Having been defeated by his brother's armies, Cem sought protection from the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.

In June 1826, the Council of the French Langues — a self-proclaimed revival of the Order of Malta ( the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta ) in France — sought to raise through private venture, funded by subscription, sufficient money to restore a homeland for the resurrected society.

Rhodes sought to run for the governorship again in 1986, seeking a record-breaking fifth term, but soundly lost to the incumbent Dick Celeste, whom Rhodes had narrowly defeated in his last successful gubernatorial bid in 1978.

Rhodes sought help from Dr. Henry Pym to cure his headaches while Stark delivered Rhodes ’ resignation to the Avengers and revealed his identity to Hawkeye and Mockingbird.

Using this Rudd Concession ( so called because Rhodes's business partner, Charles Rudd, was instrumental in securing the signature ) between Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ( allegedly on behalf of Queen Victoria though without any official knowledge or authority ) and Lobengula, he then sought and obtained a charter from the British government allowing him to act, essentially although in a limited way, with the government's consent.

The latter, after his defeat by Bayezid, sought refuge at Rhodes under a safe-conduct from the Grand Master and the General Convent of the Order.

Rhodes pointed out he had not been offered the captaincy, nor had his views been sought.

Rhodes enlisted in the war with his mother's permission.

Davenant had seen Italian opera sung in Paris ; this inspired him to conceive a cunning plan: as the Puritan government had no objection to music, only drama, he obtained permission to stage a performance of his opera The Siege of Rhodes, to be sung in " recitative music ".

In February 1949, Nasser was sent as a member of the Egyptian delegation to Rhodes to negotiate a formal ceasefire with Israel, and reportedly considered the terms to be humiliating.

In September 1943, Jellicoe was sent to the Italian held island of Rhodes to negotiate with the Italian Admiral Inigo Campioni for the surrender of his forces to the Allies.

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.

A number of keyboard musical instruments using constructions similar to tuning forks have been made, the most popular of them being the Rhodes piano, which has hammers hitting constructions working on the same principle as tuning forks and uses electric amplification of the generated sound.

The Fender Rhodes Celeste was a similar keyboard covering the midrange of the piano, and electric pianos with tube amplifiers were prototyped at the time.

This was a version of the Rhodes housed in a molded plastic housing, most similar to the CBS Rhodes Mark V in terms of style and mechanics.

The members of the pirate fleet, after the failed attacks on Crete and Rhodes, retreated and many of them suffered a similar end.

Varro and Castor of Rhodes also wrote something very similar ; however, some ancient Greek and Romans attempted to calculate the date for the creation by using ancient sources or records of mythological figures.

The Japanese " Columbia Elepian ," also branded as " Maestro " uses a reed system similar to the Wurlitzer but uses electromagnetic pickups similar to the Rhodes piano.

Hohner's " Electra-Piano " uses a similar system, with a metal reed replacing the Rhodes ' tine.

Hohner's later " Pianet T " uses silicone rubber suction pads rather than adhesive pads and replaces the electrostatic system with passive electromagnetic pickups similar to those of the Rhodes, the reeds themselves however being magnetized.

Rhodes I and Rhodes II are often considered to be a double album by fans because the songs are similar in theme and instrumentation.

Alternatively, a similar effect can be accomplished using synthesis-modelling of the ASDR envelope or digital modelling ( e. g., for the hard strike, the keyboard would add the timbres associated with a hard strike — in the case of a Fender Rhodes voice, this would be a biting, " bark " sound.

For many years a radar reflector beacon stood on Plumpudding Hill above Rhodes Memorial to prevent similar incidents.

The Gates Scholarships are similar in structure to Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarships, although the Gates Scholarships are much younger and are awarded through a more centralized though similarly competitive selection process.

Viewing the history of the world as the history of warfare between secret societies, conspiracy theorists go further than Rothkopf, and other scholars who have studied the global power elite, by claiming that established upper-class families with " old money " who founded and finance the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, Rhodes Trust, Skull and Bones, Trilateral Commission, and similar think tanks and private clubs, are illuminated conspirators plotting to impose a totalitarian New World Order — the implementation of an authoritarian world government controlled by the United Nations and a global central bank, which maintains political power through the financialization of the economy, regulation and restriction of speech through the concentration of media ownership, mass surveillance, widespread use of state terrorism, and an all-encompassing propaganda that creates a cult of personality around a puppet world leader and ideologizes world government as the culmination of history's progress.

On Rhodes, Telchines were the name given to similar chthonic men, nine in number, remembered by Greeks as dangerous Underworld smiths and magicians, and multiplied into an entire autochthonous race that had reared Poseidon but had been supplanted by Apollo in his Helios role.

Mining for gems and precious metals such as gold was developed in a similar way by wealthy European entrepreneurs such as Cecil Rhodes.

In many ways, his role was similar to that of Cecil Rhodes elsewhere in Africa but he lacked Rhodes ' thirst for publicity.

He notes that similar place names exist in Rhodes ( Kamateri ) and Salamis ( Kamatero ), noting especially of the latter that it is a location known for its infertile ground.

In this way the Chevening scheme is more similar to the US Fulbright Scholarships which bring students from 140 countries to the US and differs from the Rhodes Scholarship scheme which currently allows applications from approximately 18 countries.

In the episode " All the Best People are Mad ," Rhona and her brother Andy slip sleeping gas into the school and places Tony into competing the D. A. T. s ( short for Deadly Aptitude Tests ) with Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Happy Hogan, and Whitney Stane placed in different death traps ( similar to the Saw franchise ).

In accordance with the terms of aforementioned concessions and treaties, Cecil Rhodes promoted the colonisation of the region's land, with British control over labour as well as precious metals and other mineral resources.

