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Three thousand years ago, civilization just getting started on the banks of the Nile, some slaves, Jewish shepherds in this instance, smelling of sheep shit, I guess, proclaimed to the Pharaoh, sitting high on his throne, "We, your majesty-ness, are equal to you."
Could we put it back in the throne of the king of beasts in Tasmania, restore that ecosystem?
I have had to get off my throne.
She said, "Get off your throne.
Cut back, small up; think strategy, not failure; get off your throne and find the bridgework to get your through the lean times.
Because obviously the British public, I think, would prefer William to Charles on the throne.
They placed a Norman king on the English throne and for three centuries, French was the language of the British royalty.
Edward's oldest son had died before his father, but his ten-year-old son, Richard II, succeeded to the throne ahead of Edward's three surviving sons.
This skipping of an entire generation left lingering claims to the throne among their various offspring, particularly the Lancasters, descended from Edward's third son, and the Yorks, descended from his fourth son.
The Lancasters first gained the throne when Richard II was deposed by his cousin Henry IV in 1399.
Though he was unable to directly seize the throne, he managed to be reinstated as Protector and have himself and his heirs designated to succeed Henry.
Edward recaptured the throne, the Lancaster Prince was killed in battle, and Henry himself died in captivity not long after.
After Alexios’s death, Anna’s brother John ascended to the throne and Anna turned back to philosophy and scholarship.
And chicken soon joined them on the throne.
A king who brought stability to the throne, but used it to promote his own glory, Henry VIII embodied all the contradictions of monarchy on the verge of the modern era.
A man by the name of David came to the throne, and King David became one of the great leaders of his generation.
She orders them to keep close watch on her husband's special reception yurt and port-able throne during the journey.
There, Lord and Lady Sustenance bathed him, sat him on a feathered throne, and wrapped a red band around his head.
And Charles II, the son, was finally put back on the throne of England.
The phantom claims to be the victim of a “murder most foul,” and convinces Hamlet that his uncle Claudius usurped the throne and stole queen Gertrude’s heart.
Years before, Jason’s uncle Pelias had ruthlessly usurped the throne of Thessaly from Jason’s grandfather.
If Jason retrieved the Fleece, Pelias promised to relinquish the throne.
After receiving his ornate crown and scepter, Henry Christophe ascended his throne, towering 20 meters in the air.
Their political struggles were only intensified by personal turmoil: Alexei, the heir to the throne, had a life-threatening blood disease called hemophilia.
The teenage king of Bhutan was also a curious man, but this was back in 1972, when he ascended to the throne two days after his father passed away.
But he and his lady has higher ambitions than that, and plan the murder of Duncan, and any competition of the throne.
The money spent on this was just flushed down the throne.
The movie doesn't make clear what drives Lady Macbeth to madness, it doesn't give a reason why some of the characters should fear Macbeth and his "terror" (since there is no hereditary ascension to the throne, what with no throne and all) and it places Macbeth in an awkward position, since the leadership of a gang is as far from kingship as this whole movie is far from any Shakespeare.
He assumes the throne and prepares to marry the princess but the night before her wedding, the princess escapes to the land to go and battle the beast herself.
They end up in a throne room where the hero is required to play a "Price Is Right" sort of contest involving a climb up seven steps with seven illuminated footprints; hence the title.
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