He also contributed a version of Daniel Johnston's " King Kong " to the tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, released on Gammon Records.

* White Rock Forge Covered Bridge, about 4. 4 miles northwest on White Rock Road, via Asheville and King Pen Roads.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

Shitrit had announced his intentions to propose a new standard gauge railway to connect Haifa, Israel, to Irbid, Jordan, passing through King Hussein Bridge and Jenin, a project that could cost as much as $ 300 million ( for the Jordanian portion of the line ).

* 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.

* 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.

* 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

* 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

* 1216 – King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge.

" A henge at Eamont Bridge near Penrith, Cumbria is known as " King Arthur's Round Table ".

The King bids the one to love, and the other to go to the Bridge of Geese.

The end of the Viking Age is traditionally marked in England by the failed invasion attempted by the Norwegian king Harald III ( Haraldr Harðráði ), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman forces in 1171 ; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the Battle of Largs by troops loyal to Alexander III.

films include The Captive Heart ( 1947 ), Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), King Rat ( 1965 ), Danger Within ( 1958 ), The Secret War of Harry Frigg ( 1968 ).

OC Transpo has a Transitway station named Mackenzie King due to its location on the Mackenzie King Bridge.

There is a similar great legend in Prague which says that when the Motherland is in danger or in its darkest times and close to ruin, the equestrian statue of King Wenceslaus in Wenceslaus Square will come to life, raise the army sleeping in Blaník, and upon crossing the Charles Bridge his horse will stumble and trip over a stone, revealing the legendary sword of Bruncvík.

King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

* 1066: in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson defeated his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harold III of Norway.

** September 25 – Battle of Stamford Bridge: King Harold II of England defeats the Vikings under Harald Hardrada.

The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

His successor, King Harald Hardrada attempted the invasion of England in 1066, but was beaten and killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge, an event which is generally considered the end of the Viking Age.

Æthelstan's success in securing the submission of Constantine II, King of Scots, at the Treaty of Eamont Bridge in 927 allowed him to claim the title of ' king of the English ', and even " by wishful extension " ' king of Britain '.

Pomparles Bridge stood at the western end of this lake, guarding Glastonbury from the south, and it is suggested that it was here that Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur into the waters after King Arthur fell at the Battle of Camlann.

His most notable roles in the 1970s included, Get Carter ( 1971 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), and A Bridge Too Far ( 1978 ).

New roads are opened, including the way of King Ferdinand ( now Via Vittorio Emanuele ), in 1842 the Bridge of Lions is erected near the old Roman bridge Arena ; installed gas lighting at night.

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

Ribbentrop's time in London was also marked by rumors that he was having an affair with Wallis Simpson, British-businessman Ernest Simpson's wife and King Edward VIII's mistress.

Following the death of his Quebec lieutenant, Ernest Lapointe, in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for the government to have a strong, well respected member of cabinet to serve as a new deputy for Quebec to help deal with the volatile conscription issue.

* Ernest Bloch composed a Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra entitled Schelomo, based on King Solomon.

After this setback, and the 1941 death of his Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe, King sought out the reluctant Louis St. Laurent, a leading Quebec lawyer, to take over Lapointe's role, and eventually persuaded St. Laurent to serve in government.

" Double Vision: Ernest Lapointe, Mackenzie King and the Quebec Voice in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935-1939 ," Journal of Canadian Studies 1999 34 ( 1 ): 93-111 ; argues Lapointe guided the more imperialist Mackenzie King through three explosive situations: the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, the Munich crisis of 1938, and the formulation of Ottawa's ' no-neutrality-no-conscription ' pact in 1939.

** Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe, in French, give an international radio address, stating its intentions to declare war against Nazi Germany.

* November 23 – Ernest Joseph King, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations ( COMINCH-CNO ) during World War II ( d. 1956 )

Although not directly aligned with the Young Germans, the brothers and five of their colleagues reacted against the demands of King Ernest Augustus I, who in 1837 dissolved the parliament of Hannover and demanded oaths of allegiance from civil servants — including professors at the University of Göttingen.

The two directors of Chang, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, had previously worked together on Grass ( 1925 ) and later collaborated on the blockbuster film King Kong ( 1933 ).

On the entry of the U. S. into World War II, the U. S. Navy decided not to instigate convoys on eastern seaboard of the U. S. Fleet Admiral Ernest King ignored advice on this subject from the British as he had formed a poor opinion of the Royal Navy early in his career.

***** HM The Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, King Ernst August I of Hanover ( 1771 – 1851 )

George V ( George Frederick Ernest Albert ; 3 June 186520 January 1936 ) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) until his death in 1936.

* In The Vikings, a film of 1958, Ragnar, played by Ernest Borgnine, is captured by King Aella of Northumbria and cast into a pit of ferocious dogs.

* Canadian — Carman, Bliss, and Mary Perry King Kennerly: Pas de trois ( 1914 ); Green, Harry A .: The Death of Pierrot: A Trivial Tragedy ( 1923 ); Lockhart, Gene: The Pierrot Players ( 1918 ; music by Ernest Seitz ).

The Allied plan to invade the southern Solomons was conceived by U. S. Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief, United States Fleet.

Image by Ernest Wallcousins | E. Wallcousins in " Celtic Myth & Legend ", Charles Squire, 1920 .</ br ></ br > " Horses shall I have, and chivalry ; and my lord and kinsman King Arthur | Arthur will obtain for me all these things.

Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, William Gaddis, Mary Renault, Joseph Campbell, Roger Zelazny, Naomi Mitchison ( in her The Corn King and the Spring Queen ), and Camille Paglia, are some of the authors deeply influenced by The Golden Bough.

Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg died in Herrenhausen Castle and his grandson King George II of Great Britain was born there.

Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the Army George Marshall, Major General Laurence S. Kuter, General Aleksei Antonov, Vice Admiral Stepan Kucherov, and Admiral of the Fleet Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Nikolay Kuznetsov.

King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, shortly before his death, wrote to Lord Strangford about it:

The crowns of Hanover and Great Britain, which had been in personal union since 1714, were separated in 1837 upon the death of King William IV: his niece Victoria inherited the British crown under male-preference primogeniture but, because of semi-Salic law, was ineligible to that of Hanover, which passed to William's eldest surviving brother, Ernest I.

# Sophia, Electress of Hanover ( 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ); married Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, had issue including King George I of Great Britain

The title was first held by Duke Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Bishop of Osnabrück, the youngest brother of King George I.