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Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman.
However, the swineherd Gurth, who had run away from Rotherwood to serve Ivanhoe as squire at the tournament and who was recaptured by Cedric when Ivanhoe was identified, manages to escape.
In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...
* The 1839 Eglinton Tournament held by the 13th Earl of Eglinton at Eglinton Castle in Ayrshire was inspired and modelled on Ivanhoe.
The story was the basis of André Ernest Modeste Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-Lion and seems to be the inspiration for the opening to Richard Thorpe's film version of Ivanhoe.
Based partly on Hume's History of England and the ballad cycle of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe was quickly translated into many languages and inspired countless imitations and theatrical adaptations.
Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.
The association of Harthacnut with gluttony was well-known enough to appear in the novel Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) by Walter Scott.
Sullivan's only serious opera, Ivanhoe, though initially highly successful in 1891, was little-heard after that.
Visiting a synagogue, he was so struck by some of the cadences and progressions of the music that thirty years later he could recall them for use in his serious opera, Ivanhoe.
In addition, he erected the Palace Theatre, London, which he had intended to be the home of a new school of English grand opera, although this ambition was not realised beyond the production of a single grand opera by Sullivan, Ivanhoe.
Otelia was reading Ivanhoe a book written by Sir Walter Scott.
The racial makeup of Ivanhoe was 2, 002 ( 44. 5 %) White, 19 ( 0. 4 %) African American, 80 ( 1. 8 %) Native American, 29 ( 0. 6 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 221 ( 49. 4 %) from other races, and 143 ( 3. 2 %) from two or more races.
Ivanhoe Estates was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Broward County, Florida, United States.
Otelia was reading Ivanhoe a book written by Sir Walter Scott.
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives ( June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995 ) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer.
Blanchett was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.
Previously Central Trains ran services from Birmingham New Street to Nottingham via Leicester as well as Derby, this service was split, the Leicester to Nottingham service was merged with the hourly Ivanhoe Line service to Loughbourgh and was extended past Nottingham all stations to Lincoln.

Ivanhoe and also
The claim has been disputed, but it has also been well supported by " The Original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe ", an article that appeared in The Century Magazine in 1882.
There is also a Soviet movie The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe ( Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго, 1983 ), directed by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Peteris Gaudins as Ivanhoe.
The claim has been disputed, but it has also been well sustained in an article entitled " The Original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe ", which appeared in The Century Magazine, 1882, pp. 679 – 682.
He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.
In addition to providing the music for The Harder They Come, Cliff also had the film's starring role as the struggling reggae singer, Ivanhoe " Ivan " Martin, which was his acting debut.
She also starred as Marit in the Japanese film Virus, and played Rebecca of York in the 1982 TV remake of Ivanhoe.
Post-war, Cabot landed roles in such British films as Third Time Lucky ( 1949 ), The Spider and the Fly ( 1949 ), as the villainous Fouracada in Dick Barton Strikes Back ( 1949 ); he was also in Ivanhoe ( 1952 ) and The Love Lottery ( 1954 ).
It is also crossed by two waymarked long distance walking routes – the Leicestershire Round and the Ivanhoe Way.
" He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines ( with Nino Marcelli, 1922 ), A Gest of Robin Hood ( with Robert C. Newell, 1929 ), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.
Jazz bands like Blue Sun, Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Secret Oyster and Maxwells also moved towards rock.
Ivanhoe may also refer to:
Fairview Pointe-Claire is jointly owned at 50 % by Cadillac Fairview and 50 % by Ivanhoe Cambridge ; the former is also the manager of the mall.
Platform 6 is commonly used for Ivanhoe Line trains to Leicester and also by certain Birmingham and Cardiff CrossCountry trains.
Cadillac Fairview Corporation also owns and operates Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener, Ontario, and co-owns Fairview Pointe-Claire ( Centre Fairview Centre ) with Ivanhoe Cambridge, in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.
Scaddan became a keen unionist, and on 28 June 1904 he contested the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Ivanhoe, partly because he was having difficulty securing continuous employment, and partly also because of an interest in economic affairs.
In 1871, also, Terriss had a major success in Robin Hood and in Rebecca, based on Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
That year, Ivanhoe Cambridge purchased the remaining 13 % stake to become not only full owner of the mall, but also its manager for the first time in history.
Among TV appearances, Brown appeared in Dennis Potter's Karaoke in 1995, he also played Prince John in the BBC's adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in 1997 and did a memorable turn as shaven-headed gang-boss " Miami Vice " in the 2000 series Lock, Stock ... The Series.
He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant ; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe.
She starred in USA network's Trilogy of Terror II in which she battled the infamous Zuni doll. Lysette also played Rowena in the 1982 TV film Ivanhoe, with actors James Mason, Sam Neill and Anthony Andrews.
He performed as Valmont in the BBC Radio production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Hinds also narrated the Penguin Audiobook Ivanhoe.
* Leicester also has a series of terraced streets with the names Hawthorne, Alma, Rowan, Ruby, Ivanhoe, Sylvan, Oban, and Newport-the first letter making the name " Harrison "-after the builder.

Ivanhoe and its
Conisbrough is so dedicated to the story of Ivanhoe that many of its streets, schools, and public buildings are named after characters from the book.
After various changes, its county seat since 1904 has been Ivanhoe.
The Yellow Medicine River flows past Ivanhoe as an intermittent stream near its headwaters.
In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services between Leicester and Burton as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project.
This began to change with a vengeance by the mid-19th century, as appreciation of medieval sculpture and its painting, known as Italian or Flemish " Primitives ", became fashionable under the influence of writers including John Ruskin, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Pugin, as well as the romantic medievalism of literary works like Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1819 ) and Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ).
The earliest use of oubliette in French dates back to 1374, but its earliest adoption in English is Walter Scott's Ivanhoe in 1819: ' The place was utterly dark — the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent.
But it still carried its popular history usefulness, conjuring up an imagined Anglo-Saxon golden England, as in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe where a ' Saxon proverb ' is put in the mouth of Wamba ( Ch.
Although only a small area, Ivanhoe East has its own church, newsagent, fruit store, butcher, milk bar, supermarket, bakery and community bank.
The Ivanhoe East area " blending into Eaglemont " is specifically described as " the area's more exclusive pocket " with " its own dedicated shopping village, which is much quieter than the strip shopping on Upper Heidelberg Road in Ivanhoe central ".
From north to south the Cobb Highway begins at its junction with the Barrier Highway near Wilcannia and runs south through the townships of Ivanhoe, Booligal, Hay and Deniliquin.
* Ivanhoe, Gary, Indiana, a neighborhood infamous for its housing project
* Vaughan Mills – ( Toronto, Ontario ) Built in 2004 and the first Mills property outside the U. S .; Mills sold its share in July 2006 to Ivanhoe Cambridge.
The mall is currently owned and operated by Ivanhoe Cambridge, and displays the names of the streets its main hallways exit to (" Howard Street ", for example ).
* In November 2008, a New York State court refused to dismiss a suit alleging that Robert J. Ivanhoe, chairman of Greenberg Traurig's New York City office and head of its real estate group, disregarded his " legal and fiduciary duties " by taking a personal financial stake in a competitor to a client that had invested in a multibillion-dollar real estate venture.

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