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Spanish whistle-blower Ana Garrido tells James Badcock how exposing murky deals in the ruling Popular Party ruined her life.
Joseph Campbell got the idea of the monomyth from James Joyce, and specifically from Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake.
In 1617 King James IV decreed that the town college of Edinburgh should be known as King James's College.
Mar's illness, wrote James Melville, followed a banquet at Dalkeith Palace given by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton.
After James was liberated in June 1583, he assumed increasing control of his kingdom.
Queen Elizabeth was unmarried and childless, and James was her most likely successor.
Throughout his youth, James was praised for his chastity, since he showed little interest in women.
The forcible dissolution of the Lordship of the Isles by James IV in 1493 had led to troubled times for the western seaboard.
In 1540, James V had toured the Hebrides, forcing the clan chiefs to accompany him.
In the 1580s and 1590s, James promoted the literature of his native country.
Elizabeth died in the early hours of 24 March, and James was proclaimed king in London later the same day.
On 7 July 1604, James had angrily prorogued Parliament after failing to win its support either for full union or financial subsidies.
On Raleigh's return to England, James had him executed to the indignation of the public, who opposed the appeasement of Spain.
Urged on by the Duke of Buckingham and the Spanish ambassador Gondomar, James ripped the protest out of the record book and dissolved Parliament.
The Authorized King James Version, as it came to be known, was completed in 1611 and is considered a masterpiece of Jacobean prose.
Throughout his life James had close relationships with male courtiers, which has caused debate among historians about their exact nature.
After about the age of fifty, James suffered increasingly from arthritis, gout and kidney stones.
The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland under James was symbolised heraldically by combining their arms, supporters and badges.
Cecil advised James not to press the matter of the succession upon the queen but simply to treat her with kindness and respect.
Within eight hours, James was proclaimed king in London, the news received without protest or disturbance.
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The Tudor rose dimidiated with the Scottish thistle, James used this device as a royal heraldic badge.
Two years later, he ascended to the throne of England as King James I of England.
The later Service Book of the Antiochian Archdiocese, in vogue today, also uses the King James Version.
The King James Only movement advocates the superiority of the King James Version over all other English translations.
In January 1622, James dissolved Parliament, angry at what he perceived as the members' impudence and intransigence.
With the encouragement of his Protestant advisers, James summoned the English Parliament in 1624 so that he could request subsidies for a war.
By 1624, James was growing ill, and as a result was finding it difficult to control Parliament.
Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.
Charles was succeeded by his brother, who became James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland.
When William arrived on 5 November 1688, James lost his nerve, declined to attack the invading Dutch and tried to flee to France.
Having no desire to make James a martyr, William, Prince of Orange, let him escape on 23 December.
The English Parliament passed the Bill of Rights of 1689 that denounced James for abusing his power.
When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the 'Loyal Parliament', which was composed mostly of Tories.
In 1687, James prepared to pack Parliament with his supporters so that it would repeal the Test Act and the penal laws.
Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered writs to be issued for a general election.
To his opponents in Parliament this seemed like a prelude to arbitrary rule, so James prorogued Parliament without gaining Parliament's consent.
In August, it became clear that William had surprisingly strong support within the English army, a situation brought about by James himself.
In response to the threat James had raised five new regiments of foot and five of horse, as well as bringing in Scottish and Irish soldiers.
Some have argued, however, that if James had been more resolute, the army would have fought and fought well.
In reality, by that point James was simply playing for time, having already decided to flee the country.
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Upon returning to London on 16 December, James was welcomed by cheering crowds.
Now for the first time it became evident that William had no longer any desire to keep James in power in England.
He refused the suggestion that he simply arrest James because this would violate his own declarations and burden his relationship with his wife.
Furthermore, the Bill of Rights described and condemned several misdeeds of James II of England.
William's successful invasion with a Dutch fleet and army led to James fleeing to France.
The new king, James II, required a new chapel and also ordered a new gallery, council chamber and a riverside apartment for the Queen.
A significant faction took part in the ousting of James II with the Whigs to defend the Church of England and definitive protestantism.
The colours of the Whig party were particularly associated with Charles James Fox.
After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France.
As the King's disputes with the English Parliament grew into the English Civil War, James stayed in Oxford, a Royalist stronghold.
In consequence, James was expelled from France and forced to leave Turenne's army.
Some members of Parliament even proposed that the crown go to Charles's illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.
