Blaze eventually they had the chance to wrap up the title with three games to go in front of a new record crowd at the Skydome, Coventry dispatched of London Knights 5 – 1 and secured their place as the number one team in Britain.

In pool play, the Knights easily dispatched the Boston Ironsides ( 50 – 0 ) and San Francisco Fog ’ s B-Side ( 39 – 0 ), but lost a close match to the Kings Cross Steelers ' A-side, which placed second overall ( 8-16 ).

The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters KMS and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters KMA.

Knights used the post-nominal letters " KP ".

Knights and Ladies use the post-nominal letters " KT " and " LT " respectively.

The notes also include the Pigpen cipher, devised by the Freemasons, and it may not be coincidental that the abbreviation AVM seen in Latin letters on the Kensington stone also appears ( for AUM ) on many Masonic gravestones ; Wolter and Nielsen in their 2005 book even suggested a connection with the Knights Templar.

This is suggested by a passage in one of Alciphron's letters ( 3: 44 ), and some remarks by the sausage seller in Aristophanes ' play, The Knights.

The Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic fraternal service organization to which Kennedy belonged, donated $ 6, 000 to have the letters darkened and more deeply incised in time for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration.

By his involvement in the HRFA, he grew as an activist by writing letters and presenting slide shows of fish kills and pollution at venues from garden club meetings to Knights of Columbus halls.

Whereas our loving and well disposed subjects, Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Somers, Knights, Richard Hackluit, Clerk ... and Edward Maria Wingfield, Esq ... have been humble suitors unto us, that we would vouchsafe unto them and may in time bring the infidels and savages in those parts, to human civility, and to a settled and quiet government, Do, by these our letters patent, graciously accept of, & agree to, their humble and well intended desires .... and do therefore, for Us, our heirs and successors, Grant and agree, that the said Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hackluit, and Edward Maria Wingfield, adventurers of and for our city of London ... shall and may begin their said first plantation ... and seat of their first abode & habitation ", etc.

Following the discovery of a Knights Templar riddle which said " The key in Silence ", a link between the Silence Dogood letters and the cipher is established.

The Order consists of the Sovereign and sixteen Knights and Ladies, as well as certain " extra " knights ( members of the British Royal Family and foreign monarchs ).

The wealth and influence of Malta's noble families – many of whom trace their ancestry back to the Norman and Spanish monarchs who ruled Malta prior to the Knights – was also greatly enhanced during this period.

A European Armorial: An Armorial of Knights of the Golden Fleece and 15th Century Europe.

With the last of the Order's leaders gone, the remaining Templars around Europe were either arrested and tried under the Papal investigation ( with virtually none convicted ), absorbed into other military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller, or pensioned and allowed to live out their days peacefully.

With their military mission and extensive financial resources, the Knights Templar funded a large number of building projects around Europe and the Holy Land.

The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325-1520.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

Although it has been proposed that the witch-hunt developed in Europe from the early 14th century, after the Cathars and the Templar Knights were suppressed, this hypothesis has been rejected independently by two historians ( Cohn 1975 ; Kieckhefer 1976 ).

" Boswell argues that Edward and Gaveston fell victim to a new-found concern about sexual morals among the secular powers of Western Europe, manifested shortly before in the trial of the Knights Templar in 1307.

The succession crisis also prompted a mission to the west to seek assistance: in 1184, Patriarch Eraclius, along with Roger de Moulins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, and Arnaud de Toroge, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, travelled throughout the courts of Europe.

The Knights Templar, headquartered at the site, built a series of centrally-planned churches throughout Europe modeled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with the Dome of the Rock also an influence.

Some 400 years after the death of de Molay and the dissolution of the Knights Templar, the fraternal order of Freemasonry began to emerge in northern Europe.

Chronicled by many historians from the earliest days of Antiquity up until the High Middle Ages, they are believed to have given rise in part or wholly to the Age of Feudalism in Europe and the later European equivalents of Knights and Paladins, via contact with the Byzantine Empire.

