Moving clockwise around the outer bailey from Mortimer's Tower, the defences include a west-facing watergate, which would originally have led onto the Great Mere ; the King's gate, a late 17th century agricultural addition ; the Swan Tower, a late 13th century tower with 16th century additions named after the swans that lived on the Great Mere ; the early 13th century Lunn's Tower ; and the 14th century Water Tower, so named because it overlooked the Lower Pool.

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, housed in the King's House The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is housed in the King's House, a Grade I listed building whose history dates back to the 13th century, just opposite the west front of the cathedral.

A Dragoon regiment, the Light Dragoons, was formed by the amalgamation of two Hussar regiments, the 13th / 18th Royal Hussars and the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars, in 1992.

The Council of State originates from the 13th century by which time the King's Court ( Curia regis ) had split into three sections, one of which was the King's Council ( Curia in consilium, later Conseil du roi ), which too broke up into three distinct parts: the Conseil secret ' Privy Council ', the Conseil privé ' Private Council ', and Conseil des finances ' Council of Finances '.

Surviving documents record the widespread enclosure of wasteland and clearance of woodland in King's Norton, Yardley, Perry Barr and Erdington during the 13th century, a period over which the cultivated area of the manor of Bordesley also increased twofold.

In the following Battle of Albert, begun on the 21st, the 13th King's suffered 274 casualties, but captured 150 soldiers and many machine-guns, while the 1st assisted in the taking of Ervillers.

The 13th King's provided the majority of the British contingent for the " Chindits ", which was formally designated as the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade and commanded by Orde Wingate.

No. 2 Group, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel S. A. Cooke, was formed from the 13th King's and divided into five independent columns, two of which ( Nos 7 and 8 ) were commanded by majors from the battalion.

* 13th ( Service ) Battalion, The King's ( Liverpool Regiment ) ( from October 1915 to April 1916 )

* 13th ( Service ) Battalion, The King's ( Liverpool Regiment ) ( from April 1916 )

* 13th ( Service ) Battalion, The King's ( Liverpool Regiment )

have observed similarities with the 13th century Epic of Sundiata to Walt Disney's 1994 animated film, " The Lion King " ( the inspiration behind the The Lion King's franchises such as " Lion King, the musical ", etc .).

It was published in 1993, soon after he relinquished command of 13th / 18th Royal Hussars ( which includes ( in merged form ) two of the light dragoon regiments: the 13th was originally raised as a heavy dragoon regiment in 1715 but later converted to light dragoons ; the 18th was raised as a light dragoon regiment in 1759 ; both retitled as hussars in 1861, merged in 1922 and then merged with the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars to form the present Light Dragoons in 1992 ).

From 2000 to 2006, Down appeared in the films The King's Guard with Eric Roberts and Ron Perlman, The Meeksville Ghost, 13th Child, Today You Die and Seven Days of Grace, where she also was a writer.

The medieval history of Great Wilbraham is tied up with that of neighbouring Little Wilbraham, and they were first distinguished in the 13th century when it was also known as King's Wilbraham.

He went over to France with the battalion and was with them until promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1918, when he took command of the 13th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.

* 13th The King's Regiment

The 6th King's Own Royal Regiment ( Lancaster ) was attached to the 13th ( Western ) Division.

It was formed in 1992 from the amalgamation of two regiments, the 13th / 18th Royal Hussars ( Queen Mary's Own ) and the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars becoming the first dragoon regiment in the British Army for over twenty years.

Qui tam actions were first used in 13th century England as a way to enforce the King's laws.

In 1107 Sigurd I of Norway sailed for the eastern Mediterranean with a host of Norwegian crusaders to fight for the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the Danes and Swedes participated energetically in the Baltic Crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries.

He then hijacked in Marseille an Italian cargo, along with Jean Simon, and sailed first to Gibraltar, then London and engaged himself in the Free French Forces as a member of the 13th Brigade of the French Foreign Legion.

Soldier of the 13th Foot, 1742In 1742 Pulteney's Regiment sailed to Flanders, and in the following year was part of the joint British, Hanoverian and Austrian force that secured a victory over the French at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743.

The 13th Foot sailed for the West Indies, arriving in Barbados.

After occupying various stations in the south of the country, the 13th sailed for Ireland in May 1807.

Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray Ross, a regular British Army officer, the battalion — as part of the 13th Brigade attached to the 4th Australian Division — sailed for France, arriving in Marseilles on 12 June 1916.

She was, however, able to join the Australian Army Nursing Service ; assigned to the 2 / 13th Australian General Hospital ( 2 / 13th AGH ), in September 1941 she sailed for Singapore.

The Squadron (-) deployed to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, while Detachment Bravo sailed in support of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard.

A cookie with caramel filling and chocolate frosting won $25,000 for a Minneapolis housewife in the 13th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off Tuesday.

He birdied the 13th, the 15th and the 18th -- five birdies, one bogey and 12 pars for a 68.

Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.

* Tommy Hall, lyricist for the 13th Floor Elevators

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

He asserts that isolated communities relied on raiding for food and supplies, and that internal conflict and warfare became common in the 13th century.

Dante Alighieri, in the Divine Comedy, recounts that he saw Alfonso's spirit seated outside the gates of Purgatory with the other monarchs whom Dante blamed for the chaotic political state of Europe during the 13th century.

Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th century China.

The early translators included Mashallah, who helped to elect the time for the foundation of Baghdad, and Sahl ibn Bishr, ( a. k. a. Zael ), whose texts were directly influential upon later European astrologers such as Guido Bonatti in the 13th century, and William Lilly in the 17th century.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

* 13th Academy Awards ( 1941 ): Best Actor and Best Writing, nominations, for The Great Dictator.

The 13th century Terrace of the Leper King is known for its dynamic relief sculptures of demon kings, dancers, and nāgas.

On April 13, 2007 ( Friday the 13th ), a group of students from The California Tech, Caltech's campus newspaper, arrived and distributed fake copies of The Tech, MIT's campus newspaper, while prospective students were visiting for their Campus Preview Weekend.

He read an unabridged dictionary ( the 13th edition of Webster ’ s ) through, word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their derivations from ancient languages.

An elephant clock in a manuscript by Al-Jazari ( 1206 AD ) from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. In the 13th century, Al-Jazari, a Kurdish Muslim engineer from Mesopotamia ( lived 1136-1206 ) who worked for Artuqid king of Diyar-Bakr, Nasir al-Din, made numerous clocks of all shapes and sizes.

The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops " to ring the changes ", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through.

And in the 13th century a Syrian historian from Aleppo includes four references for couscous.

Following the 13th Congress, another power struggle with a different focus began ; this time socio-economic policies were the prime motivators for the struggle.

By the 12th to 13th centuries A. D., monks were preparing illuminated manuscripts on vellum and parchment in monasteries throughout Europe and were using lead styli to draw lines for their writings and for the outlines for their illuminations.

Numerous mural versions of that legend from the 13th century onwards have survived ( for instance, in the hospital church of Wismar or the residential Longthorpe Tower outside Peterborough ).

Hence from the Syriac Diatessaron text was derived an 11th Century Arabic harmony ( the source for the published versions of the Diatessaron in English ); and a 13th Century Persian harmony.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

The 2005 season saw Essendon miss the finals for the first time since 1997, finishing with their second-worst result to that time under Sheedy's coaching, 13th position with 8 wins and 14 losses.