Mr. MOSLEY: In mythology among the slaves, there was a character named High John the Conqueror.
It would be hard to turn against the conqueror of Baghdad without looking churlish.
Theon, the conqueror of Winterfell, learns that crippled Bran, little Rickon, half-witted Hodor, and Osha the Wildling have fled.
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Looking every bit the conqueror, Mittal ruled out hints of a total selloff.
The conqueror had come a vast distance, but the company the investors were already licking their chops over was still a spring lamb.
How would the BBC have reported events like the Great Fire of London in 1666 or the death of William the Conqueror in 1087?
But who knows what the world would look like today if our hero had become known as William the Whiner instead of William the Conqueror?
Started by Mehmet the Conqueror, they were expanded by a succession of sultans who were as interested in philosophy and the arts as they were in conquest and concubines.
The British royal family can be traced back 900 years to William the Conqueror, although the succession has passed through a number of families to the house of Windsor.
The 70m (230ft) long tapestry was commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.
Not only because they supplied a good number of English kings and queens, from William the Conqueror on, but also because Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.
Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, wanted his portrait painted and since Islamic painting focused on calligraphy and miniatures, being painted by a top Venetian portraitist was the ultimate luxury.
When other public bodies have been battered and bruised, the current, comfortable status quo is not a bad position for Elizabeth II, the 40th hereditary monarch since William the Conqueror, to occupy and indeed savour.
And I should also like to hear some words of contrition from President Chirac about William the Conqueror, from Romano Prodi about the Roman invasion and from the prime ministers of Norway and Denmark about those disgraceful Vikings.
Despite his lasting association with the director, Mr. von Sydow's one previous Oscar nomination was not for a role in a Bergman picture but rather for another Swedish-language part, that of Lassefar in Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987), which won an Academy Award for best foreign film as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.
Despite this zeal for destruction, Justin Marozzi finds a surprising amount of good to say about the Central Asian conqueror usually known in the West as Tamerlane or Tamburlaine, a corruption of Temur-i-lang, or Temur the Lame not a name that anyone, surely, would have dared use to his face.
The statues survived the ravages of Mongolian conqueror and warrior Genghis Khan, centuries of wars and the natural wear and tear of the elements.
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Conqueror of the British Empire was a title Amin had given himself, along with the Victoria Cross and the Military Cross, part of his obsession with showing himself equal or superior to Queen Elizabeth II - who had failed to accept his invitation to visit him in Uganda.
Kanepi won 6-1 4-6 6-0 against the 21-year-old conqueror of Germany's No. 25 Julia Gorges to match her 2008 effort of reaching the quarters.
The Belgrano - a cruiser - was torpedoed by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror on 2 May 1982.
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So Genghis Khan becomes known as an insatiable conqueror rather than the populist, strategic genius that he was.
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The 19-year-old McIlroy thrashed Tiger Woods' conqueror Tim Clark in his first professional tournament in the United States, but found 2006 champion Ogilvy a tougher test.
After withering a devastating defeat in WWII she adopted the free market principles of her conqueror.
The Fateh-110, or Conqueror, is a short-range ballistic missile developed by Iran and first put into service in 2002.
There was no conqueror to shove a mirror before the face of the ideologically vanquished.
The Spanish fourth seed -- beaten in the semifinals at Indian Wells by Djokovic's conqueror and eventual champion Ivan Ljubicic -- will next play Argentine wildcard David Nalbandian, who overcame Serbian 30th seed Viktor Troicki 6-3 4-6 6-4.
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