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Immediately after, he received several marks of distinction: he was made President of the Accademia di San Luca, the main artistic institution in Rome, and by the hand of the Pope himself his name was inscribed in " the Golden Volume of the Capitol ", and he received the title of Marquis of Ischia, with an annual pension of 3000 crowns.
Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.
In Robin Hood's Golden Prize, Robin disguises himself as a friar and cheats two priests out of their cash.
He has also appeared in The Golden Years, in Chappelle's Show and, along with fellow author Amy Tan, on The Simpsons as himself.
Sonny poked a little fun at himself when he guest-starred on The Golden Girls, in the episode " Mrs. George Devereaux ", aired November 17, 1990, as himself vying with Lyle Waggoner for Dorothy's ( Beatrice Arthur ) affection in a dream, where Blanche ( Rue McClanahan ) dreams her husband is still alive.
* Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde conquers parts the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia, causing a rift between himself and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who had also wanted to conquer Persia.
As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, and later set out to become an artist himself.
A writer seated at the best restaurant of the space habitat " Golden Rule " is approached by a man who urges him that " Tolliver must die " and is himself shot before the writer's eyes.
Shang survives the accident and arrives in time to stop the wedding but ultimately Mulan is saved by Mushu who, posing as the Golden Dragon of Unity, frees the princesses from their vows and marries Mulan and Li Shang himself causing Mulan to forgive him for his actions.
McCrea himself cites Hank Williams, Tom Zé, the Golden Gate Quartet and Sly and the Family Stone as particular influences.
In a two part episode " The Golden Goose " Glomgold almost beats Scrooge at being the world's richest duck with the help of the Golden Goose-until he gets turned into gold himself ; in the series finale, Glomgold makes one last attempt to get richer than Scrooge by sending the metal mites to eat whole money from Scrooge's bin.
Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).
The Triads of the Horses name his horse as Melyngan Mangre (" Yellow-white Stud-horse "), one of the three bestowed horses, and the Hergest Triads refer to Lleu himself as one of the three " Red Ravagers of the Island of Britain " as well as one of the three " Golden Shoemakers ".
He takes control of both the empire and the Bene Gesserit breeding program in Children of Dune, and begins his own transformation into a sandworm to give himself the time he needs for his Golden Path to be fully realized.
The Symphonies also changed the course of Disney Studio history when Walt's plans to direct his first feature cartoon became problematic after his warm-up to the task The Golden Touch was widely seen ( even by Disney himself ) as stiff and slowly paced.
Kent Allard appears as himself in at least twenty-eight Shadow novels: " The Shadow Unmasks ," " The Yellow Band ," " Death Turrets ," " The Sealed Box ," " The Crystal Buddha ," " Hills of Death ," " The Murder Master ," " The Golden Pagoda ," " Face of Doom ," " The Racket's King ," " Murder for Sale ," " Death Jewels ," " The Green Hoods ," " Crime Over Boston ," " The Dead Who Lived ," " Shadow Over Alcatraz ," " Double Death ," " Silver Skull ," " The Prince of Evil ," " Masters of Death ," " Xitli, God of Fire ," " The Green Terror ," " The Wasp Returns ," " The White Column ," " Dictator of Crime ," " Crime out of Mind ," " Crime Over Casco ," and " Dead Man's Chest.
Upon succeeding his brother and because of increased civil strife among the Golden Horde, Ivan briefly toyed with the idea of abandoning traditional Moscow allegiance to the Mongols and allying himself with Lithuania, a growing power in the west.
In 1767 he was created a knight of the Golden Spur, which enabled him henceforth to sign himself " Cav Piranesi ".
Aronofsky himself received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director.
Arthur Edward Waite considered himself an Hermeticist and was instrumental in adding the word " Hermetic " to the official title of the Golden Dawn.
Also, that Amenhotep IV's tomb inscribed five names he gave himself and one of them, Golden Horus, proves that he was crowned on the bank of the Nile, his father's favorite domain.
