" Almost like a tag-team of pseudo-arrogance, Bobby Davis would incredulously say of Roger's opponents that they didn't even deserve to be in the same ring as Rogers, bemoaning the fact that " This is a sport of Kings!

Roger eventually found Hart and when strain in Roger's marriage to Dinah emerged, Hart got Dinah to sleep with him and then gleefully revealed the fact to his enraged dad.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

This fact makes it plausible that some of the suspect works that form part of Alexander's corpus should be ascribed to his father.

But there was no getting over the fact that his father had sworn to pardon him and let him live in peace if he returned to Russia.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

Arnulf had in fact ruled Bavaria during the summer and autumn of 879 while his father arranged his succession and he himself was granted " Pannonia ," in the words of the Annales Fuldenses, or " Carantanum ," in the words of Regino of Prüm.

He travels across the desert and confronts the Preacher who does, in fact, prove to be his father, Paul Atreides.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

Until this time, Mike Baldwin had been portrayed as an only child, with his father appearing in the programme between 1980 and 1982 confirming the fact.

In April 2009 it was revealed that Eileen Grimshaw's father, Colin had slept with Eileen's old classmate, Paula Carp while she was still at school, and that Paula's daughter, Julie was in fact also Colin's daughter.

However, the “ actual sounds that she hears are accounted for by the efforts of the faithful servant to communicate with her, there is still a hint of supernatural in her dream, inspired, it would be seem, by the fact that she is on the spot of her father ’ s murder and that his unburied skeleton is concealed in the room next hers ”.

Schliemann later admitted fabricating it ; at the time of the discovery Sophia was in fact with her family in Athens, following the death of her father.

This time, Bobby had enough and left after telling his father that he should just accept the fact that he is a mutant and he would never fit the definition he has of normal.

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

This account frequently invokes the slogan of " avenging the blood of Naboth " (, 25, 26 ), whose vineyard Jehoram's father Ahab had taken by force (); this fact suggests that perhaps the burden of making the northern kingdom a regional power had grown too heavy for its citizens, and Jehoram's defeat at Ramoth-Gilead gave them an opportunity to throw this burden off.

In the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, Luke receives extensive Jedi training from the elderly ( and only surviving ) Jedi Master Yoda ( Frank Oz ), even as he learns that Vader is in fact his father, former Jedi Anakin Skywalker.

Luthor is unable to cope with the fact that not only was his greatest enemy raised by humans, but he also had a father he would actually mourn, compared to the anguish Luthor endured in his own relationship with his father.

This can be seen from the fact that he was father to four ( non-reigning ) empresses, uncle to two emperors and grandfather to another three.

The moral and general civilizational decline of the Nephites is reflected in the fact that with the exception of Abinadom who writes slightly more than his father Chemish, each successive author from Nephi to Abinadom writes less than his predecessor.

Her first cousin once removed, also named Lucy Grymes, married Henry Lee II ( who was in fact Peyton Randolph's first cousin once removed ), and was the mother of Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee, who was the father of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee.

That same year, sitting in a library in New Orleans while his father took medical courses at a nearby college, Howard discovered a book concerned with the scant fact and abundant legends surrounding an indigenous culture in ancient Scotland called the Picts.

There were also hopes for an episode in which T ' Pol would finally meet her father and discover that he was in fact a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

Richard had in fact been captured en route to England by the Duke of Austria and was handed over to Emperor Henry VI, who held him for ransom.

This is supported by the fact that in 1502, he became Duke of Camerino, one of Cesare's recent conquests, hence the natural inheritance of the Duke of Romagna's oldest son.

The book is organized as a series of fictional conversations that occur between the courtiers of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 ( when Baldassare was in fact part of the Duke's Court ).

The Duke of Gordon is depicted as leading his Gordon Highlanders into battle, and is described by the Duchess of Richmond as " uncle ": in fact, he is a conflate character, representing the contributions of several members of the House of Gordon.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

After almost seven years of childless union, the Duke of Wroclaw obtain the annulment of his marriage under the grounds of sterility, although this fact is disputed by modern historians.

The fact that his brother Duke William carries a similar item suggests that, in this context, the mace may have been simply a symbol of authority.

In fact, Richard elevated Henry from Earl of Derby to Duke of Hereford.

In a contrasting report, historian Richard Kurin speculated that the " theft " of the French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl Wilhelm of Brunswick.

The Duke has not in fact left the city, but remains there disguised as a friar ( Lodowick ) in order to spy on the city's affairs, and especially on the actions of Angelo.

The Duke pretends not to heed the women's petition, and only after revealing that Claudio has not, in fact, been executed, relents.

This is attributed to the fact that while his first wife was finally pregnant after six years of childless marriage, the Duke sent rich gifts to the Benedictine monastery of Saint Gilles in southern France, begging for a healthy child.

The fact Scrooge remained willing to make business with him suggests the Duke never claimed to be richer than him.

Not much else is known about the real Duke since he just made a cameo at the beginning of the last page and his only purpose in the story was cluing ( via his presence ) Scrooge to the fact he was dealing with an imposter.

Tradition says that the little log school went by the name of the Duke School House from the fact that Chattam Duke was the teacher of the first term of school in the new district — this was on or about the year 1851.

Henry and his advisor, the Duke of Sully saw the essential first step in this to be the negotiation of the Edict of Nantes, which, rather than being a sign of genuine toleration, was in fact a kind of grudging truce between the religions, with guarantees for both sides.

As Royalist supporters ( despite the fact that Sarah's great uncle, James Temple, was convicted of regicide ), the Jennings ' loyalty to the crown, like the Churchill's, was repaid with court employment, and in 1673 Sarah followed her sister Frances into the household of the Duchess of York, Mary of Modena, second wife to James, Duke of York.

The fact that the book was acquired by a 16th-century Earl of Arundel suggests that Duke Humphrey's inscription was not entirely accurate, as New College would probably not have disposed of it.

Paul does in fact seem to have physically resembled the Grand Duke ( Peter III ) so one might doubt any claims of illegitimacy.

" The fact that Bolingbroke had secretly ordered the British commander, the Duke of Ormonde, to withdraw from the Allied forces before the Battle of Denain ( informing the French, but not the Allies ), and the fact that they secretly arrived at separate peace with France was a fait accompli, made the objections of the Allies pointless.