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Did he ask you to buy him root beer and Pepperidge Farms Chessmen cookies?

Dressed in medieval silk robes, the musicians are ranged motionless across the stage like chessmen.

Despite moving players around like chessmen, his team turned more balls in play into outs than any team in baseball.

Casually sprinkled here and there were kitschy horse-racing games, horse-themed art and even a bag of Chessmen cookies.

We shared unusual eating habits: I'd hold a cookie in my lips and devour it, hands free; that's how Grandma ate buttery Pepperidge Farm Milanos and Chessmen.

According to Robert Falcon Scott, "Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate."

On the ground floor is the Museum nan Eilean, home to six of the famous Lewis Chessmen, a centuries-old set of 93 game pieces carved from walrus ivory.

Though never explicitly stated in the show, Ruth was envisioned as having studied Icelandic literature, and the Lewis chessmen were what came up when Shaw went looking for Viking chess sets.

The front hall is surveyed by a row of British Museum reproductions of the Lewis chessmen, souvenirs of the Le Guins' two sabbatical years in London, when their three children were small.

Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At a Sotheby's sale on July 2, one of the famous Lewis Chessmen pieces sold for £735,000 (~$927,423) — 55 years after it was first purchased for £5 (~$20173).

"Daniel's Husband," about the problem of gay couples who lack adequate legal protection in the event of a catastrophe, was moving but manipulative; the characters were little more than chessmen arranged to produce a devastating checkmate.

That "The Queen" is so heartbreaking comes down to that focus on love; the Lewis chessmen that Ruth uses to remind herself that she's in the present, while also a narrative solution to keep viewers oriented, lend an extra dimension to the story as a gift from Alan.

As we drift from present to past, from sweetness to tragedy, we are tethered to reality, along with Ruth, by the markers she set for herself: the chess pieces (from a reproduction of the beautiful Lewis chessmen) that she's scattered around her home like a bread crumb trail.

The British Museum has a vast amount of ivory already in its collection, including plaques from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.; and the 12th-century "Lewis chessmen," made from walrus tusk and found in the Outer Hebrides, off Scotland.

The story moves forward vote after vote with so much momentum it's easy to forget that faith of a deep and visceral kind is involved; the characters are more like chessmen being moved around a board in a complex game of strategy than figures who have devoted their lives to a religious belief system.

In her 2015 book, Ivory Vikings, the Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them, she argues that Margret the Adroit made the Lewis Chessmen.

Sollas beach is featured in the novel The Chessmen by Peter May.

He went on to play in another Dallas garage rock band, the Chessmen.

Frank Camaratta is in the process of writing a book called “The Staunton Chessmen and Their Predecessors”.

454–455; Vigfusson (1878) p. 369; Flateyjarbok (1868) p. 526. rook gaming piece of the Lewis chessmen.

Burroughs used the same device in the sequels, The Gods of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars and Swords of Mars.Porges: 144. In The Chessmen of Mars, Burroughs even includes a reference to the chess games he played with his real life assistant, John Shea, while writing the novel.Porges: 163.

In 1831, the 12th-century Lewis Chessmen were discovered in a small stone structure in the dunes behind the beach near Ardroil.Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 297 Two large wooden chessmen, carved by Stephen Hayward, stand outside a museum on the machair at Ardroil, near where the hoard was found.

In the Antillean island of Aruba in November 1995, she played in a friendly match against Jeroen Piket of the Netherlands, at the time one of the top players in Europe. Despite being closely matched in ratings, Polgár won the match 6–2. Lewis chessmen In 1995, the Isle of Lewis chess club in Scotland attempted to arrange a game between Polgár and Nigel Short in which the famous Lewis chessmen would be used. The Lewis chessmen is a chess set carved in the 12th century.

The Yugoslav team won the gold medal, Argentina silver and West Germany bronze. In 1949 the Olympiad management requisitioned a new style of chessmen. Painter and sculptor P. Poček was contracted to design the Olympiad chessmen.1950 Dubrovnik chess set details The pieces were made in an unknown workshop in Subotica, Yugoslavia.

49 n. 66; McDonald (1997) p. 99; Duncan; Brown (1956–1957) p. 207. rook gaming pieces of the Lewis chessmen.

In 2010 at a conference at the National Museum of Scotland on the Lewis Chessmen, Gudmundur Thorarinsson (a civil engineer and a former member of the Icelandic Parliament) and Einar S. Einarsson (a former president of Visa Iceland and a friend of the chess champion Bobby Fischer) argued that Margret the Adroit made the chessmen. It was a claim that US author Nancy Marie Brown supports in her 2015 book, Ivory Vikings, the Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them.

The Lewis Trilogy of novels (The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen) by Peter May is set on Lewis and Harris.

A 2014 House of Staunton Dubrovnik chess set The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces influenced by the Staunton chess set and used to play the game of chess.NOJ – Dubrovnik chess set These chessmen are considered to have significant historical importance and are a timeless design classic. Over the decades the Dubrovnik chessmen were redesigned several times.

Reopening History of Storied Norse Chessmen from nytimes.comFiske 1905 The canonical chessmen date back to the Staunton chess set of 1849. The piece's deep groove symbolizes a bishop's (or abbot's) mitre. Some have written that the groove originated from the original form of the piece, an elephantThe Oxford Companion to ChessThe Everything Chess Basic Book, by the US Chess Federation and Peter Kurzdorfer, 2003, pp. 32–33.

His second single, "Can Can Ladies", appeared in July and reached the local top 5 in July. In January 1962 a third single backed by The Thunderbirds, "Shakin' All Over", reached No. 4. Johnny Chester and The Chessmen toured to Brisbane and Hobart but had less popularity in Sydney. From 1962 to 1964 his next eight singles for W&G; were all recorded with backing by The Chessmen.

Chessman standing on the Uig Dunes near the site where the Lewis Chessmen were discovered. The work was commissioned in 2006 and carved in oak by Stephen Hayward.

Pennydonald by Uig Bay was the place of discovery of the Lewis Chessmen in 1831. They are generally recognised as one of the most important Norse artefacts ever discovered.

During the 2009 tour, Farmer and her dancers wear a white tutu, pinsripe trousers and a jacket, and perform the choreography together, while the screens in the back show chessmen.

Uig Beach () is best known as the site where the Lewis Chessmen () were found. Before 1831, a local crofter discovered a buried hoard of chess pieces, uncovered by a storm. The chessmen are now in the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh with an overseas exhibit in the British Museum in London, and replicas in the Uig Heritage Centre in Tuimisgearraidh. They are mostly carved from walrus tusks, and probably originated in Norway sometime in the 12th century, although when and how they came to be in Uig is unknown.

Timsgarry () is a village on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Timsgarry is home to the Baile na Cille Church and the Uig Museum, noted for its giant Chessmen, discovered in the sands in 1831.

Johnny Peebles left the band in early 1967, and Bill Etheridge replaced him on rhythm guitar and keyboards. Under this lineup, they opened for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in Dallas in 1968. The Chessmen broke up later that year.