Parliament granted James a generous life income, including all of the proceeds of tonnage and poundage and the customs duties.
To protect himself from further rebellions, James sought safety by enlarging his standing army.
Finally, on 24 August 1688, James ordered the issue of writs for a general election.
On 11 December, James tried to flee to France, allegedly first throwing the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
Having no desire to make James a martyr, the Prince of Orange let him escape on 23 December.
The Parliament of Scotland on 11 April 1689, declared James to have forfeited the throne.
The English Parliament passed a Bill of Rights that denounced James for abusing his power.
Jacobites rose again in 1745 led by Charles Edward Stuart, James II's grandson, and were again defeated.
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On 11 April, the day of the English coronation, the Convention finally declared that James was no longer King of Scotland.
Over the next 57 years Jacobites pressed for restoration of James and his heirs.
In the same year, Jacobites plotted to assassinate William III in an attempt to restore James to the English throne, but failed.
Another factor in Highland Jacobitism was James VII's sympathetic treatment of the Highland clans.
Official policy of the court in exile initially reflected the uncompromising intransigence that got James into trouble in the first place.
Henry, Charles and James are memorialised in the Monument to the Royal Stuarts in the Vatican.
He was also one of the figures who first drew attention to the Ossian cycle of James Macpherson to public attention.
To facilitate this trade, forts were established on the coast of West Africa, such as James Island, Accra and Bunce Island.
The agent for both Francis Egerton and his older brother, who was now the 2nd Duke of Sutherland, was James Loch.
Since James Loch had been appointed, he had been mainly in control of the management of the Trustees, assisted by his son George Loch.
He commissioned the engineer James Brindley to build a canal to do just that.
Albert Square has monuments to Prince Albert, Bishop James Fraser, Oliver Heywood, William Ewart Gladstone, and John Bright.
Piccadilly Gardens has monuments dedicated to Queen Victoria, Robert Peel, James Watt and the Duke of Wellington.
Most significant, however, was the development in 1776 of the industrial steam engine by James Watt and Matthew Boulton.
Pitt originally aligned himself with prominent Whigs such as Charles James Fox.
Though his proposal failed, many reformers in Parliament came to regard him as their leader, instead of Charles James Fox.
Charles James Fox, however, refused to serve under Shelburne, and demanded the appointment of the Duke of Portland.
Several doctors to the Russian court were from Scotland, the best known being James Wylie.
In 1847 chloroform was introduced as an anaesthetic by James Young Simpson.
In the General Election of 1979 she defeated James Callaghan's Labour government following the Winter of Discontent.
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It pained him to tell the story, yet tell it he did, over and over, in the unabridged, King James version.
When the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, died in 1603, King James VI of Scotland came to power as King James I, founding the Stuart monarchy.
They invited William of Orange, a Protestant who had married Mary, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde to invade England and claim the throne.
Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan.
On 21 November 2016, James announced that she was leaving UKIP and would henceforth sit as an Independent.
The following day, General James Wilkinson accepted possession of New Orleans for the United States.
Its head is the President of the Family Division, currently Sir James Munby.
The House, however, ruled that the recipient of the peerage, Sir James Parke, was not entitled thereby to sit as a Lord of Parliament.
On 9 May 1867 Thomas Hogg and James Hogg from Skelton introduced football to South America in Argentina, founding Buenos Aires Football Club.
In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell at Cambridge discovered his electromagnetic wave equation, part of his Maxwell's equations.
As his son and successor, James V, was an infant, the government was again taken over by regents.
She fled to England, and the Crown went to her infant son James VI, who was brought up as a Protestant.
Parliament was afraid that the former James II or his supporters, known as Jacobites, might attempt to reclaim the throne.
The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was James VII and II, who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution.
The world's first integrated sewer system was constructed in Liverpool by James Newlands, appointedin 1847 as the UK's first borough engineer.
There are a number of cities in the British Overseas Territories, such as the City of James Town on Saint Helena.
Since 2015 the Member of Parliament for Wells is James Heappey of the Conservatives.
The trees in Abbey Park were planted on Mount Hill in 1779 by James Bentham, a minor canon of Ely.
It was James who granted Ripon a Royal Charter in 1604 and created the first Mayor of Ripon.
Around 1900, James Walter Thompson published a house ad explaining trademark advertising.
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Businessman James Miller Williams dug several wells between 1855 and 1858 before discovering a rich reserve of oil four metres below ground.
