Later in 1998 Puffin Audiobooks published a recording featuring Pam Ferris and Geoffrey Palmer, and in 2002 Harper Audio released a recording of Alan Cumming reading both Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts.

Geoffrey retells this story in Historia Regum Britanniæ with some embellishments, and gives the fatherless child the name of the prophetic bard, Merlin.

Geoffrey le Baker gives among the highest estimates of around 300 English knights killed ; overall, the casualties were counted in tens rather than hundreds.

When Elsa is held responsible for stampeding a herd of elephants through a village, John Kendall ( Geoffrey Keen ), Adamson's boss, gives the couple three months to either rehabilitate Elsa to the wild, or send her to a zoo.

This is the only contemporary source that gives her name, and as Map was hostile to Geoffrey, the information must be judged carefully.

She later gives up the annuity she had been receiving from Geoffrey Haredale and, without explanation, takes Barnaby and leaves the City hoping to escape the unwanted visitor.

The dinsenchas story tells how each of the three cousins ruled for seven years in turn, and each ruled three seven-year stints ; the Annals of the Four Masters agrees, but Geoffrey Keating gives them each a single reign of twenty-one years each, except for Cimbáeth, who rules for twenty.

One review of the film comments " Heath Ledger gives a solid performance in the lead but Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush are woefully underused.

He separated the province of Ulster from the authority of the High King, and is said to have made war against the Ulaid, who had killed his great grandfather, for a hundred years according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, 150 years according to the Annals of the Four Masters, but Geoffrey Keating, citing an ancient poem, gives him only twenty-one years.

The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates his reign to 285-274 BC BC, that of the Annals of the Four Masters ( which gives him a reign of seventeen years ) to 414-396 BC BC.

Geoffrey Keating gives his epithet as Tuirbeach, " ashamed ", because of the incestuous conception of Fíacha.

Geoffrey Keating gives him a long genealogy, naming his father as Finnchad, son of Ogaman, son of the former High King and king of the Ulaid Fíatach Finn.

Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn also mentions the battle, but gives little detail and no date.

In 1990, Sally falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl in the back of Don Brennan ( Geoffrey Hinsliff )’ s taxi on Christmas Eve.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

The former astrologer, and scientist, Geoffrey Deans and psychologist Ivan Kelly conducted a large scale scientific test, involving more than one hundred cognitive, behavioral, physical and other variables, but found no support for astrology.

Eight years later, after William's death in 1120, a much more momentous union was made between Henry's daughter, ( the former Empress ) Matilda and Fulk's son Geoffrey Plantagenet, which eventually resulted in the union of the two realms under the Plantagenet Kings.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

In 1990 he became leader of the Labour Party and consequently Prime Minister for a few months, convincing the Labour caucus that, while he could not win the election for Labour, he would help save more seats than staying with the incumbent, Geoffrey Palmer.

Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller hypothesizes that rhyme is a form of sexually selected handicap imposed on communication making poetry harder and more reliable as a signal of verbal intelligence and overall fitness.

Matilda and Geoffrey suspected that they lacked genuine support in England, and proposed to Henry in 1135 that the king should hand over the royal castles in Normandy to Matilda whilst he was still alive and insist on the Norman nobility swearing immediate allegiance to her, thereby giving the couple a much more powerful position after Henry's death.

Geoffrey Donovan of the U. S. Forest Service, one of the researchers, said, " trees, which provide a range of other benefits, could improve quality of life in Portland by reducing crime ..." and he said that is because " We believe that large street trees can reduce crime by signaling to a potential criminal that a neighborhood is better cared for and, therefore, a criminal is more likely to be caught.

Indigenous Australian music is unique, as it dates back more than 60, 000 years to the prehistory of Australia and continues the ancient songlines through contemporary artists as diverse as: David Dahwurr Hudson, Jimmy Little, Warumpi Band, Yothu Yindi, Tiddas, Wild Water, Christine Anu, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Saltwater Band, Nabarlek, Nokturnl, the Pigram Brothers, Coloured Stone, Blekbala Mujik, Kev Carmody, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter.

Saxo also may have owed much to Plato, Cicero and also to more contemporary writers like Geoffrey of Monmouth.

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

Matilda and Geoffrey suspected that they lacked genuine support in England, and proposed to Henry in 1135 that the king should hand over the royal castles in Normandy to Matilda whilst he was still alive and insist on the Norman nobility swearing immediate allegiance to her, thereby giving the couple a much more powerful position after Henry's death.

Geoffrey dealt with Avalon in more detail in Vita Merlini, in which he describes for the first time in Arthurian legend the enchantress Morgan le Fay as the chief of nine sisters ( Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, Thiten and Thiton ) who live on Avalon.

In more recent times writers such as Dion Fortune, John Michell, Nicholas Mann and Geoffrey Ashe have formed theories based on perceived connections between Glastonbury and Celtic legends of the otherworld and Annwn in attempts to link the location firmly with Avalon, drawing on the various legends based on Glastonbury Tor as well as drawing on ideas like Earth mysteries, Ley lines and even the myth of Atlantis.