One of the greatest military orders of medieval times, the Knights Templar were renowned for their remarkable financial power and vast holdings of land and property throughout Europe and the East, and their severity of rule in Cyprus quickly incurred the hatred of the native population.

Originally developed under the title Gemma Knights, the game was renamed Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden ( published in North America as Final Fantasy Adventure and in Europe as Mystic Quest ).

* Knights of Honor Computer game situated in medieval Europe

In some historical discourses, " Drang nach Osten " combines historical German settlement in Eastern Europe, medieval military expeditions like the ones of the Teutonic Knights, and Germanisation policies and warfare of Modern Age German states like the Nazi lebensraum concept.

When the Knights Templar were being tried for heresy, reference was often made to their worship of a demon Baphomet, which was notable, by implication, for its similarity to Muhammad's name when transliterated in to Latin, " Mahomet ", that was used by contemporary Christian authors, given that Latin would be for another 500 years the language of scholarship and erudition for most of Europe.

The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325-1520.

He was banished to Europe, first under the protection of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John on the island of Rhodes and ultimately that of the Pope.

In northern Europe, the Teutonic Knights, after their successes in the northern crusades, attempted to conquer also the Orthodox Russian Republics of Pskov and Novgorod, an enterprise endorsed by Pope Gregory IX.

The Knights of The Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325 – 1520, Woodbridge, Suffolk ( Boydell Press ), ( revised edition 2000.

The Knights strongly promoted their version of republicanism that stressed the centrality of free labor, preaching harmony and cooperation among producers, as opposed to parasites and speculators.

* 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes.

The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.

He also empowered them to confer ( later within strict limitations ) the degree of Doctor, with all university privileges, create notaries ( later abrogated ), legitimize children so as to make them eligible to receive benefices vacated by their fathers ( now revoked ), also to ennoble three persons and to make Knights of the Order of St. Sylvester ( Militiae Aureae ), the same to enjoy and to wear the insignia of nobility.

The Knights formally surrendered on 12 June and, in exchange for substantial financial compensation, handed the islands and all of their resources over to Bonaparte, including the extensive property of the Roman Catholic Church on Malta.

Knights bachelor were either poor vassals who could not afford to take the field under their own banner, or knights too young to support the responsibility and dignity of knights banneret.

The medieval European Knights Templar ran an early prototype of a central banking system, as their promises to pay were widely respected, and many regard their activities as having laid the basis for the modern banking system.

They argued that the Knights were perfectly justified in their crusade as it was a sacred duty of Christians to spread the true faith.

Several programs from the university placed in the 2011 Corporate Knights rankings, which measures how well Canadian universities integrate sustainability into their curriculum.

Knights are units that require continuous maintenance through their activation mechanism, but have a wide variety of functions.

City walls are a minor addition to Cities and Knights that increase the number of resource and commodity cards a player is allowed in their hand before having to discard on a roll of 7.

Andalusian Knights found El Cid their foe ill, thirsty and exiled from the court of Alfonso, he was presented before the elderly Yusuf al-Mu ' taman ibn Hud and accepted command of the forces of the Taifa of Zaragoza as their Master.

Beginning in 1226, the Teutonic Knights began their conquest of Prussia.

Ownership has been attributed to various groups ( including the Knights Templar, probably because they were at the peak of their influence around the time that Grail stories started circulating in the 12th and 13th centuries ).

In the Haunted Mansion was powered by the same engine as the earlier Id Software game Shadow Knights, which was one of the several games written by Id Software to fulfill their contractual obligation to produce games for Softdisk, where the Id Software founders formerly were employed.

Jedi Knights have made their way into certain areas of pop culture, such as in:

The Crusaders called it the Solomon's Temple | Temple of Solomon and it was from this location that the Knights took their name of Templar.

This situation heightened tensions with some European nobility, especially as the Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia and the Knights Hospitaller were doing with Rhodes.

Templar organisations in Portugal simply changed their name, from Knights Templar to Knights of Christ – see Order of Christ ( Portugal ).

Knights were to take their meals in silence, eat meat no more than three times per week, and not have physical contact of any kind with women, even members of their own family.