Kingfisher Shopping Centre was opened in 1976 by the then Prime Minister James Callaghan and now forms the town's primary retail centre.
Albert Einstein kept a picture of Newton on his study wall alongside ones of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell.
Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell.
Gamma Draconis was the same star James Bradley used in 1725 in discovering the aberration of light.
Priestley was considered for the position of astronomer on James Cook's second voyage to the South Seas, but was not chosen.
One of the early applications of Turing's paper was the work by James Murray explaining spots and stripes on the fur of cats, large and small.
Late in 1951, Crick started working with James Watson at Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England.
Dawkins has also been strongly critical of the Gaia hypothesis of the independent scientist James Lovelock.
Now something of a forgotten figure, James was a land surveyor who had made a fortune in property speculation.
The initial survey for the line was carried out by William James and, being done surreptitiously or by trespass, was defective.
Robert Stephenson departed for South America and William James became bankrupt.
In 1768 Banks sailed with Captain James Cook to the South Pacific, and took with him green glass earrings made at Soho to give to the natives.
On 17 October 2014 a memorial to him was unveiled in Westminster Abbey beside that of his business partner James Watt.
Although it is often dismissed as a myth, like most good stories the story of James Watt and the kettle has a basis in fact.
The approximate location of James Watt's birth in Greenock is commemorated by a statue.
The huge painting James Watt contemplating the steam engine by James Eckford Lauder is now owned by the National Gallery of Scotland.
There is a statue of James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester and City Square, Leeds.
After a mild fever and the expected local lesion James recovered after a few days.
In 1979, James Dyson introduced a portable unit with cyclonic separation, adapting this design from industrial saw mills.
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In 1781 Scottish engineer James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion.
The publication of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 demonstrated a physical mechanism for inheritance.
After the war, they received firm backing from a Ministry of Transport committee led by James Callaghan and Sir Arthur Young.
The scheme's public inquiry began on 18 October 2006 and the project was designed by James Poyner.
In 1603, with the Union of the Crowns, King James of Scotland also became king of England and Ireland.
In Scotland, James attempted to subdue the Gaelic clans and suppress their culture through laws such as the Statutes of Iona.
The Cornish electronic musician Richard D James has often used Cornish names for track titles, most notably on his DrukQs album.
Throughout the early 1680s the Whig element in Parliament attempted to remove James as successor to the throne.
Notable examples are James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederic Henry Hedge.
Becoming king in 1603, James I Brought to England and Scotland continental explanations of witchcraft.
In 1987, Stephen Flowers and James Chisholm founded The Troth, which was incorporated in Texas.
In 1976 the future Labour prime minister James Callaghan launched what became known as the 'great debate' on the education system.
Schlesinger, Jr, and famous lawyers such as Glanville Williams, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and Sir Edward Coke.
Racing continued at fairs and markets throughout the Middle Ages and into the reign of King James I of England.
The special collection includes first editions of Isaac Newton's Principia, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species and James Joyce's Ulysses.
Einstein referred in the lecture to the work of King's Professor of Natural Philosophy James Clerk Maxwell.
The heir to the Scottish throne, later King James I of Scotland, was kidnapped while journeying to France in 1406 and held in the Tower.
In 1604, the ruinous castle was given to Sir Fulke Greville by King James I and was converted into a country house.
Other prominent architects of the early Georgian period include James Paine, Robert Taylor, and John Wood, the Elder.
Philip James de Loutherbourg, Coalbrookdale by Night, 1801, a key location of the English Industrial Revolution.
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Among the seven witnesses called to testify were Thomas Creasy, and James Smith, the man who had recognised Turpin's handwriting.
At this time the origins of Scottish poetry began with the writing of The Kingis Quair by James I of Scotland.
When James became king of England, a feeling of uncertainty settled over the nation.
Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, being succeeded by King James I of Scotland.
Although James was pleased with Donne's work, he refused to reinstate him at court and instead urged him to take holy orders.
Jonson collaborated with Dekker on a pageant welcoming James I to England in 1603 although Drummond reports that Jonson called Dekker a rogue.
At the beginning of the reign of James I, King of England, in 1603 Jonson joined other poets and playwrights in welcoming the new king.
Bacon was generally neglected at court by Queen Elizabeth, but after the accession of King James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted.
He sought further promotion and wealth by supporting King James and his arbitrary policies.
Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.
He is also the subject of perhaps the most famous biography in English literature, namely The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.