The game was introduced in The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth book in the Barsoom series. Its rules are described in Chapter 2 and in the Appendix of the book, with an actual game partly described in Chapter 17.

Later that year, the combined forces of Diarmait and Richard marched on Dublin, and drove out the reigning Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin.Duffy (1998) p. 79; Duffy (1992) pp. 131–132. rook gaming piece of the so-called Lewis chessmen.

Jacks and the Chessmen performed live on a Friday night in September, 1965 for a "Back To School" event at the now-defunct T. Eaton Co. (Eaton's) department store at its Brentwod Mall store in North Burnaby, a municipality next to Vancouver. Pupils from Burnaby South Senior High School who followed music tuned into CFUN 1410 which advertised its "Request Line". Being skeptical as to whether CFUN really listened to requests, they began phoning the Request Line and asked for the B side of the current Chessmen hit. To their amazement, CFUN began playing it and turned the record into a two- sided hit.

Original bass guitarist Dean Townson died of unknown causes on March 25, 2010, at the age of 50. Original drummer Jimmy Lowe returned to civilian life as a software engineer in 1996, and has also been a member of longtime Nashville band The Chessmen since 2012.

The Chessmen of Mars describes a form of Jetan where the pieces are human beings and captures are replaced by fights to the death between them. The Doctor Who episode "The Wedding of River Song" depicts "Live Chess", which introduces potentially lethal electric currents into the game.

The BCC was an attempt to compete against Jaques of London. The BCC developed new manufacturing processes with new types of materials, such as celluloid for their chess pieces. In 1891, the BCC registered the design for two of their chess sets: (1) Royal Chessmen; (2) Imperial Staunton.

Illustration by Peter Newell. "The chessmen were walking about, two and two!" (Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, 1871). Most of the main characters are represented as chess pieces in the chess-themed story, with Alice, the main protagonist, represented as a pawn.

A queen and a warder (rook) in the joint exhibition in Edinburgh, 2010 They were exhibited by Ryrie at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, on 11 April 1831. The chessmen were soon after split up, with 10 being purchased by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe and the others (67 chessmen and 14 tablemen) purchased on behalf of the British Museum in London. Kirkpatrick Sharpe later found another bishop to take his collection up to eleven, all of which were later sold to Lord Londesborough. In 1888, they were again sold, but this time the purchaser was the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, who donated the pieces to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.

However, we never saw him again. The Chessmen continued, in spite of the tragedy. The replacement for Patton was Jimmie Vaughan from Oak Cliff, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who had previously played in other local garage bands such as the Royals and the Gentlemen, and was brought in by lead guitarist Johnny Peebles, but upon joining the group Vaughan took over the role of lead guitar. At the time Vaughan was only fifteen, but was, even then, recognized around the area for his guitar playing. According to Alan Paul in Guitar World, "His ability to play note-perfect versions of the day’s hits helped make … [the Chessmen] one of the city’s top club and college-circuit draws".

Terry Jacks was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His family relocated to Vancouver in the early 1960s. Jacks took up guitar in his teens and at 18 formed a band called The Chessmen with guitarist Guy Sobell. The group had four top-ten hits in Vancouver between 1964 and 1966.

15 The show included new designs for chessmen as well as surreal dreamscapes incorporating chess imagery. On the night of January 6, 1945, a blindfolded chess match was begun with chess master George Koltanowski pitted against several of the artists and Julien Levy himself.List, Larry. " The Imagery of Chess Revisited".

The Lewis Man won the 2012 Prix International at the Cognac Festival. The third book in the trilogy, The Chessmen was published in January 2013. It was shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Book of the Year 2014. The Lewis Trilogy has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone.

The Lewis chessmen (; ; ) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces. When found, the hoard contained 93 artifacts: 78 chess pieces, 14 tablemen and one belt buckle. Today, 82 pieces are owned and usually exhibited by the British Museum in London, and the remaining 11 are at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Vikings in Scotland: an Archaeological Survey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), , p. 90. The most famous artistic find from modern Scotland, the Lewis Chessmen, from Uig, were probably made in Trondheim in Norway, but contain some decoration that may have been influenced by Celtic patterns.M. MacDonald, Scottish Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000), , p. 31.

"Lewis Chessman exhibition opens in Stornoway museum". BBC. Retrieved 15 April 2011. An exhibition entitled "The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis" at The Cloisters in New York City included 34 of the chess pieces, all on loan from the British Museum. The exhibit ended on 22 April 2012.

Early in 1230, Amlaíb Dub arrived at the king's court, having been forced from the Isles by Alan and his allies.Oram (1988) p. 138. One of the so-called Lewis chessmen. The Scandinavian connections of leading members of the Isles may have been reflected in their military armament, and could have resembled that depicted upon such gaming pieces.

A green ribbed bowl and another agate bowl are later additions. Agate and Chalcedon chessmen surround the crockery. In the other four panels there are chased copper reliefs depicting the Four Evangelists writing the gospels. Only the panel showing Matthew (upper left) is original; the other three reliefs were cast from plaster models in the 1870s.

Lowe highlighted its origins in naming the game – Yahtzee. In 1959, Lowe produced the popular "Renaissance Chess Set" which featured highly detailed chessmen based on the Renaissance period. The beautiful design of these chess pieces has made them a favorite with chess players and collectors. Milton Bradley Company purchased E. S. Lowe Company in 1973 for $26 million.

Drummer Doyle Bramhall later played with and wrote songs for Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Bill Etheridge later played bass with ZZ Top. Following the breakup of the Chessmen, several of their members, including Jimmie Vaughan, went on to form a group that would come to be known as Texas Storm, which eventually included Stevie Ray Vaughan on bass.

Bramhall joined The Chessmen with Jimmie Vaughan while in high school. The group opened for Jimi Hendrix when he played Dallas. In 1969, he moved to Austin and formed Texas Storm with Jimmie Vaughan. In the 1970s, Bramhall formed The Nightcrawlers with Marc Benno, which also included Jimmie Vaughan's younger brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar.

Chess variants have been invented in various fiction. In The Chessmen of Mars author Edgar Rice Burroughs describes Jetan which depicts a war between two races of Martian. An appendix fully defines the rules of the game. More commonly specifics of fictional variants aren't detailed in the original works, though several have been codified into playable games by fans.

J. Graham-Campbell and C. E. Batey. Vikings in Scotland: an Archaeological Survey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), , p. 90. The most famous artistic find from modern Scotland, the Lewis Chessmen, from Uig, were probably made in Trondheim in Norway, but contain some decoration that may have been influenced by Celtic patterns.M. MacDonald, Scottish Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 2000), , p. 31.

Visually, the series was primarily inspired by the Lewis chessmen (of Norse origin); one of the stories is about Noggin playing chess with Nogbad the Bad. A new series was rumoured in the late 1990s, but nothing came of it. The complete series was released on DVD in 2005, in a package that also included DVD versions of the short story books.

John Carter 'visits' Burroughs 12 years after the events of A Princess of Mars, claiming to have mastered the secret of inter-planetary travel and stating this will be the last time he makes such a journey from his adopted home. However, the device was used in two further Barsoom novels, The Chessmen of Mars and Swords of Mars.Porges, p. 144.

