The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

* Creation ( 1931 film ), a 1931 film that inspired King Kong

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.

For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in many major movie roles and on television, finishing her acting career in 1980.

Faye Wray in the 1933 feature film King Kong ( 1933 film ) | King Kong

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

The Most Dangerous Game was followed by Wray's most memorable film, King Kong.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

She politely declined the cameo, and claimed the original " Kong " to be the true " King ".

The small sign at the edge of the park on Main Street has a silhouette of King Kong on it, remembering her role in the film King Kong.

* King Kong ( 1933 )

: King Kong ( 2005 )

In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area.

It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character ( or rather, its Toho Studios counterpart ) and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen.

Thus, a Blackwood query by the player holding two quick losers in a side suit is a wild gamble, as it is still possible that the suit is not controlled by an Ace or a King.

*" Cajun spice " blends such as Tony Chachere's and REX King of Spice are sometimes used in Acadiana kitchens, but do not suit every cook's style because Cajun-style seasoning is often achieved from scratch, even by taste.

These fears were unfounded ; in letters to Cecil in May and June 1603 he again pressed his decades-long claim to have Waltham Forest and the house and park of Havering restored to him, and on 18 July the new King granted his suit.

Qui tam is an abbreviated form of the Latin legal phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur (" he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself ") In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a " relator ".

The King Kong suit from this film was redressed into the giant monkey Goro for episode 2 ( GORO and Goro ) of the television show Ultra Q.

Each suit contained ten " spot " cards ( cards identified by the number of suit symbols or " pips " they show ) and three " court " cards named malik ( King ), nā ' ib malik ( Viceroy or Deputy King ), and thānī nā ' ib ( Second or Under-Deputy ).

Decks of 56 cards containing in each suit a King, Queen, Knight, and Valet ( from the French tarot court ) were common.

The History of King Richard III was written and published in both English and Latin, each written separately, and with information deleted from the Latin edition to suit a European readership.

The four foundations ( light rectangles in the upper right of the figure ) are built up by suit from Ace ( low in this game ) to King, and the tableau piles can be built down by alternate colors, and partial or complete piles can be moved if they are built down by alternate colors also.

The aim of the game is to build up a stack of cards starting with 2 and ending with King, all of the same suit.

The count filed a futile suit to establish that his morganatic status in Germany should not exclude him from succession to the throne of Luxembourg after the last male of the House of Orange, King William III of the Netherlands, died in 1890 and it became apparent that the House of Nassau faced the imminent extinction of its male members, as well, upon the eventual death of Grand Duke William IV.

After rejecting the suit of the nominal King of Spain, Archduke Charles of Austria, she married George Augustus, the third-in-line to the British throne and heir apparent to the Electorate of Hanover.

John Balliol ( Norman French: Johan de Bailliol ; – 25 November 1314 ), known to the Scots as Toom Tabard (" empty suit "), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.

Learning that Cordelia has been disinherited, the Duke of Burgundy withdraws his suit, but the King of France is impressed by her honesty and marries her anyway.

King County in Washington and the states of Maryland, Massachusetts, and Connecticut quickly followed suit.

Scottish ambassadors had at first concentrated their suit on the oldest daughter, but Frederick betrothed Elizabeth to Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick, promising the Scots instead that " for the second Anna, if the King did like her, he should have her.

In contrast to the stop motion technique most famously used Willis O ' Brien to create the 1933 King Kong, Tsuburaya used a man in a rubber suit to create his giant monster effects.

That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

He was the official procurer for King Farouk, now in exile.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

Producer John Holmes has chosen a delightful comedy for his season's opener at Matunuck in Jean Kerr's `` King Of Hearts ''.

During this time he served as shepherd for King Admetus of Pherae in Thessaly.

" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.

The High King of the Elves in the West was Ingwë, an echo of the name Yngvi often found as a name for Frey, whose abode was in Álfheim according to the Grímnismál.

In the year of his coronation as King of Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time.

The form Agade appears in Sumerian, for example in the Sumerian King List ; the later Assyro-Babylonian form Akkadû (" of or belonging to Akkad ") was likely derived from this.

These Saxons were tributaries to the Frankish King Sigebert, and their participation indicates that Alboin had the support of the Franks for his venture.

Another possibility is that he wished to search for other possible heirs to King Edward in Hungary.

The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.