Some of the more notable contributors were Sir Geoffrey Elton, John Clive, Arnaldo Momigliano, Frances Yates, Jeremy Catto, Robert S. Lopez, Michael Howard, David S. Katz, Dimitri Obolensky, J. H.

Scholars consider Wace a more reliable reporter of the oral tradition than Geoffrey.

Geoffrey Robertson, QC, suggests that when Greene left the BBC, in 1969, contrary to the view that it was because of disagreements over the appointment of the Conservative Lord Hill as BBC chairman in 1967, whereby she could be given some credit for his departure, it was more to do with a political struggle between the BBC and Wilson.

At its formation, the United Kingdom immediately inherited the literary traditions of England and Scotland, including the earliest existing native literature written in the Celtic languages, Anglo-Saxon literature and more recent English literature including the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Milton.

However, as Geoffrey Bullough argues " Shakespeare's debt to Lyly was probably one of technique more than matter.

Although on occasion her husband offers assistance, he more often than not tends to the home while Hetty gads about the countryside with young Geoffrey in search of resolution and justice.

The castles were built by the more powerful lords of Anjou in the late 10th and 11th centuries, in particular Fulk III and his son, Geoffrey II, who built a great number of them between 987 and 1060.

Yardley captained the team in which Hutton and Lowson were the established openers although, with Hutton's Test calls, there were more opportunities for Halliday and Geoffrey Keighley.

Sonny's girlfriend, Vanessa ( Kristy Swanson ), disgusted and perplexed at Sonny's contrasting and inconsistent conduct decides to end her romantic relationship with him — and also find a new much older man, Sid ( Geoffrey Horne ) with more reliability.

Geoffrey later wrote the Vita Merlini, an account based more closely on the earlier Welsh stories about Myrddin and his experiences at Arfderyd, and explained that the action was taking place long after Merlin's involvement with Arthur.

The anti-Fascist tone of Steer's reporting led The Times to dispense with his services ; the newspaper's editorial stance on the war was neutral, whilst its editor, Geoffrey Dawson, privately sympathised with the Nationalists under Francisco Franco.

R. W. Southern re-edited Vita Anselmi in 1963 with a facing page translation, and Geoffrey Bosanquet translated the Rolls text of Historia Novorum in 1964.

* Bohn, Henry G. ( 1848 ) The Road to Knowledge of the Return of Kings, Chronicles of the Crusades, AMS Press, New York, 1969 edition, a translation of Chronicles of the Crusades: being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville.

( Shakespeare apparently was able to learn enough about the content of the " Iliad ," whether directly from Chapman's translation, or from an acquaintance with what Chapman was working on acquired otherwise, to enable him to put forth " Troilus and Cressida " in 1601-2 ; that play is remarkable for interweaving the Iliadic story of the deaths of Patroclus and Hector with the quite un-Iliadic story of love betrayed as told first in English by Geoffrey Chaucer in his masterpiece " Troilus and Criseyde.

One variant of the Brut y Brenhinedd, the so-called Brut Tysilio, was proposed in 1917 by the archaeologist William Flinders Petrie to be the ancient British book that Geoffrey translated, although the Brut itself claims to have been translated from Latin by Walter of Oxford, based on his own earlier translation from Welsh to Latin.

The first part of the manuscript contains prose, including the Mabinogion, for which this is one of the manuscript sources ( the other principal source being the White book of Rhydderch ), other tales, historical texts ( including a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae ), and various other texts including a series of Triads.

He is noted for his translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde into Latin verse ( as rime royal, Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libri Quinque, 1639 ).

In 2012, the publisher David R. Godine issued a revised and expanded English translation of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh that incorporates virtually all of the material left out of Geoffrey Dunlop's 1934 translation.

He claims to have written a version of the Brut story, probably a translation of the chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae into Old French verse.

In 2008 the Modern Library published his new translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

This history comprised a first part ( now lost ), which was merely a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, preceded by a history of the Trojan War, and a second part which carries us as far as the death of William Rufus.

), written in 1155, is merely a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Finally we may mention, as ancient history, the translation of Eutropius and Dares, by Geoffrey of Waterford ( 13th century ), who gave also the Secret des Secrets, a translation from a work wrongly attributed to Aristotle, which belongs to the next division ( Rom.

In his Historia, Geoffrey uses the word " Loegria " to describe a province containing most of England excluding Cornwall, as in this example from section iv. 20 ( from the Penguin Classics translation by Lewis Thorpe ):

* Bohn, Henry G. ( 1848 ) The Road to Knowledge of the Return of Kings, Chronicles of the Crusades, AMS Press, New York, 1969 edition, a translation of Chronicles of the Crusades: being contemporary narratives of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville.

The first translation into English, by Geoffrey Dunlop, appeared in 1932 under the title Death and the Lover.

Phan Thanh Hao is credited with bringing the manuscript to the attention of a London publisher ( Secker & Warburg ) whose editor Geoffrey Mulligan hastily sought Frank Palmos, veteran Australian Vietnam War Correspondent and author of the successful Vietnam War book ' Ridding the Devils ' ( Bantam, 1990, Sydney ), to write the English Version based on the raw Thanh Hao translation.

It was first published in Italian in 2004, and an English language translation by Geoffrey Brock was published in spring 2005.