The Capitol is believed to have been the intended target of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, before it crashed near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to take over control of the plane from hijackers.

In October, invitations for a Great Council were issued, and although Somerset tried to have him excluded, York ( the premier Duke of the realm ) was included.

As one of England's major landowners, Dudley soon feared that this would lead to serious trouble and discreetly tried to warn Somerset.

Somerset tried in vain to raise a popular force and entrenched himself with the King at the fortress Windsor Castle.

In December 1549 Southampton tried to regain predominance by charging Dudley with treason, alongside Somerset, for having been an original ally of the Protector.

After the defeat, Somerset and other Lancastrian leaders took refuge in Tewkesbury Abbey but they were forced from sanctuary two days later, tried and executed immediately, at the Cross in the centre of Tewkesbury.

Royal occupation of Somerset House was interrupted by the English Civil War and in 1649 Parliament tried to sell it.

The Duke of Somerset tried to ambush Montagu near Newcastle but the latter was able to evade this attempt.

However, it proved impossible for the Earl of Wiltshire, who was appointed Lieutenant of Ireland in Richard of York's place, to raise troops to oust York from Ireland, while the Duke of Somerset was twice repulsed by the garrison of Calais when he tried to reclaim it from Warwick.

He was one of the peers who tried and condemned Somerset on 1 December 1551.

In 1962 Ken Seaton, a hotelier in Ilchester, Somerset, England, tried combining cheese with chives, Worthington E Bitter beer and a blend of spices.

In May 1992 Avon and Somerset Police tried to end the annual Avon Free Festival, which had been held in the Bristol area around the May Bank Holiday for several years.

Angus MacNeil, MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, argued that it would adversely affect the population of Northern Scotland, while Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North East Somerset, tried to introduce an amendment to give Somerset its own time zone, 15 minutes behind London, in order to highlight what he saw as the absurdities of the bill.

His standing is illuminated by the fact that, after a by-election in Reading in which the borough had unsuccessfully tried to return a kinsman of Somerset, on 18 January 1552 Mason was certified as its new MP ; he had no previous connection with the town.

In fact, in the early weeks of his Protectorate, Somerset met opposition only from the Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, whom the Earldom of Southampton had evidently failed to buy off, and from his own brother.

The US laserdisc adds a few scenes deleted from theatrical release as a bonus at the end of the program, including a prologue wherein Somerset is going to buy a country house.

Catherine Parr, Henry's widow, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.

Although she was reluctant, she decided to live at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, with her niece, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, the daughter of her brother Lord Cambridge.

With the deaths of Somerset and his younger brother, the House of Beaufort, who were distant cousins of Henry VI and had a remote claim to succeed him, had been almost exterminated.

William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset ( a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young Edward VI.

From 1539 to 1707 the park was owned by the Duke of Somerset, Sir Edward Seymour, brother of Queen Jane ; the Thynne family of Longleat, and the family of Sir Henry Gould.

Somerset faced less manageable opposition from his younger brother Thomas, who has been described as a " worm in the bud ".

It was the elder brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who benefited most from his sister's marriage to the King.

Somerset attempted to protect his brother and called a council meeting that Thomas was supposed to attend in order to explain his actions.

Eventually ( in December 1446 ) the lieutenancy went to Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who had succeeded his brother John.

One of Catherine's friends, Jane Seymour, daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, introduced Catherine to her brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.

It is famed for its chained library and the tombs of King Ethelred, the brother of Alfred the Great, as well as the tombs of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and his duchess, the maternal grandparents of King Henry VII of England.

From 1539 to 1707 the park was owned by the Duke of Somerset, Sir Edward Seymour, brother of Queen Jane ; the Thynne family of Longleat, and the family of Sir Henry Gould.

Baptised on 25 March 1404, he was the second son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret Holland, and succeeded his childless elder brother Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset to become the 3rd Earl of Somerset in 1418.

Thomas was killed at the Battle of Baugé while Somerset and his younger brother were captured.