Chess and gaming pieces were often large and elaborately carved; the Lewis Chessmen are among the best known. Siege of the Castle of Love on a mirror case, Paris, 1325–1350. Olifants were horns made from the end of an elephant's tusk, usually carved over at least part of their surface. They were perhaps more for display than use in hunting.

The 1963 Ballantine Books paperback edition of The Chessmen of Mars, showing a live version of Jetan being played in the city of Manator. Cover illustration by Robert K. Abbett. Jetan, also known as Martian Chess, is a chess variant first published in 1922. It was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a game played on Barsoom, his fictional version of Mars.

Also in that year the group won the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds. Their follow up single, "Without You" / "Hair" (October), also reached No. 5. In November Green and McGuire left to join Rush while, in the following month, Parkinson and Dick recruited Mick Rogers (ex-Procession) and Les Stacpool (ex-Chessmen, Merv Benton and the Tamlas) each alternating on bass and lead guitars.

Tisdahl has been recognized by the US Conference of Mayors for her environmental work and concern about sustainability. She also won the Democratic Party of Evanston Community Service Award in 2002. Among Mayor Tisdahl's local honors are the Park School Certificate of Recognition (1992), the Fleetwood Jourdain Community Center Salute to Women in Human Services Appreciation Award (1999), and the Chessmen Club Community Service Award (2002).

He also goes into business with Howard Stark. After the elder Stark's death in a car accident, Stane turns his sights on acquiring control of Stark International now owned by Tony Stark (Howard's son). Stane has his agents – known as the Chessmen – attack Stark Industries and assault James Rhodes (Tony's confidant).Iron Man #163–165 He also confronts the younger Stark in person.Iron Man #166.

Marvel Comics (New York). When Cly confronts Stark at the hospital, Tony faces Stane directly; Iron Man collects the newly completed Silver Centurion and flies to Long Island. Iron Man confronts Stane on Stane International's property and defeats Stane's agents, including the Chessmen who had proven a match for Iron Man's previous armor. Stane dons the Iron Monger armor and confronts Iron Man personally.

Four Color Cards with 5 "gold" cards Cards based on Chinese chess appeared during the nineteenth century. They are generally divided into two categories, those with two suits known as Red or , and those with four suits known as Four Color Cards. Each suit contains cards named after the seven different chessmen. Some decks have multiple copies of each card and may also contain "gold" wild cards.

From October for two seasons, Chester was the host of ABC TV program, Teen Scene, with The Chessmen as the resident band. He recorded further material for W&G; on their sub- label, In Records, but none charted, and by mid-1966 he parted with the W&G; and The Chessmen. Retaining Bert Stacpool, he formed the Johnny Chester Four with Johnny Marco on guitar and Tom Vigushin on bass guitar. As well as maintaining his musical career, Chester was a DJ for eight years on Melbourne radio station, 3UZ. In May 1968, Chester joined with a new backing band, Jigsaw, with Fenton, Ray Eames on lead guitar (ex-Tony Worsley and the Fabulous Blue Jays), Ron Gilby on rhythm guitar, Dennis Tucker on bass guitar (both Merv Benton and the Tamlas), and later in 1968, they toured Vietnam performing for the Australian and American Forces.

It is a trapezoid box zither with a walnut body and 92 steel (or bronze) strings. The strings, tuned to the same pitch in groups of four, are struck with two wooden mallets called "midhrab". The tuning of these 23 sets of strings extends from the lower yakah (G) up to jawab jawab husayni (a). The bridges are called dama (chessmen in Iraqi Arabic) because they look like pawns.

Cooke was the editor for the Illustrated London News, where Staunton published chess articles. He convinced the champion to endorse the chess set. Staunton not only endorsed the product for Jaques of London but promoted it to an extraordinary degree including the lambasting and derision of any other design of chessmen then proposed. The Staunton, as it became known, became available to the general public on September 29, 1849.

The Lewis chessmen, found on the island in 1831, date from the time of Viking rule. The people were called the Norse Gaels or Gall-Ghàidheil (lit. "Foreigner Gaels"), reflecting their mixed Scandinavian/Gaelic background, and probably their bilingual speech.Local Authority Web Site The Norse language persists in many island placenames and some personal names to this day, although the latter are fairly evenly spread across the Gàidhealtachd.

He describes an encounter between Burzoe and a Raja visiting from India. The Raja introduces the game of chess, and Burzoe demonstrates nard, played with dice made from ivory and teak.Wilkinson, Charles K. "Chessmen and Chess", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. New Series 1:9, May 1943. pp. 271-279 In 1254, Louis IX issued a decree prohibiting his court officials and subjects from playing dice games.

Robinson, pp. 28–29. Some pieces bore traces of red stain when found, possibly indicating that red and white were used to distinguish the two sides, rather than the black and white used in modern chess. The Lewis chessmen in the British Museum Scholars have observed that to the modern eye the figural pieces, with their bulging eyes and glum expressions, have a distinct comical character.Robinson, pp. 37–41.

The keeper of the royal chessmen function is mentioned in an inquisition in the 3rd year of the reign of Edward III (c. 1329) after the death of Nichola, the wife of Nicholas de Morteshorn who held the manor from Sir William Russell (d. 1310/11) for the term of her life. John Russell of Kingston Russell was a household knight of King Richard I from at the latest 1195Church, pp.

US dustjacket (Putnam) Mercer’s autobiographer AJ Smithers, writing in 1982, noted that this novel and the preceding one, Gale Warning, are written to a pattern, though one that is cunningly woven. He considered both books to be swiftly moving, just plausible, and to still bear re-reading after all these years. The second half of the book bears considerable resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's 1934 novel They Wouldn't Be Chessmen.

Returning to Siena in April 1425, he preached there for 50 consecutive days. His success was claimed to be remarkable. "Bonfires of the Vanities" were held at his sermon sites, where people threw mirrors, high-heeled shoes, perfumes, locks of false hair, cards, dice, chessmen, and other frivolities to be burned. Bernardino enjoined his listeners to abstain from blasphemy, indecent conversation, and games of hazard, and to observe feast days.

St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall is peerless as an example of Norse-era construction in Scotland and St. Magnus Church, on Egilsay retains its round tower.Graham-Campbell and Batey (1998) pp. 253–55 The iconic Lewis chessmen are the best known treasure trove and numerous finds of grave goods including brooches and weaponryGraham-Campbell and Batey (1998) pp. 34–35 such as the Scar boat burial are well-documented.

Jewelry designers such as Jorge Caicedo Montes De Oca still use vintage Bakelite materials to make designer jewelry. By 1930, designer Paul T. Frankl considered Bakelite a "Materia Nova", "expressive of our own age". By the 1930s, Bakelite was used for game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, dominoes and mahjong sets. Kitchenware made with Bakelite, including canisters and tableware, was promoted for its resistance to heat and to chipping.

