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Harold and Last
This was followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine ( 1834 ), The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1834 ), Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes ( 1835 ), and Harold, the Last of the Saxons ( 1848 ).
* Harold, the Last of the Saxons ( 1848 )
), and Harold Pinter ( The Last Tycoon ).
Echoes of elements of " The Theatre of the Absurd " can be seen in many later playwrights, from more avant-garde or experimental playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks – in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and The America Play, for example – to relatively realistic playwrights like David Mamet – in Glengarry Glen Ross, which Mamet dedicated to Harold Pinter.
Tostig features in the novels The Last English King ( 2000 ), by Julian Rathbone ( where he is depicted as Edward the Confessor's catamite ), Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The King's Shadow, by Elizabeth Alder, The Interim King, by J. Colman McMillan, Warriors of the Dragon Gold, by Ray Bryant, and God's Concubine book 2 of The Troy Game series by Sara Douglass, The Bastard King by Jean Plaidy.
Lyrics, were written by Harold Adamson ( nominated 5 times for an Oscar )-nephew Bruce Adamson noted, that " Harold wrote several hundred songs for the film industry such hits as Wyatt Earp ; Time on My Hands ; Coming in on A Wing and a Prayer ; Around the World in 80 Days, An Affair to Remember, Sinatra's first Oscar nomination " I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night ," Jean Harlow's last song, Did I Remember ; naming a few " and the lyrics to ' I Love Lucy ' was sung by Desi Arnaz, written for the episode by Harold Adamson " Lucy's Last Birthday ":
Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.
Famous former residents also include Kathy Staff ( aka Nora Batty from the sitcom Last of the Summer Wine ) and Harold Shipman, the UK's most prolific serial killer.
The scene where Chon Wang and Roy fall off of the minute hand on Big Ben is a reference to Jackie Chan's earlier film Project A where Jackie Falls off the minute hand of a smaller clock tower, itself a reference to Harold Lloyd's famous clock-tower stunt from the 1923 film Safety Last!
Chan has described the stunt as a homage to Harold Lloyd in the film Safety Last.
* Kurtz, Harold The Trial of Marshal Ney: His Last Years and Death New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
One of the earliest thriller movies was Harold Lloyd's comic Safety Last!
Harold Isbell includes a translation in his anthology, The Last Poets of Imperial Rome.
He was played by David McCallum in the 1958 film A Night to Remember, by Barry Pepper in the 1996 CBS-TV miniseries Titanic, by Craig Kelly in the 1997 film Titanic, and by Jake Swing in Tom Lynskey's 2010 independent film The Last Signals, a biographical drama about Harold Sydney Bride.
On visits to Florence he cemented his friendship with Norman Douglas, who wrote an introduction to Harold ’ s translation of a lubricious 18th-century memoir of Giangastone de ’ Medici, The Last of the Medici, privately printed in Florence in 1930 as part of the Lungarno Series.
His last role in a theatrical film was in The Last Starfighter ( 1984 ), in which he portrayed an interstellar con man / military recruiter called " Centauri "; he said that he based his approach to the character of Centauri on that which he had taken to Professor Harold Hill.

Harold and Anglo-Saxon
Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, had Danish ancestors.
* 1066: in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harold III of Norway.
Harold Godwinson, or Harold II ; ( c. 1022 – 14 October 1066 ) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
In 1037, Harold was generally accepted as king, Harthacnut being, in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, " forsaken because he was too long in Denmark ", and Emma fled to Bruges, in Flanders.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Harold said that he was a son of Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northampton, " although it was not true ".
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle points that Godwin and the leading men of Wessex opposed the rule of Harold for "... as long as they could, but they could mot do anything against it.
The account of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version E, jumps from Harold being a mere regent to Harold being the sole king.
An Anglo-Saxon charter attributes the illness to divine judgment. Harold had reportedly claimed Sandwich for himself, depriving it from the monks of Christchurch.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Harold Harefoot ruled for four years and 16 weeks, by which calculation he would have begun ruling two weeks after the death of Cnut.
The two main protagonists are Harold Godwinson, recently crowned King of England, leading the Anglo-Saxon English, and William, Duke of Normandy leading a mainly Norman army, sometimes called the companions of William the Conqueror.
Then, three weeks later, William of Normandy defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings, in Sussex, and in December he accepted the submission of Edgar the Ætheling, last in the line of Anglo-Saxon kings, at Berkhamsted.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( MS E ) describes Eric laconically as ‘ Harold ’ s son ’ ( Haroldes sunu ), perhaps assuming some familiarity on the reader's part.
Whether there is any validity in the story of the huge Viking who stood his ground on a bridge against the might of Harold Godwinson's army we will never know, but the fact is that a bridge was mentioned in both Manuscript C of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and again in its extended 12th century version.
Less than three weeks after Stamford Bridge, on 14 October, Harold was defeated and killed at the Battle of Hastings, beginning the Norman Conquest of England, and ending the Anglo-Saxon era.
Tostig Godwinson ( died 25 September 1066 ) was an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Northumbria and brother of King Harold Godwinson.
It looks in some ways like a cartoon, as the story unrolls -- two combatants Anglo-Saxon English, led by Harold Godwinson, recently crowned as King of England ( before that a powerful earl ), and the Normans, led by William the Conqueror fight a battle over the control of what was then England ( 1066 CE ).
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( versions C, D and E ) describes how Harold and his men forcefully laid claim on the treasury housed in Winchester, where Cnut was buried and Emma had taken up residence:
The last Anglo-Saxon monarch, Harold II, was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1066 ; the location was preserved for all future coronations.
When the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor died in 1066 without an heir, Earl Harold Godwinson was selected to be the new king by the powerful people of the land ( Witenagemot ) who had gathered at Thorney Island where Edward's Westminster Abbey was dedicated days before he died.
* Harold Godwinson, or Harold II ( c. 1022 – 1066 ), the last Anglo-Saxon king of England

Harold and King
Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.
Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.
John of Worcester, a medieval chronicler, stated that Ealdred crowned King Harold II in 1066, although the Norman chroniclers mention Stigand as the officiating prelate.
Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.
King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.
William defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army ; thus opening England to the Norman conquest.
Cedric had planned to marry her to the powerful Lord Aethelstane, pretender to the Crown of England through his descent from the last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson, thus cementing a Saxon political alliance between two rivals for the same claim.
" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).
* 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.
* 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
The end of the Viking Age is traditionally marked in England by the failed invasion attempted by the Norwegian king Harald III ( Haraldr Harðráði ), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171 ; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III.
The Húscarls, the elite guard of King Cnut ( and later King Harold II ) were armed with two-handed axes which could split shields or metal helmets with ease.
The Bayeux Tapestry depicts a fallen golden dragon, as well as a red / golden / white dragon at the death of King Harold II, who was previously Earl of Wessex.
It may have been Norman propaganda designed to discredit Harold, who had emerged as the main contender to succeed King Edward.
Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels, and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar.

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