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"conqueror" Definitions
  1. a person who conquers

245 Sentences With "conqueror"

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"No other country was more fitted to welcome a conqueror; no other conqueror was more welcome than the British," he wrote.
Like "Conqueror" is one of those songs I didn't write alone.
It's the face of a conqueror at the end of his rope.
"the modern adventurer and conqueror of palates," for his show No Reservations.
Then Aegon the Conqueror came along and decided to shake things up.
Wisconsin, conqueror of Iowa this week, has lost to Western Illinois and Milwaukee.
By the end, Cruz bitterly labeled his conqueror an "utterly amoral" pathological liar.
It's obvious that Dany sees herself the second coming of Aegon the Conqueror.
There's a growing sense that Facebook is no longer an invincible world-conqueror.
Mars is the conqueror—it wants to move forward, not retreat and revise.
He was taken by Rodin's sympathetic portrayal of Napoleon, an emperor and conqueror.
Chad Le Clos of South Africa, Phelps' conqueror four years ago, finished fourth.
Hellenistic conqueror Alexander the Great accomplished extraordinary things during his short time on earth.
He grew into a conqueror of rules, and a provider of dreams for millions.
To be an entomologist is, therefore, to become a scholar of your own conqueror.
This is mainly thanks to the first Aegon Targaryen, known as Aegon the Conqueror.
" The ever-popular Monfils could only congratulate his conqueror and note ruefully: "Well done, Novak.
The right of conquest did not depend on whether the conqueror was in the right.
We will support FIFA and in our joint efforts we will try to conqueror [sic] this.
They realize that they have lost a conqueror and a man of great substance and influence.
"Conqueror"—the single which is out now—is more the business part than the heart part.
In 11th-century England, there was the Domesday Book, compiled by order of William the Conqueror.
In December, the company will host a new staging of Verdi's "Attila," about the Hun conqueror.
Will Jon Snow fulfill the reputation of the name of Aegon the Conqueror and Aegon V?
He must be what he sees in that window in the South of France: a conqueror.
The conqueror Cortés, old stories go, Abducted Montezuma's recipeBut found the beans too difficult to grow.
Even by his own ridiculous standards, Trout has been an absolute conqueror of worlds this year.
But we want insurance to be something different: We want it to be the conqueror of scarcity.
The card's image comes from the painting "The Conqueror" by the artist Addonis Parker, the bank said.
The book in question was a children's book about the first Norman King of England, William the Conqueror.
His young American conqueror, ranked 39 in the world, saved two break points while closing out the match.
Instead, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, and first visited the country of his dreams as a conqueror.
And I hope to read the last part of "Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems," by Kwame Dawes.
Even consider England's recent conqueror Iceland – their Euro 2016 squad did not include a single home-based player.
Through that self-reflection and self-acceptance, she was able to truly embody a motto of Curvy. Confident. Conqueror.
So was the Domesday Book compiled in 2000, 0003 years after William the Conqueror sailed across the English Channel.
Dimitrov will next face six-times champion Novak Djokovic's conqueror, Denis Istomin, for a place in the last eight.
This is one Roman conqueror that Leicester folk will follow wherever he takes them, onward and upward into Europe.
"I think it represents a colonial understanding, a conqueror mentality that I oppose," she said of the proposed transfer.
They had money, power, social status, the best land and a noble pedigree going back to William the Conqueror.
Children paraded in military fatigues and chanted anti-Western slogans, praising Mr. Mugabe as the conqueror of the British.
He was nominated for Oscars for "Pelle the Conqueror" in 1988 and for "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" in 2012.
GENGHIS KHAN AND THE QUEST FOR GOD: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom, by Jack Weatherford.
The legend of Genghis Khan has echoed throughout history: A barbarian conqueror, fueled by bloodlust, terrorizing the civilized world.
According to Canetti's nasty memoir, "Party in the Blitz," it was Murdoch who was the passive conqueror in their bouts.
Aegon the Conqueror took all seven kingdoms with three dragons, but Daenerys can't seem to keep hold of her children.
