He is a manifestation of the Lord of Misrule and Trickster figures of deep-rooted mythologies.

* Mao Tse-Tung, The Marxist Lord of Misrule.

In England, the Lord of Misrule — known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots — was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools.

While mostly known as a British holiday custom, the appointment of a Lord of Misrule comes from antiquity.

In ancient Rome, from the 17th to the 23rd of December, a Lord of Misrule was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the good god Saturn.

The Lord of Misrule presided over all of this, and had the power to command anyone to do anything during the holiday period.

On January 1, A. D. 400, Asterius, bishop of Amasea in Pontus ( Amasya, Turkey ) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends (" this foolish and harmful delight ") that describes the role of the Lord of Misrule in Late Antiquity.

In Durostorum on the Danube ( modern Silistra ), Roman soldiers would choose a man from among them to be the Lord of Misrule for thirty days.

Similar origins of the British Lord of Misrule, as a sacrificial king ( a temporary king, as Frazer puts it ) who was later put to death for the benefit of all, have also been recorded.

While the medieval and later Roman custom of a Lord of Misrule as a master of revels, a figure of fun and no more than that, is most familiar, there does seem to be some indication of an earlier and more unpleasant aspect to this figure.

* James Frazer, The Golden Bough: " The Roman Saturnalia ," which deals with the Lord of Misrule.

/ Up with what's low, what's high eschew, / Call crooked straight, and straight askew ," The Herald, who acts as Master of Revels or Lord of Misrule, strikes Thersites with his mace, at which point he metamorphoses into an egg, from which a bat and an adder are hatched.

Among the expenses of the royal Wardrobe we find provision made for tunicae and viseres ( shirts and hats ) in 1347 for the Christmas ludi ( plays ) of Edward III ; during the reign of King Henry VII, payments are also recorded for various forms of court revels ; and it became regular, apparently, to appoint a special functionary, called Master of the Revels, to superintend the royal festivities, quite distinct from the Lord of Misrule.

He was appointed by lot, and has been compared to the medieval Lord of Misrule at the Feast of Fools.

The inspiration for the name came from John Milton's Lord of Misrule in his masque Comus.

At Christmas the students ruled the Inn for the day, appointing a Lord of Misrule called the Prince of Purpoole, and organising a masque entirely on their own, with the Benchers and other senior members away for the holiday.

** Lord of Misrule ( 2011, ISBN 1-907519-85-8 ):

*** " Lord of Misrule " ( with Clint Langley, in 2000 AD # 958-963, September – October 1995, # 995-998, June 1996 )

Slaine must replace Robin as the Lord of Misrule

Often a Lord of Misrule was chosen to lead the Christmas revels.

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The Lord of Misrule symbolizes the world turning upside down.

This Lord of Misrule tradition dates back to pre-Christian European festivals such as the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia.

The actual Elizabethan festival of Twelfth Night would involve the antics of a Lord of Misrule, who before leaving his temporary position of authority, would call for entertainment, songs and mummery ; the play has been regarded as preserving this festive and traditional atmosphere of licensed disorder.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

Britain's plans to press Russia for a definite cease-fire timetable was announced in London by Foreign Secretary Lord Home.

As I ministered to his needs, I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and nurse but also the Lord.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

`` We beseech thee, Lord Gord, to bless this food '' -- that was Victoria saying grace while the baby sprayed raisin toast on her plastic bib.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers.

Joshua, however, was admitted with his leader to the very presence of the Lord, while Aaron and Hur remained below to look after the people ( Exodus 24: 9-14 ).

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?