Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place.

" 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.

During this period Agamemnon and his brother, Menelaus, took refuge with Tyndareus, King of Sparta.

Alboin took as his first wife the Catholic Chlothsind, daughter of the Frankish King Chlothar.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

When King Andrew II, having fulfilled his Crusader vow, took his troops northward, he proceeded through Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

In 1223, the junior King Béla IV took back his wife and escaped to Austria fearing of Andrew's anger.

He took refuge with King Amalric I of Jerusalem, whose favour he gained, and who invested him with the Lordship of Beirut.

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

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.

Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.

The popular General Lafayette, as captain of the National Guard of Paris and confidant of the king, took his oath to the constitution, followed by the King Louis XVI.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

In 1687 Ancillon was appointed head of the so-called Academie des nobles, the principal educational establishment of the state ; later on, as councillor of embassy, he took part in the negotiations which led to the assumption of the title of " King in Prussia " by the elector.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

While Amlaíb and Auisle were in north Britain, the Annals of Ulster record that Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland, took advantage of their absence to destroy the longphorts along the northern coasts of Ireland.

There, in the valley of the river Copiapó, Almagro took official possession of Chile and claimed it in the name of King Charles V.

He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.

He also mentions that this flag, falling from the sky during the Russian campaign of King Valdemar II, is the very same flag that King Eric of Pomerania took with him when he left the country in 1440 after being deposed as King.

King gave the officers a pair of sunglasses he thought the man left behind and the detectives took some blood samples from the walls.

The apple of discord: King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki, December 1912.

Davidson also notes a further connection between fertility and apples in Norse mythology ; in chapter 2 of the Völsunga saga when the major goddess Frigg sends King Rerir an apple after he prays to Odin for a child, Frigg's messenger ( in the guise of a crow ) drops the apple in his lap as he sits atop a mound.

However, the tradition of honoring the local apple industry persists in the county's annual North Carolina Apple Festival, held each year around Labor Day, and culminating in the " King Apple Parade " attended by tens of thousands of spectators.

Originally, the Tarte Tatin was made with two regional apple varieties: Reine des Reinettes ( King of the Pippins ), and Calville.

Saxo Grammaticus relates how Palnatoke ( Toko ) was forced by King Harald to use a single arrow to shoot an apple from his own son's head as the boy ran downhill.

King John recognized and was grateful to the knight, whose family coat-of-arms after the Battle began to appear with a blue sash and a silver apple.

" In Satira, he attacked Polish King Jogaila, calling him a " mad dog " unworthy to be king.

Driver Bryan Smith, distracted by an unrestrained dog moving in the back of his minivan, struck King, who landed in a depression in the ground about 14 feet from the pavement of Route 5.

* Caesar ( dog ), a Fox Terrier owned by King Edward VII

* Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a breed of small dog

Here, the dog is alleged to have belonged to Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, and to have been a gift from King John of England.

( gesturing as if feeding an invisible dog ) Here King, here King!

Ness, along with his pet dog, King, accompany Pokey and set out for his younger brother.

Concept art featuring List of EarthBound characters # Ness | Ness and his dog, King, standing in front of their home.

Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it follows the adventures of a dog, Earl, and a cat, Mooch.

For example, the Records of the Grand Historian records a speech made during the reign of King Xuan of Qi ( reigned 319 BCE – 301 BCE ) that claims that the capital city of Linzi was so wealthy that its citizens were all able to indulge in activities such as playing musical instruments, cock fighting, dog racing, playing Liubo and playing kick ball.

* In the television series, King of Queens, a Great Pyrenees is a recurring customer of Holly the dog walker.

From left to right are the three Christians, Charlemagne bearing an eagle upon his shield, King Arthur displaying three crowns and Godfrey of Bouillon with a dog lying before him, then the three pagans, Julius Caesar, Hector and Alexander the Great bearing a griffon upon the his shield, and lastly the three Jews, David holding a sceptre, Joshua and Judas Maccabeus.

Cujo ( 1981 ) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a dog named Cujo.

In 1894 the two top Bulldogs, King Orry and Dockleaf, competed in a contest to see which dog could walk 20 miles.

The TV show Wishbone showed the dog imagining himself as the title character, complete with the men playing ninepins and his mistaking the George Washington Inn for his old hangout of the King George Inn.

Tsunoda 1951: 15 ) records that in 247 when a new governor arrived at Daifang Commandery in Korea, Queen Himiko officially complained of hostilities with Himikuku ( or Pimikuku卑彌弓呼 ) the King of Kunu ( 狗奴, literally " dog slave ").

Herbert Hoover got a German shepherd dog during his campaign, King Tut, and pictures of him with his new dog were sent all across the United States during his campaign.

The Chee managed to save their essence, however, and transferred this into wolves, resulting in the creation of the domesticated dog, which, in the words of Erek King, are " all that remains of the Pemalite soul.

Rick Swenson, sometimes known as the " King of the Iditarod ", ( born 1950 in Willmar, Minnesota ), is an American dog musher who has won the 1, 049-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U. S. state of Alaska more times than any other competitor.

He has a white dog, Cafall, who is able to see the wind ( Cafall was the name of King Arthur's dog ).