Sentences with phrase «more knighthoods»

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That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

The Former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, has awarded his knighthood for services to the families... More

It is true that the Prime Minister is re-inventing the political knighthood, and that the collapse of Lords reform opens up the prospect of more peerages, but patronage has taken a hit, and Downing Street has come late to using what it has.

In 2006, The Sunday Times newspaper revealed that every donor who had given # 1,000,000 or more to the Labour Party since 1997 was given a Knighthood or a Peerage.

He put forward big - spending oil tycoon Ian Taylor and engineering supremo Andrew Cook — who have gifted the Conservatives more than # 2.6 m — for knighthoods.

Ian McKellan is one of those British actors who gets more and more dignified with age and roles, until, if he's not careful, he gets a knighthood and a trip to the taxidermist.

His men, anachronistically called «knights» (knights won't actually become a thing for another 500 years or so, after the Norman conquest; this is an example of an acceptable anachronism, especially since the Arthurian legends, composed in the age of chivalry, have already imposed knighthood on the historical story (if there was one, more about that later)-RRB- are Sarmatians, drafted into Imperial service as part of a 3rd Century surrender agreement between their people and the Empire (not historical: the Sarmatians remained a power in the Ukraine and Balkan regions through the end of the Western Empire, though there is a theory that the Arthurian legends are influenced by or even sourced in, similar Sarmatian stories (notably one about a lady with a sword in a lake), the influence purported to have come from a community of Sarmatian veterans in Lancashire).

Sir Ken Robinson, awarded his knighthood for services to U.K. education and the most watched speaker on TED talks with 21.5 million viewers, states that, for the future, creativity will be more important than literacy.

It includes a wealth of information and contains references to How March got its name (Mars - the God of War), things associated with March - daffodils, Zodiac signs, birthstone, Equinox, Spring, sayings «as mad as a March hare» Special Days in March - Easter, St Patrick's Day, Saint David's Day, Saint Piran's Day, Saint Joseph's Day, Women's History Month, Simnel Sunday, Mothering Sunday / Mother's Day, World Maths Day, the Jewish festival of Purim, International Women's Day, World Water Day, Lady Day (the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Oranges and Lemons Children's Service, World Book Day Notable Birthdays — Will I Am, Albert Einstein, Frederic Chopin, Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Alexander Graham Bell, Vivaldi, Michelangelo, nat King Cole, Steve McQueen, Robbie Coltrane, Wilfred Owen, Fernando Torres, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ronaldinho, Alan Sugar, Harry Houdini, Vincent Van Gogh Discoveries, Launches, Inventions — Twitter, Barbie Doll, Coca - Cola, discovery of Uranus, the first elevator, Rolls Royce, first internet domain name, English football league, telephone patented Notable Events and Happenings — Great Flood of Sheffield, Knighthood of Paul McCartney, release of first Beatles album, «Titanic» won 11 Academy Awards It also contains hyperlinks to - Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring (La Primavera)- Bach's «Air on G String» - St Clement's bells ringing «Orange and Lemons» - Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No. 11 «Winter Wind» - The Beatles «Please, Please Me» - Hares «boxing» A simple text version of this presentation, more appropriate for younger / SEN pupils is also available.

With his knighthood and litany of establishment honours, he has more excuse than most to turn grandiose.