Aegon the Conqueror didn't forge the Seven Kingdoms with kindness, and Daenerys seems to have decided to walk his path.
Now, much like Aegon the Conqueror before her, Daenerys is in Dragonstone with her eye on conquering the Seven Kingdoms.
The other thing: Dany didn't exactly refute Daario's point that she was a conqueror, not a throne-sitter, did she?
Iran's Minister of Defense unveiled a new short-range ballistic missile called the Fateh Mobin, or "manifest conqueror," on Monday.
Donald was a straight shooter, a magnate, a playboy, a marrier of Eastern European blondes, a conqueror of distant Manhattan.
GENGHIS KHAN AND THE QUEST FOR GODHow the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious FreedomBy Jack Weatherford407 pp. Viking. $28.
France's Gael Monfils, the 13th seed, ended the run of Djokovic's conqueror Vesely with a 6-1 6-2 win.
The parallels between the original Targaryen conqueror from 300 years ago and his chain-breaking descendant grow stronger by the day.
Based on a poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, the film tells the story of Padmavati and the Mughal conqueror Alaudin Khilji.
Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will be back to complete the fifth set of his encounter against Djokovic's 2016 conqueror Sam Querrey.
And from the perspective of all the cities she "frees" (including Westeros), she looks like little more than an invading conqueror.
It was founded as a private bath by Mehmed the Conqueror, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in the 15th century.
With this quiet act of rebellion at the ­center of the novel, Hicks insightfully examines the dynamic of conqueror and conquered.
There is growing concern, in fact, that China has arrived in Europe not as an economic collaborator, but as a conqueror.
Trifonov the young conqueror of the keyboard revealed himself with a breathless account of Schumann's joyous Toccata, a notorious finger-twister.
Comprised of drummer J. Read (Conqueror, Revenge, Axis of Advance) with teo members pf Blasphemy—Deathlord of Abomination and War Apocalypse on guitar, bass and vocals (Read's collaborator in Conqueror), with Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds on vocals and effects—rumblings about this project have permeated the underground since its initial announcement back in 2013.
High John the Conqueror is an old root—that's the root they sing about in a lot of the older blues songs.
Tyrion's PR strategy to push back against Cersei's characterization of her as a foreign conqueror was plucked straight out of Aegon's playbook.
Orys Baratheon was not only the most trusted advisor of the OG Targaryen king, Aegon the Conqueror, but also his half-brother.
Approximately $7 billion of debt, excluding the outstanding Eksportfinans loans and Transocean Conqueror Limited secured notes, is affected by today's rating actions.
Universal could wipe the slate clean and include other heroes, like Kull the Conqueror (last seen in the 1997 Kevin Sorbo film).
She has a legitimate claim to the throne as a Targaryen and it's no accident she's being compared to Aegon the Conqueror.
Prince Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte, a descendant of the famous conqueror, has married an Austrian countess, Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg.
Like a foreign-born conqueror, Schembechler, who died in 2006, was the Ohio-born protégé of the great Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes.
There was a Wayne's World sequel and plenty of low-budget, forgettable fare like The Immortals, Kull the Conqueror, and Scar City.
In their view, Muhammad was a conqueror first, a politician and a general second, and a man of faith last, and least.
For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror, but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.
Instead, rather inexplicably, McGregor will get a rematch of his own against his sole conqueror within the confines of the Octagon in Diaz.
Timurlengia, named for 14th century Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane, was 803-13 feet (3-4 meters) long and about 600 pounds (270 kg).
He dates the arrangement back to the time of Saladin, the Muslim conqueror who seized the holy city from the Crusaders in 1187.
PROFESSOR DAVID COLDWELLJohannesburg Pre-conquest England was prosperous enough to attract successive raiders such as Sweyn Forkbeard and Canute before William the Conqueror.
Early on, she pledged to be a benevolent conqueror, not to burn King's Landing to the ground or occupy cities with foreign troops.
The Macedonians retaliated by changing Skopje airport's name to Alexander the Great in 2007, after the ancient Greek conqueror claimed by both countries.
As Clara sits in a clanging, rumbling New York City subway train, Shakespeare, William the Conqueror, Chaucer, and Anne Boleyn enter the car.
