Saint Serf of Culross was associated with Nechtan's brother Bridei.

James Fisher has written that the first person recorded as feeding wild birds was the 6th century monk Saint Serf of Fife who tamed a robin by feeding it.

During the 50s and 60s, it was the golden age of Chanson Française: Dalida, Monique Serf ( Barbara ), Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour, Alain Barrière and Jacques Brel.

Serf was venerated in western Fife.

" It states that Serf was the son of Eliud, King of Canaan, and his wife Alphia, daughter of a King of Arabia.

Serf came to Rome, carrying with him such a reputation for sanctity that he was elected pope, and reigned seven years.

" Finally, after many miracles, after divine virtues, after founding many churches, Serf, having given his peace to the brethren, yielded up his spirit in his cell at Dunning, on the first day of the Kalends of July ; and his disciples and the people of the province take his body to Cuilenross, and there, with psalms and hymns and canticles, he was honourably buried.

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern ( Saint Mungo ).

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern or Mungo ( d. 612 ).

Serf City was received 3 out of 5 stars in Dragon.

When the game was first released in the United States, it was renamed Serf City by U. S. publisher SSI.

Monique Andrée Serf ( June 9, 1930 – November 24, 1997 ), aka " Barbara " was a popular French female singer.

The solution of a cable-stayed bridge, presented by the structural engineering group Sogelerg, Europe Etudes Gecti and Serf and the architects Foster + Partners was declared the best.

The legal basis of the reform was the Tsar's Emancipation Manifesto of March 3, 1861 ( February 19, 1861 Julian Calendar ), accompanied by the set of legislative acts under the general name Regulations Concerning Peasants Leaving Serf Dependence ( Положения о крестьянах, выходящих из крепостной зависимости, Polozheniya o krestyanakh, vykhodyashchikh iz krepostnoi zavisimosti ).

Although Scottish Gaelic was closer to Brythonic than Irish was, the Life of St Serf ( written before 1180 ) calls the island Insula Keð, suggesting the possibility that the specific element in Inchkeith was not comprehensible to that hagiography's anonymous author or translator ; if we could be sure that the author was Scottish, rather than an English or French incomer, this could be taken to mean that the word was probably not comprehensible even in Fife Gaelic in the 12th century.

* Saint Serf ( Servanus ), the Apostle of West Fife in Scotland who reposed and was buried in Culross ( ca. 583 )

He is also a translator who has written accurate English translations of songs by Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Claude Nougaro, Barbara ( Monique Serf ), Bertolt Brecht and Wannes Van de Velde.

Childless for a long time, they at last had two sons, the second being Serf.

When the protagonists return to their hometown occupied by the Soviet army, they walk by the " Serf " town cinema.

Saint Serf is said to have been a contemporary of St. Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, though if he in fact lived at the same time as Adomnán, this is chronologically impossible.

At the award ceremony, an emotional Monique Serf ripped her award into several parts, giving a piece to each of her technicians as a sign of her gratitude.

After Hopak-like dances began to be performed on stage in the 18th century in Serf and Peasant theaters, professional dramatic troupes began to incorporate this popular dance into their repertoire.

Originally the town served as a port city on the Firth of Forth and is believed to have been founded by Saint Serf during the 6th century.

The Settlers ( also known as Serf City, original German title Die Siedler ) is a slow-paced strategy video game by Blue Byte Software, released in 1993 for Commodore Amiga and in 1994 for the PC.

Saint Serf is also somehow connected with Saint Mungo's Church near Simonburn, Northumberland ( off the Bellingham Road, north of Chollerford ).

In the company's shift to the rapidly growing social gaming market it released several games based on internal intellectual property including: Island Paradise which became a large commercial success, Serf Wars, and Ranch Town.

Such graffiti / street artists as Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Mint & Serf, Futura 2000, Os Gemeos, and Faile among others have successfully transcended their street art aesthetic beyond the walls of urban landscape and onto walls of private and corporate clients.

* June 9 – Monique Serf, French singer ( d. 1997 )

* Wright, William E. Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-century Bohemia ( U of Minnesota Press, 1966 ).

Some of the most important artists included Édith Piaf, Monique Serf ( Barbara ), Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Salvatore Adamo and Jacques Brel plus the more art-house musicians like Brigitte Fontaine.

Saint Serf or Serbán ( Servanus ) ( ca.

Saint Serf is said to have founded the Scottish town of Culross.

David Hugh Farmer has written that the legend of Serf is " a farrago of wild impossibilities.

Serf founded the eponymous St Serf's Inch Priory on the island, where he remained seven years.

Neither in these, nor in his only other dramatic effort, Oulita the Serf ( 1858 ) did he show any real qualifications as a playwright.

McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

Cincinnati's new quarterback, Virgil Carter, was known for his great mobility and accuracy but lacked a strong arm necessary to throw deep passes.

Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.

Unlike previous wars, which were often fought mainly from fixed lines and trenches, World War II was a highly mobile war, often fought in cities, forests, or other areas where mobility and visibility were restricted.

Smith's economics was carried into practice in the 19th century with the lowering of tariffs in the 1820s, the repeal of the Poor Relief Act, that had restricted the mobility of labour, in 1834, and the end of the rule of the East India Company over India in 1858.

The mobility and shock value of the cavalry was greatly appreciated and exploited in armed forces in the Ancient and Middle Ages ; some forces were mostly cavalry, particularly in nomadic societies of Asia, notably the Mongol armies.

The power of mobility given by mounted units was recognized early on, but was offset by the difficulty of raising large forces and by the inability of horses ( then mostly small ) to carry heavy armor.

This was used as an advance guard and a strong striking force to route the opposing armies with its greater mobility that give it an upper hand when maneuvering against any Byzantine army.

In eastern Europe, Russia, and out onto the steppes, cavalry remained important much longer and dominated the scene of warfare until the early 17th century and even beyond, as the strategic mobility of cavalry was crucial for the semi-nomadic pastoralist lives that many steppe cultures led.

" According to Anders Hansson, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, " upward mobility into the elite was theoretically possible for virtually all male commoners.

People were born into specific social classes ; social mobility was not unknown, but it was extremely rare.

In some cases, mobility was possible ; for example, a slave caste member could get manumission according to a mukatab.

Social mobility between these strata, regardless of an individual's effort, was difficult and uncommon.

She notes that this was a closed system, with negligible social mobility, and this severely affected the self identity of the so called dishonourable people.

The society was closed, endogamous and with no mobility.

The details changed with time, the core was the same: a hierarchical society, with each strata closed, privileges that were hereditary, and mobility was non-existent.

The most important factor determining social mobility in Finland was education.

It was a rags-to-riches romance comedy about a Jewish family's upward mobility in New York City, with their son later trying to deny his Jewish roots in order to keep his rich gentile girlfriend.