Marcus believes should aspire to the ideals that legendary medieval English King Arthur created at his infamous table.
His death at Bosworth - the last English king to be killed in battle - ushered in the Tudor dynasty beginning with Henry VII.
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"It's quite amusing that the location of the burial of an English king should be of such concern in the States, " says Mayor Peter Soulsby.
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Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
On this day in 1605 Fawkes, a disgruntled English Catholic rebel, attempted to take down the entire English government king, ministers, parliament and all by blowing up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.
The rider's partnership with O'Brien first took an English Classic in 1998 when King of Kings won the 2, 000 Guineas at Newmarket.
Speaking of James, the museum is gearing up for a show next year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of another of the greatest English Renaissance productions, the King James Bible.
Mr Salmond repeatedly stresses that his aim is to repeal the Parliamentary Union of 1707, not the regal Union of 1603 when the Scottish king assumed the English throne as well.
Alfred was King of Wessex but was referred to as King of the English towards the end of his reign after he united areas of the country and defeated the Danes in several battles.
Countless attempts were also made on the lives of bigger names, such as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1878), Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (May and June 1878), Andrew Carnegie's business partner, Henry Clay Frick (Pittsburgh, 1892), a Serbian minister (Paris, 1893) and King Alfonso XIII and his English bride (Madrid, on their wedding day, 1906).
In 1399, King Richard II became the first English monarch to abdicate.
In 1534, England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church -- a role formerly held by the Pope.
The version that became part of the first English statute in 1297 was the one signed by King Henry III in 1225.
Historians quibble about whether the modern level was invented by Mechisedech Thevenot , royal librarian to King Louis XIV of France, or by legendary English natural scientist Robert Hooke .
King Edward VI secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, where the AQA English exam is taken, said 53% of its pupils got the five GCSE A-C grades, compared to 64% last year.
The world premiere theatre performance of Black Diggers presents the touching, never-before-told stories of 1, 000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in WWI, while The Shadow King is a poignant and thought-provoking Indigenous re-working of King Lear, performed through a mix of live rock music using both English and Kriol (an Indigenous Australian dialect).
His mother had come from Sweden, and he learned Swedish before he learned English (which stood him in good stead when he received his Nobel prize from the king of Sweden).
But Henry was no match for the French king, who introduced France's first standing army in 1445, and ultimately crushed the overstretched English within a little over two years.
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