In the Holy Roman Empire, instead of an exclusive aristocratic assembly, the Imperial Diet was the highest organ, membership of which, expressed by the title Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, was granted to all major princes, and various minor ones, princes of the church ( parallel to the Lords spiritual ) and in some cases restricted to a collective ' curiate ' vote in a ' bench ', such as the Grafenbank.

The Sovereign, wearing the Imperial State Crown, would be seated on the Throne in the Lords Chamber, surrounded by heralds and members of the Royal Court — a scene that nowadays is repeated only at the annual State Opening of Parliament.

" By 1936, the idea of bolstering the Committee of Imperial Defence had become a popular point of debate and Trenchard presented his arguments in the House of Lords.

Then, after she takes on the Parliament Robe of State and Imperial State Crown in the Robing Chamber, the Queen proceeds through the Royal Gallery to the House of Lords, usually accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and immediately preceded by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal, and by one peer ( usually the Leader of the House of Lords ) carrying the Cap of Maintenance on a white rod, and another peer ( generally a retired senior military officer ) carrying the Great Sword of State.

Once on the throne, the Queen, wearing the Imperial State Crown, instructs the House by saying, " My Lords, pray be seated ".

Once the Sovereign has put on the Imperial State Crown, the heralds lead her once again through the Royal Gallery into the House of Lords, where they remain with her during her speech and accompany her until she leaves the Palace.

* The Austrian House of Lords was the Upper House of the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ) of the Cisleithanian ( Austrian ) half of Austria-Hungary between 1867 and 1918.

Other eminent imperial statesmen in the Imperial War Cabinet were Lord Curzon, the Leader of the House of Lords and a former Viceroy of India, and Andrew Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons ( and future British Prime Minister ).

Imperial parliamentary sanction being required tor the transfer of the Crown lands to the Colonial Legislature, the necessary bill was at once introduced by Lord Knutsford, and passed the House of Lords ; but, owing to a strong opposition to handing over the immense tract of Crown lands to the colonists, which suddenly showed itself in the home press and in the House of Commons, the bill could not be proceeded with in the House in 1889, and had to be deferred to the following year.

In 1848 he became member of the lower house of the Imperial Parliament ( Reichsrat ), the House of Deputies ( Abgeordnetenhaus ), and in 1861 the upper house, the House of Lords ( Herrenhaus ).

In 1912, with the Irish Parliamentary Party at its zenith, a new third Home Rule Bill was introduced by Herbert Asquith, passing its first reading in the Imperial House of Commons but again defeated in the House of Lords ( as with the bill of 1893 ).

Two expansion packs were released for the game Imperial Knights & Lords of Chaos which were meant to be used as reinforcements, however no new playing cards were introduced meaning these were moved using existing cards, the extra units were:

* 1 unit of Imperial Lords *

* Imperial Lords 8pts

They worship the Father and Son in spirit and truth, believing that His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I is the Anointed One, the chosen and Anointed life mirrored personification of themselves ( father & son ) as they were before creation, and as they are in heaven " God in all their Glory-Love in all their Glory " the King of Kings & Lord of Lords.

Some of the noble families even earned themselves the right to be hereditary peers in the House of Lords ( Herrenhaus ) in the Imperial Council ( Reichsrat ) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After emperor Qin Shi Huang ended the Warring States Period by establishing the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ), the Chancellor, together with the Imperial Secretary, and the Grand Commandant, were the most important officials in the imperial government, generally referred as the Three Lords.

Chaos ensues as Ewoks attack the Imperial Stormtroopers, allowing Han Solo and Leia Organa to reach the controls.

Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II currently includes Tyranids as a playable race along with the Imperial Guard, Chaos Space Marines, Eldar, Orks, and Space Marines.

Johnston currently plays in the bands Ghost Mice and Imperial Can, as well as his solo acts Captain Chaos and Chris Clavin, and is a former band member of Operation: Cliff Clavin, The Devil Is Electric, The Ted Dancin ' Machine, Peanucle, The Sissies, and The Jammy Dodgers.

Many adversaries from the Warhammer 40, 000 universe are encountered by the protagonist Kais, such as Dreadnoughts, Chaos Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Daemon princes, and an Imperial Valkyrie.

