Kerr, who set the world record earlier this month in New York with a clocking of 1.09.3, wiped out Mills's early pace and beat the young Big 10 quarter-mile king by 5 yards.

In 522 the young Amalaric was proclaimed king, and four years later, on Theodoric's death, he assumed full royal power.

Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.

In 1876, a vigorous campaign against the Carlists, in which the young king took part, resulted in the defeat of Don Carlos and the Duke's abandonment of the struggle.

Towards the end of 1878 a young workman of Tarragona, Juan Oliva Moncasi, fired at the king in Madrid.

The French newspaper Le Figaro described the young king as " the happiest and best-loved of all the rulers of the earth ".

Nevertheless, the king whose health was failing, wanted to secure the ascension of his young son, Ladislaus, who had been crowned on 26 August 1204.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

On 9 March 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Cambodia, young king Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea, following a formal request by the Japanese.

Though the nickname does not suggest anything particularly respectable about the king himself, its invective is not actually focused on the king but on those around him, who were expected to provide the young king with god ræd.

The Institutio principis Christiani ( Basel, 1516 ) ( Education of a Christian Prince ) was written as advice to the young king Charles of Spain, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

As the adviser of the young king, George firmly advocated the cause of the new gospel against the influences and intrigues of his clerical opponents and successfully prevented their violent measures.

The handsome, athletic young king stood in sharp contrast to his wary, miserly father.

In 1512, the young king embarked on a war in France.

In 1261, attempts to elect young Conradin king were unsuccessful.

The young king Athalaric had died on 2 October 534, and an usurper, Theodahad, had imprisoned queen Amalasuntha, Theodoric's daughter and mother of Athalaric, on the island of Martana in Lake Bolsena, where he had her assassinated in 535.

Its last king, Casimir III, had left no legitimate son and considered his male grandchildren either unsuited or too young to reign.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

Louis the German promptly rose in revolt, and the emperor redivided his realm again at Quierzy-sur-Oise, giving all of the young king of Bavaria's lands, save Bavaria itself, to Charles.

As a young man Lugh travels to Tara to join the court of king Nuada of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Byron, commanding the British warship HMS Blonde, was returning to London from a special mission to Honolulu to repatriate the remains of the young king and queen of Hawaii, who had died of measles during a visit to Britain.

The need for such strength was further emphasized when the young Ueshiba witnessed his father being attacked by followers of a competing politician.

Vercingetorix, a young nobleman of the Arvernian city of Gergovia, roused his dependents to join the revolt, but he and his followers were expelled by the nobles of the city, including Vercingetorix's uncle Gobanitio, because they thought opposing Caesar was too great a risk.

It follows two young American Christian evangelists who travel to Scotland ; like Woodward's character in The Wicker Man, the two Americans are virgins who encounter a pagan laird and his followers.

He describes how the " Old Man of the Mountain " ( Sabbah ) would drug his young followers with hashish, lead them to a " paradise ", and then claim that only he had the means to allow for their return.

His success attracted a generation of followers, as young scientists went into organic chemistry to pursue riches.

Silenus was described as the oldest, wisest and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was said in Orphic hymns to be the young god's tutor.

Mismanagement of the kingdom and ceaseless political intrigues by Marie de Medici and her Italian favourites led the young king to take power, in 1617, by exiling his mother and executing her followers, including Concino Concini, the most influential Italian at the French court.

' Though he became increasingly dishevelled and fat in middle age, the young Fox had been a very fashionable figure ; in particular, he had been the leader of the ' Maccaroni ' set of extravagant young followers of Continental fashions.

The Delius Society, formed in 1962 by his more dedicated followers, continues to promote knowledge of the composer's life and works, and sponsors the annual Delius Prize competition for young musicians.

In particular during the 1960s and 1970s many gurus acquired groups of young followers in Western Europe and the USA.

Following a move to London, the London Autonomists ( including Martin Wright and Pete Mastin ) soon became involved and a decision was made to produce a tabloid-style newspaper which would reach a wider audience, particular aimed at young anarchists, including followers of the anarcho-punk band Crass.

The young Fassbinder was one of the followers of the Oberhausen Group.

He taught the 120 Lessons to his young followers ( who came to refer to him as the Father ), but instead of teaching them to be Muslims, he taught them that they were God the same way he was.

Louis Farrakhan traveled the nation speaking in city after city gaining followers, many were young black college students.

Although both the Pisanos and Giotto had students and followers, the first truly Renaissance artists were not to emerge in Florence until 1401 with the competition to sculpt a set of bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral which drew entries from seven young sculptors including Brunelleschi, Donatello and the winner, Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Before the capture of Ayutthaya, the young general Taksin fled with 500 followers to Rayong.

In Germany, the " Neue Rechte " ( literally, new right ) consists of two parts: the " Jungkonservative " ( literally, young conservatives ), who search for followers in the civically part of the population ; and, secondly, the " Nationalrevolutionäre " ( national revolutionists ), who are looking for followers in the ultra-right part of the German population, and use the rhetorics of right-wing politicians such as Gregor and Otto Strasser.

The souming ( a word originating in the Viking era ) for each full share gives the right to put, on the common grazings ( the high ground of Beinn Sciathan and Beinn Stac ), 10 sheep, 2 cows and 1 eriskay pony ( all plus their ' followers ' - young up to 1 year old ).

In 1949, several of his followers led by C. N. Annadurai, decided to split from Dravidar Kazhagham, after an aged Periyar married a young woman Maniammai and anointed his young wife to act as his successor to lead the party, superseding senior party leaders.

These revolts organized by the young Sussex men rallied smaller numbers of followers than that of the Cade rebellion, but still had an effect on the societies in England.

He rose to leadership among Zwingli's young and enthusiastic followers.