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.

Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.

The first mention of Hastings is found in the late 8th century in the form Hastingas.

In the Middle Ages Hastings became one of the Cinque Ports ; Sandwich, Dover, and New Romney being the first, Hastings, and Hythe followed, all finally being joined by Rye and Winchelsea, at one point 42 towns were directly or indirectly affiliated to the group.

These included storms, the first tram, visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Hastings Marathon Race and the pier fire of 1917.

* 1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

Polgár then tied for first in the Hastings tournament held over New Years, 1992 – 93.

Two years later, Malawi adopted a republican constitution and became a one-party state with Hastings Banda as its first president.

In 2007, US Congressman Alce Hastings introduced a bill to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the first use of the name " America " with the support of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Organizing Committee and mayors in fifty states to champion the national strategy " Bring Home The Spirit of History in your town ".

O ' Donnell's next pass was a 19-yard completion to Hastings, and then a 3-yard fourth down run by wide receiver / backup quarterback Kordell Stewart netted a first down.

The description Ideal Utilitarianism was first used by Hastings Rashdall in The Theory of Good and Evil ( 1907 ) but is more often associated with G. E. Moore.

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.

Originally, the President was directly in charge of the first campus, Berkeley, and in turn, all other UC locations ( with the exception of Hastings College of the Law ) were controlled by the Berkeley campus.

* June 13 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, is executed, in the first recorded execution at the Tower of London.

Amatus of Montecassino's L ' Ystoire de li Normant (" History of the Normans "), written thirty years after the battle of Hastings, is the first report of Harold being shot in the eye with an arrow.

Hastings marks the first known use of the crossbow in battle in English history.

The algorithm was named after Nicholas Metropolis, who was an author along with Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller of the 1953 paper Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines which first proposed the algorithm for the specific case of the Boltzmann distribution ; and W. Keith Hastings, who extended it to the more general case in 1970.

Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.

Hastings town centre and the Memorial from an old postcard

Hastings town centre in 2005

By the end of the Saxon period, the port of Hastings had moved eastward near the present town centre in the Priory Stream valley, whose entrance was protected by the White Rock headland ( since demolished ).

Hastings was now a small fishing settlement, but it was soon discovered that the new taxes on luxury goods could be made profitable by smuggling, and the town was ideally located for that.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Hastings is situated where the sandstone beds, at the heart of the Weald, known geologically as the Hastings Sands, meet the English Channel, forming tall cliffs to the east of the town.

A separate revival occurred in Hastings in 1983 and has become a major event in the town calendar.

In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent, Hastings, on the south coast of England and later rented a workshop in Queen's Arcade in the town.

The two armies clashed at the Battle of Hastings, at Senlac Hill ( near the present town of Battle ) close by Hastings on 14 October, where after nine hours of hard fighting and probably less than 30 minutes from victory Harold was killed and his forces routed.

It took place at Senlac Hill, approximately 10 km ( 6 < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 4 </ sub > miles ) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.

An oceanway runs from the Noosa River mouth along Hastings Street town centre and then out around the Noosa National Park headlands and beaches to Sunshine Beach.

Hastings is a town and agricultural center in St. Johns County, Florida, United States, southwest of St. Augustine.

Hastings in 1910 was thriving town that was a stop on the Florida East Coast Railway.

The only public school in the town is the Hastings Youth Academy, an Alternative school.

There are several ponds and brooks through town, including Sheomet Lake, Laurel Lake, Wheeler Reservoir, Richards Reservoir and Hastings Pond.

Hector was founded in 1878 when the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company constructed the railroad on the north side of the original town site.

The 10 block town site survey was completed September 14, 1878 on land owned by the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company.

Instead the railroad laid its tracks seven miles east and set up the new town of Hastings, which in September 1878 won a five-year Great County Seat War and became the county seat.

The town of Doniphan was platted by local pioneer William J. Burger in 1879 as a midway point between Hastings and Grand Island on the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad.

Many of the local residents work within the town, and some travel to Grand Island and / or Hastings, Nebraska.