Stephen and Alice have one other son Drake Lawhead, to whom Stephen dedicated The Warlords of Nin, the second book in the Dragon King Trilogy.

In 1587 Francis Drake claimed, in a figure of speech, to have singed the King of Spain's beard.

King Snake ( real name Sir Edmund Dorrance ) is a fictional character who appears in books published by DC Comics universe, usually as an adversary of Tim Drake and Batman.

* Seven Seas to Calais ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Sir Francis Drake, King of the Seven Seas, Rod Taylor

* Seven Seas to Calais ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Sir Francis Drake, King of the Seven Seas, Rod Taylor

Drake, taken by religious fervour, dies atop his house as the King blows it up to create a fire break to prevent further spread of the fire.

King, with vampire hunters Blade and Frank Drake, joined Strange in their visit to Castle Mordo where they retrieved the Darkhold.

The trio subsequently founded a detective agency initially simply known as King, Drake, and Blade ; the private investigations firm was later known as Borderline Investigations.

During this time it also released five of the cast albums from the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center revivals, The Merry Widow with Patricia Munsel, Show Boat with Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne and William Warfield, Kismet with Alfred Drake, Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, Carousel with John Raitt and The King and I with Rise Stevens and Darren McGavin.

The group's second album, Touched by the Crimson King was released in 2005, and featured a number of guest musicians, including Bobby Jarzombek, Jim Morris, Rubin Drake, Howard Helm, Kathy Helm, Tori Fuson, Jesse Morris and Krystyna Kolaczynski.

* Makai Kingdom: Chronicles Of The Sacred Tome ( King Drake the Third )

It was directed by Alfred Drake, and featured Nancy Dussault as Hilaret, John Michael King and George S. Irving, and Hy Hazell repeating her role as Mrs. Squeezum.

Another ally that Drake eventually met was vampire detective Hannibal King, whom Drake would come to trust because of Blade.

Drake, King, Blade and Strange battled Dracula and the Darkholders, and were responsible for casting the Montesi Formula which destroyed Dracula and all vampires and banished vampirism from earth.

Drake, King ( now cured of vampirism and the only vampire to survive the Montesi spell ), and Blade decided to remain together and become private investigators, founding the firm of King, Drake, and Blade ( aka Borderline Investigations ).

Apparently, the friendship between King, Drake, and Blade had soured.

On this realization, Strange arranged for the release of Blade and for Drake ( whose wife Marlene had again mysteriously fallen ill ), to meet him and King back at their old Borderline offices where King, who had been running the business by himself had to eventually close shop due to the return of his vampirism.

Drake, armed with an anti-supernatural nanotech gun named Linda ( after Linda Blair of The Exorcist ) fights alongside Blade and King against various occult enemies.

Eventually, they fight against the Atlantean vampire Varnae in which Drake overloads Linda causing an explosion that is thought to destroy him and Varnae ( King having attempted to sacrifice himself by plunging a metal stake through his heart while fighting off vampire-lord Varnae's mental control ).

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

In fact, it was not until the King of Spain had visited at Pickfair that Mary and Doug were beckoned to cross the sacred barriers which separate Los Angeles and Pasadena from the hoi-polloi.

There were rumors that the Ministry of the Interior favored an arbitrary, `` non-political '' process, which were indirectly affirmed when the King personally intervened in the planned meetings.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

Grimwald, King of the Lombards ( 662 – 671 ), and his young son and successor Garibald ( 671 ), were the last Arian kings in Europe.

These Saxons were tributaries to the Frankish King Sigebert, and their participation indicates that Alboin had the support of the Franks for his venture.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

His maternal grandparents were King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran of Armenia.

There were several revolts, the stories of chaos leading to an invasion by King William of the Norman Sicilians.

Stradling and half a dozen of the crew survived the loss of their ship, but were made prisoners by the Spanish, as the War of the Spanish Succession was going on ( England and the Netherlands were in conflict with France and Spain over who was to be King of Spain ).

In 1973, he formed another group, Snape, with Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, and Ian Wallace, who were previously together in King Crimson.

Notable in the late ' 80s were All Star Fresh of King Bee topping charts with: " Back by Dope Demand " in early 1990 and Rudeboy of Urban Dance Squad who, at the time, were arguably more widely known in New York City than the Netherlands.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

File: National-Debt-Gillray. jpeg | In a 1786 James Gillray caricature, the plentiful money bags handed to King George III are contrasted with the beggar whose legs and arms were amputated, in the left corner

The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.

Certain persons in England during the reign of King Henry I of England were called Acephali because they had no lands by virtue of which they could acknowledge a superior lord.

His character is similar in look and voice to the Hank Hill character from Judge's subsequent series, King of the Hill since both were based on the same collection of elderly men from Judge's youth.

On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.

This proved unsuccessful: in 1396 the Christian allies, under the leadership of the King of Hungary and future Holy Roman Emperor ( in 1433 ) Sigismund, were defeated in the Battle of Nicopolis.