On the other hand, William of Malmesbury, relying on a poem, related that Edward's eldest son ( by his first wife Ecgwynn ), Athelstan, succeeded directly under the terms of King Alfred's will ( since lost ).

On one hill overlooking the gardens there stands an obelisk and King Alfred's Tower, a 50-metre-tall, brick folly designed by Henry Flitcroft in 1772 ; on another hill the temple of Apollo provides a vantage point to survey the magnificent rhododendrons, water, cascades and temples.

After Alfred's death, Margaret remarried twice: On June 12, 1918 in Lenox, Massachusetts to politician Raymond T. Baker ( 1875 – 1935 ), with whom she had a daughter, Gloria Baker ( 1920 – 1975 ) ( Mrs. Henry J.

On the death of Prince Alfred's uncle, Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 22 August 1893, the duchy fell to the Duke of Edinburgh, since HRH Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the Duke's elder brother had renounced his right to the succession.

Other surreal elements to the cartoon include such strange characters as the evil genie of the bottle, living chess pieces from Alfred's chess game, Pied Piper style Clown On The Moon, and aliens who appear like ducks except for their human-style feet, and a " dream " style Wild West episode during which Dolf seems to become aware that he is a character in a cartoon.

On Alfred's death in 899, Æthelhelm's younger brother Æthelwold contested the succession and died in battle.

On the death of their father, they returned to their home in Batavia, New York.

On the anniversary of her father's death she poured out with agonized tears her feelings of guilt about not having attended his funeral.

On Blanche Jacobs, Kitti Gilborn's death had a quite different effect.

On the other hand, Christian faith knows that death is more than the natural termination of temporal existence.

On home sets children were watching the death throes of men who were shot before the paredon, the firing wall.

On the day of his wife's death he wrote two verses from the Psalms, and the prayer, ' O Lord, God of Mercy, unite me in Heaven with those whom you have permitted me to love on earth.

On his death Charlemagne's remains were interred in the cathedral and can be seen there to this day.

On the death of Alexander, around 242 BC, Olympias assumed the regency on behalf of her sons, and married Phthia to Demetrius.

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

On attaining his majority at the age of 21 in 1262, Alexander declared his intention of resuming the projects on the Western Isles which the death of his father thirteen years before had cut short.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

On the death of her father in 526, her son succeeded him, but she held the power as regent for her son.

On Silo's death, he was elected king by Adosinda's allies, but the magnates raised his uncle Mauregatus to the throne instead.

On the other hand, loss of control of cell death ( resulting in excess apoptosis ) can lead to neurodegenerative diseases, hematologic diseases, and tissue damage.

On Arnulf's death in 899, he was succeeded as a king of the East Franks by his son by his wife Ota ( died 903 ), Louis the Child.

On the death of Emperor Constantine I, Athanasius was allowed to return to his See of Alexandria.

On his death, Ammannati won the competition for the continuing of this assignment over other famous sculptors, such as Benvenuto Cellini and Vincenzo Danti.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

On Tiglath-Pileser's death Israel rebelled, resulting in an Assyrian counter-attack and the destruction of the capital, Samaria, in 721 after a three-year siege.

On the death of Pope Honorius II a schism broke out in the Church.

On Queen Victoria's death, they did not have a general staff, a permanent divisional and corps organization, or enlistment by conscription.

On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.

On the death of Charles II his brother, a Roman Catholic, became James II.

The Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo in the early 1st century AD wrote about the destruction of Atlantis in his On the Eternity of the World, xxvi.

The theology of the creed is firmly rooted in the Augustinian tradition, using exact terminology of Augustine's On the Trinity ( published 415 AD ).

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

On the other hand, the Bastarnae maintained a separate name-identity into the late 3rd century AD, possibly implying retention of their Germanic cultural heritage, distinctive in the lower Danube, until the arrival of the Goths.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.

On 19 August 14 AD, Augustus died.

On Tiberius ' request, Germanicus was granted proconsular power and assumed command in the prime military zone of Germania, where he suppressed the mutiny there and led the formerly restless legions on campaigns against Germanic tribes from 14 to 16 AD.

The method of comparing hardness by seeing which minerals can scratch others, however, is of great antiquity, having first been mentioned by Theophrastus in his treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. 77 AD.

* Merugud Uilix maicc Leirtis (" On the Wandering of Ulysses, son of Laertes ") is an eccentric Old Irish version of the material ; the work exists in a 12th-century AD manuscript that linguists believe is based on an 8th-century original.

On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp.

After Scupi was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 518 AD, Justinian, according to his historian Procopius in " De Aedificiis " ( On the Buildings ), built a new city near his birthplace Tauresium and Bederiana ( believed to be today's villages Taor and Bader ) at the fertile entry point of the River Lepenec into the Vardar, making Skopje the city of Justiniana Prima.

On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included 2000 AD.

The earliest extant use of the term monastērion is by the 1st century AD Jewish philosopher Philo in On The Contemplative Life, ch.

The account of the run near Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus ' lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

On the transaction, where Eolla has acquired the land from Berhfrith and sells it to Wulfhere AD 705 x ( 716x?

On the presumption that " recently " means within a year, Strabo stopped writing that year or the next ( 24 AD ), when he died.

On January 24, AD 41, Caligula and his family were murdered by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea, and later that day, the Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius the new emperor and Messalina the new empress.

* Asterius of Amasia, AD 400, Asterius of Amasea: Sermons ( 1904 edition ) pp. 111 – 129, " Sermon 4: On the Festival of the Calends " from Latin " Oratio 4: Adversus Kalendarum Festum " transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK, 2003.

* " On the Festival of the Calends ", Asterius of Amasea, AD 400, transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK, 2003, webpage: Asterius-4.

On this Sestercius of 66 AD, Nero's garlanded head is left.

Thus Aelian in the 3rd century AD could refer to " Artemis of the child-bed " ( On Animals 7. 15 ).

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

On the coins of Titus ( 80 – 81 AD ), Aeternitas holds a cornucopia, leans on a scepter, and has one foot placed on a globe, imagery that links the concepts of eternity, prosperity, and world dominion.

On the upper surface of these mounds was found a considerable Jewish town, dating from about the beginning of the Arabic period onward to the 20th century AD, in the houses of which were large numbers of incantation bowls.