In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Louis XVI had already been guillotined before the start of the terror ; Queen Marie Antoinette, Barnave, Bailly, Brissot and other leading Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( despite his vote for the death of the King ), Madame Roland and many others were executed by guillotine.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

This is because he found the poison that killed King Roland inside of Peter's room.

Skroob schemes to steal air from the planet Druidia by kidnapping the daughter of King Roland ( Dick Van Patten ), Princess Vespa ( Zuniga ), on the day of her pre-arranged wedding to the narcoleptic Prince Valium ( Jim J. Bullock ).

* Dick Van Patten as King Roland

* King Roland, Vespa's father, dotes on his beloved daughter, but nonetheless forces her to marry the " last prince in the galaxy ".

Upon the Spaceballs attack on Vespa's Mercedes spaceship, King Roland hires Lone Starr and Barf and requests that " if at all possible, try to save the car ".

* Druidia — Home of the Druids, ruled by King Roland and Princess Vespa in the film Spaceballs.

* English poet Robert Browning composed an epic poem, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ; the title of which comes from a line in William Shakespeare's play King Lear.

* American writer Stephen King has written a seven-volume series of epic fantasy novels called The Dark Tower, concerning the thousand-year quest of Roland Deschain, of Eld, based in part on Browning's Childe Roland.

Beeston appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it shown as having a mill: " Bistone: Roland, Norman and Pirot from Eudo FitzHubert ; William Speke ; Thurstan the Chamberlain ; Godmund ; Alwin from the King.

He uses hardware for his electronic music such as King Tubby-style spring reverbs, Akai samplers, ( S950 for early work, S6000 for later work ), a Roland SH-101 synthesizer, a Roland TB-303 bassline synthesizer, and a reel-to-reel tape machine.

Schenker has been on the covers of many guitar magazines and has influenced many notable guitar players, including Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield ( Metallica ), Dave Mustaine ( Megadeth ), Adrian Smith ( Iron Maiden ), Randy Rhoads ( Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot ), Michael Amott ( Arch Enemy-Spiritual Beggars ), Chris Caffery ( Savatage ), Gus G ( Ozzy-Firewind ), Vinny Burns ( Dare, ex-Ten ), George Lynch ( Dokken-Lynch Mob ), Doug Aldrich ( Whitesnake-Dio ), Warren DeMartini ( Ratt ), Frank Hannon ( Tesla ), Slash ( Guns N ' Roses-Velvet Revolver ), Michael Wilton ( Queensrÿche ), Paul Gilbert ( Racer X-Mr. Big ), Roland Grapow ( Masterplan-ex-Helloween ), Aaron Aedy ( Paradise Lost ), Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson ( Testament ), Andy LaRocque ( King Diamond ), Gary Holt ( Exodus ), Erik Turner ( Warrant ), Arjen Lucassen ( Ayreon ), Andy DiGelsomina ( Lyraka ), Hans Ziller ( Bonfire ), Jim Matheos ( Fates Warning ), Michael Denner and Hank Shermann ( Mercyful Fate ), Tak Matsumoto ( B ' z-TMG ), Marty Friedman ( Megadeth-Cacophony ) among many others.

* King Marsile, Saracen king of Spain ; Roland wounds him and he dies of his wound later.

* Grandoyne, fighter on Marsile ’ s side ; son of the Cappadocian King Capuel ; kills Gerin, Gerier, Berenger, Guy St. Antoine, and Duke Astorge ; killed by Roland.

King, " Sloop John B " by The Beach Boys, " The Way You Do the Things You Do " by The Temptations, and " Comin ' Home Baby " by Roland Kirk and Quincy Jones.

Thus it was held by Roland de Dinan, a Breton lord, in 1167 ; Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester before 1204 ; Theodoric the Teuton, a servant of King John, after 1204 ; William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, in 1217, and intermittently by the third and fourth Earls up to 1237 ; Simon de Steyland, the King's clerk, around 1237 ; John son of Geoffrey, described as " of the lands of the Bretons ", from 1240 ; Nicholas of Ely, Bishop of Winchester, from about 1272 ; and then by three successive queens: Queen Eleanor, Queen Margaret, and Queen Isabella, from 1280 until 1331.

Roland is a 30th-generation descendant of his world's version of King Arthur, referred to in the series as Arthur Eld.

Eddie Dean sees Stephen King as a young man and recognizes that he and Roland share many of the same physical features, saying that Roland could be King's father.

In 1769, official contacts resumed when a trade treaty was signed between King Hsinbyushin and the French East India Company.

In Portugal, King John II said in order to break Venetian and Ottoman control over trade with the East, they needed to organise a series of expeditions southwards along the African coast with the idea of establishing direct contacts with Asia.

The former monarch was charmed by the opportunity to help his homeland and communicated with many of his English contacts ( including, probably, King George V ) in order to resolve the dispute.

Dellinger had contacts and friendships with such diverse individuals as Eleanor Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Hoffman, A. J.

The king circumvents Henrietta, and so she frustratedly contacts her brother King Charles II, imploring him to eject Raoul from England.

As the series draws to an end, Glinda telepathically contacts and saves Dorothy from falling to her death from a tower, following a confrontation with the Nome King and his minions.

His extensive travels have given him contacts in all parts of the world, including the Emperor of Mallorea and the King of the Murgos.

But as it turns out, the crash was deliberately set up, as the pilot contacts his superior (" Mr. Big "/" Shark King ") via walkie-talkie.

Parallel contacts were established, through Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu and Emil Bodnăraş, between the PCdR, the Soviets, and King Michael.

