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Dravot and Carnehan succeeded in becoming kings: finding the Kafirs, who turn out to be white (" so hairy and white and fair it was just shaking hands with old friends "), mustering an army, taking over villages, and dreaming of building a unified nation.
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Dravot and Carnehan
While on a tour of some Indian native states he meets two scruffy adventurers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan.
" Most of the Kafirs turned against Dravot and Carnehan.
* The Man Who Would Be King was adapted into a movie released in 1975, starring Sean Connery as Dravot and Michael Caine as Carnehan with Christopher Plummer as Kipling.
Dravot and Kafirs
The Kafirs, who were pagans, not Muslims, acclaimed Dravot as a god ( the son of Alexander the Great ).
Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the Kafirs cut the ropes and fell to his death.
Dravot and .
Their schemes were dashed when Dravot decided to marry a Kafir girl.
Terrified at marrying a god, the girl bit Dravot when he tried to kiss her.
* Daniel Dravot appears in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series as a functionary of the secret Diogenes Club.
Carnehan and ("
When he inquires two days later, he learns that Carnehan has died of sunstroke (" half an hour bare-headed in the sun at mid-day ...").
Carnehan and was
Carnehan was crucified between two pine trees.
Carnehan and .
Two years later, on a scorching hot summer night, Carnehan creeps into the narrator's office.
As proof of his tale, Carnehan shows the narrator Dravot's head, still wearing the golden crown.
Carnehan leaves.
succeeded and becoming
He succeeded to relinquish suzerainty of his cousin Alfonso VII of León, becoming instead a subject of the papacy, as the kingdoms of Sicily and Aragon had done before him.
By 1971, Brezhnev had succeeded in becoming first amongst equals in the Politburo and the Central Committee.
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On 26 November, the Sex Pistols ' " Anarchy in the U. K ." came out — with its debut single the band succeeded in its goal of becoming a " national scandal ".
Upon his death in 79, he was succeeded by his eldest son Titus, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to be directly succeeded by his own son.
A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to come to the throne after his own father.
After the death of her husband, de la Cueva maneuvered her own election and succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, becoming the only woman to govern a major political division of the Americas in Spanish colonial times.
After the death of her husband, de la Cueva maneuvered her own election and succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, becoming the only woman to govern a major political division of the Americas in Spanish colonial times.
He eventually succeeded in becoming the magistrate of Mino Province and settled in Inabayama Castle.
In 1877, Henry Boyd succeeded Michell, becoming the second Principal of the refounded Hertford College.
The change of personnel in Fianna Fáil was also accompanied by a change of personnel in Fine Gael, with James Dillon becoming leader upon Richard Mulcahy's retirement in 1959, and Labour, in which Brendan Corish succeeded William Norton in 1960.
King was succeeded by his former assistants, with Bill Perry taking responsibility for Sunday strips in 1951 and Dick Moores, first hired in 1956, becoming sole writer and artist for the daily strip in 1959.
After residing in Leipzig for a time, he returned to Edinburgh where in January 1757 he succeeded David Hume as librarian to the Faculty of Advocates ( see Advocates ' Library ), but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute.
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After former security minister Moshe Arens resigned, Shalom succeeded in becoming an MK.
Annemie Neyts succeeded him as chairman, becoming the first female party chairman.
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Frederick William's testament would have divided Brandenburg-Prussia among his sons, yet firstborn Frederick III with the emperor's backing succeeded in becoming the sole ruler based on the Treaty of Gera, which forbade a division of Hohenzollern territories.
In 1872, Corrigan succeeded James Roosevelt Bayley as bishop of Newark, becoming the second ordinary of the diocese.
succeeded and kings
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He was succeeded by Matilda's son, Henry II, the first of the Angevin kings.
* Swithelm is succeeded by Sighere and Sebbi as kings of Essex.
Later history relates that some Etruscans lived in the Tuscus vicus, the “ Etruscan quarter ”, and that there was an Etruscan line of kings ( albeit ones descended from a Greek, Demaratus the Corinthian ) which succeeded kings of Latin and Sabine origin.
Æthelred was succeeded by Cœnred son of Wulfhere, and both these kings are better known for their religious activities than anything else, but the king who succeeded them ( in 709 ), Ceolred, is said in a letter of Saint Boniface to have been a dissolute youth who died insane.
Brown writes that James had come to power after ' fifty years when kings looked like magnates and magnates acted like kings ' and succeeded in completely changing both the aims and outlook of the monarchy but at the cost of his own life — his policy of reducing the power and influence of the magnates, continued by his son James II, led to a more subordinate nobility.
: From 1625 to 1900 twelve kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey.
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Due to the tradition of Salic Law, which did not allow women to inherit the throne of France, he was succeeded by his first cousin's son, Francis I ( who was also his son-in-law ), who founded his own line of French kings.
With the exception of the short reign of Beornrad, who succeeded Æthelbald for less than a year, Mercia was ruled for eighty years by two of the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kings, Æthelbald and Offa.
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* Three Macedonian kings of the Antigonid dynasty that succeeded Alexander the Great in Asia:
The first three kings of the eleventh dynasty ( all named Intef ) were, therefore, also the last three kings of the First Intermediate Period and would be succeeded by a line of kings who were all called Mentuhotep.
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