Kaldane and rykor as illustrated by J. Allen St. John in first edition of Chessmen of Mars The Kaldanes are a fictitious sapient species existing in the region of Bantoom on the planet Barsoom in the John Carter series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Introduced in the book Chessmen of Mars, the Kaldanes are almost all head, but for six arachnoid legs and a pair of chelae. Their racial goal is to achieve pure intellect against bodily existence: In order to function in the physical realm, the Kaldanes have bred the Rykors: a nonsentient complementary species composed of a body similar to that of a Red Martian but lacking a head; when the Kaldane places itself upon the shoulders of the Rykor, a bundle of tentacles connects with the Rykor's spinal cord, allowing the brain of the Kaldane to control its motor nerves and sensory nerves. Should the Rykor become damaged or die, the Kaldane climbs upon another.

Heron was one of the original members of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, exhibiting there in 1943. Her 1944 piece, Chessmen in walnut, was lauded for its level of sophistication and originality with a "witty invention". By the time she graduated from NCAD, Heron had a reputation as a nonconformist. In 1945 she exhibited Horse with the Royal Hibernian Academy, followed by Dawn in 1946 and Comedy and tragedy in 1947.

Two kings and two queens from the Lewis chessmen at the British MuseumIn the 9th century AD, the Vikings began to settle on Lewis, after years of raiding from the sea. The Norse invaders intermarried with local people and abandoned their pagan beliefs. At that time, rectangular buildings began to supersede round ones, following the Scandinavian style. Lewis became part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, an offshoot of Norway.

While Valance continued to have some international success, changes in musical taste in the mid 1960s resulted in the ending of his Columbia contract. He sang in Ireland with a showband, the Chessmen, in 1967, and also undertook work as an actor, and performed country music. "Flashback show – Country show with Ricky Valance", Juke Box Promotions. Retrieved 13 June 2020 In later years, he featured in 1960s revival festivals in Britain, and on cruise ships.

Some of the Lewis chessmen Viking art avoided naturalism, favouring stylised animal motifs to create its ornamental patterns. Ribbon-interlace was important and plant motifs became fashionable in the tenth and eleventh centuries.J. Graham- Campbell and C. E. Batey, Vikings in Scotland: an Archaeological Survey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), , p. 34. Most Scottish artefacts come from 130 "pagan" burials in the north and west from the mid- ninth to the mid-tenth centuries.

The single also sold well in the United Kingdom, as did subsequent releases, prompting Gray to emigrate there in 1962. He toured Europe in 1964, and by 1966 he was well known as a soul singer as well as for his ska songs. During 1966, he worked in the UK and Europe with The Krew, then in 1967 with Tony Knights Chessmen. In the rocksteady era, he recorded for producer Sir Clancy Collins.

The Chessmen of Mars introduces the Kaldanes of Bantoom. Their form is almost all head but for six spiderlike legs and a pair of chelae. Their racial goal is to evolve towards pure intellect and away from bodily existence. In order to function in the physical realm, they have bred the Rykors, a complementary species composed of a body similar to that of a perfect specimen of Red Martian but lacking a head.

'Noggin rides again' Arts Guardian 28 July 2014; An interview with Peter Firmin by Julia Raeside. Firmin also recalled how his children helped him name some of the characters (e.g., Nooka of the Nooks came from his daughter talking about the film Nanook of the North) Some of the original artwork for the series is on display at the Rupert Bear Museum. The appearance of the characters was influenced by Firmin's seeing the Lewis chessmen in the British Museum.

Renegade of Callisto is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the eighth and last in his Callisto series. It was first published in paperback by Dell Books in August 1978, and reprinted once, in November of the same year. A tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Chessmen of Mars, the book introduces the game of Darza, Carter's equivalent of Jetan (Martian Chess). An appendix ("Darza, The Chess Game of Callisto") details the rules.

The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November 1922.

Human chess is a theme in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871). The Chessmen of Mars depicts a version of a Martian chess variant called Jetan where the pieces are human captives and captures in the game are replaced by fights to the death between them. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone features a game of Wizard's chess with magically animated human-sized pieces. The characters Harry, Ron, and Hermione take the place of three of the pieces.

After the Isle of Lewis was purchased by Sir James Matheson in 1844, Malcolm Macleod and his family were evicted and the district was transformed into sheep farms. When the chessmen were uncovered in 1831, one knight and four warders were missing from the four sets. In June 2019 a warder piece, which had previously gone unrecognised for at least 55 years, emerged in Edinburgh, and was purchased at a Sotheby's auction for £735,000 the following month, by an undisclosed buyer.

Tully's members were all highly accomplished multi-instrumentalists with years of experience behind them, and their musical breadth quickly earned them a reputation as one of the most adventurous and polished concert bands of the period. The original Tully members were all seasoned veterans of the Sydney club scene. NZ-born John Blake had previously played in Johnny O'Keefe's backing band The Dee Jays (1959), The Chessmen (1961), the Jimmy Sloggett Five (1963–64) and Max Merritt & the Meteors (1965).

He places this calculus of power above other people, values and feelings; he sees love as a foolish rave: a marriage should serve dynastic or political goals alone. Not until the dying Ferdinand forgives him does he recognize his mistakes as such. He realizes that people cannot be moved like chessmen, but follow feelings and values that are not simply subordinate to utilitarian considerations or the pursuit of power. Feeling remorse, he delivers himself up to justice, thus quitting his career.

Initially large walrus herds were found much further south than is the case today, and it is likely that their hunting for ivory greatly impacted on populations. Around 1160 northern European ivory carving was greatly reduced, which may well be because the material was less easily available. Around 1260, at the start of the Gothic period, elephant ivory began to reach Europe again, and the industry greatly increased.Williamson, 15, 17-18 The Norse also carved items in walrus ivory, notably the Lewis chessmen.

Ballagh grew up in a ground-floor flat on Elgin Road in Ballsbridge, the only child of a Catholic mother and a Presbyterian father who converted to Catholicism, both of whom had played sport for Ireland. He became an atheist while being educated at St Michael's College and Blackrock College. Before turning to art as a profession, he was a professional musician with the showband Chessmen. He met his future wife Betty when she was 16 years old; she died in 2011.

During his adventures on Mars his earthly body reposes in a special tomb that can only be opened from the inside. John Carter and Dejah Thoris become the parents of a son, Carthoris, and daughter, Tara. Carthoris plays a secondary role in The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars, and is the protagonist of Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Tara is the heroine of The Chessmen of Mars (1922), and the mother of Carter's granddaughter Llana, heroine of Llana of Gathol.

They have formed two factions, which appear to portray the excesses of pointless intellectual debate - one faction, the realists, believes in imagining meals to provide sustenance, another, the , believes in surviving without eating. The Chessmen of Mars is the second example of this trend. The Kaldanes have sacrificed their bodies to become pure brain, but although they can interface with Rykor bodies, their ability to function compared to a normal people, with an integrated mind and body, is ineffectual and clumsy.

Lewis chessmen in the National Museum of Scotland Norse and Viking colonisations and settlements have made an impression on peripheral Scotland, the evidence for which can be found in place names, language, genetics and other aspects of cultural heritage. The Scandinavian influence in Scotland was probably at its height in the mid 11th centuryCrawford (1987) p. 221 during the time of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, who attempted to create a single political and ecclesiastical domain stretching from Shetland to Man.Crawford (1987) p.

