Such artistic ferment fed the appetite of the dukes of Burgundy for lavish works of art to glorify their reign.
Tabloid queen and sometime pop singer Simpson starred in the redneck roadrunning comedy The Dukes of Hazzard, made in the Bayou State in 2005.
If there is a key to the WorldCom mystery, Yates, the man with a name out of Faulkner--or perhaps The Dukes of Hazzard--could be it.
He observes that television's representations of the South -- Andy Griffith's Mayberry, "The Dukes of Hazzard, " "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- seldom delve into the challenging issues underneath.
They bought CB radio sets in droves, learned a spatter of the lingo and imitated The Dukes of Hazard from Friday-night TV, while their kids learned it from the CB Bears cartoon on Saturday morning.
Rather, it was the Protestant Reformation that halved the market for illuminated manuscripts, and, combined with the end of the reign of the dukes of Burgundy and the ascent of Spanish rulers in Flanders, disrupted the pan-European network of trade routes and patronage on which illumination depended.
For those who like to combine their celebrity spotting with their spooking, be on the lookout for the ghosts of Thomas Becket, the young Dukes of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey, a bear and Queen Anne Boleyn.
Goins was suspended by Dukes coach Matt Brady for the first half of the Dukes' First Four game on Wednesday night against LIU Brooklyn after his arrest over the weekend on charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing justice.
It hinged on an alliance with the powerful dukes of Burgundy, who detested their French rivals far more than their English ones.
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Today's billionaires are no different from the grand dukes and popes of the Renaissance or the merchants of 17th century Amsterdam.
It shows Philip the Good, surrounded by his courtiers, receiving the gold clasped book that legitimised the reign of dukes of Burgundy over Flanders by somehow tracing their ancestry back to Alexander the Great.
The Have-Nots think they will be buried by the Kansases, Dukes and Memphises of the world who have more talent.
Perri thought the suspension actually worked against his team and in favor of the Dukes.
In the background of the exhibition are the Medici, the wool-traders turned bankers who held sway over the Florentine republic in its golden age under Lorenzo the Magnificent, and who produced popes and queens and Tuscan grand dukes until the last of the dynasty died in 1737.
While in middle school, he once stood up in the middle of the Duquesne locker room and told the Dukes they weren't playing hard enough.
"If Mayor Bloomberg is serious about taking this issue on, he cannot single out bodegas who will struggle to adapt and compete with corporate franchises, " Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP New York state branch, said in a statement Friday.
The movie, based on a 1662 story by Madame de Lafayette, dramatizes the rivalries among Catholic dukes and princes as they fight the Protestants in the interminable religious wars of the time.
In the Dukes case, Wal-Mart is accused of fostering a corporate culture in which managers promote and pay men more than women.
On the face of it, no handicapper in the world would lay odds for the plaintiffs in Dukes v.
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The so-called Dukes case accuses Wal-Mart of systematically discriminating against women in promotions and pay.
Dukes of Hazzard did pretty well at the box office last year starring the guy from Jackass, Stifler and a pop singer as the Dukes family.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear three more challenges to class-action procedures this fall, at least one of which could cement the changes set in play by Dukes.
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Dukes presents a number of tricky issues but Lahav says the key issue is whether a court can decide such a large, disparate group of hourly and management employees have one legal issue in common.
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Reform of the Upper House began in 1999 when more than 600 hereditary dukes, marquises, viscounts, earls and barons were thrown out by the Labour government.
Racing ended at Odsal - home of the Bradford Bulls rugby league team - in 1997 when the Bradford Dukes left the site due to planned redevelopment.
Federal funding is available to commonwealth and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy in Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth, and Suffolk Counties.
The Dukes went on a 9-0 run and then polished off the game by scoring 10 of the last 12.
Davis, who started in replace of Goins, had 20 points for JMU. Charles Cooke, who hadn't scored in three of his last four games, added 15 points and Nation added 14 for the Dukes, who were winless in the NCAA tournament since 1983 and hadn't played in the big dance in 19 years.
There is little here about the infinite gradations that divided earls from dukes, elder sons from their brothers, established titles from ones of recent creation and Haileybury from Eton.
The current litigation was filed in 2001 by Betty Dukes, a store greeter in Pittsburg, California, along with five of her co-workers.
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