Burke spoke in favour of the Bill but it was opposed by some, including Charles James Fox thus not becoming law.
Fellow Whig MPs Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox, disagreed with Burke and split with him.
This philosophy has a long tradition, although Mill's account is primarily influenced by Jeremy Bentham and Mill's father James Mill.
Woolf has often been credited with stream of consciousness writing alongside her modernist contemporaries like James Joyce and Joseph Conrad.
The remainder of her education came from reading, guided by her father and brothers James and Henry.
Henry James, George Henry Lewes, and Virginia's honorary godfather, James Russell Lowell, were among the visitors to the house.
The novel won Huxley a British literary award, the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
In 1729 Handel became joint manager of the theatre with John James Heidegger.
Stuart was the son of James II, who had been deposed in 1688 and replaced by his Protestant relations.
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In June, James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, held the seals of office for only four days.
In September 1970 Britten asked Myfanwy Piper, who had adapted the two Henry James stories for him, to turn another prose story into a libretto.
The first permanent public playhouse, known simply as The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 in Shoreditch by James Burbage.
The il cornuto, or devil horns, hand gesture was popularized by vocalist Ronnie James Dio while with Black Sabbath and Dio.
Pop Artist James Wilkinson was appointed Official Artist to the V Festival.
In the early 1980s the first part of a major renovation included an extension to the rear of the theatre on the James Street corner.
Covent Garden is served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station on the corner of Long Acre and James Street.
It features James Stewart in the leading role, and was the first of four films that Stewart made with Hitchcock.
In a 1971 BBC presentation of James Elroy Flecker's Hassan, Gielgud played the Caliph to Richardson's Hassan.
Stanley Kubrick asked Sellers to play the role of Clare Quilty in the 1962 film Lolita, opposite James Mason and Shelley Winters.
Interviewed by James Lipton for Inside the Actors Studio, Neeson said she was instrumental in his getting an agent.
Jack Whittingham also worked on the script, culminating in a screenplay entitled James Bond, Secret Agent.
Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to stop playing James Bond.
Among those appearing were Alicia de Larrocha, James Galway, Steven Isserlis, Barry Douglas, Richard Stoltzman and Kyoko Takezawa.
On 5 January 2010, news broke that Mendes was employed to direct the 23rd Eon Productions installment of the James Bond franchise.
On 11 July 2013, it was announced that Mendes would direct the 24th James Bond film.
As of 20 February 2017, Craig is the second longest serving James Bond, surpassed only by Roger Moore.
In a stage version of the book, Asriel had previously been played by Timothy Dalton, one of Craig's predecessors in the role of James Bond.
Others poets from Northern Ireland include Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, James Fenton, Michael Longley, and Medbh McGuckian.
In Northern Ireland, James Fenton's poetry is written in contemporary Ulster Scots.
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When Sir Titus Salt's son, Titus Salt Junior, died, Saltaire was taken over by a partnership which included Sir James Roberts from Haworth.
Kidderminster striker James Constable was the first player to score a goal in a final at the new Wembley.
At the time, the match was promoted as James Lillywhite's XI v Combined Victoria and New South Wales.
England drew that match thanks to a last wicket stand by bowlers James Anderson and Monty Panesar.
This is despite Salford's James Lomas arriving late and causing England to start the match with eleven players.
The first British tour of the Southern Hemisphere began on 4 June 1910 captained by James Lomas.
Bugner although long past his peak, was coming off impressive wins over Greg Page, James Tillis and David Bey.
Because the Queen died unmarried and childless, the English crown passed to the next available heir, her cousin James VI, King of Scotland.
The largest site in Darlaston is that of the former IMI James Bridge Copper Works.
Famous South Sudanese footballers are James Moga, Richard Justin, Athir Thomas, Goma Genaro Awad, Khamis Leyano, Khamis Martin and Roy Gulwak.
The Commission was established by the Race Relations Act 1976, under James Callaghan's Labour government.
For the London Olympics, she played herself in a short film as part of the opening ceremony, alongside Daniel Craig as James Bond.
The highly successful London bookseller Andrew Millar was apprenticed there to James McEuen.
These arms date back to 1613, when James VI and I granted Belfast town status.
It was made internationally famous as the setting for the classic film, Odd Man Out, starring James Mason.
In August 1503 James IV, King of Scots, married Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England.
Elizabeth died on 24 March 1603, and James was proclaimed king in London later the same day.
With the support of the Episcopalians, James reintroduced bishops into the Church of Scotland against the wishes of the presbyterian party.