Drake"Rise Up" — Andra Day"Formation" — Beyoncé "Jumpman" — Drake and Future"Conqueror" — Estelle"Against Us" — Dee-1"We Must Praise" — J Moss 63.
As long as it claimed to have been a victim, no matter how flimsy its argument, the conqueror became the new legal sovereign.
" The journalist and historian Ron Palenski equated Meads with Edmund Hillary, New Zealand's conqueror of Mount Everest, as "Sir Ed in rugby boots.
There is a decent heavyweight scrap between the pot-bellied Roy Nelson and one-time conqueror of Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio "Big Foot" Silva.
He was a violent conqueror who, after obtaining superior firepower, savagely attacked defenseless natives on the smaller islands of what we now call Hawaii.
Originally billed as UFC 196, Cain Velasquez was supposed to make his attempt to regain his heavyweight title against his conqueror in Fabricio Werdum.
One of the things that astonished him most, however, was a new invention, implemented by Kublai Khan, a grandson of the great conqueror Genghis.
And it was easy to see the affinity a Jewish refugee felt in 1931 for a people forced into internal exile by a conqueror.
It is perhaps the finest surviving example of the thrilling Norman architecture that took hold in England after William the Conqueror landed in 1066.
The platinum-haired conqueror captured the imagination of our experts, sailing off to Westeros with substantial Greyjoy ships, Dothraki fighting hordes, Unsullied, and three dragons.
Iron Throne: as the name reveals, it is literally an iron throne molded from hundreds of swords surrendered in battles won by Aegon the Conqueror.
Windsor Castle, founded by William the Conqueror in the 11th Century, survived centuries of England's often bloody history and passed through World War Two unscathed.
After shaking hands with his conqueror, Medvedev grabbed his wallet and pulled out some coins before hurling them toward the foot of the umpire's chair.
In the Targaryen family line, it's common enough to keep naming men Aegon, after Aegon the Conqueror, the first of the Targaryen kings of Westeros.
Before Aegon the Conqueror (Aegon I) claimed the Seven Kingdoms, the Starks were Kings in the North and ruled over a variety of other houses.
Vanity Fair has an incredibly detailed breakdown of the dragon house's ancestry, starting with the most famous Targaryen of all, Aegon I Targaryen the Conqueror.
Iran's other submarines, the Tareq and the new domestically built Fateh (Conqueror), have the same anti-ship capability, IRNA quoted a military statement as saying.
Mongolia is perhaps best known as the homeland of famed 12th Century conqueror Chinggis (Genghis) Khan, whose dynasty amassed the largest contiguous empire in history.
"Macron doesn't take responsibility for anything but promises everything, with the ardour of a youthful conqueror and the cynicism of a seasoned veteran," Philippe wrote.
State media said Iran would be testing its new domestically built Fateh (Conqueror) submarine which is armed with cruise missiles and was launched last week.
The confrontation of Occident and "Indes," conqueror and conquered, is throughout evoked in eerily slow-motion, stylized battles with armored, plastic-shield-wielding security forces.
The British Treasury, which traces its history back to William the Conqueror, is located in a grand building between Buckingham Palace and the British parliament.
Queen Elizabeth II is the 40th monarch in a royal line that traces its origins to William the Conqueror, who led the invasion and occupation.
I remember one of the real old gentlemen talking about how all he needed to straighten his life out was a High John the Conqueror root.
Really: Steppenwolf is a conqueror from the planet Apokolips who seeks to remake the Earth by capturing three pieces of alien technology known as Mother Boxes.
"Rather than being horrified to discover that she's basically been raped by a stranger, Betty swoons for her nerd conqueror," The AV Club's AA Dowd wrote.
While it's a fantastic camp in the Garden State, there's one sparring partner which fills Barboza with supreme poise—Pettis' most recent conqueror in Eddie Alvarez.
She also worked with her brother on Kull the Conqueror, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard, who is better known for Conan the Barbarian.
Because Aegon the Conqueror came in with his dragons and the dragons can be seen as your nuclear equivalent, or the cannons in the 15th century.
