Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

Hastings reasoned, " Here was the spot where he had lived when he first came to this country.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.

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.

For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

In Regal ( Hastings ) Ltd v Gulliver All ER 378 the House of Lords, in upholding what was regarded as a wholly unmeritorious claim by the shareholders, held that:

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.

As his bass player Debby Hastings said: he was the rock that the roll was built on.

The same was the case for Henry de Hastings, who was the commander of Kenilworth Castle.

The wedding was deferred until Anne was 15 and finally took place along with that of Lady Elizabeth Hastings and Lord Herbert, on 16 December 1571 at Whitehall, with the Queen in attendance.

On 14 October, after having marched his exhausted army all the way from Yorkshire, Harold fought the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, where England's army was defeated and Harold was killed.

Hastings was, for centuries, an important fishing port ; although nowadays much reduced, it still has the largest beach-based fishing fleet in England.

The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 ; although the battle itself took place to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at a site now known as Norman's Bay.

Hastings Borough Council is now in the second tier of local government, below East Sussex County Council.

In 1878, the University established its first law school in San Francisco with a US $ 100, 000 gift from Serranus Clinton Hastings ; it is now Hastings College of the Law.

The two erstwhile rural rail routes to the north, linking to East Grinstead and Uckfield respectively, are both now closed, but the East Coastway Line, connecting Brighton with Eastbourne and Hastings, and the branch to Seaford remain.

The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Battlefield, which includes the abbey buildings and ruins, a visitor centre with a film and exhibition about the battle, audio tours of the battlefield site, and the monks ' gatehouse with recovered artefacts.

Three former elementary schools were closed in June 1980: Prospect School was torn down, along with the former Baldwin Junior High School and former Baldwin Senior High School which were combined in one building in the 1980s to make way for a housing complex ; Coolidge School on Grand Avenue has been converted to condominiums ; Harbor Elementary School on Hastings Street is now the school district office building.

Young Creighton lived in various homes and boarding schools until 1916, when his father ( now employed in films ) married Hazel Hastings and could provide a stable home.

Despite Lord Hastings ' less-than-stellar opinion of Raffles before ( which had necessitated his trip to England to clear his name at the end of his tenure as Governor-General of Java ), the now well-connected and successful Raffles was able to secure the permission to set up a settlement where in Malaysian history the name Lion City was applied and was in a strategically advantageous position.

There was a swamp between the now Hastings Street and Wellesley Road and the sea extended to " Clive Square ".

Many local people firmly believe that Hastings was originally named Hicksville, after Francis Hicks, who bought a block of land, which now contains the centre of Hastings, from Thomas Tanner.

Internal fighting, particularly the long established battle for ascendancy in Leicestershire between the Grey and Hastings families, now on the national stage, allowed Gloucester to seize power and usurp the throne.

In other respects there is very little personal detail regarding him in these novels, until Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which is presumed to take place a great many years later ; with his wife now dead, Hastings rejoins Poirot at Styles to help Poirot tackle one last case, Poirot dying of a heart attack at the conclusion but leaving Hastings a confession explaining his role in events.

The eastern end of the High Weald, the English Channel coast, is marked in the centre by the high sandstone cliffs from Hastings to Pett Level ; and by former sea cliffs now fronted by the Pevensey and Romney Marshes on either side.

Its historical boundaries were the waterfront ( now Water Street and the CPR tracks ), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B. I.

The original downtown Vancouver store, on Hastings Street, also remains and now serves as the downtown Harbour Centre campus of Simon Fraser University.

The town was an important coaching stop on the way to Hastings from London, and the now defunct Royal Bell Hotel ( just off Market Square ) is referred to in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

In 2008, Hastings, by now the ranking member of the Ethics Committee, pushed the investigation of Charlie Rangel.

Harold marched his army back down to the south coast where he met William's army, at a place now called Battle just outside Hastings.

Both that and the direct link to Hastings are now closed.

The Hastings family member now serving on the board is Claes H. Lewenhaupt.

It also houses a small museum which used to be the Hypolite Du Puis house, the Henry Hastings Sibley house, the Faribault house, and buildings associated with the American Fur Company, all dating from the 1830s.

James Hastings and separately Thomas Neufeld have expressed the view that the circumstances of the birth of Jesus were deliberately kept restricted to a small group of early Christians, and were kept as a secret for many years after his death.

Napier has a population smaller than Hastings but is seen as the main centre due to it having both the seaport and the airport, although Hastings has a small aerodrome.

Fairlight Glen lies about two miles ( 3 km ) east of the fishing port of Hastings and west of the small village of Fairlight Cove on the East Sussex coast.

James Hastings and separately Thomas Neufeld have expressed the view that the circumstances of the birth of Jesus were deliberately kept restricted to a small group of early Christians, and were kept as a secret for many years after his death, thus explaining the variations in the accounts in Luke and Matthew.

Winchelsea is a small village in East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately two miles ( 3 km ) south west of Rye and seven miles ( 12 km ) north east of Hastings.

Before being elected to Congress, Hastings ran his family-owned small business, Columbia Basin Paper and Supply.

Hastings also hosts many small businesses associated with the recreational boating industry.

Hastings has one small beach, most of the coastline being mudflats.

Merricks is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located in the southeastern Mornington Peninsula between Hastings and Flinders.

A small monument, the Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster Monument, marks the location, on County Road 44, at 37 ° 20 ' N 104 ° 36 ' W, about 1. 5 Km west of the Ludlow Monument.

A major exhibition of that work was toured by Warwick Arts Centre from 1995 to 1997 ; Godwin self-published a small book of that work in 1999, called Glassworks & Secret Lives ( ISBN 0953454517 ), which was distributed from a small local bookshop in her adopted hometown of Hastings in East Sussex.

Then a man in a cloak, who is a participant in the big four, comes and tries persuading Hercule Poirot to stop and Hastings gets into a small fight with the stranger who evades Poirot, Hastings, and the hotel manager with a clever disguise.

Poirot pretends to have stomach cramps, and when he is alone with Hastings, he quickly tells him that Templeton's son is number Four, as he dabbed up the crumbs with a small slice of bread at the table.

In 1832 in co-operation with Sir Charles Hastings and Sir John Forbes, he founded a small medical association with a view to raising the standard of provincial practice called the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.

The village also has a small Church of England chapel, the Church of the Good Shepherd, which is in the ecclesiastical parish of Leamington Hastings.

This small section was electrified to provide for carriage sidings ( there was no space at Hastings ) as part of the " East Coastway " electrification of July 1935.

After Poirot's testimony at the inquest – that Mrs Franklin had been upset and that she had emerged from Dr Franklin's laboratory with a small bottle – a verdict of suicide is brought in, but Hastings suspects that the death was murder and Poirot confirms this.

Hastings, therefore, as Colonel Hastings, became engaged in various skirmishes between the opposing forces, seeing action at the Battle of Hopton Heath, fighting a small battle at Cotes Bridge near Loughborough and later losing an eye to a pistol shot after an exchange near Bagworth, all in 1643.

Hastings has some light industry, while Rye has a small port.