He aligned himself with the Chaos Daemon Tarkh ' ax, and summoned Word Bearers Chaos marines onto the Imperial battleship.

Chaos marines under his command also attempted to capture and control an Imperial Titan, but they were foiled when Kais destroyed the sacred machine.

In the Imperial year 2302, the largest Chaos incursion since ancient times erupted, threatening to conquer the Old World.

A death world on the edge of the Menazoid Clasp, Epsilon was the site of three shrines to Chaos, designated Primaris, Secundus and Tertius by Imperial tacticians.

A warp-beacon is activated in the process, and a Chaos fleet advances on Hagia to obliterate the Imperial forces.

Doing so will break the morale of the Chaos worshippers and enable the Imperial forces to recapture Ouranberg with greater ease.

Following the death of Warmaster Slaydo, a splinter fleet of Chaos slipped past the picket set up by the Imperial Navy thanks to the newly-appointed Warmaster Macaroth's change of tactics.

In Imperial year 2007 he and his scouts slew Morghur, or Cyanathair, Child of Chaos, by piercing him with a hundred arrows.

Note that in order to play as Space Marines, Chaos, Eldar, Orks or Imperial Guard online, one must have the original Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War game installed.

After a pitched battle with the forces of the Alpha Legion ( including traitorous Imperial Guard regiments who have been corrupted by Chaos ) Gabriel and Isador confront Toth in the ruins of an Imperial Temple.

As such human, Skaven and Chaos Dwarf engineers often produce more unusual, impressive and powerful, albeit less reliable, technologies, such as the Imperial Steam Tank or the Skaven Ratling Gun.

* Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising-Chaos Sorcerer, Imperial Guardsmen, Sergeant Merick

Max is an avid scholar into the powers of Chaos, having lost his family to beastmen as a child, and has made it his mission in life to destroy Chaos wherever he found it: however, he was expelled from the Imperial College of Magic for displaying too great an interest in the subject.

At the same time, the Chaos Warlord Surtha Lenk attacked Kislev and pushed through to the Empire, sacking the Ostland capital of Wolfenburg before being crushed by Imperial reinforcements.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1513 – Battle of Guinegate ( Battle of the Spurs ) – King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

* 1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz.

Recent research by the Imperial College London has focused on finding new cell wall proteins which trigger an immune response and are suitable for use in a vaccine to provide long-term protection against M. tuberculosis.

These are Kelvin ( SI units ) or Rankine scale ( Imperial & US units ).

The Atreides are soon attacked by Harkonnen forces ( secretly supplemented by the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Sardaukar ) as Yueh disables the protective shields around the Atreides palace on Arrakis.

Rabban dies in the initial part of the battle ; the Harkonnen army is massacred to the last man and almost all the Imperial Sardaukar are killed.

* 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships and are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.

Both Skaro and the Imperial Dalek mothership are apparently destroyed ( in the future ) when the Seventh Doctor tricks Davros into using the Time Lord artifact known as the Hand of Omega which makes Skaro's Sun go supernova.

Regular ceremonies of the Emperor with a constitutional basis are the Prime Minister investitures in the Imperial palace throne room and the Speech from the Throne ceremony in the House of Councillors in the National Diet Building.

Both kofun-type Imperial tombs are characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.

Imperial tombs and mausolea are cultural properties ; but they are guarded and administered by the Imperial Household Agency ( IHA ), which is the government department responsible for all matters relating to the emperor and his family.

The major ( East ) Franconian towns in Baden-Württemberg are Schwäbisch Hall on the Kocher — the Imperial City declared itself " Swabian " in 1442 — and Crailsheim on the Jagst River, the main towns in Thuringia are Suhl and Meiningen.

It concluded not only that the Cuban and American Ivory-billed woodpeckers are genetically distinct, but also that they and the Imperial form a North American clade within Campephilus that appeared in the Mid-Pleistocene.

Included within the designation of ancestral spirits are spirits of the ancestors of the Imperial House of Japan, but also ancestors of noble families as well as the spirits of the ancestors of all people.

The islands are almost exclusively Swedish-speaking, but in 1809, Sweden had lost both Finland and the Åland Islands to Imperial Russia.