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King and bids
Both works are clear bids for patronage: Fame's Memorial is an elegy of 1169 lines on the recently-deceased Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, while Honour Triumphant is a prose pamphlet, a verbal fantasia written in connection with the jousts planned for the summer 1606 visit of King Christian IV of Denmark.

King and one
At the King Arthur one guest had had his head heavily bandaged, and another had a bandaged foot and had walked with crutches.
* Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag days of Sweden.
In May 1894 King Alexander staged another coup: he abolished King Milan's liberal constitution of 1888 and restored the conservative one of 1869.
Andrew also went on conspiring with some prelates against his brother, but King Emeric was informed as to Andrew's plans and he personally arrested Bishop Boleszlo of Vác, one of Andrew's main supporters, and he also deprived his brother's followers ( e. g., Palatine Mog ) of their privileges.
The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.
Callisto was the daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia and also was one of Artemis's hunting attendants.
On more than one occasion, Judge told the writers that one of their ideas for an episode of King of the Hill would work well for Beavis and Butt-Head ; eventually he concluded, " Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.
The complement of aircraft carried by the Minas Gerais included at one point six Grumman S-2E antisubmarine planes, in addition to several SH-3D Sea King helicopters and Aérospatiale Super Puma and HB-350 Esquilo helicopters.
King Charles's army had been reinforced as it marched, and outnumbered that of Essex by nearly two to one.
Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.
The exiled Swedish King Anund Uppsale confirms that either one of the churches was in Birka itself when he ponders if Birka should be plundered:
On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.
" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".
The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.
As one of the oldest and most popular world pastimes, coin collecting is now often referred to as the " King of Hobbies ".
In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.
County Dublin was one of the first parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the Norman invasion of Ireland.
In one notable instance, Columba appears to King Oswald of Northumbria, in a dream, and he announced the king ’ s incoming victory against King Catlon.
On one occasion in 1709, for instance, Frederick IV of Denmark, also paid them a visit and he was greeted as their King.
Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

King and love
This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.
Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.
In the church are the tombs of King Peter I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro and with it the story of the tragic liaison between Pedro and his ever-lasting love for Inês.
Allying himself with King Mannach, Corum falls in love with his daughter Medhbh.
It is uncertain why he did this, as there were many more opportunities for him under the King than the new order ; some people suggest David's love for the classical made him embrace everything about that period, including a republican government.
The King, however, was madly in love with his beautiful and worldly bride and granted her every whim, even though her behavior baffled and vexed him no end.
Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.
At this time he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples ( known as Robert the Wise ) and she is immortalized as the character " Fiammetta " in many of Boccaccio's prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo ( 1338 ).
Only Digby, tried on a separate indictment, pleaded guilty, insisting that the King had reneged upon promises of toleration for Catholics, and that affection for Catesby and love of the Catholic cause mitigated his actions.
Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric's ward and a descendant of the Saxon Kings of England.
The novel is occasionally quite critical of King Richard, who seems to love adventure more than he loves the well-being of his subjects.
The King James Version ( 1611 ) and the Challoner Douay Rheims Bible ( 1752 ) prefer the more theological term Charity for the same idea of specifically Christian love.
On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.
Their nephew, returning home a desperate man, falls in love with an abbess, in whom he discovers the daughter of the King of England.
King Charles the Old, being conqueror, falls in love with a young maiden, and afterward growing ashamed of his folly bestows her and her sister honourably in marriage.
King Pedro, being apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa, who thereof is sick, comforts her, and forthwith gives her in marriage to a young gentleman, and having kissed her on the brow, ever after professes himself her knight.
Others, also basing their claims on passages of his diaries, have suggested that King was in love with Lord Tweedsmuir, whom he had chosen for appointment as Governor General in 1935.
Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.
Le Père Goriot ( Old Father Goriot, 1835 ) was his next success, in which Balzac transposes the story of King Lear to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.
" Using this power, she continually undermines Cardinal Wolsey ( Anthony Quayle ), who at first sees Anne as just a passing love interest for the King.
Julie Andrews, fresh from her triumph in My Fair Lady, played Guenevere to Burton's King Arthur, with Robert Goulet as Lancelot completing the love triangle.
Lord Raymond An ambitious young nobleman, Raymond becomes famous for his military efforts on behalf of Greece against the Turks, but eventually chooses love over his ambition to become King of England.
Later came The Tempest, King Lear, a funeral march for the final scene in Hamlet, the love scene for Les Troyens ( which, some claim, Berlioz took from The Merchant of Venice ), and Béatrice and Benedict.

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