In exchange for wealth and arms, Lobengula granted several concessions to the British, the most prominent of which is the 1888 Rudd concession giving Cecil Rhodes exclusive mineral rights in much of the lands east of his main territory.

However, Rhodes and the white settlers attracted to the company's territory set their sights for ever more mineral rights and more territorial concessions from the African peoples, establishing their own governments, and introducing laws with little concern or respect for African law.

Rhodes concluded a treaty with Lobengula, promising 100 rifles in return for concessions encompassing most of Matebeleland. Thus, through deception, Beit founded the British South Africa Company in 1888.

In 1890, Cecil Rhodes employed Thomson to explore north of the Zambezi and gain treaties and mining concessions from chiefs on behalf of his British South Africa Company which had been chartered by the British Government to claim the territory known as Zambezia ( later Rhodesia, modern day Zimbabwe and Zambia ) as far north as the African Great Lakes.

Historian Richard A. McFarlane has called Rhodes " as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history .... ost histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes.

For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??

Near the end of the Hippodrome I came upon the Built Column, a truncated obelisk of blocks, all that remains of a monument that once rivalled the Colossus of Rhodes.

The four leaders were sentenced to death by hanging, but this sentence was next day commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment ; and in June 1896, the other members of the Committee were released on payment of £ 2, 000 each in fines, all of which were paid by Cecil Rhodes.

The Rhodes piano was used extensively throughout the 1970s in all styles of music.

The Rhodes went through continuous internal improvements: the hammers became all plastic, the pedestals changed shape ( and were bare for a short while, the felt was on the underside of the hammer ), the pickups were altered, and the tine structure modified to endure more wear.

Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes, and ordered all the other cities of Asia to pay a tribute for 10 years.

Rhodes then calls off the experiment and demands all specimens to be destroyed.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and managing director of the British South Africa Company, was eager to extend British dominion to all of South Africa, and encouraged the disenfranchised Uitlanders of the Boer republics to resist Afrikaner domination.

Rhodes, all brothers-in-law.

The Minoans established themselves in many islands besides Ancient Crete: secure identifications of Minoan off-island sites include Kea, Kythera, Milos, Rhodes, and above all, Thera ( Santorini ).

Gortyn, Kydonia ( Chania ) and Lyttos challenged the primacy of ancient Knossos, preyed upon one another, invited into their feuds mainland powers like Macedon and its rivals Rhodes and Ptolemaic Egypt, a situation that all but invited Roman interference.

In addition, Scholars receive a monthly maintenance stipend to cover accommodation and living expenses .< ref > Although all scholars become affiliated with a residential college while at Oxford, they also enjoy access to Rhodes House, an early 20th century mansion with numerous public rooms, gardens, a library, study areas, and other facilities.

* Roy Bittan – piano, Fender Rhodes, organ, harpsichord, background vocals on all tracks except " Born to Run "

Another event of considerable commercial importance to the Cape Colony, and indeed to all of South Africa, was the amalgamation of the diamond-mining companies which was chiefly brought about by Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit and " Barney " Barnato in 1889.

:: Padişah-i thalath şehireha-i Qostantiniyye, Edirne ve Hüdavendigâr, ül şehireyn-i Dimaşq ve Qahira, tamam Azerbayjan, Mağrib, Barqah, Kayravan, Haleb, ül -‘ Iraq-i ‘ Arab vel ‘ Ajam, Basra, ül-dulan-i Lahsa, Rakka, Musul, Partiyye, Diyârbekir, Kilikiyye, ül vilâyatun-i Erzurum, Sivas, Adana, Karaman, Van, Barbariyye, Habeş, Tunus, Trablus-i Garb, Şam, Kıbrıs, Rodos, Girit, ül vilâyet-i Mora, ül Bahr-i Sefid vel Bahr-i Siyah ve i-swahil, Anadolu, Rumeli, Bagdâd, Kurdistân, Yunanistan, Türkistan, Tatariyye, Çerkesyye, ül mintaqateyn-i Kabarda, Gürjistan, ül-Deşt-i Qipçaq, tamam ül-mamlikat-i Tatar, Kefe ve tamam ül-etraf, Bosna, ül şehir ve hisar-i Belgrat, ül vilâyet-i Sırbistan bil tamam ül-hisareha ve şehireha, tamam Arnavut, tamam Eflak ve Boğdan, ve tamam ül-mustamlak vel-hududeha, ve muteaddit mamalekat ve şehireha, i. e. Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magreb, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of the Arabic and the Persian Iraq, of Basra, of Al-Hasa strip, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Parthia, of Diyarbakır, of Cilicia, of the provinces of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Crete, of the province of Morea, of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and also their coasts, of Anatolia, Rumelia, Baghdad, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the Steppe of Kypchaks, of the whole country of the Tatars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring regions, of Bosnia, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the province of Serbia, with all the castles and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.

In Asterix at the Olympic Games ( published to coincide with the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City ), René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo depict a ' Colossal ' Olympic player from Rhodes, whose family are all extremely tall.

** the island of Kastellorizo ( like Rhodes a part of the Aegean Dodecanese island group ) was taken by the Knights of St. John Hospitaller of Jerusalem in 1309 ; the Egyptians occupied it from 1440 until 1450 ; then the Kingdom of Naples ruled ; Venetian rule began in 1635 ( as Castellorosso ); all these states, excluding the Egyptians, were Catholic ; Ottoman rule was established in 1686, although Greeks controlled the island during the Greek War of Independence from 1821-1833.

Tessitore was impressed with Rhodes ' voice and songwriting, and volunteered to record all of the songs she had written to that point.