Abdul Alhazred acts as vizier to King Calaphim and Queen Allaria in The Land of the Green Isles in King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

Many people were buying new, more powerful computers expressly for games, and the days were long-gone when people would be satisfied with simple vectored line drawings, such as those that made the Wizardry games famous, or with the blocky graphics that were used in Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest games.

The book is similar to Peter Spear's The King's Quest Companion and The Official Uncensored Leisure Suit Larry Bedside Companion.

Unlike previous collections, this does not come with any printed documentation ( instead including PDF files containing the original manuals for copy protection purposes ), and the " Runs on Windows XP " blurb on the box is justified by an included copy of freeware application DOSBox, leaving many to see this edition ( and the simultaneous releases of the Police Quest, King's Quest and Space Quest collections ) as a cash-in to measure the viability of future games in the series.

The book, like other Sierra books by Peter Spear such as The King's Quest Companion, was revised and edited so that there was a second edition ( 1991 ) covering Larry V.

It was recreated for the video games Spy Hunter ( 2001 ), King's Quest V, Lego Indiana Jones, Sonic Unleashed and Civilization V and appeared in the novels Left Behind, Appointment with Death, The Eagle in the Sand and The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series.

It is a prelude to the King's Quest series in both story and concept.

In the summer of 1984, King's Quest was released to much acclaim.

A long series of Leisure Suit Larry games would follow in the coming years and become the second best selling game series of Sierra On-Line after King's Quest.

In 1990, Sierra released King's Quest V. It would be the first Sierra On-Line game ever to sell more than 500, 000 copies and was the highest selling game for the next five years.

Sierra On-Line's King's Quest IV became the first game-title to support the AdLib.

* 1988-Sierra Entertainment's King's Quest IV, the first PC game to support AdLib

* In the 1988 Sierra game King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, the player must steal the eye from the three witches in order to barter it for a puzzle piece that is critical to solving the game.

He wrote that, " in graphics and sound terms ... Monkey Island, along with King's Quest V, is currently at the head of the pack.

The name Gwydion also appears in the Sierra game King's Quest III, where a Prince Alexander of Daventry has been kidnapped by an evil wizard named Manannan who renames him Gwydion.

Many industry firsts were achieved in Oakhurst including the development of the first 3D adventure game ( King's Quest, 1984 ) and one of the first online gaming networks ( The Sierra Network, 1989 ).

From the 1980s to 1990s, the popular King's Quest series of adventure games was set in a fictional kingdom of Daventry, entirely unrelated to the real Daventry other than the name.

* King's Quest: Quest for the Crown

* King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne

* King's Quest III: To Heir Is Human

* King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

* King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

Henry had Richard discreetly buried in the Dominican friary at King's Langley, Hertfordshire, where he remained until King Henry V brought his body back to London and buried him in the tomb that Richard had commissioned for himself in Westminster Abbey.

It is a short film consisting of the King's death throes in Act V, Scene vii and is the earliest surviving film adaptation of a Shakespearean play.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

17 Aug, 5 Henry V. 1417, inquest held before " les Lymehostes " within the liberty and franchise of the City, before Henry Bartone, the Mayor, and the King's Escheator, as to the cause of the death of Thomas Franke, of Herewich, late steersman ( conductor ) or " lodysman " of a ship called " la Mary Knyght " of Danzsk in Prussia.

File: Siamese Royal Standard ( absent ) ( Rama V ). svg |" Thong Chudhathipathai " ( ธงจ ุ ฑาธ ิ ปไตย ) King's Absent Standard ( 1891-1897 )

Elected in 1620, Coke sat for Liskeard in the 1621 Parliament, which was called by the King to raise revenues ; other topics of discussion included a proposed marriage between the Prince of Wales and Maria Anna of Spain, and possible military support for the King's son-in-law, Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

Since the Duke did not rule out an armed intervention from Charles V, he came back on the French offer after the King's death, sending a secret and non-committal mission to King Henry II.

Though principally a stage actor, Jacobi has appeared in a number of films, such as Henry V ( 1989 ), Dead Again ( 1991 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), Gosford Park ( 2001 ), The Golden Compass ( 2007 ), The King's Speech ( 2010 ), My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ), and the forthcoming Hippie Hippie Shake.

* Wedgwood, C. V., The King's Peace, 1637-1641, 1955.

" The official memorial record of the anniversary was titled The King's Book of Quebec ; with the assent of George V, the reigning monarch at the time, the volume was published in 1911.

* Stephen King's eight-book epic The Dark Tower saga employs the number 19 in books The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, and The Wind Through the Keyhole as a mysterious and important number.

* King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

* January 7-The King's Men perform Shakespeare's Henry V at court.

In the opening of King's Quest V, Mordack casts a spell on the royal family and castle of Daventry in an attempt to avenge his older brother Manannan.

The George V " wreath " crowns struck from 1927 to 1936 ( excluding 1935 when the more common " rocking horse " crown was minted to commemorate the King's Silver Jubilee ) depict a wreath on the reverse of the coin and were struck in very low numbers.

However, he returned to the King's graces, being present at the marriage of Henry's sister, served in Parliament and being present at negotiations with Francis I of France and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

After the death of James V, David Lindsay was sent by Regent Arran to England to return the late King's collar, garter, and statutes of the Order of the Garter to Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester the prelate of the Order.

* King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!

With an Order in Council dated 9 June 1911, his brother-in-law King George V, as a gift to mark his own Coronation, granted his cousin the style His Highness, which echoed the gift of the King's Grandmother, Queen Victoria, to the Duke's father.