Who was ultimately more powerful: the conqueror Alexander, who ruled the known world, or the philosopher Diogenes, whom Alexander could neither offer nor threaten with anything?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a recently rediscovered and attributed Rodin marble bust of Napoleon, from 1908, in which the young conqueror shimmers like ice.
The organization also said William the Conqueror was a "notorious Scrooge" when it came to making gifts English abbeys -- but that Battle Abbey was an exception.
Sentences like "OMG WTF William teh Conqueror pwned Harold at Hastings in 1066!" tend to be written by middle-aged columnists trying to imitate children's supposed habits.
Fire and Blood confirms a long-held rumor that Baratheon House was founded by Orys, a half-brother and Hand to the legendary Conqueror Aegon I Targaryen.
" At the end, William the Conqueror came on, and held Harold the King's hand — who he had just killed — and they sang "We Can Work It Out.
THE Norman conquest of England, led exactly 10863 years ago by William, Duke of Normandy ("the Conqueror"), was the single greatest political change England has ever seen.
The entertainment industry is often criticized for its continued lack of diversity, which goes back to 1956's The Conqueror, which starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
Aegon Targaryen, also known as Aegon the Conqueror, used his family's dragons to conquer the mainland of Westeros and become the first ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.
It was a matter of both scale and trust: whether the nation's retail conqueror should be allowed to roll into yet another industry and potentially dominate it.
She has yet to so much as set foot in Westeros — where people are probably not too keen on welcoming a foreign, female conqueror with open arms.
The castle, with its commanding position overlooking the River Thames, was built originally in the 11th century by William the Conqueror, the king credited with unifying England.
A historic home once owned by Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror, is up for sale at the relative bargain price of $10833 million.
After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror initiated the Norman period of English history and intensified connections between the continent and the British Isles.
I now know I am a conqueror, I am stronger than I ever could have imagined, and no matter which obstacle I face, I will always overcome it.
Based on an epic poem by Malik Muhammad Jayasi, the film tells the story of Padmavati, the queen of the Rajput warrior clan and Mughal conqueror Alaudin Khilji.
The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in what may be the Tomb of Philip II of Macedon, conqueror of Greece and father of Alexander the Great.
There's speculation that Alexander the Great is the subject of "Head of a Youth," the seductive visage similar to many of the idealized portrayals of the young conqueror.
They're like if Knelt Rote was into early Morbid Angel instead of Conqueror, and their upcoming full-length, Permanent Destitution, is going to be a a total banger.
Spaniard Garbine Muguruza, seeded 14, beat her Wimbledon conqueror Alison Van Uytvanck 6-13 6-0 to set up a second-round clash with Swiss qualifier Viktorija Golubic.
It also provides details on exactly what the Targaryen history book will cover, namely the reign of their house, from the original Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III.
The HBO adaptation instead chose to have her captured by the Dothraki and sidelined for half a season before having her belatedly embrace her identity as a conqueror.
He presented himself as the seducer or the seduced, not a conqueror; "Teacher, Teacher," another newly released vault song, has him fending off a lonely teacher's unwanted advances.
She's most eligible bachelorette of either side of the Narrow Sea, who even broke up with her sellsword bae Daario Naharis to focus on her career as a conqueror.
IF THE best-known emblem of Mongolia is its mighty 13th-century conqueror, Genghis Khan, the second-best-known is probably the humble nomadic dwelling known as a yurt.
In one image found on blocks at Hermopolis, Nefertiti is cast on an equal footing with that of a male conqueror, smiting the enemies of Egypt with a mace.
Yet it appears Mr. Trump wants to play the role of neither conqueror nor courtier, walking a fine line between military threats and diplomatic outreach but committing to neither.
Redolent of social breakdown (and retitled "Edgar Allan Poe's The Conqueror Worm"), the movie was released in the United States in August 1968, a season of acute political violence.
South of Egypt, in what is what is now the Sudanese Nile Valley, lay the ancient kingdom of Nubia, a cultural rival and one-time conqueror of the pharaohs.
