Acinonyx rex — the king cheetah ( see below )— was abandoned as a subspecies after it was discovered that the variation was caused by a single recessive gene.

A king cheetah showing its distinctive coat pattern

The king cheetah is a rare mutation of the cheetah characterized by a distinct fur pattern.

In 1927, the naturalist Reginald Innes Pocock declared it a separate species, but reversed this decision in 1939 due to lack of evidence ; but in 1928, a skin purchased by Walter Rothschild was found to be intermediate in pattern between the king cheetah and spotted cheetah and Abel Chapman considered it to be a color form of the spotted cheetah.

Since 1927, the king cheetah was reported five more times in the wild.

Although strangely marked skins had come from Africa, a live king cheetah was not photographed until 1974 in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

In May 1981, two spotted sisters gave birth there and each litter contained one king cheetah.

The De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, renowned for its success in breeding and studying cheetah, king cheetah, brown hyena, suni, blue duiker and wild dogs is situated in the small town of De Wildt, just east of Brits.

Big cats have been known to have their coats affected by recessive genes, as seen in black leopards ( panthers ), white tigers, white lions, and the king cheetah.

This mosaic in Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna has had images of the Arian king, Theoderic, and his court removed.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Wace usually only refers to li roi (" the king ") without naming him, and someone has taken an early mention of Uther's epithet Pendragon as the name of his brother.

In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall ( Heorot ) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime ( Hama in Old English ) takes sides against Eormanric, king of the Goths, and has to flee his kingdom after robbing him ; later in life, Hama enters a monastery and gives them all his stolen treasure.

Bragi is then mentioned, questioning how Odin knows that it is Eric and why Odin has let such a king die.

The king has a disturbing dream and asks his wise men to interpret it, but refuses to divulge its content.

The horrified king eventually summons Daniel who is able to read the writing and offer the following interpretation: Mene, Mene-God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Daniel has a lengthy vision ( 10: 1-12: 13 ) in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, around 536 BCE, regarding conflicts between the " King of the North " and the " King of the South " (= Egypt, 11: 8 ).

The Deuteronomist's negative view of Saul and desire to show David as the first real king of Israel has obscured Saul's real achievements.

The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

The thrust is not merely that God has experiences that Job does not, but that God is king over the world and is not necessarily subject to questions from his creatures, including men.

Beer has been brewed in Budweis since it was founded as Budiwoyz by king Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1245.

He does nothing to accuse Macbeth of murdering the king, even though he has reason to believe Macbeth is responsible.

Scholars have interpreted this to mean that Banquo has been dreaming of murdering the king as Macbeth's accomplice in order to take the throne for his own family, as the Three Witches prophesied to him.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

The king has also a special move which is called castling and involves also moving a rook.

Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook ( which is on the player's first rank ) and then placing the rook on the last square the king has just crossed.

Legend has it that in 802 CE, Jayavarman II, king of the Khmers, first came to the Kuhlen hills, the future site of Angkor Wat.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

Agesilaus, the former passive lover of Lysander, would have nothing of this, and reminded Lysander ( who was only a Spartan general ) who was king.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

With Naram-Sin, Sargon's grandson, this went further than with Sargon, with the king not only being called " Lord of the Four Quarters ( of the Earth )", but also elevated to the ranks of the dingir (= gods ), with his own temple establishment.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

This meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of ealdormen, royal reeves and king ’ s thegns ( who were charged with levying and leading these forces ), but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war.

The only means left to them was to starve the burh into submission, but this allowed the king time to send assistance with his mobile field army or garrisons from neighbouring burhs.

The king managed to keep security within Portuguese borders only by outlawing and exiling his kin.

Peter's only male heir, future king Fernando of Portugal, was a sickly child, while the illegitimate children sired with Inês thrived.

In the aftermath of Mycale, the Spartan king Leotychides had proposed transplanting all the Greeks from Asia Minor to Europe as the only method of permanently freeing them from Persian dominion.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

He lists seven kings of the Anglo-Saxons whom he regards as having held imperium, or overlordship ; only one king of Wessex, Ceawlin, is listed, and none from Mercia, though elsewhere he acknowledges the secular power several of the Mercians held.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

It was normal Roman practice to allow allied kingdoms their independence only for the lifetime of their client king, who would agree to leave his kingdom to Rome in his will — the provinces of Bithynia and Galatia, for example, were incorporated into the Empire in just this way.

When Macbeth kills the king and takes the throne, Banquo — the only one aware of this encounter with the witches — reserves judgment for God.

Whereas Macbeth places his hope in the prediction that he will be king, Banquo argues that evil only offers gifts that lead to destruction.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

The bridge of Bouvines, the only means of retreat through the marshes, was guarded by 150 sergeants at arms of the king who form only to the French troops.

This can involve capturing the checking piece ; interposing a piece between the checking piece and the king ( which is possible only if the attacking piece is a queen, rook, or bishop and there is a square between it and the king ); or moving the king to a square where it is not under attack.