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They include " Kadeir Teyrnon " (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", " Preiddeu Annwn " (" The Spoils of Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and " Marwnat vthyr pen " (" The Elegy of Uther Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uther that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Historically, Rhun ap Maelgwn was Maelgwn's son and successor ( though this may be the ' Runo ' Geoffrey refers to ).
Yet Geoffrey also refers to King Hoel of Brittany as Arthur's nephew and presents a prophecy that to Uther's daughter will be born a line of seven kings, something true if Hoel is Anna's son, but not true if only Gawain or Mordred are Anna's sons.
His entry in the Dictionary of Art ( 1996 vol 7, p569 ), by Geoffrey Ashton, refers to the invisibility of his brush strokes as a " rather unexciting and flat use of paint " but contrasts that with " Collier's strong and surprising sense of colour " which " created a disconcerting verisimilitude in both mood and appearance ".
The history of Urien, Owein and Kentigern refers to events among the Men of the North that took place up to a century after the timeframe generally associated with a historical Arthur, but the romance, influenced by Geoffrey as well as the saint's tale, has ended up with both a King Lot and an eponymous princess ' father.
It was adopted into English from the French, and the first recorded use of it as a color name in English was in 1374 in Geoffrey Chaucer's work Troilus and Criseyde, where he refers to " a broche, gold and asure " ( a broach, gold and azure ).
* Several poems of Taliesin: Kadeir Teyrnon (" The Chair of the Prince "), which refers to " Arthur the Blessed ", Preiddeu Annwn (" The Spoils of the Annwn "), which recounts an expedition of Arthur to the Otherworld, and Marwnat vthyr pen (" The Elegy of Uthyr Pen "), which refers to Arthur's valour and is suggestive of a father-son relationship for Arthur and Uthyr that pre-dates Geoffrey of Monmouth.
An early reference to the de Luci family refers to the render by Henry I of the Lordship of Dice, Norfolk to Richard de Luci, Governor of Falaise, Normandy, after defending it with great valour and heroic conduct when besieged by Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou.
The second possible explanation of the name is that it refers to Geoffrey Hornby, who was the Admiral of the British flying squadron and who visited Christchurch in 1870.
The Barlow and Chambers execution refers to the hanging in 1986 by Malaysia of two Australian citizens, Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Chambers of Perth, Western Australia, for the drug trafficking of 141. 9 g of heroin.
* Barlow and Chambers execution, refers to the hanging in 1986 by Malaysia of two Australian citizens, Charles John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Chambers, for drug trafficking
Taylor refers to the British physicist Geoffrey Ingram Taylor ( 1886-1975 ).

Geoffrey and Hengist
In chapter 10 of book 6 of Historia Regum Britanniae, Geoffrey records that three brigandines ( or long galleys ) full of armed men commanded by two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, arrived in Britain.
Hengist — here Geoffrey notes whose " years and wisdom entitled him to precedence "— responds for the company, stating that they have come from their homeland of Saxony, and that they had come to offer their services to Vortigern or some other prince.
Upon the rocky place Hengist begins to build a castle, and after it is finished he names it Kaercorrei, or in Saxon Thancastre, which Geoffrey explains means " thong castle.
Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote about the town, claiming that it had been fortified by Ambrosius Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist ( Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7 ), that the captive Saxon leader Hengist was hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls, and was buried at " Hengist's Mound " in the town.
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful Historia Regum Britanniae, the British king Vortigern married Rowena, the daughter of Hengist, with the civitas of the Cantiaci ( Kent ) as the bride-gift.

Geoffrey and man
A man named Braithwaite ( Geoffrey Weeks ) from British Intelligence approaches Lee and asks for his help in an undercover mission.
Geoffrey Elton, in his widely-read England under the Tudors ( 1955 ), saw Dudley as " a handsome, vigorous man with very little sense.
* Geoffrey ( Male, 25 )-He is a son of Henry and Eleanor, and a man of energy and action.
Writing shortly before Geoffrey of Monmouth, William added much to the damnatio memoriae of Vortigern: " At this time Vortigern was King of Britain ; a man calculated neither for the field nor the council, but wholly given up to the lusts of the flesh, the slave of every vice: a character of insatiable avarice, ungovernable pride, and polluted by his lusts.
This was seen as a failure by viewers, because the loss of Leonard Rossiter removed some affection for the series and despite a leading man in Geoffrey Palmer, the series lacked a central character.
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, the husband of Beatrice's granddaughter and namesake, Beatrice de Say, was a prominent man at court and used his position to push his wife's claim.
* Geoffrey Blake as Lewis ( early season 1 )-Garry's ladies ' man friend.
Geoffrey Mutai, who won the Boston Marathon earlier in the year, became the first man to win both races in course record time in the same year.
It was a cast of stereotypes, featuring a blacked-up Spike Milligan as Kevin O ' Grady ( who was supposed to be half Irish, half Pakistani ), Eric Sykes as a liberal, Kenny Lynch as a black man who was prejudiced against Asians, and Norman Rossington and Geoffrey Hughes as racist Liverpudlians.
Sonny's girlfriend, Vanessa ( Kristy Swanson ), disgusted and perplexed at Sonny's contrasting and inconsistent conduct decides to end her romantic relationship with himand also find a new much older man, Sid ( Geoffrey Horne ) with more reliability.
" Even earlier, Geoffrey Chaucer used the word sluttish ( c. 1386 ) to describe a slovenly man ; however, later uses appear almost exclusively associated with women.
Geoffrey's second choice, Simon of Apulia, the chancellor of York, refused to give up the office when Geoffrey decided to award it to a third man, Philip of Poitou.
" Authors Peter Marshall and Geoffrey Scott describe him as possessing a " somewhat hot-headed nature ", while another source calls him a " wild unstayed man ".
A man reputed for his eloquent silences, Geoffrey initially opposes Fancy's marriage to Dick, but eventually relents when he thinks his daughter's health is in question.
" Geoffrey, count of the Angevins, nicknamed Martel, a treacherous man in every respect, frequently inflicted assaults and intolerable pressure on his neighbors.
Fulk, by then an old man, had previously delegated much of his authority to Geoffrey.
The play is famous for its dreamlike opening sequence in which Marlene meets famous women from history, including Pope Joan, who, disguised as a man, is said to have been pope between 854-856 ; the explorer Isabella Bird ; Dull Gret the harrower of Hell ; Lady Nijo, the Japanese mistress of an emperor and later a Buddhist nun ; and Patient Griselda, the patient wife from The Clerk's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
" 1228: Aed son of Cathal Crobderg O Conchobair, King of Connacht for the space of four years, as the poet, Donnchad Baccach son of Tanaide O Mailchonaire, says: ‘ Rathcroghan of the battles, dwelling of Eochu's daughter, was for four years — here is no deceit — the dwelling of Aed son of Cathal Crobderg ’, was killed with one blow of a carpenter's axe in the court of Geoffrey de Mareys while the carpenter's wife was bathing him ; and the man who struck him down was hanged by Geoffrey the next day.
Geoffrey de Montbray ( died 1093 ), bishop of Coutances ( Constantiensis ), a right-hand man of William the Conqueror, was a type of the great feudal prelate, warrior and administrator at need.
Geoffrey originally appeared as a stern, demeaning man, who had forbidden his son from playing online roleplaying games.

