* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress ( Gladys Knight & the Pips )

Music by Motown artists such as Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and the Supremes did much to popularize what became known as the Motown sound.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

* Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The following artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground.

Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded Mayfield's soundtrack for Claudine in 1974, while Aretha Franklin recorded the soundtrack for Sparkle in 1976.

Two years later they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, together with Gladys Knight and The Pips.

Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R & B / soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989.

The longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with The Pips, who included her brother Merald " Bubba " Knight and their cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers.

The Pips began to perform and tour, eventually replacing Brenda Knight and Eleanor Guest with cousins Langston George and Edward Patten in 1959.

Shortly afterwards, Langston George left the group, and the remaining members continued as a quartet, now billed as Gladys Knight & the Pips.

The Pips toured on their own for two years, until Knight returned to the act in 1964 in order to support her two children.

Gladys Knight & the Pips ' Motown long-playing debut, Everybody Needs Love ( Gladys Knight & the Pips album ) | Everybody Needs Love ( 1967 ), which includes their hit single " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".

In spite of another hit with 1964's " Giving Up " ( later covered by Donny Hathaway ), Knight and the Pips did not achieve widespread success until 1966, after signing to Motown Records.

Producer Norman Whitfield recorded four versions of the song with various artists for potential single release ; Knight and the Pips ' version was the only one that Motown chief Berry Gordy did not veto.

" Neither One of Us " also happened to be one of their last Motown hits, as Knight and the Pips departed Motown for Buddah Records in 1973.

While at Motown, Knight & the Pips recorded for Soul Records, a label Motown used for acts that recorded material with more of an R & B flavor than a pop flavor.

On the A & E Network television program Biography, Knight stated that she and the Pips were regarded as a second-string act, and that " Diana ( Ross ) & the Supremes, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye were given all the hits, while we took the leftovers.

Many of Gladys Knight and the Pips ' hits in the mid-1970s were written by country songwriter Jim Weatherly.

Knight and the Pips charted with five of Weatherly's songs in 1973 and 1974: " Midnight Train to Georgia ," " Neither One of Us ," " Where Peaceful Waters Flow ," " The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me ," and " Between Her Goodbye and My Hello.

From 1964 onwards, the regular creation of hereditary dignities such as baronetcies ceased, but Lord Mayors continued to be granted knighthoods ( usually of the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire ) until 1993.

The team continued to build upon a young core consisting of Rodney Stuckey, Jonas Jerebko, rookie Brandon Knight and talented sophomore Greg Monroe, all drafted in recent years.

Gawain is cited in Robert Laneham's letter describing the entertainments at Kenilworth in 1575, and the recopying of earlier works such as The Greene Knight suggests that a popular tradition of Gawain continued.

Knight and the Pips continued to have R & B hits until the late 1980s, very briefly adding an extra Pip, Chris Morante, in 1988.

Ashford & Simpson continued with Knight and the Pips for the 1981 follow-up, Touch, featuring " I Will Fight " and a cover of " I Will Survive ".

Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood maintained low profiles, while the other three continued their careers individually.

The English version of the manga also at first continued the volume numbering through the two series, such that Magic Knight Rayearth II volumes # 1-3 were numbered as volumes "# 4-6 " ( i. e., the 2000 / 2001 release of Magic Knight Rayearth volume 4 has the same content as the 2003 / 2004 re-release's Magic Knight Rayearth II volume 1 ).

Promoted to Lieutenant-General and knighted via Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Freyberg continued to command the New Zealand 2nd Division through the North African and Italian campaigns of the British Eighth Army.

His successor, the 2nd Duke, continued the family tradition by being awarded the Garter in 1892 ; the 3rd Duke served as MP for Derry and as Governor of Northern Ireland, along with being created a Knight of St Patrick and given the Garter.

# The Commentaries of Sir W. Blackstone, Knight, on the Law and Constitution of England, carefully abridged in a new manner, and continued down to the present time ... By Wm.

Knight continued his education at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta (" FIJI ") fraternity, was a sports reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald, and earned a business administration degree in 1959.

Knight continued, " We all have a passion, all men in this court room to protect the womanhood in Alabama.

This looser approach to the source material of licensed toy lines continued with Kenner's Dark Knight Collection, launched in 1990 and the first of their numerous lines based on the Batman character.

