* In the 1945 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of " Invictus " to his friend Drake McHugh, played by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.

After his performance in the studio's 1942 Kings Row, Warner decided to make Reagan a top star and signed him to a new contract, tripling his salary.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

Reagan and most film critics considered Kings Row his best movie.

The film commences in 1890 in the small town of Kings Row, focusing on five children.

Drake McHugh ( Ronald Reagan ) with two lady friends in Kings Row.

Parris returns to Kings Row and decides to remain there, when he learns that Dr. Gordon has died, leaving the town with no doctor.

Wolfgang Reinhardt turned down an assignment to produce the film, saying, " As far as plot is concerned, the material in Kings Row is for the most part either censurable or too gruesome and depressing to be used.

He said that the script was being referred to his superior, Will Hays, " for a decision as to the acceptability of any production based upon the novel, Kings Row.

The film begins with a billboard promoting Kings Row as " A Good Town.

Kings Row is considered one of Korngold's most notable compositions.

New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther panned Kings Row, which he described as being as " gloomy and ponderous " as the novel upon which it was based.

TV Guide said that Kings Row was " one of the most memorable melodramas of its day ," in that it portrayed " a small town not with the poignancy and little joys of Thorton Wilder's Our Town, but rather in grim, often tragic tones.

Kings Row ran for seven episodes.

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Fulton is said to have been Bellamann's model for the fictional town of the novel Kings Row, which generated questions about the resemblance it had to individuals and situations around the area.

* Henry Bellamann, poet and author of Kings Row

In 1973, Warner Brothers released special LPs featuring excerpts from the original soundtracks of films scored by Korngold, as well as a rare recording of Korngold playing the main theme from Kings Row on the piano.

* Kings Row ( 1942 )

* In 1896, a short northerly elevated extension of the Brighton Line ( since reorganized as the Brooklyn & Brighton Beach Railroad ) to the corner of Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street allowed rapid transit trains of the Fulton Street Line of the Kings County Elevated Railroad to operate from the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge to Brighton Beach, where a walking or cable car service connection over the bridge allowed access to New York City Hall at Park Row.

This role led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as Lady Scarface ( 1941 ), Kings Row ( 1942 ), All Through the Night ( 1942 ), Otto Preminger's Laura ( 1944 ) with Gene Tierney, Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ), Jean Renoir's The Diary of a Chambermaid ( 1946 ), and a particularly memorable turn as Emily Brent in René Clair's And Then There Were None ( 1945 ).

* Kings Row ( 1942 )

Notable roles include Angels With Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Kings Row ( 1942 ) and I Was a Male War Bride ( 1949 ).

She received substantial roles and positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such films as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), opposite James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Dodge City ( 1939 ) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Torrid Zone with Cagney and They Drive by Night with George Raft and Bogart ( both 1940 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ) with Bette Davis, and Kings Row ( 1942 ), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father ( that is, Omri, but see 15: 20, 2 Kings 13: 25 ), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted.

The second encounter is between Ahab and two unnamed prophets in 1 Kings 20: 22.

The third is when Elijah confronts Ahab over Ahab and Jezebel's execution of Naboth and usurpation of his land in 1 Kings 21.

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

Essentially, 1 Kings 16: 29 through 20: 40 is the story of Ahab's reign.

Indeed, he is referred to, for this and other things as being " more evil than all the kings before him " ( 1 Kings 16: 30 ).

The area known as the Parliamentary Triangle is formed by three of Burley Griffin's axes, stretching from Capital Hill along Commonwealth Avenue to the Civic Centre around City Hill, along Constitution Avenue to the Defence precinct on Russell Hill, and along Kings Avenue back to Capital Hill.

There is no record of what became of the Ark in the Books of Kings and Chronicles.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

The idea that Domnall II of Strathclyde was a son of Áed, based on a confusing entry in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba, is contested.

In 1 Kings 1: 7, 19, 25, however, Abiathar appears as a supporter of Adonijah, and in 2: 22 and 26 it is said that he was deposed by Solomon and banished to Anathoth.

In all Christian canons of the Old Testament ( Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant ), it is divided into two parts, 1 & 2 Chronicles — immediately following 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings — as a summary of them with minor details sometimes added.

In Hebrew the book is called Divrei Hayyamim ( i. e. " the matters the days "), based on the phrases sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Yehudah and " sefer divrei ha-yamim le-malkhei Israel " (" book of the days of the kings of Judah " and " book of the days of the kings of Israel "), both of which appear repeatedly in the Books of Kings.

Chronicles was formerly presumed to represent the source-material whence Samuel and Kings were composed ; that is, the kings ' official Day-Books, much like the U. S. Congressional Record of modern times.

He does not give prominence to political occurrences, as is done in the books of Samuel and Kings, but to religious institutions, such as the details of the temple service.

Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).

There is now general agreement that Joshua was composed as part of a larger work, the Deuteronomistic history, stretching from Deuteronomy to Kings.

In Judges, Samuel and Kings Israel becomes faithless and God ultimately shows his anger by sending his people into exile, but in Joshua Israel is obedient, Joshua is faithful, and God fulfills his promise and gives them the land.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Chapters 7, 21, and 36 – 39 appear also in 2nd Kings: it is not known whether the author of Isaiah borrowed them from Kings, or vice-versa.

Deuteronomy contains the laws by which Israel is to live in the promised land, Joshua chronicles the conquest of Canaan, the promised land, and its allotment among the tribes, Judges describes the settlement of the land, Samuel the consolidation of the land and people under David, and Kings the destruction of kingship and loss of the land.

The final tragedy described in Kings is the result of Israel's failure to uphold its part of the covenant: faithfulness to Yahweh brings success, economic, military and political, but unfaithfulness brings defeat and oppression.