Geoffrey and experience
The journalist Geoffrey Wansell called Clark's experience " one of the great miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history ".
As it became clear that Geoffrey Davis lacked his late brother's political experience, fellow Democrat Letitia James decided to challenge him in the general election on the WFP ticket and won Brooklyn's 35th City Council district as the first third-party candidate elected there in 30 years.
With Socceroos Archie Thompson and Kevin Muscat in the squad, and the experience of 2 European internationals in Geoffrey Claeys and Richard Kitzbichler, expectations from the Melbourne fans were high.

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( 1982 ) " Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, earl of Warwick: new men and magnates in the reign of Henry I ," in Historical Research, 60 ( 1982 ).
" " Never in the history of journalism has so much been read for so long by so few ," wrote Geoffrey Crowther, a former editor.
* Geoffrey Dennis, " Abraham ," " Elijah ," " Lailah ," " Sandalphon ," Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism Llewellyn, 2007.
" The Colloquy of Arthur and the Eagle ," a poem contemporary with but independent of Geoffrey, mentions another son of Uther named Madoc, the father of Arthur's nephew Eliwlod.
* Geoffrey Colvin & Ram Charan, " Private Lives ," Fortune Magazine, November 27, 2006
Geoffrey Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to " Joseph and Benjamin of old ," says of Roger: " He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel.
In accordance with its mission, the school's motto was originally " and gladly wold he lerne and gladly teche ," in the Middle English spelling of Geoffrey Chaucer which has since been updated to modern English in the gender-neutral form " Gladly we Learn and Teach.
* Washington Irving relates a romanticized but sympathetic version of Metacomet's life in the 1820 sketch " Philip of Pokanoket ," published in his collected stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon ( 1820 ).
( 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.
According to Geoffrey Hunter, while logic concerns itself with the " truths of logic ," metalogic concerns itself with the theory of " sentences used to express truths of logic.
* Blodgett, Geoffrey T. " The Mind of the Boston Mugwump ," The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol.
* G. W. Watson, " Geoffrey de Mortimer and his Descendants ," ( Genealogist, New series, XXII, 1906 ).
Using the alias " Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres ," Foyle re-emerges as a rich dandy who charms high society with his antics, leading a troupe of freaks called the Four Mile Circus.
* Dennis, Geoffrey, " Water as a Medium for Altered States of Consciousness in Early Jewish Mysticism ," Anthropology of ConsciousnessVol.
" She was a cut-out between Maclean and his KGB controller ," said Geoffrey Elliott, who wrote a book about her with Igor Damaskin, a former KGB officer.
Biographer Geoffrey Wolff quotes a Saturday Review article by Yale University professor Henry Seidel Canby, entitled " Mr. O ' Hara and the Vulgar School ," who criticized the book's sensuality as " nothing but infantilism — the erotic visions of a hobbledehoy behind the barn.
* Rips, Geoffrey, " The Campaign Against the Underground Press ," San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1981.
Moran, under the name Rebecca Borgstrom, appears as a player character in the scenario " And I Feel Fine ," by Geoffrey C. Grabowski, which was published in the One Shots sourcebook for Unknown Armies.
While he confesses that " Fader Chaucer fayn wolde han me taught, But I was dul and learned lite or naught ," this pose was highly conventional in fifteenth-century poetry, and was indeed an inheritance from Chaucer himself, whose alter-ego Geoffrey was portrayed as fat and dimwitted in both the House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales.
" Morley manages to speak clearly and sparely of what is least sayable: the sense that we inhabit a living web, not as separate beings but as molecules of a larger and elastic whole ," wrote Geoffrey O ' Brien in The Village Voice.
His namesake, Rich Dansky, appears as a player character in the scenario " And I Feel Fine ," by Geoffrey C. Grabowski, which was published in the One Shots sourcebook for Unknown Armies.

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