Ribbentrop became Hitler's favourite foreign-policy adviser, partly by dint of his familiarity with the world outside Germany, but also by shameless flattery and sycophancy.

Despite their ideological differences, MacLeod was a personal favourite of Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario Leslie Frost who gave MacLeod an office on the fourth floor of the legislative building at Queen's Park following his defeat and made him a paid adviser and one of Frost's speechwriters.

He was Napoleon's " favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman ".

He was principal adviser to Trees of Time and Place, a campaign for the millennium which encouraged people to gather seeds from a favourite tree, grow a seedling and plant it for the future.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The able and forceful empress Euphrosyne tried in vain to sustain his credit and his court ; Vatatzes, the favourite instrument of her attempts at reform, was assassinated by the emperor's orders.

However, he was not, according to several sources, Dinis ' favourite son ; his half-brother, the illegitimate Afonso Sanches, enjoyed full royal favour.

Eggs and ambergris was reportedly Charles II's favourite dish.

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople, where was held the court of his cousin, the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, with whom he was a great favourite.

There was little affection between her and the older children, but Anne, according to tradition, was her favourite.

" Anne, dear gentle Anne was quite different in appearance from the others, and she was her aunt's favourite.

He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.

This game was chosen by Bent Larsen as his favourite game in ' Learn from the Grandmasters '

Sydney was named as a tribute to one of Lara's favourite grounds, the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Lara scored his first Test century-the highly acclaimed 277 in the 1992 – 93 season.

The last book in this format was Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes in 1922, a collection of favourite rhymes.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

Morrison was seen as the favourite by many, but was distrusted by many sections of the party, especially the left.

The stand on Stevenage Road celebrated its centenary in the 2005 – 2006 season and, following the death of Fulham FC's favourite son, former England captain Johnny Haynes, in a car accident in October 2005 the Stevenage Road Stand was renamed the Johnny Haynes Stand after the club sought the opinions of Fulham supporters.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

In 785 the principal architect of the new capital, and royal favourite, Fujiwara no Tanetsugu, was assassinated.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

Originally these would have been dark lagers, but from 1872 a strong March brewed version of an amber-red Vienna lager made by Josef Sedlmayr became the favourite Oktoberfestbier.

Luther proved to be a master intriguer and became Ribbentrop's favourite hatchet man.

Another three years with me and I will make you a master, but please don't think that either I or the Work depend on you, any more than J. P. Morgan depends on his favourite clerk.

The favourite abused the confidence of his master shamelessly.

The Duke left his favourite Danish dog in Kelly's care, shedding many tears on parting from it: the animal outlived its master, but pined and died soon afterwards.

Potgieter's favourite master among the Dutch classics was Hooft, whose peculiarities in style and language he admired and imitated.

He became the favourite pupil of his master Porpora, of whom it is said that, having kept the young Caffarelli working from one sheet of exercises for six years, he eventually declared: " Go, my son: I have no more to teach you.

Satan answers that Job is pious only because God has put a " wall around " him and " blessed " his favourite servant with prosperity, but if God were to stretch out his hand and strike everything that Job had, then he would surely curse God.

He was cremated as a part of a fully pagan ceremony in 1342, which included a human sacrifice, with favourite servant and several German slaves being burned on the pyre with the corpse.

John Brown ( December 8, 1826 – March 27, 1883 ) was a Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom for many years.

The main characters are James Brodie ( the hatter and tyrannical patriarch of the Brodie family ), Mary Brodie ( James ' elder daughter, also one of the central characters, appearing throughout the first and last section of the novel ), Matthew Brodie ( James ' only son and oldest child in the family who also plays a significant role in the novel ), Nessie Brodie ( James ' younger daughter and favourite, who remains one of the background characters until the end of the story ), Mrs. Brodie ( James ' fragile wife who is never treated as anything more than a servant by her husband ), Grandma Brodie ( James ' mother who lives with the Brodie family ), Dennis Foyle ( A young Irishman who has a relationship with Mary ), Nancy ( James ' mistress ) and Dr. Renwick ( a character who becomes more involved in the Brodies ' family life towards the end of the novel ).