The Lewis chessmen, an iconic image of Scandinavian Scotland in Harald Maddadsson's time Harald Maddadsson (Old Norse: Haraldr Maddaðarson, Gaelic: Aralt mac Mataid) (c. 1134 - 1206) was Earl of Orkney and Mormaer of Caithness from 1139 until 1206. He was the son of Matad, Mormaer of Atholl, and Margaret, daughter of Earl Haakon Paulsson of Orkney. Of mixed Norse and Gaelic blood, and a descendant of Scots kings,Harald was probably a descendant of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda (died 1034) and perhaps of Donnchad mac Crináin.

At that same time, he also began training in stage combat and swordplay with a group that performed living chessgames called The Royal Chessmen at local fairs. Later on, he joined a jousting troupe called The Knights Arrant, and a small troupe called Ring of Steel, which performed sword fights at local theme park called Pirates. It was in this time that he met Matthew Gratzner, and Shannon Gans who created New Deal Studios in Los Angeles. In 1985, he moved to Orlando, Florida.

Parkinson provided his "facility for soul and blues" for the line-up. They competed in the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds in July 1967 to finish second behind the Groop. With Parkinson aboard, The Questions issued a run of three "minor psychedelic pop classic" singles, "Sally Go Round the Roses" (July 1967), "And Things Unsaid" (October) and "Something Wonderful" (February 1968). In January 1968 they changed personnel with Ray Burton on guitar (ex-Delltones) and Les Young on bass guitar (ex- Chessmen) replacing Green and McGuire respectively.

They were featured in the 2010 BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects as number 61, in the "Status Symbols" section. An exhibition entitled "The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked" included chess pieces from both the National Museum of Scotland and British Museum collections, along with other relevant objects, touring Scotland in 2010–2011. The exhibition opened in Edinburgh on 21 May 2010 and proceeded to Aberdeen, Shetland, and the Museum nan Eilean in Stornoway, opening there on 15 April 2011.

The hoard is now housed in Room 50 of the British Museum in London and was part of the Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past exhibition (November 2003 to November 2005). The exhibition travelled from London to the National Museum Cardiff, the Manchester Museum, the Hancock Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Norwich Castle Museum. Among other items in the exhibition were the Mildenhall Treasure, the Lewis chessmen, and the Ringlemere Cup. In September 2003, BBC Two screened a documentary on the discovery of the hoard.

The Lewis Chessmen were discovered in the parish of Uig, on Lewis, in 1831. They are thought to have been made in Scandinavia, in the late 12th century, when the Outer Hebrides were a part of the Kingdom of Norway. The surname Macaulay, when found in the Scottish Hebrides, is thought to be derived from the Scottish Gaelic MacAmhlaidh, which is a patronymic form of the Amhlaidh / Amhladh. These names are ultimately derived from Gaelic forms of the Old Norse personal-name Áleifr and Óláfr.

Camas Uig with Uig Sands in the foreground Camas Uig (Uig Bay) is a bay on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The Lewis Chessmen were discovered in the dunes behind the beach. Camas Uig contains a variety of small islets including Fraoch Eilean, Leac Holm, Sgeir a' Chàis, Sgeir Liath, Sgeir Sheilibhig, Tom and Tolm. Camas Uig is in the parish of Uig and is part of the South Lewis, Harris and North Uist National Scenic Area.

Born in Retford, England, Dr. Royston emigrated to the United States with his family in 1954 at age 9, and later, as a 14-year-old, he declared that he would devote his life to curing cancer. Unlike many future scientists, his passion also extended to commerce. This early interest in business manifested itself in a Washington, D.C., high-school investment club of 16 boys -- dubbed the Chessmen -- that he founded with friends. He also bought and operated an ice cream truck to earn money for college.

The island is the ancestral homeland of the Highland Clan MacLeod, with those individuals on Harris being referred to as from the Clan MacLeod of Harris or MacLeod of MacLeod, and those on Lewis being referred to as from the Clan MacLeod of Lewis. Lewis is also the ancestral home of Clan Morrison. The Lewis chessmen is a famous collection of 12th-century chess pieces, carved from walrus ivory and mostly in the form of human figures, which were discovered in Uig in 1831.

Pickford was born in Lancashire and was initially interested in rugby before, in 1878, he was invited to attend a football match between Blackburn District and Bolton. Remembering this later, Pickford wrote: > I fell in love with 'soccer' at once. The players were not bunched together > half the time in struggling heaps, but each man in his place, like chessmen, > and the footcraft, passing and speed fascinated me. He joined a local club where he became a regular goalscorer for the reserve team and was soon promoted to the first team.

Following The Chessmen, Terry and Susan Pesklevits (Susan Jacks), whom he later married, formed The Poppy Family along with Craig McCaw and Satwant Singh. They had several hits in Canada and internationally, their biggest being "Which Way You Goin' Billy?", which went to #1 in Canada and #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. The song was written and produced by Terry Jacks which earned him a Gold Leaf (Juno) award in 1970 for his production. The Poppy Family performed at the Lethbridge, Alberta Stampede in the summer of 1971.

Chess problem #35 The Libro de juegos contains an extensive collection of writings on chess, with over 100 chess problems and variants. Among its more notable entries is a depiction of what Alfonso calls the ajedrex de los quatro tiempos ("chess of the four seasons"). This game is a chess variant for four players, described as representing a conflict between the four elements and the four humors. The chessmen are marked correspondingly in green, red, black, and white, and pieces are moved according to the roll of dice.

The church at Timsgarry Timsgarry is home to the Baile na Cille Church, and is situated within the parish of Uig. Timsgarry used to have its own chapel, named Capail Mor, further to the west of the present church, which was built in 1724 near to the site of an earlier church, known as Capail Beag. The former manse is still present, with the churchyard. The Uig Museum is located at Timsgarry, within the community centre, and displays local archaeology, such as replicas of the Uig Chessmen, discovered in the sands in 1831.

In 1973 archeologists unearthed a number of wood scripts from a tomb in Hubei dating from the period of the Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE). On one of the wooden scripts was written: "当利二月定算15px". This is one of the earliest examples of using counting-rod numerals in writing. A square lacquer box, dating from c. 168 BCE, containing a square chess board with the TLV patterns, chessmen, counting rods, and other items, was excavated in 1972, from Mawangdui M3, Changsha, Hunan Province.

The eleven are now on display in the National Museum of Scotland. Of the pieces given to the British Museum, most can be found in Room 40, with the registration numbers M&ME; 1831, 11–1.78–159. Others have been lent to Scottish museums and temporary exhibitions. A range of wooden or plastic replicas are popular items in the Museum shops. The chessmen were number 5 in the list of British archaeological finds selected by experts at the British Museum for the 2003 BBC Television documentary Our Top Ten Treasures, presented by Adam Hart-Davis.