The draft legislation was taken forward as a Private Member's Bill by Conservative MP James Wharton.
For example, James II of Scotland attempted to regain Berwick during the Wars of the Roses in England.
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When James V came of age and assumed control, he overthrew the Angus faction, and renewed Scotland's Auld Alliance with France.
Once again, Scotland was in the hands of a regent, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran.
After her defeat at the Battle of Langside in 1568 she took refuge in England, leaving her young son, James VI, in the hands of regents.
Following her deposition in 1567, her infant son James VI was raised as a Protestant.
He took the title James I of England and James VI of Scotland, thus unifying these two countries under his personal rule.
In 1770, James Cook became the first European to visit the eastern coast of Australia whilst on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.
The reign of King James I established a definite victory for Protestantism in England.
From 1606 there was substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhabited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.
Elizabeth was succeeded by the first Stuart monarchs, James I and Charles I, who did not permit privateering.
King James VII of Scotland, who was also King of England and Ireland as James II, attempted to resist the invasion.
On 4 April they voted to remove James VII from office, drawing on George Buchanan's argument on the contractual nature of monarchy.
It also declared that, because of his actions in violation of these laws, James had forfeited the Scottish throne.
Due to English and Scottish succession laws, Prince James immediately supplanted his older half sisters as heir to the throne.
After he landed, James fled London, returned and finally left for France on 23 December.
On 16 April 1689, John Graham of Claverhouse, recently made Viscount Dundee, raised the standard of the deposed James VII on the Dundee Law.
In April 1689, James VII had already arrived in Ireland and a letter was on the way promising Irish troops to assist the rising in Scotland.
News in July of William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne caused Jacobite hopes to fall.
His supporters proclaimed him James III of England and Ireland, and James VIII of Scotland.
In 1708, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, sailed from Dunkirk with 600 French troops in nearly 30 ships of the French navy.
Over the tearful protests of James himself, the French admiral chose not to risk a landing and opted to retreat instead of fight.
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His mother, Ruth Jones, helps mind the store and both his wife, Michelle, and his father, James Jones, make gifts to sell in the shop.
From France, as part of widespread Jacobite plotting, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, had been corresponding with the Earl of Mar.
But an ailing James proved far too timid and melancholy to inspire his followers.
The next day King James VIII was proclaimed at the Mercat Cross and a triumphant Charles entered Holyrood palace.
Monarchs such as James IV were known for sponsoring exponents of the Northern Renaissance such as the poet Robert Henryson, and others.
In 1503, James IV attempted to secure peace with England by marrying King Henry VII's daughter, Margaret Tudor.
The birth of their son, later James V, brought the House of Stewart into the line of descent of the House of Tudor, and the English throne.
Lennox was a descendant of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, also descended from James II, being Mary's heir presumptive.
After the Civil War, Charles Sanders Peirce and then William James and John Dewey were leaders in the development of pragmatism.
This right was renewed in the subsequent charters granted by James II and William III in 1686 and 1698 respectively.
However, the Anglicists also included utilitarians, led by James Mill, who had begun to play an important role in fashioning Company policy.
He cited examples such as the invention of the steam engine by James Watt, which was funded by plantation owners from the Caribbean.
In 1809 President James Madison outlawed the slave trade with the United States.
The Disraeli vault also contains the body of Sarah Brydges Willyams, the wife of James Brydges Willyams of St Mawgan in Cornwall.
In 1896, James Connolly, founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in Dublin.
The 19th century historian James Orchard Halliwell was a notable collector of English nursery rhymes.
Boris Karloff played the leading role in major horror films in the 1930s, and collaborated with film director James Whale.
The James Bond film series began in the early 1960s, with Sean Connery in the leading role.
Headquartered in King Street, London, Christie's, the world's largest auction house, was founded in 1766 by auctioneer James Christie in London.
Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell unified the electric and magnetic forces in what are now known as Maxwell's equations.
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From these ranks came those who launched the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly.
These rights were held on and off by the Mortons until 1766, when they were sold by James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton to Laurence Dundas.
The extensive Tollcross Park was originally developed from the estate of James Dunlop, the owner of a local steelworks.
A branch of the Saint James School of Medicine was established in 2011 in Anguilla.
In 1816, James Arnold, the son of Benedict Arnold, fortified Bermuda's Royal Naval Dockyard against possible US attacks.
