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Later, after he had been crowned King of East Francia, Arnulf turned his old territory of Carinthia into the March of Carinthia, a part of the Duchy of Bavaria.
King Odin commanded Loki to steal the necklace, so Loki turned into a fly to sneak into Freyja's bower and stole it.
Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.
In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.
Boston Disco Radio DJ Jack King turned the record over and recalls being stunned by what he heard.
They turned their eyes towards King Geirröth, who was reigning in the stead of his late father, King Hrauthung.
In Thrace, Hera and Zeus turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains, the Balkan ( Haemus Mons ) and Rhodope mountain chains respectively, for their hubris in comparing themselves to the gods.
But the 1848 revolution turned out to be unsuccessful: King Frederick William IV of Prussia refused the imperial crown, the Frankfurt parliament was dissolved, the ruling princes repressed the risings by military force, and the German Confederation was re-established by 1850.
This selection of the King of Spain turned out to play an important role in European and world history, since France opposed a German prince's candidacy to the Spanish throne, and this served as the immediate motive for the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ).
King Henry is famed for holding the record for more than twenty acknowledged illegitimate children, the largest number born to any English king ; they turned out to be significant political assets in subsequent years, his bastard daughters cementing alliances with a flock of lords whose lands bordered Henry's.
However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.
With John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Clapton turned up the volume on a sound already pioneered by Buddy Guy, Freddie King, B. B.
In 1887, King Fataaiki wrote to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, requesting that Niue be placed under British protection, but his request was turned down.
Stephen turned to Pepin the Younger, the recently-crowned King of the Franks, and even traveled to Paris to plead for help in person.
Both Honorius III and King Louis VIII of France turned a deaf ear to Frederick II's assertion of the claims of the Empire to that town.
It turned out, for certain temperaments, a seductive book .” For biographer David King Dunaway, The Doors of Perception, along with The Art of Seeing, can be seen as the closest Huxley ever came to autobiographical writing.
At the death of the Sun King in 1715, the village of Versailles had turned into a city of approximately 30, 000 inhabitants.
As the treaty of Senlis had resolved French differences with the Holy Roman Empire, King Louis XII of France had his borders secured in the north and turned his attention to Italy, where he made claims for the Duchy of Milan.
On the death of Odo I, Fulk seized Tours ( 996 ); but King Robert the Pious turned against him and took the town again ( 997 ).
In 1927, King Oliver turned down a regular booking for his group as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club ; the offer passed to Ellington.
Vasco da Gama's request for permission to leave a factor behind him in charge of the merchandise he could not sell was turned down by the King, who insisted that da Gama pay customs duty — preferably in gold — like any other trader, which strained the relation between the two.
Lucius then turned for help to Conrad, King of the Romans, and on December 1144 wrote to him pleading for military assistance against the Senate and the Patrician Giordano Pierleoni.
Center counter symmetry allows either player to decide whether to switch his King and Withdrawer (" Queen ") around, and then corner counter symmetry requires each player to decide which of his " Rooks " will be turned upside down.
Prince Albert, Duke of York – " Bertie " to the family – was the second son of King George V. He initially proposed to Elizabeth in 1921, but she turned him down, being " afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to ".

King and question
When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.
The Genus III edition of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit had a question that asked " Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs.
The Allies never recognized an Albanian government in exile or King Zog, nor did they ever raise the question of Albania or its borders at any of the major wartime conferences.
John Wycliffe's entrance upon the stage of ecclesiastical politics is usually related to the question of feudal tribute to which England had been rendered liable by King John, which was not paid for thirty-three years until Pope Urban V in 1365 claimed it.
About Martin Luther King he said: " I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
In his introduction to The Bachman Books, King does state that Bachman was also an attempt to make sense out of his career and try to answer the question of whether his success was due to talent or luck.
King concludes that he has yet to find an answer to the " talent versus luck " question, as he felt that he was outed as Bachman too early to know.
In 1967, Dr. King gave a famous speech at the Riverside Church in New York City, his first to publicly question the U. S. involvement in Vietnam.
These measures were unsuccessful because King George III and the ministry of Prime Minister Lord North were determined not to retreat on the question of parliamentary supremacy.
In the light of facts about the diplomatic work of Stibor and the Clan of Ostoja that was following the politics of King Sigismund, one can question if Sigismund really joined the anti-Polish alliance in reality.
After the death of the absolutist king Matthias Corvinus in 1490, the Hungarian magnates, who did not want another heavy-handed king, procured the accession of Vladislaus II ( reigned 1490 – 1516 ), king of Bohemia, because of his notorious weakness: he was known as King Dobže, or Dobzse in Hungarian orthography ( meaning “ Good ” or, loosely, “ OK ”) from his habit of accepting without question every petition and document laid before him .< ref name =" britannica1 ">
The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) – including King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( which actually began formally on 23 October 1739 ), and two of the three Silesian wars – involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the realms of the House of Habsburg.
The memoir underlines the fact that while King Baudouin of Belgium generally did not like the people who were opposed to his father at the time of the Royal question, de Staercke had become a friend of his.
Yet, the play leaves open to question whether any of Henry's three sons should be thought to have been truly loved by either Henry or Eleanor and not merely used by King and Queen as pawns in their ceaseless scheming against one another.
As a mermaid, she lived in the Aegean and when she encountered a ship she asked its sailors only one question: " Is King Alexander alive?
An electoral defeat for the Government was out of the question because Pitt enjoyed the support of King George III.
From his home near Oxford, Buchan wrote to Mackenzie King: " The important question for me is, of course, the King's visit to Canada.
The royal family question the stranger, who calls himself the Phantom of Truth, but he only gives cryptic answers and claims to be an emissary of the terrible mythical being known as the King in Yellow, or Last King.
Pilate's main question to Jesus was whether he considered himself to be the King of the Jews in an attempt to assess him as a potential political threat.
The question of a King was again considered, and the Storting elected to offer the throne to the 33-year-old Prince Carl of Denmark, married to Princess Maud of Wales, the daughter of King Edward VII.
It is probable that the hesitation of the French court on this question was one of the causes of the enduring personal hostility Palmerston showed towards the French King thereafter, though that sentiment may well have arisen earlier.
The King was free to choose councillors, but was bound to decide on governmental matters only in presence of the Privy Council, or a subset thereof, and after report of the councillor responsible for the matter in question.

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