Rickrich immediately arranged a deal with Bismarck Records to record their first single, a version of the Drifters’ hit "Save The Last Dance For Me", backed by a female chorus. On the flip side was an atmospheric instrumental ballad, "Dreams And Wishes" composed by guitarist Robert Patton. Ron DiIulio left the Chessmen shortly thereafter, but remained at North Texas State, forming two short-lived bands, first the Rejects and then the New Sound in 1966. He later joined Noel Odom & the Group and the Bad Habits from his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.

The style of carving, particularly that on the thrones of the seated figures, suggests they are Scandinavian in origin, most likely from Trondheim, the medieval capital of Norway until 1217. The types of piece are similar to those in modern chess – the chessmen are the earliest found that have figures in clerical dress (bishops). The rooks are represented as warriors which came to be called "warders" at an early stage after they were discovered. Four of the warders are shown biting their shields – these have been identified as the berserkers of the Norse sagas.

At the British Museum it was Sir Frederic Madden, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, who persuaded the Trustees to purchase for 80 guineas (£84) the eighty-two pieces which he had been misled into believing was the entire hoard. Madden was a palaeographer, a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast. Madden immediately set about writing a monumental research paper about the collection, – one that remains informative and impressive today. At both museums the chessmen are an extremely popular exhibit for visitors.

Many wax impressions from impressive seals survive on charters and documents, although Romanesque coins are generally not of great aesthetic interest. The Cloisters Cross is an unusually large ivory crucifix, with complex carving including many figures of prophets and others, which has been attributed to one of the relatively few artists whose name is known, Master Hugo, who also illuminated manuscripts. Like many pieces it was originally partly coloured. The Lewis chessmen are well-preserved examples of small ivories, of which many pieces or fragments remain from croziers, plaques, pectoral crosses and similar objects.

In the end, he most likely borrowed and synthesized elements from sets already available to create a new design that used universally recognizable symbols atop conventional stems and bases. Moreover, the pieces were compact, well balanced and weighted to provide a useful understandable playing set. It may have been a combination of both theories with the synergy of Mr. Cooke the entrepreneur and Mr. Jaques the artisan. Chess books from 1820 on were using in diagrams icons of chess pieces similar in many respects to the Staunton chessmen, including a recent change from arched crown to coronet for the queen.

John Howard Chester (born 26 December 1941) is an Australian singer- songwriter, who started his career in October 1959 with group The Jaywoods singing rock music and in 1969 changed to country music. He toured nationally with the Beatles, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette and Charley Pride. During his career he has led various groups including Johnny Chester and The Chessmen, Johnny Chester and Jigsaw, Johnny Chester and Hotspur. With Jigsaw he had five top 30 hit singles, "Gwen (Congratulations)" (1971), "Shame and Scandal", "Midnight Bus" (both 1972), "World's Greatest Mum" (No.

The chessmen were discovered in early 1831 in a sand bank at the head of Camas Uig on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There are various local stories concerning their arrival and modern discovery on Lewis. Malcolm "Sprot" MacLeod () from the nearby township of Pennydonald discovered the trove in a small stone kist in a dune, exhibited them briefly in his byre and sold them on to Captain Roderick Ryrie. One reported detail, that it was a cow that actually unearthed the stash, is generally discounted in Uig as fabrication.

The Chessmen were an American garage rock band from Denton, Texas, near Dallas, who were active in the 1960s. They were one of the most popular bands in the region and recorded for Bismark Records, where they recorded three singles including, "I Need You There", which is now considered a garage rock classic. The band is notable for including several members who went on to greater fame. Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan was briefly a member, joining after the death of original band leader, guitarist, and vocalist, Robert Patton, who died in a boating accident in 1966.

The Chessmen were formed in early 1964 by students at North Texas State University (now University of North Texas), in the town of Denton, approximately twenty five miles from Dallas. The original lineup included Robert Patton from Midland in West Texas on rhythm guitar and vocals, Ron DiIulio on keyboards, Tommy Carrigan on drums, Tommy Carter on bass. Carter would be the only member to remain with the band throughout their whole tenure, playing with them until their breakup in 1968. They began playing at sports events such as basketball games and football pre-game rallies.

Newell played with the Barons (later renamed Son Richard and the Chessmen) from 1961 to 1965 and then with The Mid- Knights. In the summer of 1969 he helped to form And Many Others, which was Ronnie Hawkins's backing band at that time. After one LP and several U.S. appearances, Hawkins fired the entire band in early 1970,Crowbar from The Canadian Encyclopedia upon which the members, including Newell, formed their own band, which they named Crowbar. Newell recorded an album with Crowbar, called Official Music, through Love Productions, and then embarked on a solo career.

As a musician, the first band Munsey recorded with was "The Chessmen", who released a single on the Paradox records label which got modest radio airplay in 1970. He played keys with numerous bands and artists throughout the seventies and shared his talents with the likes of Percy Sledge and Jim Stafford before making his mark in Nashville, Tennessee as a songwriter. Munsey took some time off from his songwriting to tour with Los Angeles-based Wendy Waldman on Dan Fogelberg's Exile tour. He later signed with Charley Pride's publishing company where he penned songs for Lorrie Morgan and Tim McGraw.

Around this time he began to study with drum instructor Jim Blackley. His previous drum instructors were Vic Luff and Val Mock. In the 1960s, Maxwell played with Little Daddy and the Bachelors (with Tommy Chong), The Chessmen, The Good Shepherds - three members of whom (Robbie King, Ed Patterson, and Duris) became half of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers. Signed to Motown in 1967 they recorded one album that was produced by Berry Gordy and toured the United States, with one trip to London, England where Jimi Hendrix joined them onstage at either the 'Speakeasy' or the 'Marquee'.

Some of the Lewis chessmen From the eighth century Scandinavian invaders took territories in the North and West of Scotland, included the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, the Hebrides and parts of the mainland. Viking art avoided naturalism, favouring stylised animal motifs to create its ornamental patterns. Ribbon-interlace was important and plant motifs became fashionable in the tenth and eleventh centuries.J. Graham- Campbell and C. E. Batey, Vikings in Scotland: an Archaeological Survey (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998), , p. 34. Most Scottish artefacts come from 130 "pagan" burials in the north and west from the mid- ninth to the mid-tenth centuries.

In the end of April 2008, bassist Steve Chiles, having formerly played for the band Brian Bachman and the New Romancers, entered the band as the final member of WK,P!. In the wake of both Steve departing the band to dedicate his time to family/work, and Julia's departure due to time constraints, the band acquired a new bassist- Daniel Medley's brother-in-law, Todd Baker. We Know, Plato! disbanded in June 2009 due to both Willson's and Strong's preference to concentrate on a more focused, truer sound, as was soon to be found in their side-project "Carlyle Petes' Chessmen of Doom", which became Make Phantoms.

Cathedral Peak () is a mountain in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is a high free standing mountain in the Drakensberg. The mountain is also known as Mponjwana (Little Horn) by the local Amangwane people. Cathedral Peak is part of the Cathedral Ridge which is at right angles to the main range. Other peaks in the spur are the Twins, also known as the Triplets, (2,899 m or 9,510 feet), the Bell (2,930 m or 9,800 feet), the Outer (3,006 m or 9,860 feet) and Inner (3,005 m or 9,858 feet) Horns, the Chessmen (2,987 m or 9,800 feet) and Mitre Peak (3,023 m or 9,919 feet).

