The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

He was one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance and a knight of the Order of the Dragon.

Though the age of the knight was over, armour continued to be used in many capacities.

Abbadie was a knight of the Legion of Honour and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Bayezid ascended to the throne following the death of his father Murad I, who was killed by Serbian knight Miloš Obilić during ( June 15 ), or immediately after ( June 16 ), the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, by which Serbia became a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

In reality Walter fitz Alan was the son of a Breton knight.

The rank of commodore derives from the French commandeur, which was one of the highest ranks in orders of knighthood, and in military orders the title of the knight in charge of a commenda ( a local part of the order's territorial possessions ).

Shortly thereafter, Castelnau was murdered as he returned to Rome, allegedly by a knight in the service of Count Raymond.

He certainly returned to Lisbon by the beginning of April 1484, when John II ennobled him, made him a cavaleiro ( knight ) of his household ( he was already an escudeiro or esquire in the same ), and granted him an annuity and a coat of arms ( April 8, 1484 and April 14, 1484 ).

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

The emperor was the first knight of Christendom, and the other Christian kings were his brother-knights sworn to Christian chivalry with its devotion to justice and charity.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

The new name " Falstaff " probably derived from the medieval knight Sir John Fastolf ( who was also a Lollard ).

The Hungarian knight army had its golden age under King Louis the Great, who himself was a famed warrior and conducted successful campaigns in Italy due to family matters ( his younger brother married Joan I, Queen of Naples who murdered him later.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

His offer is made on the surmise that the palmer was in reality a knight, York having observed his knight's chain and spurs ( a fact that he mentions to the palmer ).

" She was unaware at the time that the re-move was caught on tape by a television crew: the videotape showed Kasparov's fingers were free of the knight for six frames ( meaning, at 24 frames per second, Kasparov had released the piece for ¼ of a second ).

Polgár was playing an endgame of knight against knight and two connected passed pawns of Alexander Grischuk, but she was able to eliminate both pawns.

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur (" The Death of Arthur "), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.

`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Round Reading Room, which was designed by the architect Sydney Smirke, opened in 1857.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

In his first ever appearance for the Dons, against Hawthorn in Round 1 1949, he booted 12 of his side's 18 goals to create an opening round record which was to endure for forty five years.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.

Although it was designed to serve multilateral agreements, during several rounds of GATT negotiations ( particularly the Tokyo Round ) plurilateral agreements created selective trading and caused fragmentation among members.

* Rodney Eade – Australian Rules Footballer who played 259 games for Hawthorn and the Bears, was head coach of the Western Bulldogs until Round 21, 2011

In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip.

Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

Back in New York and in better health, in 1955 Davis attended the Newport Jazz Festival, where his performance ( and especially his solo on "' Round Midnight ") was greatly admired and prompted the critics to hail the " return of Miles Davis ".

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

On 26 November 2005, a Round Table Conference ( RTC ) was held between the governments of the Netherlands, Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and each island in the Netherlands Antilles.

The first big coup for the Qatari government was hosting a major round of trade talks that resulted in what is referred to as the Doha Round.

Wace claims he was not the source of the Round Table ; both he and Layamon credit it instead to the Bretons.

In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.

The artifacts known as the " Winchester Round Table ," a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

The mean onset age was 25.3 months ( Table 1 ), and the average Span of the osseous stage was 133 months.

The correlation ( Table 2 ) between onset age and completion age was -.50, and that between onset age and Span was -.10.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.

Drain off the soap solution of the suds cycle at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Column A of Table 2,, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.

It has been remarked that this development in the law was somewhat surprising at the time, as the relevant provisions in Table A ( as it was then ) seemed to contradict this approach rather than to endorse it.

This was achieved by the insertion of the words ' and oblations ' into the prayer for the Church and the revision of the rubric so as to require the monetary offerings to be brought to the Table ( instead of being put in the poor box ) and the bread and wine placed upon the Table.

Based on the intuition of a very experienced chemist, Dimitri Mendeleev had predicted the existence of a missing element in the Periodic Table, which was later found to be filled by technetium, and Bohuslav Brauner had predicted the existence of another missing element in this Table, which was later found to be filled by promethium.

Moseley redefined the idea of atomic numbers from its previous status as an ad hoc numerical tag to help sorting the elements, in particular in the Periodic Table, into a real and objective whole-number quantity that was experimentally measurable.

It was named after Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, who created the Periodic Table.

In 2002, Lin was elected Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University ( upon whose campus sits another of Lin's designs: the Women's Table – designed to commemorate the role of women at Yale University ), in an unusually public contest.