When they pursue him to a nearby store and Clock King threatens a woman, Aquaman contacts the lobsters in a nearby tank and has them attack Clock King.

Through his freemason contacts with Pierre Maurice Glayre, Piattoli won the confidence of Poland's King Stanisław August Poniatowski, becoming his agent in Paris and, by the end of 1789, his private secretary and librarian, although without any official title.

Obsessed with winning this final game, King contacts a medium, only to have Knight's ghost possess the medium and suck him into the afterlife to continue playing, leaving only a single pawn behind for The Collector.

The new ambassador quickly developed close contacts with King George VI and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, even though the U. S. was only providing provisions but had not yet joined the fight.

Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future King Henry II, mounted a small mercenary invasion of England in 1147 but the expedition failed, not least because Henry lacked the funds to pay his men.

Patron, a Greek mercenary, encouraged Darius to accept a bodyguard of Greek mercenaries rather than his usual Persian guard to protect him from Bessus and Nabarzanes, but the King could not accept for political reasons and grew accustomed to his fate.

They hired the mercenary, King Pyrrhus of Epirus, in neighboring Greece to fight the Romans on their behalf.

* King Archidamus III of Sparta, after five years of campaigning in southern Italy, fails to achieve any decisive results and while leading a mercenary army to help Tarentum against the Lucanians, he is killed with most of his troops at Manduria in Calabria.

* King Darius III of Persia executes Charidemus, a Greek mercenary leader living in exile in Persia, for criticising preparations taken for the Battle of Issus.

During the American Revolution, King George III of England, hired German mercenary soldiers from some of the German principalities to supplement his Royal Army.

Owing to the skill of King Evagoras of Cyprus and of Egypt's Greek mercenary general Chabrias, these wars drag on for the rest of the decade.

Charles next sent the mercenary companies ( under the leadership of du Guesclin ) to fight in a civil war in Castile between King Peter the Cruel and his illegitimate half-brother Henry.

Besides the usual Roman troops and auxiliary units that would appear in any Roman army Flamininus's forces also included soldiers from the allied Aetolian League, light infantry from Athamania, mercenary archers from Crete, and elephants and Numidian cavalry from King Masinissa of Numidia.

Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future King Henry II, mounted a small mercenary invasion of England in 1147 but the expedition failed, not least because Henry lacked the funds to pay his men.

Buckingham's popularity suffered further when he was blamed for the failure of the military expedition under the command of Ernst von Mansfeld, a famous German mercenary general, sent to the continent to recover the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1625 ), which had belonged to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, son-in-law of King James I of England.

Earlier interpretations of this event focused on Rupert's concern for his honour in the face of his initial dismissal by the King ; later works have highlighted the practical importance of the courts martial to Rupert's future employability as a mercenary in Europe, given that Rupert knew that the war by this point was effectively lost.

He served as a mercenary in the army of Henry IV of France against the Spaniards, fought for Dutch independence from the Spanish King Phillip II, then set off for the Mediterranean Sea.

Following his death as Henry III tried to bring order to the country the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln, its rightful owner, leading to the Dauphin of France ( later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight day siege on behalf of the king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave.

It was during the famous stand-off between the Athenian mercenary commander ( and later strategos ) Chabrias ( d. 357 BC ) and the Spartan King Agesilaus II ( 444 BC – 360 BC ).

Count Ulrich I of Cilli, a leader of mercenary soldiers, joined King Louis I of Hungary on his 1354 campaign into Dalmatia and, shortly afterwards, the Rex Romanorum Charles IV to his coronation at Rome.

Manu de Pomphray was a Belgian mercenary who was rewarded for his " deeds " by King Malcolm circa 1130-1145

* Pierre Basile was flayed alive and all defenders of the chateau hanged on 6 April 1199, by order of the mercenary leader Mercadier, for shooting and killing King Richard I of England with a crossbow at the siege of Chalus in March 1199.

His late 17th-century / early 18th-century exploits as a street urchin, mercenary soldier, vagabond, errand-boy, merchant, galley-slave, pirate, petty despot, spy, coiner, and terrorist in the employ of King Louis XIV are the subject, in the world of Stephenson's epic, not only of much of the text proper but also of widely-popular picaresque novels read by various characters in the story.

Mathayus ( Johnson ), the last true Akkadian mercenary, along with his half-brother, Jesup, and friend, Rama, is hired by King Pheron ( Rees ) to kill a sorcerer, whose prophetic powers allow the vicious Egyptian Emperor Memnon ( Brand ) to rule his empire with an iron fist.

New characters include Ashrah, a demon searching for redemption by killing demons ; Darrius, the leader of the resistance in the realm of Order ; Hotaru, a warrior of Order, pledged to serve the Dragon King ; Dairou, a mercenary contracted by Darrius to assassinate Hotaru ; Havik, a cleric of Chaos who wishes to consume Onaga's heart and revive Emperor Shao Kahn to ensure chaos reigns ; Kira and Kobra, new members of the Black Dragon organization ; Onaga, the Dragon King and former emperor of Outworld who appears as the boss character from the arcade mode ; and Shujinko, an old warrior who was deceived by Onaga when he was a young adolescent.

The three protagonists in the novel are from each of these three races and religions: Jehane bet Ishak, a Kindath physician in Fezana ; Rodrigo Belmonte, a Jaddite captain of a company of cavalry ( loosely based on El Cid ); and Ammar ibn Khairan, an Asharite poet, mercenary, and advisor to King Almalik of Cartada ( loosely based on ibn Ammar ).