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...It was later adopted by Christian monarchs in western Europe, with the first known anointment of an English king taking place in 973AD when Edgar was consecrated at Bath....
...oath (originally the “tria precepta”, the three promises); anointing, investiture with ring, sword, sceptre, rod and crown; enthronement — does actually descend from the coronation of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar...
...Prince Charles Edward Stuart, aka the Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, landed in July 1745 at Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, hoping to win back the crown his grandfather James II of England and...
...HMS Endeavour, captained by James Cook, followed the Dolphin two years later....
...What common pub name comes from the emblem used by Richard II (above)? What did James Joyce describe as “snotgreen” and Homer as “wine-dark”?...
...Anyone who remembers Tom Burke’s monumental, glowering performance in the first film may wonder how Hogg is able to sustain the story without him....
...What relation was Prince Albert to Kaiser Wilhelm II? What’s the alliterative title of the 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe that’s narrated by a victim of the Spanish Inquisition (above)?...
...You can read the back-story to the relationship breakdown as reported by the FT's James Politi here and here....
...In 1984, the actor gave it to James Cox, a friend of his daughter Nell, as a thank-you for rebuilding a treehouse at the Newmans’ Connecticut home....
...Among them was Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St Louis, Missouri, who has emerged as the face of the opposition to Francis....
...Photographs: Stephen Burke...
...“This is a market within a market,” says Jason Taylor, head of sales at the local office of Franklyn James....
...For more than 20 years, until 1908, it was run as the personal fiefdom of King Leopold II of Belgium....
...“John Paul II believed the Church was under attack and there was no room for debate, but Pope Francis is returning to the spirit of Vatican II.”...
...The bank took its name from two brothers, Thomas and James, who joined it in the mid-18th century and established its reputation as private banker to Britain’s aristocracy and royal family....
...www.dnfa.com ii Side table Gerrit Rietveld This is as much a piece of abstract sculpture as a side table – and is certainly no less desirable for that....
...Under the leadership of Sir Josiah Child, the company had allied itself too closely to the deposed James II, and had also embarked on a disastrous expedition against the Mughal Empire to secure trade concessions...
..., World War I, although many Americans today consider it a mistake and not justified, and World War II, which enjoys a greater consensus of support....
...And was it supply push or demand pull which propelled Lenin (4), John Paul II (17), Marx (30) and Engels (36) to their elevated positions?...
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