In some fairy tales, the character can reveal himself in every new form, and so a usurper repeatedly kills the victim in every new form, as in Beauty and Pock Face, A String of Pearls Twined with Golden Flowers, and The Boys with the Golden Stars.

Golden and described
It was the cover story of the issue of Astounding that is sometimes described as having ushered in the " Golden Age " of science fiction.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado assembled an enormous expedition at Compostela in 1540 – 1542 to explore and find the mystical Seven Golden Cities of Cibola as described by Fray Marcos de Niza.
Authors on birds David Allen Sibley, Pete Dunne and Clay Sutton, described the behaviorial difference between hunting eagles and other birds of prey thusly ( in this case the Bald and Golden Eagles as compared to other North American raptors ):
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ( commonly GEB ) is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by his publishing company as " a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll ".
He is described as follows: " German-speaking superhuman and would-be dictator is the example of the Hitleresque villain that had so much symbolic importance in the Golden Age of comic books.
* In the Golden Sun videogame series, one summon is Procne, described as " a goddess in bird form "
Carthage is located exactly where Laura Ingalls Wilder described the " Brewster Settlement ", the site where she taught her first school, in her novel These Happy Golden Years.
Many years ago, Bertrand Russell, a well known atheist, described the Golden Rule ' Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ' as New Testament teaching.
A Golden Chance Farm foal, John Henry was from breeding that might best be described as plebeian.
When McCormack described Nicklaus, Lawrence referred to the " large, strong, and blond " player as " the Golden Bear ," a nickname that would become synonymous with Nicklaus throughout his professional life.
Spectacular new species are being discovered every now and then ; for example the Golden Slipper Orchid ( P. armeniacum ), discovered in 1979 and described in 1982, amazed growers of orchids by the extraordinary beauty of its golden flowers.
Elley described the film as a " luscious labor of love " saying, " anyone with an open mind and a hankering for the simple pleasures of Tinsletown's Golden Age will be rewarded with 90-odd minutes of often silly, frequently charming and always honest entertainment.
As an ethical and moral imperative, the common good is central to the tenets of many religious faiths and can be succinctly described as doing unto others, to use a Christian phrase, as we would wish done unto ourselves ( known as The Golden Rule ; also see its Confucian complement, " do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you ," commonly called " The Silver Rule ").
A wealthy 17th century Russian diplomat once described the sable as " A beast full marvelous and prolific ... a beast that the Ancient Greeks and Romans called the Golden Fleece.
Jacobus de Voragine ( 1230 – 98 ) described James as a " Nazarene " in The Golden Legend, vol 7.
Johann Schiltberger, a 15th-century German traveler, described the installation of a new Golden Horde khan as follows (,
The Sangam is described as having been held on the banks of the Pond of Golden Lotuses in the Meenakshi-Sundaresvarar Temple in Madurai.
The writings on the Golden Plates, according to Smith, contained an account of the various nations that inhabited ancient America, and described how they were led to the New World by Jesus, but eventually lost their Christian faith through a series of wars and corruption.
In the last section of the book, Venn-Thomas makes a trip to Dunrena, the town which is the capital of the local kingdom, in order to witness the half-yearly ceremony of the changing of the king, carried out as a solemn religious-theatrical performance culminating in a ritual sacrifice similar to those described in The Golden Bough.
In a search of the best New York Times articles, the first occurrence of the phrase " high tech " occurs in a 1950s story advocating " atomic energy " for Europe: "... Western Europe, with its dense population and its high technology ..." The twelfth occurrence, in 1968, is, significantly, in a story about Route 128, described as Boston's " Golden Semicircle ":
The original silver age ( Αργυρόν Γένος ) was the second of the five " Ages of Man " described by the ancient poet Hesiod in his poem Works and Days, following the Golden age and preceding the Bronze age.
This time was described as a Golden age in Aztec chronicles.
* Him ( film ), a 1974 pornographic film described in the 1980 humour book The Golden Turkey Awards
Oski is described as " Our totem ", and Cal's teams ( or perhaps Cal students in general ) are described as sons of the Golden Bear.

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