He was the son of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp, and became heir to the dukedom of Somerset at the death of his elder brother Henry in 1464.

After his brother's death, Henry Fowler and his wife moved to Hinton St. George in Somerset, where he worked on the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Modern English Usage, which he dedicated to his brother.

He was succeeded as Earl of Somerset by his son Henry Beaufort ( 1401 – 1418 ), but his early death left the title to his brother John Beaufort ( 1404 – 1444 ).

The Earldom of Somerset passed to his brother Edmund Beaufort, Count of Mortain ( c. 1406 – 1455 ).

The 12th Duke's brother ( Archibald Seymour ) became the 13th Duke of Somerset.

The son of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Alington ( 1635 – 1692 ), he succeeded his brother Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, to the dukedom when the latter was shot in 1678.

But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.

Edward noted his uncle's death in his Chronicle: " the duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o ' clock in the morning ".

Just outside Somerset, located off Highway 461, is the Valley Oak Technology Complex, a key industrial center in the region.

Somerset is just off Exit 110 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( I-70 and I-76 ).

Somerset is also the only place in Pennsylvania to receive accumulations of snow in June before ( other places at most received a partial dusting ), and due to the arctic air, it was powdery snow that was photographed being swept off porches with brooms.

In 1752 he moved to Somerset Court, off the Strand.

A hot air balloon takes off from Royal Victoria Park, Bath | Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset | Bath, England.

Cunliffe's decision to become an archaeologist was sparked off at the age of nine by the discovery of Roman remains on his uncle's farm in Somerset.

The rebels got as far as Trowbridge, but royalist forces cut off the route and Monmouth turned back towards Somerset through Shepton Mallet, arriving in Wells on 1 July.

* King's College London, whose main campus ( called the Strand Campus ) is located off this street, next to Somerset House

Others include: the terminus of the West Somerset Railway ; the town's main ornamental park, Blenheim Gardens, off Blenheim Road ; and the Minehead & West Somerset Golf Club, Somerset's oldest golf club, established in 1882, which has an 18-hole links course.

Having recovered from a double hernia operation, and proving himself fit for the start of the county season, Trescothick began his comeback to cricket by scoring 256 from 117 balls in a 50 over match against Devon on 8 April 2007, helping Somerset to 502 – 4 off their 50 overs.

For many years much of the land around Clapham was owned by the Dukes of Norfolk and subsequently, after a land exchange, by the Somerset family, although by the early 20th century most of the land owned by the family had been sold off or donated to the village.

Hampshire was one of the first Saxon shires, recorded in 755, but for two centuries represented the western end of Saxon England, as advances into Dorset and Somerset were fought off by the Britons.

They break off into different tribes and the largest of them, led by Ashlar, goes south to Somerset where they settle.

Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset standing high and extending into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea.

The Norton Fitzwarren rail crash occurred on 4 November 1940 between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren in the English county of Somerset, when the driver of a train misunderstood the signalling and track layout, causing him to drive the train through a set of points and off the rails.

Five of the people who disappeared in the greater Bennington area were Middie Rivers ( 1945 ) a hunter who left his hunting party and went off on his own ; Paula Welden ( 1946 ), a Bennington College student who hitchhiked her way to the Long Trail ; James E. Tedford ( 1949 ), a man suffering from dementia who exited a bus before his planned stop ; eight year old Paul Jepson ( 1950 ) who left his mother ’ s truck while she was feeding her pigs ; and Frieda Langer ( 1950 ) who went missing while hunting near Somerset Reservoir.

He played in the first two county matches of the new season, but was not fit enough mentally to continue and – though the details vary – Somerset agreed to give him time off.

After Somerset were forced to follow-on by Gloucestershire, White came in at number five and scored 172 runs off 228 balls before finally being caught off the bowling of former Victoria team-mate Ian Harvey.

Williton Hospital, off North Street, is a part of the Somerset Coast Primary Care Trust but does not have a casualty department.