The ninety-three game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard were found on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Medieval in origin, they were first exhibited in Edinburgh in 1831 but it is unclear how much earlier they had been discovered. The hoard comprised seventy-eight distinctive chess pieces and fifteen other non-chess pieces, nearly all carved from walrus tusk ivory, and they are now displayed at the British Museum in London and National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. Another chess piece, which turned up in 1964 and in 2019 was attributed to have come from the original hoard, now belongs to an undisclosed owner.

There she finds that, just like a reflection, everything is reversed, including logic (e.g. running helps you remain stationary, walking away from something brings you towards it, chessmen are alive, nursery rhyme characters exist, etc.). Through the Looking-Glass includes such verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror above the fireplace that is displayed at Hetton Lawn in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire (a house that was owned by Alice Liddell’s grandparents, and was regularly visited by Alice and Lewis Carroll) resembles the one drawn by John Tenniel, and is cited as a possible inspiration for Carroll.

The embassies sent by Charlemagne possessed sundry royal red fabrics, a textile noted to be of value within the Abbasid realm. In addition, Charlemagne sponsored the construction of the Church of St. Mary in Jerusalem and its library and sent sums of money with all of his envoys. Harun al-Rashid is reported to have sent numerous presents to Charlemagne, including silks, a brass candelabra, perfume, balsam, a tent with multi-colored curtains, ivory chessmen, and an elephant named Abul al-Abbas. The 802 Royal Frankish Annals briefly describes the arrival of the emissary referred to as Isaac the Jew, who brought with him the elephant Abul al-Abbas.

She has also hosted a Gaelic cookery competition Cocaire nan Cocairean, which is aired on BBC Alba weekly. She has hosted a series on BBC Alba, Cuide ri Cathy starting on Monday 22 September 2008, where she spends a day with some of Scotland's top celebrities including the First Minister Alex Salmond, TV presenter Aggie MacKenzie and Gail Porter, Pro Golfer Colin Montgomery, and writer Irvine Welsh. MacDonald also presents regular installments of Sar Sgeoil on BBC Alba, looking at various well-known works of Scottish literature. Amongst the novels discussed are Sunset Song, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson; and The Lewis Trilogy (The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man and The Chessmen) by Peter May.

In June 1964, Chester supported the Australian tour by The Beatles with his backing by The Phantoms. According to Chester "my only worry is that I mightn't live up to this honour and obligation to give the kids a good performance". He was disappointed that The Chessmen were unavailable for the 19 gigs, through state capitals and to New Zealand, "As all the boys have day jobs ... they would not be able to get the time off". The Phantoms were another instrumental group, which had formed in 1960, and by 1964 had the line-up of Alan Fenton on drums, Bob Garde on rhythm guitar, Dave Lincoln on lead guitar, and Pete Watson on bass guitar.

The group's new lineup consisted of Herbert on guitar, Patton on guitar and vocals, Carter on bass and vocals, and Carrigan on drums. It was with this lineup that the Chessmen recorded their best known song "I Need You There", written by Norris Green, which appeared on their next single on Bismark's B.R.S. label, backed with the acoustic guitar- embellished ballad, "Sad" written by Patton and Carter. On "I Need You There", Patton sang the lead vocal and Herbert supplied the song's signature guitar licks. The night they recorded "I Need You There", Delbert McClinton and the Ron-Dels were in the next studio recording "If You Really Want Me To I’ll Go".

In late 1968 Barnes had left and Glass took on bass guitar before he and Stockley also left by mid-1969. Stockley joined Axiom and from June that year Glass appeared in the Australian stage production of Hair as Berger (replaced by Reg Livermore in 1970) starting an 18-month run in Sydney. In 1970 after finishing Hair, Glass returned to Melbourne and formed country rock group, Sundown, with Barnes (ex-Cam-Pact); Broderick Smith on lead vocals and harmonica, Kerryn Tolhurst on guitar; (both ex-Adderley Smith Blues Band); and Barry Windley on drums (Chessmen, Cherokees, Quinn). The group only issued one single, "This Country of Mine" (June 1972), before disbanding.

The skills to use the tools by hand, without a fixed point of contact with the wood, distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinists lathe, or metal-working lathe. Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks, egg cups, knobs, lamps, rolling pins, cylindrical boxes, Christmas ornaments, bodkins, knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture; baseball bats, hollow forms such as woodwind musical instruments, urns, sculptures; bowls, platters, and chair seats. Industrial production has replaced many of these products from the traditional turning shop. However, the wood lathe is still used for decentralized production of limited or custom turnings.

Rook, Lewis chessmen, at the British Museum in London Both archaeological finds and written sources testify to the fact that the Vikings set aside time for social and festive gatherings. Board games and dice games were played as a popular pastime at all levels of society. Preserved gaming pieces and boards show game boards made of easily available materials like wood, with game pieces manufactured from stone, wood or bone, while other finds include elaborately carved boards and game pieces of glass, amber, antler or walrus tusk, together with materials of foreign origin, such as ivory. The Vikings played several types of tafl games; hnefatafl, nitavl (nine men's morris) and the less common kvatrutafl.

Mephisto consisted of a life-size figure of an elegant devil, with one foot rendered as a cloven hoof, dressed in red velvet and seated in an armchair in front of an unenclosed, open-sided table. This table set-up was provided to reassure the player that there were no compartments beneath the board where a man could be hidden (as in "The Turk"). In addition, the public was invited to inspect the contraption before each exhibition, with the intention of demonstrating that there was no player inside. The chessboard was noted as having had indentations on each square that held the bases of the chessmen to prevent them from moving unintentionally.

The manuscript is kept by the National Library of Scotland. During the reign of James other lists of jewels were made, including those annexed to the crown in 1606, and those sent to Spain in 1623 at the time of the Spanish Match. These were printed in Thomas Rymer's Foedera. In December 1607 Spilman, Herrick, and the goldsmith John Williams were asked to polish and amend some pieces that Queen Elizabeth had mortgaged, and King James gave Anna of Denmark a cup made of unicorn horn, a gold ewer, a salt with a branch from which serpent's tongues and sapphires were suspended, and a crystal chess board with crystal and topaz chessmen.

" Susan described chess as having been her own choice: "Yes, he could have put us in any field, but it was I who chose chess as a four-year-old.... I liked the chessmen; they were toys for me." The experiment began in 1970 "with a simple premise: that any child has the innate capacity to become a genius in any chosen field, as long as education starts before their third birthday and they begin to specialise at six." Polgár "battled Hungarian authorities for permission" to home-school the girls. "We didn’t go to school, which was very unusual at the time," Judit recalled in 2008. "People would say, ‘The parents are destroying them, they have to work all day, they have no childhood’.