Appointed a clerk in the royal chancery, he became a favourite servant of Edward I, and was appointed Keeper of the wardrobe from 1290 to 1295.

Another captain's servant on Agamemnon was Josiah Nisbet, Nelson's stepson, but the letters suggest that Hoste quickly became a favourite and that Josiah compared badly with him in many respects.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

Its favourite prey were fish, including Atlantic Menhaden and Capelin, and crustaceans.

King Matthias favoured ancient artillery ( catapults ) as opposed to cannons, which were the favourite of his father, Johannes Hunyadi, former Regent of Hungary.

Scottish urban centres, with their poverty and unemployment were favourite recruiting grounds of the regular British army, and Dundee, where the female dominated jute industry limited male employment had one of the highest proportion of reservists and serving soldiers than almost any other British city.

His favourite films were westerns and Charlie Chaplin episodes.

Among his favourite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann Müller and Carl Severing, and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiß ( 1880 – 1951 ), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown he could then exploit.

" He also had predictable habits, which were noted by the Viennese press, such as his daily visit to his favourite " Red Hedgehog " tavern in Vienna, and his habit of walking with his hands firmly behind his back ( once again, like Beethoven ), which led to a caricature of him in this pose walking alongside a red hedgehog.

Moon's favourite musicians were jazz artists Gene Krupa and Sonny Rollins.

During the Tang Dynasty a small parrot ventures out to search for its mother's favourite food upon which it is captured by a poacher ( parrots were quite popular during the Tang Dynasty ).

Leicester's lands in Warwickshire were worth between £ 500 –£ 700 but Leicester's power and wealth, including monopolies and grants of new lands, depended ultimately on his remaining a favourite of the queen.

These tapes were soon replaced by CD + Gs, but a plug-n-play karaoke microphone that housed a factory built-in songchip loaded with hundreds of karaoke songs quickly became a favourite.

In Henry Vane's case the House of Lords were desirous of having him specifically excepted, so as to leave him at the mercy of the government and thus restrain him from the exercise of his great talents in promoting his favourite republican principles at any time during the remainder of his life.

He was elected as Pope Julius II to the papal dignity by the near-unanimous vote of the cardinals ( indeed, the only three votes he did not receive were those of Georges D ' Amboise, supposedly his main opponent and the favourite of the French monarchy, and the votes of Cardinals Carafa and Casanova ) almost certainly by means of bribery.

In his final years, the castle became Richard's favourite residence, and writs and charters were written at Château Gaillard bearing " apud Bellum Castrum de Rupe " ( at the Fair Castle of the Rock ).

Expeditions in the Hejaz and Yemen were more successful, but the conquest of Cyprus in 1571, which provided Selim with his favourite vintage, led to the calamitous naval defeat against Spain and Italian states in Battle of Lepanto in the same year, freeing the Mediterranean Sea from corsairs.

While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.

Catherine, forced into a marriage to an unattractive, obese man over 30 years her senior, had never wanted to marry Henry, and conducted an affair with the King's favourite, Thomas Culpeper, while Henry and she were married.

The assignments were formally made on April 8, four days before the mission, but Gagarin had been a favourite among the cosmonaut candidates for at least several months.

Possessing a religious yearning for direct insight into the hidden mysteries of life and the universe, and strongly influenced by the operas of Richard Wagner ( who was also Hitler's favourite composer ), King decided Hitler was akin to mythical Wagnerian heroes within whom good and evil were struggling.

They were also used to prevent a Wensleydale cheese factory from shutting down due to financial difficulties after a member of staff came up with the idea to use Wallace and Gromit as mascots, as Wensleydale is one of Wallace's favourite cheeses.