King David performed a census that produced disastrous results ( in and ).

* 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

On 14 July 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ de Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille with the Fête de la Fédération ; Talleyrand performed a mass ; participants swore an oath of " fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king "; the King and the royal family actively participated.

* The Masque of Flowers ( performed by Gray's Inn before the King at Whitehall to honour the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard, Countess of Essex ) ( 1614 )

He wrote both the words and music of his opera Le Devin du Village ( The Village Soothsayer ), which was performed for King Louis XV in 1752.

John Dryden's masque King Arthur is still performed, largely thanks to Henry Purcell's music, though seldom unabridged.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Robin was often allocated the role of a May King, presiding over games and processions, but plays were also performed with the characters in the roles, sometimes performed at church ales, a means by which churches raised funds.

Part three, " The Baby King ," featured Elvis songs performed by an elderly Elvis impersonator for his grandchildren.

This evidence strongly suggests the play was still being read and performed as late as 1520, perhaps as late in Renaissance as the final years of King Henry VIII's reign.

Additionally, Reno did the voice-over for Mufasa in the French-language version of The Lion King, a role originally performed by James Earl Jones.

Every evening the " Pic-o-de-Crop " Show is performed when finally the King of Calypso is crowned.

The first of these, the Freedom Seder, was written by Arthur Waskow, published in Ramparts magazine and in a small booklet by the Micah Press and in a later edition ( 1970 ) by Holt-Rinehart-Winston, and was actually performed on April 4, 1969, the first anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the third night of Passover, at Lincoln Memorial Temple in Washington, DC.

The concert was performed for King George I on his barge and he is said to have enjoyed it so much that he ordered the 50 exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

This demonstration was performed before a crowd at the royal palace in Versailles, before King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

Pat Thrall joined Downes, Palmer and Wetton on tour and they performed classic material, including King Crimson and U. K. songs.

# " King Porter Stomp " ( performed by Jelly Roll Morton ) – 2: 09

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this tragic ending was much criticised and alternative versions were written and performed, in which the leading characters survived and Edgar and Cordelia were married ( despite the fact that Cordelia was already betrothed to the King of France ).

King Lear was politically controversial during the period of George III's madness, and as a result was not performed at all in the two professional theatres of London from 1811 to 1820: but was then the subject of major productions in both, within three months of his death.

Emerson toured with Greg Lake in the US and Canada during spring of 2010, doing a series of " An Intimate Evening with Emerson and Lake " duo shows in which they performed newly arranged versions of the music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Nice, and King Crimson as well as Emerson's new original composition.

At first, the monarch was the only member of the Royal Family to carry out public ceremonial duties solely on the advice of Canadian ministers ; King Edward VIII became the first to do so when in July 1936 he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France — one of his few obligations performed during his short reign.

In May 1975, Wakeman released The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, with the album was performed live at the Empire Pool on ice.

The historical parallels in the succession of Richard II may not have been intended as political comment on the contemporary situation, with the weak Richard II analogous to Queen Elizabeth and an implicit argument in favour of her replacement by a monarch capable of creating a stable dynasty, but lawyers investigating John Hayward's historical work, The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV, a book partly derived from Shakespeare's Richard II, chose to make this connection.

In its extreme form, caesaropapism is a political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor (' Caesar ', by extension an ' equal ' King ), is also the supreme head of the church (' papa ', pope or analogous religious leader ).

The second uncle is analogous to Chrétien's Fisher King, but what Peredur sees being carried before him in his uncle's castle is not a " grail " ( Old French graal ), but a salver containing a man's severed head.

By 1498, Horta was elevated to the status of vila ( analogous to a town ) by decree of King D. Manuel I, as its center grew north from the area around the small chapel of Santa Cruz.

* Terra King ( analogous to Marvel's Mole Man )

He continued to enjoy the viceroy's confidence when he took up the analogous post in Valencia in 1575, although Herrera moved his residence to Court as Gonzaga's most trusted aide, resolving issues on his behalf before the King and the Court.

Gessler's role in Tell's story is analogous to that of King Nidung in the story of Egil in the Thidreks saga.

The situation is analogous to a King, who has both a prime minister and many generals managing various aspects of his kingdom.

The " King of Jazz " title was a publicity stunt in 1923, by a musical instrument manufacturer that Whiteman endorsed, and Whiteman's publicists used it to good measure.

Substitute hosts on the original version included Bill Hart ( 1951 ), John Reed King ( 1952 ), stunt creator Frank Wayne ( 1953 ), Bob Kennedy ( 1954 ), Win Elliot ( 1955 ), and Sonny Fox, who became Collyer's permanent substitute from 1957 to 1960.

In May 2004 a Massey University stunt involved staging auditions for extras in Peter Jackson's King Kong.

She accepted small roles in big films like Mujhe Jeene Do and big roles in small budgeted stunt films like Boxer, Samson, Tarzan, and King Kong.

In December 2007, he appeared as a cashier in a corporate stunt by Burger King titled " Whopper Freakout " where a United States Burger King franchise informs its customers the signature Whopper has been discontinued.

Anita King ( August 14, 1884 – June 10, 1963 ) was an American stunt driver, actress, and thoroughbred racehorse owner.

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

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

Lines 23-36 of Lycidas later point to a friendship with Edward King, who entered Christ's College 9 June 1626.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

In 1721 the King sent three commissioners to Louisiana with full powers to do all that was necessary to protect the colony.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

Well, a man had tried, at the King Arthur, to register with an ocelot.

At the King Arthur one guest had had his head heavily bandaged, and another had a bandaged foot and had walked with crutches.

Hecuba, was the wife of King Priam of Troy, and Apollo had a son with her named Troilus.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* King Edward VII Land with

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

King Eadbert and his brother Egbert oversaw the re-energising and re-organisation of the English church, with an emphasis on reforming the clergy and on the tradition of learning that Bede had begun.

Angilbert's non-sacramental relationship with Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne, was evidently recognized by the court – if she had not been the daughter of the King, historians might refer to her as his concubine.

* 1992 – Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.