Edmund I (; 922 – 26 May 946 ), called the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of England from 939 until his death.

In 1969 a group of female manga artists ( later called the Year 24 Group, also known as Magnificent 24s ) made their shōjo manga debut (" year 24 " comes from the Japanese name for the year 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists ).

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

Francis I of France | Francis I ( left ) and Suleiman the Magnificent ( right ) initiated a Franco-Ottoman alliance from the 1530s.

Its influence can be most strongly felt in the western The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), a film specifically adapted from Seven Samurai.

The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.

The 1986 comedy Three Amigos directly parodies many aspects of The Magnificent Seven, from the hiring of a team of Americans to defend a small Mexican village, to the training of the villagers by the mercenaries, to the megalomaniacal over-the-top character of the Mexican gang leader.

The film also inspired a television series, The Magnificent Seven, which ran from 1998 to 2000.

Roy Thomas from Marvel Comics wrote a 3-issue story arc ( issue numbers 7, 8 & 9 from the Original Marvel series ) Star Wars story based on The Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven plot.

The beer began to gain wide popularity in the mid 1960s with an innovative television advertising campaign featuring a very similar recording of the theme from the film The Magnificent Seven, images of working-class Australians at work and play, and a voice-over by notable Australian actor John Meillon.

Æthelberht ( or Ethelbert ;, meaning " Magnificent Noble ") was the King of Wessex from 860 to 865.

* " She Belongs to Me ", by Bob Dylan, credited, quoting Bach, uncredited, and fragments of the theme from The Magnificent Seven, by Elmer Bernstein, uncredited.

Universal-International Pictures wanted to follow up on the pairing of Wyman and Hudson from Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ).

The Wrigley Building ( 400-410 North Michigan Avenue, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois ) is a skyscraper located directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile.

This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language, such as: Point of No Return ( from the French Nikita ), Vanilla Sky ( from the Spanish Abre los ojos ), The Magnificent Seven ( from the Japanese Seven Samurai ), A Fistful of Dollars ( from the Japanese Yojimbo ), The Departed ( from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs ), and Let Me In ( from the Swedish film Let the Right One In or Låt den rätte komma in ).

He made his name with a series of lush, colorful melodramas for Universal-International Pictures from 1952 to 1959: Magnificent Obsession ( 1954 ), All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ), Written on the Wind ( 1956 ), A Time to Love and a Time to Die ( 1958 ), his masterpiece according to Jean-Luc Godard, and Imitation of Life ( 1959 ).

" The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ), in which he played Vin Tanner and co-starred with Yul Brynner, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson and James Coburn, became McQueen's first major hit and led to his withdrawal from Wanted: Dead or Alive.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

By contemporary Florentines ( and since ), he was known as " Lorenzo the Magnificent " ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ).

Gallienus was played by Franco Cobianchi in the 1964 film The Magnificent Gladiator.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent ( Lorenzo il Magnifico ) by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.

He was the second and last Ottoman Sultan to command an army on the battlefield since death of Suleiman the Magnificent at 1566.

) Lorenzo the Magnificent was buried at the entrance wall of the Medici Chapel.

The unsuccessful siege ( the Turks managed to capture the Isle of Gozo together with Fort Saint Elmo on the main island of Malta, but failed elsewhere and retreated ) was the second and last defeat experienced by Suleiman the Magnificent ( who died a year later, in 1566 ) after the likewise inconclusive first Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529.

While Sultan Suleiman was known as " the Magnificent " in the West, he was always Kanuni Suleiman or " The Lawgiver " to his own Ottoman subjects.

He was born in Constantinople a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his third and favourite Ruthenian wife Hürrem Sultan ( Roxelana ).

According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Ocean's Eleven, The Dirty Dozen, and the western remake The Magnificent Seven.

In 1995 The KLF also did a drum and bass cover of the main title as The Magnificent: it was released under the group alias One World Orchestra on the charity compilation The Help Album.

The Magnificent Seven was listed at # 8 on AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores.

" I sette magnifici gladiatori " ( 1983 ) aka " The Seven Magnificent Gladiators " was a Sword & Sandal variation on the Seven Samurai / Magnificent Seven theme starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning.

The Magnificent Seven a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

Giovanni di Lorenzo de ' Medici was born in Italy, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, head of the Florentine Republic, and Clarice Orsini.

A film about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was titled The Magnificent Yankee.

Fort Dearborn was located at what is now the intersection of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue in the Loop community area of Chicago at the foot of the Magnificent Mile.

Lorenzo de ' Medici ( 1449 – 1492 ), called " the Magnificent ", was more capable of leading and ruling a city ; however, he neglected the family banking business, leading to its ultimate ruin.

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.

The Magnificent Seven split up shortly before Vince McMahon purchased WCW ; Animal ’ s contract was not one of the contracts the WWF picked up.

In October 2011, Morgus the Magnificent had been picked up by WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans.

* 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

* Magnificent Journey: The Rise of the Trade Unions, by Francis Williams

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges.

* January 17 – Suleiman the Magnificent suppresses a revolt by the ruler of Damascus.

* August 29 – Belgrade is captured by the Ottoman army of Suleiman the Magnificent.

* August 29 – The Janissaries of Suleiman the Magnificent take Buda by ruse, hiding themselves as visitors.

In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary led by King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia were defeated by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

* 1919: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

* Maya the Magnificent, the title elephant of the 1966 film and 1967 Maya scripted by Jalal Din

He was succeeded by his younger half-brother, Edmund the Magnificent.

For instance The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars was a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, which itself was inspired by Red Harvest, an American detective novel by Dashiell Hammett.

By mid-July, his 100, 000-man army had besieged Vienna ( guarded by 10, 000 Habsburg soldiers ), following in the footsteps of Suleiman the Magnificent in 1529.