From the ancient Roman conqueror Marcus Aurelius, to statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, right through to Shay Carl whose Maker Studios was acquired by Disney for half a billion dollars.
By royal decree, the family was hereby to be known as Windsor, after Windsor Castle built in the 11th century by William the Conqueror, and a symbol of British power.
Meanwhile, on the same day, Google published a Doodle in India to celebrated one of Urdu literature's iconic poets, Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, known most commonly as Ghalib (meaning conqueror).
It has been a royal residence since 1066 when William the Conqueror, the Norman king who invaded England and from whom all subsequent monarchs trace their lineage, built a castle.
He could not make it past the first round, and when it was over, both he and his conqueror, Juan Martín del Potro, were in tears in Rio de Janeiro.
Three men claimed the throne, but eventually it came down to a hilltop fight between William, who would become William the Conqueror, and an Anglo-Saxon king named Harold Godwinson.
Mr. Biden was treated as a conqueror after the best 24 hours of his campaign, with mobs of well-wishers and supporters crowding him as he entered the church building.
" But some of the breeziness is overdone ("It wasn't until that crazy William the Conqueror busted onto the English-speaking scene"), and she overuses "dude" as a synonym for "man.
Before physicists established that the sound came from sand grains rubbing against each other, legends about its origins abounded, some claiming the great Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan was buried beneath it.
Williams, who suffered her earliest Grand Slam exit since Wimbledon 2014, was given a standing ovation as she walked off Court Philippe Chatrier while sections of the crowd jeered her conqueror.
He needed one break in each set to subdue former runner-up Tsonga and will face either Murray's conqueror Jordan Thompson of Australia or American Sam Querrey in the quarter-finals.
To that end, it sponsored armed groups that would do its bidding in Syria, groups named for Ottoman rulers like the Sultan Murad Brigade and the Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Brigade.
In October of that same year, the Norman invasion at the Battle of Hastings took the life of King Harold II, and William the Conqueror was crowned king on Christmas Day.
Rashad Evans You may have deduced by now that Evans was a winner of The Ultimate Fighter himself as mentioned earlier on in this piece—and latterly the conqueror of Griffin.
Three hundred years ago, Aegon the Conqueror and his two Targaryen sisters/wives (yes, he married his siblings) climbed aboard their dragons and conquered Westeros, as one does when one has dragons.
The reference in "Turandot" to a woman abducted and raped in ancient times by a brutal conqueror is distressingly contemporary, as is the idea of a woman coerced by an aggressive suitor.
"As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered," Harding said afterward.
Speculation linking the tomb to Alexander the Great set off huge media interest, but archaeologists later concluded that it had probably been built for a close companion of the king and conqueror.
Still, the conqueror of the known world is ranked much higher than other leaders with similar numbers, including the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart.
"Conqueror" is the pop bait for a more introspective album, full of thoughts about solitude, loss, mortality and the tenacity — signaled by the music as much as the words — to endure them.
Serena and Gauff were joined by four more fellow Americans — Alison Riske, 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens, title holder Angelique Kerber's conqueror Lauren Davis and Danielle Collins — in the last 32.
Piers Morgan, the one-time conqueror of Gene Simmons and Stephen Baldwin in "The Celebrity Apprentice," has long since appointed himself as spokesman for the most disgruntled faction of Arsenal's fan base.
It was the laugh of a benevolent conqueror, or of a man who landed the Robinson role within two years of moving to Los Angeles — both rows of teeth, steady eye contact.
Williams' conqueror in last year's controversial final, Naomi Osaka, 21, meets tennis' newest sensation, Coco Gauff, 15, in a highly anticipated clash Saturday and the 37-year-old hinted she'd be watching.
If all goes as planned and he becomes king after the reigns of his grandfather Prince Charles and his father Prince William, George will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror.
It's ghastly and cruel and one of the few instances when this reader felt authentic emotional recoil because, yes, that is exactly the kind of depravity in which a brutal conqueror might engage.
Putin's actions in Ukraine, however, may have sufficiently cemented his reputation as a conqueror, so that he can afford to make a limited territorial concession in exchange for much needed financial and political benefits.
