In the early 15th century, the hapless dauphin who, with the assistance of Joan of Arc would become King Charles VII, had to flee Paris and was given sanctuary at the Château d ' Angers.

For centuries, the hapless Prince Ōtomo was not considered to have been a part of the traditional order of succession.

They were hapless for the next seven seasons, including a 12 – 70 record in the 1986 – 87 season that was the second-worst single-season record in NBA history at that time, and is now the third-worst winning percentage in NBA history behind the 1973 76ers and the 2012 Charlotte Bobcats.

The hapless Liu was imprisoned and allowed to slowly waste away from untreated pneumonia and diabetes.

Other characters included the cheerful Leutonian clarinetist Yosh Shmenge, who was half of the Happy Wanderers and the subject of the mockumentary The Last Polka, folksy fishin ' musician Gil Fisher, handsome if accent-challenged TV actor Steve Roman, hapless children's entertainer Mr. Messenger, corrupt soap opera doctor William Wainwright, smut merchant Harry, " the Guy With the Snake on His Face ", and Giorgy, everyone's favourite Cossack.

The organizers of the lynching then charged admission and allowed armed patrons to open fire from their seats on the hapless prisoner, who was bound in the center of the stage.

In 1989, " Burn On " was used as the opening theme to the film Major League, whose focus was the hapless Cleveland Indians.

He was also fond of casting himself as the victim: a hapless householder constantly under the thumb of his shrewish wife and / or mother-in-law.

Steven Spielberg's low-budget early TV movie Duel ( 1971 ), which got a cult following, was about road rage between a hapless traveling salesman ( Dennis Weaver ) and the unseen, relentless driver of a truck.

Tolkien consciously based the lay on the medieval story of Kullervo in the Finnish mythological poem Kalevala, saying that it was " an attempt to reorganize ... the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own ".

In one episode, The Challenge, the plot-as-such was finished halfway through the show, and during the rest, the hapless Richard of the Lea and his wife worried as their larder and wine cellar were emptied during a siege with Robin, Little John, and Tuck eating and dancing all day and night.

One of this series of hapless rivals was a newspaper launched in Cologne in December 1839 called the Rheinische Allgemeine Zeitung (" Rhenish General Newspaper ").

A somewhat more mixed ( comedy / dramatic ) role was his portrayal of the philosophical ( yet hapless ) tramp, Vladimir, in a notable TV production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot with Zero Mostel and Kurt Kasznar.

Chase was a master of the comedy of embarrassment, and he played either hapless young businessmen or befuddled husbands in dozens of situation comedies.

He was also in the first episode of Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em, playing a company boss interviewing the show's hapless main character.

Having been duped into a bad marriage, the hapless Levet was taken in by the author Samuel Johnson who wrote his poem " On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet " eulogizing his good friend and tenant of many years.

Opus was originally introduced in June, 1981, as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to be a penguin, much to the disappointment of his father.

At Paardeberg ( 1900-02-08 ), while De la Rey was away rallying resistance to Major General French's advance in the Colesberg area of the Cape, the hapless Cronjé was trapped by Roberts and surrendered with his entire army.

According to many sources, Deedes was the journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop.

At daylight the pursuit was broken off and all ships, many low on fuel and ammunition, were ordered to rendezvous with the hapless Foote.

" He was right: the Cubs finished 10th and became the first team to finish behind the previously hapless New York Mets.

Cleveland's struggles over the 30-year span were highlighted in the 1989 film Major League, which comically depicted a hapless Cleveland ball club going from worst to first by the end of the film.

Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.

Unlike the hapless Quito junta of a decade earlier, the Guayaquil patriots were able to appeal to foreign allies, Argentina and Gran Colombia, each of whom soon responded by sending sizable contingents to Ecuador.

In this book the hapless protagonists are ensnared in a web of deceit by a malignant monk called Schedoni and eventually dragged before the tribunals of the Inquisition in Rome, leading one contemporary to remark that if Radcliffe wished to transcend the horror of these scenes she would have to visit hell itself.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade is described as a " sacred relic " carried by Cistercian monk Brother Maynard ( Eric Idle ) and is used near the film's conclusion to destroy a killer rabbit that blocks the path of King Arthur and his hapless Knights Errant.

Some barely have a face, but the comedic or violence proportions exceeding those of conventional clay puppets, with grisly crime scenes riddled by clay gunfire and hapless victims falling in a sniper's cross hairs.

* William Combe begins publication of the verse Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the Picturesque in Ackermann's Political Magazine ( London ), illustrated with cartoons by Thomas Rowlandson, depicting comic and ridiculous scenes involving a hapless country physician and coming to represent British Regency humour.

Some regular features disappeared over the years: the Grimbledon Down comic strip about a research establishment run by the hapless Treem ; Ariadne, later with Nature, commenting every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of ( fictitious ) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the ( fictitious ) DREADCO corporation.

* Otto the Director ( Rita Moreno ): A hapless auteur dressed as an old-style Hollywood film director, Otto tried in vain to make her actors say a line correctly as printed on an oversized cue card held by Marcello ( Morgan Freeman ), her terrified ( but very loyal ) assistant.

Keiichi Morisato is a good-natured, yet hapless and girlfriend-less college sophomore who is often imposed upon by his elder dorm-mates and brow-beaten into taking phone messages and doing other chores for them.

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

These characters were often played by some of the great recognisable character actors of the 1970s British sit-com era, and indeed spotting these famous faces — and enjoying their reactions to the torture of Frank's hapless influence — is one of the joys of watching the series.

The hapless duo from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota blundered into unlikely adventures much as Crusader and Rags had before them, pursued by " no-goodnik " spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, perennially under orders to " keel moose and squirrel.

Slack, hapless, lanky and freckled, Beetle's eyes are always concealed, whether by headgear or, in the rare instance of not wearing any, by his hair.

) The hapless general is really best known for being the namesake of the rousing showstopper in the popular Li ' l Abner musical, as sung by Marryin ' Sam and chorus.

This is used as a metaphor for the changes brought about by her womanhood: being herself in love, her newfound awareness of the associated sense of rapture enables her to empathize with the hapless bird ( as a younger girl she would have been simply excited by the prospect of a fine hunting trophy ).

Given little say by the new Peronist government, which, instead saw its policy shift from populism to erratic crisis management measures, Frondizi initially supported the 1976 coup against Perón's successor ( his hapless widow, Isabel Perón ).

Throughout the series they employ a man named Albert, who first appears as a lift boy who helps them in The Secret Adversary, and in Partners in Crime becomes their hapless assistant at a private detective agency ; by Postern of Fate he's their butler and has been married and widowed.

During the 1980s the band perfected a detailed stage act involving shabby lift attendant costumes, badly-applied clown make-up, Tim Smith's bullying of other band members ( predominantly his hapless brother and bass player Jim Smith ), and a final formal presentation of champagne and flowers by The Consultant and Miss Smith complete with confetti, taking place to " a euphoric sweep of saxophone and keyboards that wouldn ’ t seem out of place in a ' 70s cigar advert.

She is heiress Hope Harcourt and, escorted by her mother, Mrs. Harcourt, is on her way to England with her fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, an attractive but stuffy and hapless British nobleman.