Harun al-Rashid receiving a delegation sent by Charlemagne at his court in Baghdad. 1864 painting by Julius Köckert. Both Einhard and Notker the Stammerer refer to the envoys travelling between Harun's and Charlemagne's courts, amicable discussions concerning Christian access to the Holy Land and the exchange of gifts. Notker mentions Charlemagne sent Harun Spanish horses, colorful Frisian cloaks and impressive hunting dogs. In 802 Harun sent Charlemagne a present consisting of silks, brass candelabra, perfume, balsam, ivory chessmen, a colossal tent with many-colored curtains, an elephant named Abul-Abbas, and a water clock that marked the hours by dropping bronze balls into a bowl, as mechanical knights—one for each hour—emerged from little doors which shut behind them.

De Castro relocated to Sydney in 1969 and joined The Browns, alongside Ray Arnott on drums (ex-Chelsea Set), Ronnie Peel on bass guitar (The Missing Links, The Pleazers, Rockwell T. James and the Rhythm Aces, The La De Das) and Les Stacpool on guitar (Chessmen, Merv Benton and the Tamlas). The Browns also backed Bernadette O'Neill, another singer, and were alternately billed as Leo and The Browns or Bernadette and The Browns. Later that year, De Castro formed Leo and Friends with John Capek on piano, Rob MacKenzie on guitar (see MacKenzie Theory), Kevin Murphy on drums (ex-Wild Cherries) and Jeremy Noone on saxophone (see Sons of the Vegetal Mother). The group disbanded early in the following year.

Gordon's bequests included; to his eldest son Ludovick, his insignia as a knight baronet; to Ludovick's son Robert Gordon, a cup, his whalebone chessmen, and a suite of furniture of a green bed and couch worked in tent stitch made bt his mother-in-law Genevieve Petau; to his grandson Robert Barclay his silver coins; his wife Louise Gordon should leave the diamond jewel with the portrait of King James, that had belonged to her mother (Geneviève Petau de Maulette) who taught French to Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, to Ludovick and his son; his wife and Ludovick should continue building the church of Drenie, especially because they had demolished the church of Kinneddor.HMC 6th Report (Sir W. G. Gordon Cumming) (London, 1877), p. 683.

While Burroughs is generally seen as a writer who produced work of limited philosophical value, Burroughs wrote two Barsoom novels, which appear to explore, or parody, the limits of excessive intellectual development at the expense of bodily or physical existence. The first was Thuvia, Maid of Mars, in which Thuvia and Carthoris discover a remnant of ancient White Martian civilization, the Lotharians. The Lotharians have mostly died out, but maintain the illusion of a functioning society through powerful telepathic projections, and have formed two factions, which appear portray the excesses of pointless intellectual debate - one faction, the realists believes in imagining meals to provide sustenance, another, the etherealists, believes in surviving without eating. The Chessmen of Mars is the second example of this trend.

It is truely an honest kynde of > enterteynmente and wittie, quoth Syr Friderick. But me think it hath a > fault, whiche is, that a man may be to couning at it, for who ever will be > excellent in the playe of chestes, I beleave he must beestowe much tyme > about it, and applie it with so much study, that a man may assoone learne > some noble scyence, or compase any other matter of importaunce, and yet in > the ende in beestowing all that laboure, he knoweth no more but a game. > Therfore in this I beleave there happeneth a very rare thing, namely, that > the meane is more commendable, then the excellency. Many of the elaborate chess sets used by the aristocracy have been lost, but others partially survive, such as the Lewis chessmen.

Harald Fairhair (865–933) was hailed as the king here, as was his son, Haakon I, called 'the Good'. The battle of Kalvskinnet took place in Trondheim in 1179: King Sverre Sigurdsson and his Birkebeiner warriors were victorious against Erling Skakke (a rival to the throne). Some scholars believe that the famous Lewis chessmen, 12th century chess pieces carved from walrus ivory found in the Hebrides and now at the British Museum, may have been made in Trondheim. Trondheim was the seat of the Archbishop of Nidaros for Norway from 1152, who operated from the Archbishop's Palace. Due to the introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in 1537, the last Archbishop, Olav Engelbrektsson, had to flee from the city to the Netherlands, where he died in present-day Lier, Belgium.

Although Nathaniel Cooke has long been credited with the design, it may have been conceived by his brother-in-law and owner of the firm, John Jaques. One theory of the development of the set is that Mr. Cooke had used prestigious architectural concepts, familiar to an expanding class of educated and prosperous gentry. London architects, strongly influenced by the culture of Greece and the culture of ancient Rome, were designing prestigious buildings in the neoclassical style. The appearance of the new chessmen was based on this style and the pieces were symbols of "respectable" Victorian society: a distinguished bishop's mitre, a queen's coronet and king's crown, a knight carved as a stallion's head from the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, and a castle streamlined into clean classical lines, projecting an aura of strength and security.

Performing live, he is joined by a band, and in the studio has been mentored by Estrons member Steffan Pringle, who also works with rising Welsh musicians The Himalayas and Adwaith. In August 2018 he performed at Le Pub in support of Newport sports team Riot City Ravens. The same month, Perrett launched the single "Portlife", a Newport take on Blur's 1994 hit Parklife, through an innovative city tour which involved performances at popular local sites including Alonzi Fish Bar, Chessmen, Tiny Rebel's city centre brewbar, The Gallery Space at Newport Market, and outside the gates of Rodney Parade, where he performed before the kick off of his boyhood football team Newport County. There, he watched the fixture against Crewe Alexandria and then completed the day with gigs at The Ivy Bush bar and El Sieco's.

"Why, they're only a pack of cards," she says, "I needn't be afraid of them?" and so she answers the sanguinary-minded queen of Hearts, in a reckless manner, and refuses to see heads knocked off in such profusion. She then dances with the Cards in a graceful gavotte, and afterwards protects her old friend, the Cheshire Cat, from an undeserved execution. The Gryphon and Mock Turtle then appear, and Alice receives some hints as to a sea education, and the first act of the dream play for children ends with the trial of the Knave of Hearts for eating the tarts, in which Alice's verdict of acquittal is unanimously passed. 1898 revival: Rose Hersee talking to the White Rabbit :In the second act, Mr. Savile Clarke takes us to another book, Through the Looking-Glass, and Alice is introduced to the chessmen and Chorus, who dance stiffly for her delectation, then the Red Queen gives her some advice after she has spoken to the live flowers, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee appear.

Round, King's serjeants. pp. 6–8. The historian Mary Bateson stated as follows concerning serjeanties: > (They) were neither always military nor always agricultural, but might > approach very closely the service of knights or the service of farmers ... > The serjeanty of holding the king's head when he made a rough passage across > the Channel, of pulling a rope when his vessel landed, of counting his > chessmen on Christmas day, of bringing fuel to his castle, of doing his > carpentry, of finding his pot-herbs, of forging his irons for his ploughs, > of tending his garden, of nursing the hounds gored and injured in the hunt, > of serving as veterinary to his sick falcons, such and many others might be > the ceremonial or menial services due from a given serjeanty. The varieties of serjeanty were later increased by lawyers, who the sake of convenience categorised under this head such duties as escort service to the Abbess of Barking, or of military service on the Welsh border by the men of Archenfield.