Although the second Frederick of Sicily, he chose to call himself " Frederick III " ( being one of the rare medieval monarchs who actually used a regnal number ) — presumably because only some fifty years before, his well-known and remembered great-grandfather had reigned Sicily and also used an official ordinal: Fridericus secundus, imperator etc ..

There is a longstanding folklore belief that this battle took place at King ’ s Cross, simply because as a medieval village it was known as Battle Bridge ; Tacitus describes the site: " Suetonius chose a place with narrow jaws, backed by a forest " but does not mention the River Fleet, which flowed here.

Hall had only recently been appointed as Artistic Director of the RSC, and, somewhat unexpectedly, he chose Two Gentlemen as his inaugural production, relocating the play to a late medieval milieu.

After its final dissociation from the national in 1985, the fraternity chose the name Chi Heorot, derived from the medieval poem Beowulf.

In the medieval version the young people, who played the chief parts, chose from among their own number a mock pope, archbishop, bishop, or abbot to reign as Lord of Misrule.

As archivist Gerasimos Tsourapas described its first days: " For its premiere production, the new organization chose The Second Shepherd's Play, the medieval English comedy that offers both sacred and profane variation on the birth of Christ: the religious could take comfort in the play's theological interests ; the secular could delight in the naughty pranks of the protagonist.

According to legend, when Vortigern fled into Wales to escape the Anglo-Saxon invaders, he chose this lofty hillfort as the site for his royal retreat.

There is a legend that his first act there was a prophecy: he chose a " faculty " which did not yet exist, that of " philology "; this omen was accepted, and he was enrolled as he desired.

There is a legend about how Ksitigarbha manifested himself in China, and chose his bodhimanda to be Mount Jiuhua, one of the Four Sacred Mountains of China in Buddhism.

According to legend King Ramathibodi I found a beautiful conch buried in the ground, and chose the site as the place for his future capital.

" Katrina marries Brom, who is said " to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related, and always laughed heartily at the mention of the pumpkin ", which events " led some to suspect that he knew more about the matter than he chose to tell "; therefore, that he himself was the Horseman, of whose legend he took advantage so as to dispose of his rival.

The Tigra legend is a very powerful one, however, and when this modern Tigra later traveled to the netherworldly dimension to confront the banished colony of Cat People, they chose to lay down their weapons rather than fight her, immediately acknowledging her status as their greatest warrior.

The book Dungeon Master For Dummies chose the module as one of the ten best classic adventures, saying it is " perhaps our favorite D & D adventure of all time ", Ravenloft " takes the Dracula legend and gives it a D & D spin ", and praised the detailed yet concise plot and isometric maps.

The legend says, that so many kings attempted to marry Thayar, but she chose Ranganatha in the midst of many kings and called the lord vaarum en manare, means " Welcome, my lord of this universe ".

The legend says that Mr Moglia, president of the club from 1923 to 1930, chose the colours of the Spanish flag after someone from the club remarked that the ruins of the Saint-Léger church they happened to be walking by that night were the last remains of the Spanish occupation in 1648.

According to an apocryphal urban legend, later discounted by the company, a worker accidentally left the mixing machine on too long and the company chose to sell the " ruined " batch because mixing air longer did not change the basic ingredients of the soap.

" An Entertainment Weekly article from January 2003 looking back at the top 25 episodes of the series chose this episode as the show's greatest episode, saying " this episode is virtually flawless, the product of a series at the height of its creative powers -- when the satire was savage and relevant " and " the stuff of syndication legend: Burns facing down brilliant labor kingpin Homer Simpson ; Homer Simpson facing down his own brain ( DENTAL PLAN !/ Lisa needs braces!

Captain L E G Oates, of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, became a legend of self sacrifice when, as a member of Scott ’ s ill fated Antarctic Expedition of 1912, he chose to sacrifice himself rather than impede the progress of his comrades.

This varies slightly from the often-repeated legend that Kinnick could have made it back to the ship but instead chose to land in the water to spare the ship's crew from danger.

), also seen as Lewis Rose ), known as the Coward of the Alamo, was according to Texas legend, the only man who chose to leave the besieged Alamo in 1836, rather than fight and die there.

Calinog, which according to legend, Datu Marikudo chose to settle, is strategically located in the central part of the Island of Panay.

The natives ’ version of the origin of the Santo Niño is in the “ Agipo ” ( stump or driftwood ) legend caught by a fisherman who chose to rid of it, only to have it returned with great plentiful harvest.

According to a legend, a man called Hachirō who was transformed into a dragon chose the lake for his home after wandering a long time.

Being Scottish, I therefore chose the name after the Tír na nÓg legend.

All sources agree, however, that Caunus chose to flee from home in order to prevent himself from actually committing incest with Byblis, and that she followed him until she was completely exhausted by grief and died ( or committed suicide ).

The Synod ( council ) rejected the king's initial candidate, taking advantage of the ambiguity of name, and chose Gregory of Seleucia, who became Mar Gregorius I.

After a player chose a category, Stein would ask a toss-up question that was assigned a dollar value, depending on the level of difficulty ; questions in this first round could be worth $ 50, $ 100, or $ 150.

Though Stein chose McGinnity as the right-handed pitcher for the Irish team, the team was omitted from the article due to space limitations.

Stein chose to go with them.

This phenomenon was demonstrated in a study with overweight children, in which causing the children to believe that they freely chose the type of therapy they received resulted in greater weight loss.

Herodotus, considered by some as the first systematic historian, and, later, Plutarch freely invented speeches for their historical figures and chose their historical subjects with an eye toward morally improving the reader.

When the subjects believed that the writers freely chose the positions they took ( for or against Castro ), they naturally rated the people who spoke in favor of Castro as having a more positive attitude towards Castro.

The so-called freeride sailing movement diverged from course racing as more recreational sailors chose to sail freely without being constrained to sailing on courses around buoys.

In Catholicism, the Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of " the fall of the angels " not in spatial terms but as a radical and irrevocable rejection of God and his reign by some angels who, though created as good beings, freely chose evil, their sin being unforgivable because of the irrevocable character of their choice, not because of any defect in the infinite divine mercy.

In response to Hendryx's question about the two individuals receiving prevenient grace and only one being saved, the Arminian would reply that the one who was saved freely chose faith, but only had the power to choose faith because of the prevenient grace, whereas the one who was not saved had the same assistance from prevenient grace and thus the same ability to choose, but freely chose not to have faith.

The Polish section of the SOE was the only one which chose its own men freely and operated its own radio communication with an occupied country.

The Mormons, believing that the law unconstitutionally deprived them of their First Amendment right to freely practice their religion, chose to ignore the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act at the time.

He chose the seashore as an initial habitat for such machines, giving them easy access to the chemicals in seawater, and suggested that later generations of the machine could be designed to float freely on the ocean's surface as self-replicating factory barges or to be placed in barren desert terrain that was otherwise useless for industrial purposes.

According to the Pope, Judas freely chose to betray Jesus: " an open rejection of God's love.

The Transylvanian estates, claiming the right to freely chose the Prince, rejected both candidates, as electing Drugeth would have meant yielding to the late Bocskay ( who had named Homonnai ) and to the Ottomans ( who had already accepted this designation ), while electing Báthory would have meant accepting his dynastic claims and a return to hereditary rule.

When Philips bought Philco in 1981, Philips was able to freely use the Philips name for all of their US products, but they chose to retain the Norelco name for personal care appliances, and the Magnavox name for economy-priced consumer electronics.

Irrespective of the must-carry rule requiring cable systems to carry the station, many cable systems freely chose to carry WVJV as opposed to VH1.