For example, in Miles Gloriosus, the titular “ braggart soldier ” Pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite Artotrogus exaggerates Pyrgopolynices ’ achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that Pyrgopolynices agrees to without question.

Miles tries to call long distance for help from outside resources, but the phone operator claims that no long-distance calls are possible.

However, in Miles Davis ' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were " rumors " and a " misunderstanding ".

Through her maternal grandfather Francis Remnant, Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck ( 1870 – 1910 ) and thus a second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

The Eighth Doctor's former companion, Fitz, now Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, claims to have killed the Rani as well as the Master ( during the " Second War in Heaven " described in Lawrence Miles ' EDA: Interference: Book One ), and now displays their skulls as trophies.

It was first published in 1994 under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko and won the Miles Franklin Award the following year before becoming the subject of a major Australian literary controversy about the author's false claims of Ukrainian ethnicity.

Miles and Luna confess their love for one another, but she claims that science has proven men and women cannot have meaningful relationships due to chemical incompatibilities.

Many claims have been made about Mr. Miles ’ contributions to the ousting of Slobodan Milošević in Serbia and Georgia ’ s Rose Revolution.

Although Lewisohn's book says that a rough mono mix was given to Vaughan, Miles claims that the mix down “ was made with full stereo separation, and is an exercise in musical layers and textures ”.

The English actress Sarah Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck, through her grandfather, an illegitimate son of the prince called Francis Remnant, born at Richmond, Surrey, in 1894.

Hints about this future war are dropped in several books earlier in the series beginning with Lawrence Miles's Alien Bodies and the war itself plays out as it would have originally done in Miles ' Faction Paradox series in which certain names are changed for copyright reasons ( the Time Lords become the Great Houses and Gallifrey becomes the Home World ).

200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan, engineer Leo Graf encounters the Quaddies, who are genetically engineered to have an extra pair of arms instead of legs.

Miles goes undercover and allows himself to be captured by the Cetagandans, who have invaded and occupied Marilac, in order to infiltrate a maximum-security POW camp on Dagoola IV.

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

Sony Ericsson president Miles Flint, claiming to have sold over three million Walkman phones, introduced their sixth Walkman branded phone, the W950, at the 3GSM Congress in 2006.

Jeffreys married Sue ( née Miles ) on 28 August 1971, and they have two daughters, born in 1979 and 1983.

Two inscriptions recording the presence of Lucullus have been found in nearby Chichester and the redating, by Miles Russell, of the palace to the early AD 90s, would fit far more securely with such an interpretation.

The 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of Daytona, and 24 Hours of Le Mans were once widely considered to be the trifecta of sports car racing ; driver Ken Miles would have been the only driver to win all three in the same year, but an error in the team orders of the Ford GT40 team at Le Mans in 1966 took the win from him, although he finished first.

As Miles writes, the ancient world would not have been aware of interiority and the contingence of salvation upon conscience until Augustine.

They have two sons — Jack Henry ( born 1989 ) and Miles Guthrie ( born 1992 ).

However this was 50 years after the Battle of Bosworth Field, and 52 years after the deed was allegedly done, leading to suspicion that this Miles Forrest was not the one referred to by More, as he would by then have been into his seventies or even eighties and well past retirement.

Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis both have done soundtracks for documentaries about Johnson.

Tanner, Gerow and Megill name Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, John Klemmer, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra as musicians who have employed this approach.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

That's the joy of the film: the war has its horrors, but it also destroys much of what the genteel poor like Grace Rowan ( Sarah Miles ), have barely been able to acknowledge they wanted destroyed.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, where he was to have a profound influence.

Miles Davis described EWF as his " all time favorite band " saying, " they have everything ( horns, electric guitar, singers and more ) in one band ".

Later experimentation with the Miles M. 52 design proved that the aircraft would indeed have broken the sound barrier, with an unpiloted 3 / 10 scale replica of the M. 52 achieving Mach 1. 5 in October 1948.

The film's failure dissuaded Bolt from further directorial work, and may have contributed to his breakup with Sarah Miles.

They have a son, Miles Brockman ( born May 27, 1994 ), and a daughter, Sofia ( born August 24, 1998 ).

The nearest that the band ever came to reuniting was when Zawinul and Shorter both played live with Miles Davis on July 10 1991 in Paris ( the only time when Zawinul is known to have shared a live stage with Davis ).

According to Miles, a spoken word album by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, which had been recorded and edited, would have been Zapple 4, and a spoken word album by Michael McClure had also been recorded.

The final episode of the series was allegedly due to have been broadcast on April 1, and as the series was not to be recommissioned, the production team may have decided to produce a spoof edition for April Fool's Day, which was written by Chris Miles and David Ambrose but retained the series ' format and presenter.

Unfortunately ( as the two find out when they pay a visit on Lycus ), Philia has been promised to the renowned warrior Miles Gloriosus, who is on his way to claim her.

The Psalter, which had not been printed out in the 1549, 1552 or 1559 Books — was in 1662 provided in Miles Coverdale's translation from the Great Bible of 1538.

Even worse, the " super-soldier " has been sold to the paranoid and sadistic Baron Ryoval, whom Miles has recently offended.

Miles is assigned to the Barrayaran Embassy on Earth as Third Military Attaché, and meets his clone, who has been trained as an assassin.

After she discovers that he has been taking bribes, she tells him that she is leaving, but before she does, he is accidentally killed in such a way as to point a finger of suspicion at Miles.

Cronin had been playing in a jazz ensemble called " The Strolling Dudes " with jazz trumpet player Rick Braun, Miles Joseph on lead guitar and Graham Lear on drums.

The poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973 and again in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, featuring Miles O ' Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight.

Burton " ( an alias Orwell had used on tramping expeditions ), " Kenneth Miles " and " H. Lewis Allways " had been considered, was renamed " George Orwell.

Other early alternatives such as John Stiles and Richard Miles are now rarely used, and Mary Major has been used in some American federal cases.

This famous scandal caused Impellitteri to vigorously support the Brooklyn District Attorney, Miles McDonald, and fire everyone who had been associated with former Mayor William O ' Dwyer.

As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport ( 1963 ), Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both recorded in 1964, the latter not being released until 1982.

Bloomington has been home to a large number of musicians and " scholars " over the years, including Strawberry McCloud, Lotus Dickey, Miles Krassen, Anthony Seeger, Bob Lucas, Caroline Peyton, Mark Bingham, Willy Schwartz, Jessica Radcliffe, Hawk Hubbard, Linda Higginbotham, Brad Leftwich, Ruthie Allen, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Bruce Anderson, Pete Sutherland, Malcolm Daglish, Sam Bartlett, Jamie Gans, Ken Perlman, and numerous backporch pickers who support the active contra dance, Irish, and bluegrass music scenes.

Another 700 Miles has since been certified Gold in the United States.

In consequence, Weather Report has often been seen as a spin-off from the Miles Davis bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s, although Zawinul was never part of Davis's touring line-up.

During World War I, U. S. Senator Miles Poindexter discussed whether inquiries " to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft " had been managed properly.

He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles Davis.