This design approach to the DC Comics toy lines was continued to a large extent by Mattel when they took over the DC Comics license and produced lines based on the movies Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Superman Returns as well as the Justice League cartoons.

As publicity continued, additional survivors contacted the Holland & Knight law firm, who represented the descendants pro bono ; by 1993, 13 survivors had come forward.

It is the sequel to the 1986 arcade game KiKi KaiKai ( unofficially released in North America as Knight Boy ) and follows the continued adventures of a young Shinto shrine maiden named Pocky ( known in Japan as ) and her new companion, Rocky the Tanuki, or raccoon ( known in Japan as ).

It was at that point, that Knight decided to step back and let his wife take all the limelight, although he continued to tour as one of her musicians.

Black Bess or the Knight of the Road, outlining the largely imaginary exploits of real-life English highwayman Dick Turpin, continued for 254 episodes.

Although his solo career faded, Knight continued to write and produce for acts such as The Whispers, Patrice Rushen, DeBarge, Howard Hewett and Elkie Brooks.

For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

Since the 1980s, many motion pictures have been filmed in the city, most notably The Blues Brothers ; Ferris Bueller's Day Off ; Home Alone ; The Fugitive ; I, Robot ; Wanted ; Batman Begins ; The Dark Knight ; and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

In one scene of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Clark becomes aware of an emergency while talking with Bruce Wayne and, in the next panel, he has flown out of his Kent clothing and glasses so quickly that they have had no time to fall.

* Jedi Knight: Disciplined and experienced, Jedi Knights become so only when they have completed " the trials " ( final tests ).

The first European woman to have been granted an order of knighthood was Queen Mary, when she was made a Knight Grand Commander of the same order, by special statute, in celebration of the Delhi Durbar of 1911.

Though today read primarily by sociologists and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on Frank Knight, one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who translated Weber's General Economic History into English in 1927.

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name " where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion ", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.

The Tempest is considered by most Shakespearean scholars to have been written in 1610 – 11 and inspired by published and unpublished contemporary descriptions of the 1609 Sea Venture shipwreck on the island of Bermuda, and most especially William Strachey's eyewitness report, A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight because of certain verbal, plot and thematic similarities.

Later in 1971, in his fanzine Who Put the Bomp, Greg Shaw wrote about " what I have chosen to call ' punk rock ' bands — white teenage hard rock of ' 64-66 ( Standells, Kingsmen, Shadows of Knight, etc .)".

Peers such as L. Sprague DeCamp and Damon Knight have commented critically on Heinlein's portrayal of incest and pedophilia in a lighthearted and even approving manner.

In place of the knighthood that might have been her husband's had he survived, Kathleen Scott was granted the rank and precedence of a widow of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

There have been at least two television adaptations, Gawain and the Green Knight in 1991 and the animated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in 2002.

If included in the book, it would have followed, or been included at the end of, chapter 8 – the chapter featuring the encounter with the White Knight.

Universalist writers such as George T. Knight have claimed that Universalism was a widely held view among theologians in Early Christianity However, some examples, such as Origen and Clement of Alexandria, used by Knight and other Universalist writers are contested by writers such as Crouzel, Root, Norris, and Itter.

Some accounts have uncritically copied elements from the epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by Blind Harry the minstrel.

Since this initial appearance, plans have been underway at The Weinstein Company to bring Knight Rider to the big screen as an updated take on the original series pilot, " Knight of the Phoenix ".

Some observers ( such as Fort's biographer Damon Knight ) have suggested that Fort's distrust of authority has its roots in his father's treatment.

Anakin, now a full-fledged Jedi Knight, remains his partner, and the two have become war heroes and best friends.

Photographs of Knight and Wicksell have hung from his office-walls ever since.

The ideas of general semantics became a sufficiently important part of the shared intellectual toolkit of genre science fiction to merit parody by Damon Knight and others ; they have since shown a tendency to reappear ( often without attribution ) in the work of more recent writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Suzette Haden Elgin and Robert Anton Wilson.

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

Without rebutting the facts Leverett presents, John Stauffer and Sally Jenkins ( see below ) have attacked Leverett's book as having been written to discredit Knight and glorify Leverett's kin.