There are other 4NT conventions, such as Norman four notrump, San Francisco and Byzantine Blackwood, but almost all bridge partnerships employ some member of the Blackwood family as part of their slam-investigation methods.

William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey of the entire population and their lands and property for tax purposes, which reveals that within twenty years of the conquest the English ruling class had been almost entirely dispossessed and replaced by Norman landholders, who also monopolised all senior positions in the government and the Church.

The Capua principality was hotly contested during the reign of the hated Pandulf IV, the Wolf of the Abruzzi, and, under his son, it fell, almost without contest, to the Norman Richard Drengot ( 1058 ).

According to Norman Davies, almost ½ of them were dead by July 1940.

Guildford Castle almost certainly was built shortly after the Norman conquest of 1066, although there are no documents about its early years.

Olivier comes closer than any other character in the series to fulfilling the ideals of the French-Norman culture, " almost more Norman than the Normans ", perhaps because he has consciously chosen it.

In 1990 the band caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records and were signed promptly after a representative of the label witnessed a show at which the band almost burned down the venue ( American Legion Hall in Norman, Oklahoma ) with the use of pyrotechnics.

" One of those songs was " I've Searched All Around the World ", which Norman says was " written in 1968 after walking up and down Hollywood Boulevard almost every day for a year talking to the runaways, pushers, bikers, prostitutes and homeless winos ".

American Christian rock historian John J. Thompson identifies several factors in the collapse of Solid Rock, including possibly an over reliance on Norman's celebrity ; Norman's confrontational lyrics and music, which alienated both the Christian and mainstream music industries ; Norman's over-commitment, including producing almost all of the Solid Rock albums, contributing songs, and singing backing vocals ; and " by releasing high-quality music by the best bands, Norman doomed his label to almost certain failure.

After the demise of Solid Rock, and his September 1980 divorce from his first wife, Pamela, after almost nine years of marriage, Norman moved to England, where he was based until 1985.

This concert was recorded and released in 1994 as Totally Unplugged Two days after the concert, Norman collapsed on the sidewalk, and was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized for almost two weeks.

By 2006 Norman was almost blind in his right eye due to dozens of retinal hemorrhages, causing him to crash his car on October 31, 2006.

Their lands were almost immediately occupied by the FitzGeralds and other Norman families, who permanently prevented their return.

In comparison to Norman castles the gatehouses were much weaker in design, with almost no use of portcullises or spiral staircases, and the stonework of the outer walls was also generally inferior to Norman built castles.

* 1072 Serlo, the first Norman abbot, appointed to the almost defunct monastery by William I.

* The character Cynthia Smith was one of the " almost " victims of the lunatic Norman Daniels in the King's novel " Rose Madder ".

In the early 1980s, Leonard almost clinched a deal for Norman Mailer to write a porn film but the plan never came to fruition.

Norman Sanders calls the play " almost a complete anthology of the practices of the doctrine of romantic love which inspired the poetic and prose Romances of the period.

In the Domesday Survey, Norman scribes named the settlement Alvertune, Aluertune and Alretone and there is a reference to the Alvertune wapentac, an area almost identical to the Allertonshire wapentake of the North Riding, which was named after the town.

Although militarily a motte was, as Norman Pounds describes it, " almost indestructible ", they required frequent maintenance.

The ringwork which remains almost intact and surrounded the original manor house is thought to have been constructed shortly after the Norman Conquest.

By 1094 almost the whole of Wales was occupied by Norman forces.

That made up for the `` best '' motel in Norman, Okla., where the proprietor knocked $2 off the $8.50 tab when we found ants in the pressed-paper furniture.

Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that Mackenzie was in the # 11 place just after John Sparrow David Thompson.

Mentions of banshees can also be found in Norman literature of that time.

The study found measurable hexavalent chromium in the tap water of 31 of the cities sampled, with Norman, Oklahoma, at the top of list ; 25 cities had levels that exceeded California's proposed limit.

Some authors reject both the French and Goidelic theories and instead suggest that the ultimate source both for the Norman French, Scots and Goidelic variants of this word are to be found in a common Norse root.

He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful later on, when he entered politics, and that senior civil servant Norman Robertson tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.

Another significant example can be found in the Norman onomastics: the widespread surname Lecesne, with variant spellings: Le Cesne, Lesène, Lecène and Cesne.

* Revolt of Sfax against the Norman occupiers and massacre of the Christians found in the city.

By the 12th century Italian flutes came in a variety of sizes, and fragments of 12th-century Norman bone whistles have been found in Ireland, and an intact 14 cm Tusculum clay whistle from the 14th century in Scotland.

Tapestry fragments have been found in Scandinavia dating from the ninth century and it is thought that Norman and Anglo-Saxon embroidery developed from this sort of work.

The words " Norman villa " are found on the 1527 map by Visconte Maggiolo identifying the site.

Further evidence for this can be found in the Pipe Roll of Henry I, which shows that he had received a discharge from the murder fine ( a fine levied on inhabitants of a certain area based on the murder of a Norman that occurred in a generally accessible field in that same area ) levied on the community of Wiltshire in 1130, though there is no other proof for this fact.

Norman Del Mar speculates that “ there would be considerable loss if the solution were to be found, much of the work ’ s attraction lying in the impenetrability of the riddle itself ”, that interest in the work would not be as strong had the Enigma been solved during Elgar's lifetime.

At least one researcher in the 1900s ( Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing, who was a self-professed sadist ) thought that algolagnia was a psychological disorder, however this view began to change once the Kinsey Reports noted that many seemingly " normal " people often enjoy pain in a sexual context, and later Norman Breslow found that, before 1977, only four previous studies in all the scientific literature were empirical in nature.

During the construction of a new Highbury House in 1781, tiles were found that could have been Roman or Norman ; unfortunately these have been lost.

An earlier church is believed to have been built during the Norman period, as a stone was found within the grounds with markings from that time.

Norman decided " I couldn't do it when I found out what it was about.

Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.

The earliest known reference to fermented alcoholic drinks being made from pears is found in Pliny, but perry making seems to have become well established in what is today France following the collapse of the Roman empire ; references to perry making in its later heartland of England do not appear before the Norman Conquest.

Norman Zacour in the survey A History of the Crusades ( 1962 ) generally follows Munro's conclusions, and adds that there was a psychological instability of the age, concluding the Children's Crusade " remains one of a series of social explosions, through which medieval men and women — and children too — found release ".

It was notable in Saxon and early Norman times for the large numbers of fish and eels found there.

When Lord Lucan vanished in 1974, his car was found in Newhaven, in Norman Road, with two types of blood in it.

The parish church of St. Nicholas can be found near the centre of the village and dates back to the 11th century and is of an original Norman design though with a working 17th century bell tower.

Once more Norman found himself in the lead at Inverness until he stumbled on Sunday again.