It was all right being a knight until gunpowder and muskets and .22 pistols came along.
Actor and director Kenneth Branagh has been made a knight by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
For publicising Scandinavian design, Finland made her a knight and awarded her a medal.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1997.
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"Always a knight searching for what is good and right and true in the world, " one of them read.
He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
The British declined to make Mr Bird a knight, an honour often handed out to successful people in former colonies.
De Gaulle claimed as an ancestor a knight who fought at Agincourt, although perhaps not hard enough as England won.
He's been a Quarryman, Beatle, Wing, poet, father, front man, producer, business mogul, painter and, if that weren't enough, a knight.
This really is rather odd: especially as Jony Ives is now Sir Jony, a Knight of that very British Empire.
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"There's definitely more caution in the air this time, " said Mark Otto, a Knight Capital Group director based on exchange floor.
The characters are 3D caricatures of a knight, swordsman, archer, and wizard.
Dakich, a Knight disciple, was reminded of his Big Ten roots for the lone week in 2002 that he was West Virginia's coach.
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The Garter being much grander than a Knight of the Bath.
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An appointment as a Knight Bachelor would also cease on death.
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If you want to be a knight, act like a knight.
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This was a weapon worn by a knight armed for war.
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And so with support from the International Center for Journalists, with whom he is a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Choudhary began an experiment in citizen journalism.
Others named in the New Year Honours list include Nottinghamshire's Lord Lieutenant Sir Andrew Buchanan, who was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).
He was more than a four-time Cabinet secretary, more than a Knight of the English Empire knighted by Queen Elizabeth, more, too, than Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense.
Head, arms, legs, front torso and back torso had been moulded separately round his body in plaster of Paris and were now fitted separately to him, like a knight's armour.
Some may wonder why the man who was the chief executive of RBS cannot remain a knight when the man who was chairman of RBS or the chairman of HBOS can.
Sir Alan, a professor of economics, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, for services to economic policy and the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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In the 1987 New Years Honours Simon Rattle was awarded the CBE for his services to Music and in June 1994 he was made a Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours List.
Putting up the money for the fresco restoration in the Vatican coupled with other donations prompted Pope Benedict XVI to make him a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory in 2005.
John de Coupland (male, age range: 12-16), a Page from Berwick Castle Garrison who has no real experience of the horrors of medieval war and hopes in due course to become a knight himself.
For a while, Jonah Lehrer, the science writer who admitted to fabricating quotes, plagiarism, and other journalism sins, seemed to be pulling it off in his mea culpa speech to a Knight Foundation conference.
Online, she found a 2011 article from the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester describing Mann's being named a knight of the French Legion of Honor, a gesture bestowed by the French government to thank the veterans who helped liberate France.
It is a bumper year for the arts, with the Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Michael Boyd made a knight for services to drama, and RSC executive director Vikki Heywood appointed CBE, as they both prepare to stand down in September.
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