King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

Capturing Cerberus, without using weapons, was the final labour assigned to Heracles ( Hercules ) by King Eurystheus, in recompense for the killing of his own children by Megara after he was driven insane by Hera, and therefore was the most dangerous and difficult.

On 10 August 1784 Allan Ramsay died and the office of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King therefore became vacant.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

Treaties, therefore, were signed in the name of the ' King of Ireland ', who also accredited ambassadors and received the letters of credence of foreign diplomats.

Analyzing both the narrative structure of King's fiction and King's non-fiction ruminations on the art and craft of writing, Carroll writes that for King, " the horror story is always a contest between the normal and the abnormal such that the normal is reinstated and, therefore, affirmed.

More, relying on legal precedent and the maxim " qui tacet consentire videtur " ( literally, who ( is ) silent is seen to consent ), understood that he could not be convicted as long as he did not explicitly deny that the King was Supreme Head of the Church, and he therefore refused to answer all questions regarding his opinions on the subject.

" A contrast is therefore maintained with the English law, whereby a variety of crimes, including conspiring to kill the King or " violating " the Queen, were punishable as treason.

Yachting therefore became a purely recreational form of sailing with no commercial or military function ( see, for example, the Cox & King yachts at the beginning of the 20th Century ), which still serves a broad definition of both the sport and of the vessel.

Rastas hold that they represent this fulfillment based on their experience in the light of Haile Selassie's return and coronation as the King of Kings on 2 November 1930, whom they see as the second coming of Jesus or the coming of the holy spirit, and therefore Jah, onto the Earth.

Æthelweard describes himself as the " grandson's grandson " of King Æthelred I. Eadwig was the son of King Edmund the Magnificent, grandson of King Edward the Elder, great-grandson of King Alfred the Great, and therefore great-great-nephew of King Æthelred I. Eadwig and Ælfgifu were therefore third cousins once removed.

Following the death of Margaret in 1290, John Balliol was a competitor for the Scottish crown in the so called ' Great Cause ', as he was a great-great-great-grandson of King David I through his mother ( and therefore one generation further than his main rival Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, grandfather of the Robert the Bruce who later became king ), being senior in genealogical primogeniture but not in proximity of blood.

The rebels would use the name of " King John ", on the grounds that his abdication had been under duress and therefore invalid.

The name " King's Scholars " derives from the fact that the school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440 and was, therefore, granted royal favour.

The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!

The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.

All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

King and Peter Wright were members of a group of thirty MI5 officers who wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and King allegedly used the meeting to urge Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The King, many of the Feuillants, and the Girondins specifically wanted to wage war.

Toho had long wanted to make a King Kong film and decided to replace the Frankenstein creature with their own monster Godzilla.

In 1992 ( to coincide with the company's 60th anniversary ), Toho wanted to remake this film as Godzilla vs. King Kong as part of the Heisei series of Godzilla films.

The King maintained that it was now his sole prerogative to choose a governor-general, and he wanted Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood for the Australian post.

King had been in his political infancy when he witnessed the Conscription Crisis of 1917 during World War I and he wanted to prevent the same divisions from threatening his government.

The purpose of his early dreams was to reach ' Slumberland ', the realm of King Morpheus, who wanted him as a playmate for his daughter, the Princess.

At one point, King Hsinbyushin wanted to see how muay boran would compare to the Burmese Lethwei ( Burmese Boxing ).

The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.

The College of Cardinals was equally split between French and Italian Cardinals who wanted a Pope from their country due to the ongoing political situation with Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX of France, who had usurped the throne of Sicily by arms and perpetually intervened in the political affairs of the entire Italian peninsula.

Innocent irritated the King still more that same year by abolishing the much abused right of asylum, by which foreign ambassadors in Rome had been able to harbor in embassies any criminal wanted by the papal court of justice.

According to Ralph of Coggeshall Henry the Young King was the instigator of rebellion against Henry II ; he wanted to reign independently over at least part of the territory his father had promised him, and to break away from his dependence on Henry II, who controlled the purse strings.

King later mentioned during an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he wanted to completely destroy the vehicle himself with a pickaxe.

The King wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, whom Baldwin and other British politicians considered unacceptable as Queen, as she was an American divorcée.

King wanted to avoid a repeat of the Conscription Crisis of 1917.

" His first doctoral student, Murray Vernon King, pinned the label on him, and it was quickly adopted by other students, who wanted to use an appellation that showed informal respect.

King Iasus wanted a son ; when Atalanta was born, he left her on a mountaintop to die.

Exerting massive pressure in order to gain part of the substantial funds of the Order, the King managed to get the ruling he wanted.

The Book of Chronicles says that Jeremiah did write a lament on the death of King Josiah.

After the fall, the rule of God was expressed through the Law, the Judges, the King of Israel and finally the promise that God would write his law on his people's hearts ( Jer 31: 33 ).

Tsiang and John King Fairbank, who used newly opened archives in the 1930s to write from the Chinese point of view.

Svend Aagesen's history of Denmark, Brevis Historia Regum Dacie ( circa 1186 ), states that Saxo had decided to write about " The king-father and his sons ," which would be King Sweyn Estridson, in Books 11, 12, and 13.

Two weeks later Stephen King telephoned Brown personally and suggested he write an article about how he discovered the truth, allowing himself to be interviewed.

King has indicated that he and Straub will likely write the third and concluding book in this series, the tale of Jack Sawyer, but has set no time for its completion.

This spin-off is a rare occasion of another author being granted permission to write commercial work using characters and story elements invented by King.

Rather than declare himself bankrupt, or to accept any kind of financial support from his many supporters and admirers ( including the King himself ), he placed his house and income in a trust belonging to his creditors, and determined to write his way out of debt.

He was banned by the apartheid regime in February 1973, meaning that he was not allowed to speak to more than one person at a time nor to speak in public, was restricted to the King William's Town magisterial district, and could not write publicly or speak with the media.

King died on July 22, 1950, at Kingsmere from pneumonia, with his retirement plans to write his memoirs unfulfilled.

In 2006, Straczynski was hired to write a feature film based on the story of King David for Universal by producers Erwin Stoff and Akiva Goldsman.

He claimed to have been commissioned to write by King Amalric himself, but William did not allow himself to praise the king excessively ; for example, Amalric did not respect the rights of the church, and although he was a good military commander, he could not stop the increasing threat from the neighbouring Muslim states.

Mortimer responded by commanding the Lord Mayor of London, Richard de Betoyne, to write to Parliament, asking them to go to the Guildhall to swear an oath to protect the Queen and Prince Edward, and to depose the King.

Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.

" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

This drove Stephen King to write Misery as a metaphor for the fact that he was chained to writing horror fiction.

The British producer Graham King revealed that he had hired Towne to write a remake of The Battle of Britain in a December 2011 interview.

According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.

Diane possessed a sharp intellect and was so politically astute that King Henry II trusted her to write many of his official letters, and even to sign them jointly with the one name HenriDiane.

* Some writers have attempted to write a full or partial text for the imaginary The King in Yellow, including James Blish in his short story " More Light ", Lin Carter (" Tatters of the King ", 1986 ), and Thom Ryng ( The King in Yellow, 2000 ).

The Historia Brittonum would come to be the basis on which later medieval authors such as Geoffrey of Monmouth would write the romantic histories of King Arthur.