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In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.
W. Geoffrey Arnott says that “ we see that a set of formulae in the plays concerned with characterization, motif, and situation has been applied to two dramatic situations which possess in themselves just as many difference as they do similarities .” It is important to compare the two authors and the remarkable similarities between them because it is essential in understanding Plautus.
Geoffrey of Monmouth says that after establishing peace throughout Britain, Arthur " increased his personal entourage by inviting very distinguished men from far-distant kingdoms to join it.
" The code of chivalry so important in later romance figures in as well, as Geoffrey says Arthur established " such a code of courtliness in his household that he inspired peoples living far away to imitate him.
A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”
It had been prophesied that a great dignity would come from Olc's line, so he offered the High King his daughter to sleep with that night, and Cormac was conceived ( Geoffrey Keating says that Achtan was Art's official mistress, to whom he had given a dowry of cattle ).
After that, Art was alone and gained his nickname ( Geoffrey Keating says he had two brothers, Connla and Crionna, who were killed by their uncle Eochaid Finn ).
Geoffrey Keating, in his 17th-century History of Ireland, says that during the winter the fianna were quartered and fed by the nobility, during which time they would keep order on their behalf, but during the summer, from Beltaine to Samhain, they were obliged to live by hunting for food and for pelts to sell.
Geoffrey Gaimar, in his Estoire des Engleis, says instead that Hereward lived for some time as an outlaw in the Fens, but that as he was on the verge of making peace with William, he was set upon and killed by a group of Norman knights.
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.
: G. J. Warnock's Foreword – Having taken a course from Austin on this topic at Oxford in 1947, Sir Geoffrey Warnock ( 1923-95 ) says he put Austin's fragmentary lecture notes into sentence form, with the help of class notes from later students of the course, and claims to relate faithfully Austin's " argument " though not his exact wording.
Geoffrey Khan says that it is now believed that they were not.
Geoffrey of Monmouth says he was brought up at the court of Augustus and willingly paid tribute to Rome.
Dor Yeshorim has been criticised for withholding patient results, for declining to publish its financial records and for not testing anyone who has already been tested elsewhere, by Professor Geoffrey Alderman, who says that Dor yeshorim fails some fundamental tests itself.
The date of his reign is not clear, but Geoffrey says that Leir's father lived at the same time as the Biblical prophet Elijah.
Geoffrey says that Beldgabred surpassed all other musicians on every kind of instrument and was claimed to be the god of minstrels.
Geoffrey Moorhouse in his book Calcutta says it looks " as if they had been scavenged from job lots on the Portobello Road on a series of damp Saturday afternoons.
According the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn and the Annals of the Four Masters, he came to power after killing the joint High King, Cermna Finn, in battle at Dún Cermna ( Downmacpatrick in Kinsale, County Cork ), and Cermna's brother and colleague Sobairce was killed by Eochaid Menn of the Fomorians ( another version of the Lebor Gabála says he came to power at the end of a seven year interregnum following the death of Tigernmas ).
The Lebor Gabála Érenn says he ruled for either sixty or forty years ( Geoffrey Keating says twenty, the Four Masters forty ) before being killed by Art's son Bres Rí.
His epithet is obscure: the Lebor Gabála Érenn says he gained it because of his exile, while Geoffrey Keating explains it as meaning " bare canoes ", because he had canoes for a fleet, in which he and his followers used to plunder neighbouring countries.
Geoffrey Keating says he ruled for seven years, resisted Airgetmar and made peace with Dui, who killed him treacherously at a meeting, allowing Airgetmar to take the kingship.
The Lebor Gabála Érenn says he succeeded directly after his father was murdered by Bodbchad, although Geoffrey Keating and the Annals of the Four Masters agree that Bodbchad seized power for a day and a half before Lóegaire killed him.
Geoffrey Keating says his mother was the presumed woodland goddess Flidais of the Tuatha Dé Danann, whose magic made wild does give milk as freely as domesticated cattle during his reign.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised this to Caliburnus ( likely influenced by the medieval Latin spelling calibs of Classical Latin chalybs, from Greek " χάλυψ ", " steel "), the name of Arthur's sword in his 12th-century work Historia Regum Britanniae.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain is the first non-Welsh source to speak of the sword.
It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae (" The History of the Kings of Britain ") as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur ( Caliburnus ) was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann.
Geoffrey Rush comments that Hector Barbossa supposedly used a sword from a very young age, possibly as early as 13.
Outstanding exhibits include: Morris ' medieval-style helmet and sword, made as ' props ' for the Pre-Raphaelite murals at the Oxford Union ; the original design for Trellis ( the earliest of Morris ' many wallpapers ); the Woodpecker tapestry woven at Morris ' Merton Abbey workshops ; the Beauty and the Beast and Labours of the Months tile panels ; and The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer printed at Morris ' Kelmscott Press.
Crocea Mors ( in Latin Morte Gialla for " Yellow Death ") was the name given to Julius Caesar's sword, according to the legends presented by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Portbury is mentioned in the Liber Exoniensis and was given by William the Conqueror to one of his favourites, Bishop Geoffrey de Montbray of Coutances — the ' battling bishop ' - sword in one hand and crook in the other!

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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.
If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.
According to Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.
There was taken the lord of Pompadour and ^ the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, and there was slain sir Geoffrey of Charny with the king's banner in his hands: also the lord Raynold Cobham slew the earl of Dammartin.
" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.
He again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the clairvoyant Geoffrey Hodson.
In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".
Geoffrey Hosking suggests that fear of being enslaved was a central motivating force for the development of the Greek sense of citizenship.
Geoffrey Noer was the project lead from 1996 to 1998.
New Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry was fiercely critical of the decision and dispatched a vaka ( traditional voyaging canoe ) with a crew of Cook Islands ' traditional warriors to protest near the test site.
Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo.
For Chrétien, Arthur's chief court was in Caerleon in Wales ; this was the king's primary base in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and subsequent literature.
Geoffrey's description of Caerleon is probably based on his personal familiarity with the town and its impressive Roman ruins ; it is less clear that Caerleon was associated with Arthur before Geoffrey.
The name was later used in Welsh adaptations of foreign material such as the Bruts, which were based on Geoffrey.
The vanguard, with which Queen Eleanor marched, was commanded by her Aquitainian vassal, Geoffrey de Rancon ; this, being unencumbered by baggage, managed to reach the summit of Cadmos, where de Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night.
The official scapegoat for the disaster was Geoffrey de Rancon, who had made the decision to continue, and it was suggested that he be hanged ( a suggestion which the King ignored ).
Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs: for example, Geoffrey of York, an illegitimate son of Henry and a prostitute named Ykenai, was acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.
He was joined by troops sent by his brother Geoffrey and Philip II of France.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca.
Geoffrey Gorer commented " He was awfully likely to knock things off tables, trip over things.
In 1935, the first British High Commissioner to Australia, Geoffrey Whiskard, was appointed.

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