Historical sites in Grand Cayman, such as Pedro St James Castle in Savannah, also attract visitors.
The fort was renamed James Fort and the town Jamestown, in honour of the Duke of York and heir apparent, later King James II of England.
Henderson Island was rediscovered on 17 January 1819 by British Captain James Henderson of the British East India Company ship Hercules.
Captain James Cook circumnavigated the island in 1775 and made the first landing.
Opposed by many trade unionists, including James Callaghan, it was soon withdrawn.
The leadership of the UUP and, subsequently, Northern Ireland, was taken by Sir James Craig.
One of these senators, James Gyle, was suspended from the Order for seven years for visiting nationalist MP Joe Devlin on his deathbed.
In the centre was Frederick II, himself with Field Marshal James Keith commanding a corps of 30,000 troops.
In May 2006 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats were relieved by 20th Armoured Brigade under the command of Brigadier James Everard.
John dismissed the tutor in November 1841 and, after considerable thought, sent James to the prestigious Edinburgh Academy.
Work by James Bardeen, Jacob Bekenstein, Carter, and Hawking in the early 1970s led to the formulation of black hole thermodynamics.
Hydrogen was liquefied for the first time by James Dewar in 1898 by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask.
In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland.
The threat of diseases being released by work on the project was raised by Lord James of Blackheath at the passing of the Crossrail Bill.
In 1540 James V himself conducted a royal tour, forcing the clan chiefs to accompany him.
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In 1621, King James VI of Scotland allowed privateer William Alexander to establish the first Scottish colony overseas.
Among other Scottish poets published in Ulster were James Hogg and Robert Tannahill.
Among the significant writers is James Fenton, mostly using a blank verse form, but also occasionally the Habbie stanza.
Following the accession of King James I of England, this policy was abandoned.
Despite his antitheological bias, James recognized that he could not completely discount religious doctrines.
Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot farcical and romantic.
King James delighted to chop logic and theology with the doctors of the university.
Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.
His spicy language is both best-quality Dublinese in the style of John Joyce and that of James Joyce the accomplished parodist.
Captain James Cook and party on 31st March, 1773, first discovered the fairy penguins at Duskey Bay, New Zealand.
A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
After James fell in with fast company he started doing drugs and sleeping around.
The floor manager counted me in and The James Whale Radio Show took to the air on Yorkshire Television in its usual slot.
From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
After spending all week locked up in his room working on his project, James was pleased to get some fresh air in the park.
Some English people, especially in the north, were Jacobites and continued to support James and his sons.
By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms.
In 1502, James IV of Scotland signed the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with Henry VII of England.
A decade later, James made the fateful decision to invade England in support of France under the terms of the Auld Alliance.
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Highlanders can thank James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, for the repeal in 1782 of the Act of 1747 prohibiting the wearing of tartans.
After wintering in the James Bay, Hudson tried to press on with his voyage in the spring of 1611, but his crew mutinied and they cast him adrift.
A fundamental change in working principles was brought about by Scotsman James Watt.
The spinning jenny was invented in 1764 in Lancashire by James Hargreaves, a mechanical advance on the spinning wheel.
The Defence Bills Agency was at Mersey House next to St James railway station, now part of DBS Finance.
In 1860 William James established an alkali company at Cargo Fleet and in 1869 Samuel Sadler also set up a factory nearby.
When my poor James was in the smallpox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
From the accession of James VI and I in 1603, the Stuart dynasty ruled England in personal union with Scotland and Ireland.
England and Scotland were ruled by the same king for the first time in 1603 when James VI of Scotland also became the king of England.
In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joining Scotland with England in a personal union.
Under James IV the legal functions of the council were rationalised, with Court of Session meeting daily in Edinburgh.
In the late 16th century, James VI emerged as a major intellectual figure with considerable authority over the kingdom.
From the reign of King James I a legal profession began to develop and the administration of criminal and civil justice was centralised.
Unlike many of his predecessors, James VI generally despised Gaelic culture.
After the Glorious Revolution, Presbyterianism was restored and the bishops, who had generally supported James VII, abolished.
In 1770, British explorer James Cook had discovered the eastern coast of Australia whilst on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.
In 1603 James VI King of Scots became James I of England, uniting the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in a personal union.
However, after the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, peace was largely established.
Although not a Nobel Prize winner, James Joyce is widely considered to be one of the most significant writers of the 20th century.
Keiller was heir to the James Keiller and Son business and was able to use his wealth to acquire the site.

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