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King and intended
The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace, but the plan had been thwarted by both friend and foe alike.
Newspaper reporter Janet Lawton ( Loretta King Hadler, in a role originally intended for Dolores Fuller ) investigates further, becoming a prisoner of Dr. Vornoff in the process.
President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.
The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.
Omri, King of Israel, continued policies dating from the reign of Jeroboam, contrary to the laws of Moses, that were intended to reorient religious focus away from Jerusalem: encouraging the building of local temple altars for sacrifices, appointing priests from outside the family of the Levites, and allowing or encouraging temples dedicated to the Canaanite god, Baal.
There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.
Although it is not known whether Honoria intended this as a proposal of marriage to Attila, that is how the Hun King interpreted it.
An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.
Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.
It was also traditional for the King of France to crown his successor whilst he himself was still alive, making the intended line of succession relatively clear, but this was not the case in England.
At last she is restored to her father, whom she quits again in the guise of a virgin, and, as was at first intended, is married to the King of Algarve.
King was intended to be a transitional character between Keel and Steed's two new female partners, but while the Dr. King episodes were shot first, they were shown out of production order in the middle of the season.
The Great War monument was not installed until the 1939 royal visit, and King intended that the replanning of the capital would be the World War II memorial.
* November 5 – Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before King James I of England at Whitehall ( both were intended victims ).
In 2004 Enfield starred in a series of commercials for Burger King in the United States as Dr. Angus, a character intended to promote the company's newest hamburger.
A figure in the panel of the Bayeux Tapestry with the inscription " Harold Rex Interfectus Est " ( Harold the King is killed ) is depicted gripping an arrow that has struck his eye, but some historians have questioned whether this man is intended to be Harold, or if Harold is intended as the next figure lying to the right almost prone, being mutilated beneath a horse's hooves.
Doubtless by this he intended to symbolize his claim to be " Lord Paramount " of Scotland with right to oversee its King.
In August 1791, Frederick Augustus arranged a meeting with Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia at Pillnitz Castle that was intended partly to offer support for the French monarchy in the face of revolutionary agitation in France.
Simon noticed a striking resemblance between Lambert and the supposedly murdered sons of Edward IV, so he initially intended to present Simnel as Richard, Duke of York, son of King Edward IV, the younger of the vanished Princes in the Tower.
Contrary to its intended purpose of strengthening the position of the King against the revolutionaries, the Brunswick Manifesto had the opposite effect of greatly undermining Louis's already highly tenuous position in Paris.
Further, though neither was ever used for their intended purpose, Hatley Castle in British Columbia was purchased in 1940 by King George VI in Right of Canada to use as his home during the course of World War II, and the Emergency Government Headquarters, built in 1959 at CFS Carp and decommissioned in 1994, included a residential apartment for the sovereign or governor general in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa.
As a consequence of this success he was engaged to execute a bust of King George III, intended for Christ Church, Oxford.

King and fill
In a peace gesture to the Buchanan wing of the party, Pierce's supporters allowed Buchanan's allies to fill the second position, knowing that they would select Alabama Senator William R. King.
At length, the King consented to fill the House of Lords with Whigs ; however, without the knowledge of his cabinet, he circulated a letter among Tory peers, encouraging them to desist from further opposition, and warning them of the consequences of continuing.
When Adam Bamme, the mayor of London, died in June 1397, Whittington was imposed on the city by the King as Lord Mayor of London two days later to fill the vacancy with immediate effect.
The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).
In 1138 King Stephen chose Theobald to fill the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury over Stephen's own brother Henry, the Bishop of Winchester, who had helped Stephen gain the throne of England.
In 1173, more than two years after the murder of Becket, King Henry II of England decided to fill the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury ; there were two candidates: Richard, and Odo, prior of Canterbury.
" King defended his project and maintained that future biographies on Frame would eventually fill in the gaps left by his own work.
Sir Galahad ’ s success in the high religious endeavour that was the search for the Holy Grail was predicted before his birth, not only by King Pelles but by Merlin: Merlin had told Uther Pendragon that there was one who would fill the place at the “ table of Joseph ”, but that he was not yet born.
King George V founded the order to fill gaps in the British honours system:
It seems that Sima Qian assigned the second part of the reign of King Hui ( starting in 334 BCE, on which date the hitherto Marquess Hui probably proclaimed himself King ) to his son King Xiang, and added King Ai to fill in the gap between 319 and 296 BCE.
The moves were a reflection of his ability to ' master his brief ' quickly, and as successive crises hit the government it was King who was moved to fill the gap.
One scholar speculates the public had grown weary of King Arthur – the greatest of all giant killers – and Jack was created to fill his shoes.
To fill King Edward ’ s fame with prisoner kings …
Later in October, Parliament ordered the committee to directly remove those officers whose loyalty were with the King, and to nominate their own candidates to fill these vacant offices.
As an example of how powerful King Radbod still was at the end of his life, the news that he was engaged in assembling an army was enough to fill France with fear and trembling.
Living just outside New York City, King was frequently available when Sullivan needed an act to fill in for a last-minute cancellation.
In 1844 Lewis was appointed by his brother-in-law Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. King in 1844.
He was again appointed and subsequently elected to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. King ( who had been elected Vice President of the United States ) and served from January 14, 1853 to March 3, 1855.
When Kirsten Gillibrand, the Congresswoman representing New York's 20th congressional district in the House, was appointed to fill the seat until the special election by Governor David Paterson, King said he would consider holding off on making a run for the seat: " If he appointed Caroline Kennedy, I was ready to file papers right away because she ’ s a superstar and you can ’ t let her build a head of steam – and she was totally unqualified in my perspective.
The King obviously wanted to demonstrate a clear break with the discredited sixth reign, and the choice of men to fill the top positions appeared to be guided largely by a wish to restore a Chulalongkorn-type government.
After King Hussein of Jordan proclaimed the administrative and legal separation of the West Bank from Jordan in 1988, the UNLU organised to fill the political vacuum.

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