Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

The King and Queen were still optimistic – the Byzantine Emperor had told them that the German King Conrad had won a great victory against a Turkish army ( when in fact the German army had been massacred ), and the great troop was still eating well.

Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, they won a decisive victory in the summer of 711 when the Visigothic King Roderic was defeated and killed on July 19 at the Battle of Guadalete.

King Louis XIV of France eventually " won " the War of Spanish Succession, and control of Spain passed to the Bourbon dynasty.

First the Ottomans won at 1371 on the Maritsa River — where the Serb forces were led by the King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last emperor from the Serbian Nemanjic dynasty.

* 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

King carried only Connecticut, Delaware, and Massachusetts and won only 34 of 217 electoral votes cast.

Through one of these lodgers, the seven-year-old Pickford won a big part at Toronto's Princess Theatre in a stock company production of The Silver King.

The German army, under nominal command of the King but controlled by Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, won victory after victory.

For example William Lyon Mackenzie King, after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, briefly " governed from the hallway " before winning a by-election a few weeks later.

In 1996, King won an O. Henry Award for his short story " The Man in the Black Suit ".

It was won by the King and General Prem Tinsulanonda, who favored a monarchy constitutional order.

Tonga's Prime Minister is currently appointed by the King from among the members of Tonga's Parliament after having won the support of a majority of its members.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

Whereas English judges won their independence from the Crown in the Act of Settlement 1701, American colonial judges still served at the pleasure of the King.

Winston Churchill told King George VI: " It was thanks to Ultra that we won the war.

King called an election in 1925, in which the Conservatives won the most seats, but not a majority in the House of Commons.

King and his party won the election and a clear majority in the Commons.

William Lyon Mackenzie King greeting Barbara Ann Scott, who won a gold medal in figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympic Games, at Ottawa

With the War winding down, King held the Canadian federal election, 1945, and won the election, with a minority, but formed a functioning coalition to continue governing.

* September – The Great Tea Race of 1866 ends in London, narrowly won by the clipper ship Taeping.

The Sunday Academy side won their division of the Chess Valley League ; even their Tea Lady won an award for the Best Teas in Middlesex.

She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy, opposite Anthony Perkins.

From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Enchanted April ( 1992 ), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, Dennis the Menace ( 1993 ), a cameo in Last Action Hero ( also 1993 ), and Tea With Mussolini ( 1999 ).

And while serving during the Second World War, he also had the good fortune to play in the famed Tea Bowl for the Canadian Army football team against American Army team at White City Stadium on February 13, 1944 in London, England ( the Canadians won 16-6 ).

Over the next five elections, Tierney won with over 60 % of the vote, although he faced a challenge from the Tea Party backed Republican candidate Bill Hudak in 2010, after his wife Patrice was convicted of felony tax fraud ; though he won with 57 % of the vote.

A number of undistinguished television and film roles followed, but Wong began breaking into better roles in 1989, when he made a memorable guest appearance on the drama series 21 Jump Street and won a leading role in Wayne Wang's acclaimed independent romantic comedy Eat a Bowl of Tea.

A new owner brought the Tea Men into the minor league-level American Soccer League the next season, where they won the 1983 ASL Championship.

striker Mike Flanagan, the Tea Men won their division to much public acclaim, with Flanagan winning the league MVP award.

Allen won the Juno Award for Best Reggae / Calypso Album for Revolutionary Tea Party in 1986 and Conditions Critical in 1988.

The Rob Zadow Medal ( the award presented to the Best Player of the One Day District Grand Final ) was won in February 2008 by Cameron Borgas for the final between Sturt CC and Tea Tree Gully CC.

Racing in the second, third, and fourth legs of Sydney's Princess Series, for three-year-old fillies, she powered through the wet on her Australian debut in the Furious Stakes, won the Tea Rose Stakes in fast time on a dry track two weeks later, and rounded out her campaign with a resounding win in the Flight Stakes-her first of 13 Group One wins.

Charles Harve, who recently won the `` Most Muscular Man '' subdivision award in the Mr. Canada event ; ;

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

Of the 24 pitchers who have won the award, 15 are right-handed while 9 are left-handed.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers ' first baseman, won the inaugural award.

Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

The following year, Robinson won the American League Most Valuable Player award, thus becoming the first ( and so far only ) man to win the MVP in each league ( Robinson won the NL MVP in 1961, leading the Reds to the pennant ).

He won the Man of the Match award for both matches and was also named Man of the Series.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

Other editions of Call of Cthluhu have also won Origins Awards including the Hall of Fame award.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

" Super Joe " Charbonneau won the American League Rookie of the Year award.

Grady Sizemore, who had a. 995 fielding percentage and only two errors in 405 chances, won the Gold Glove award, Cleveland's first since 2001.

Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).

It was shown in competition at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Work.

In 1974, Mike Marshall won the award, becoming the first relief pitcher to win the award.