When he was paired with fifth-seeded Milos Raonic for the second round of this year's United States Open, it looked as if the name of another conqueror would be added to his list.
Gauff, the 15-year-old American sensation, set up a blockbuster rematch with her U.S. Open conqueror Osaka by beating Romania's Sorana Cirstea 4-6 6-3 7-5 at a heaving Melbourne Arena.
The victory in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, over Anglo-Saxon King Harold was the start of the Norman conquest which transformed England's language, laws, customs and architecture.
It's made out of all the swords surrendered to this dude name Aegon the Conqueror after he conquered Westeros and united the Seven Kingdoms and—sorry, this is all the stuff that is completely unimportant.
From Robert Baratheon all the way back to Aegon the Conqueror, kings have earned their place on the Iron Throne through sheer bravery and fortitude on the battle field—and that's exactly what Ghost has.
Tuesday's congestion is also expected to be worsened by crowds flocking to perform the ritual immersion in the sea of idols of the Hindu god Ganesh, the conqueror of obstacles, in a major annual festival.
Launched in the southern Philippines on June 20, the paper, whose name means "The Conqueror" in Arabic, is also distributed in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and southern Thailand, the Straits Times newspaper said this month.
While Djokovic's unlikely conqueror, the American Sam Querrey, who is ranked No. 41, made the morning-after rounds in television and radio studios, some of the potential beneficiaries tried to play it cool in the sunshine.
"She wanted to learn about every one of them from William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Victoria, George, and of course Elizabeth II."She has even worked on speaking in a British accent.
Literal interpretation Padukone plays Queen Padmavati, a legendary Hindu queen who set herself on fire to prevent herself from falling into the hands of invading Muslim conqueror, Alauddin Khilji, played in the movie by Ranveer Singh.
He could not make it past the first round, and when it was over, both he and his conqueror, Juan Martín del Potro, were in tears on court for very different reasons in Rio de Janeiro.
"Views" — Drake's fourth solo album, not counting umpteen mixtapes and other ephemera — finds him a conqueror between territories: fending off attacks from below, maintaining his grip on turf he controls and wondering what might be next.
She and Dario discuss her next move: "You're a conqueror, Daenerys Stormborn," he says, lending some credence to the theory that Dany might in fact turn out to be the power-hungry villain of our story.
This will make for a very quiet New York Fashion Week, even taking into account Philipp Plein, whose characteristically humble self-titled show "Space Invasion: Conqueror of the Universe" will feature a guest appearance by Migos.
By the time Pop Smoke arrived at Canarsie Park, a basketball tournament was in full swing, and he was greeted as a returning conqueror, the crowds crammed around the court melting a little in his wake.
William the Conqueror, who seized the English throne by winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066, is believed to have built Battle Abbey on the site of his victory over Harold II, the Anglo-Saxon king.
Croatian Borna Coric, conqueror of world number one Andy Murray in the third round, plays Dominic Thiem of Austria later on Friday with the winner meeting German Alexander Zverev or Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay in the semis.
The Malaysian's conqueror at successive world championship finals in 218-15, the rangy Chinese was majestic in the 21-18 21-18 title-decider, soaking up fierce pressure and smashing through Lee's defenses at a heaving Riocentro.
The typically reserved Krickstein took a moment to inform her that he had actually been a top-10 player, the winner of nine ATP events and the first-round conqueror of Andre Agassi at that 1991 Open.
Von Sydow played Father Merrin in The Exorcist and was nominated for two Oscars during his career (the only Swedish actor to be nominated), for Pelle the Conqueror in 1987 and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in 2011.
There, I paid homage to one of the few extant copies of the 1215 Magna Carta, as well as the original Domesday Book from 1086, a survey of British lands and people commissioned by William the Conqueror.
Venus Williams' eighth-seeded conqueror Bacsinszky, describing herself as "a chameleon" who can adapt to "every type of court", will next face Dutch outsider Kiki Bertens who downed American 15th seed Madison Keys 7-6(4) 63-3.
Over e-mail, he writes at length about the Persian conqueror Cyrus the Great and argues that the violin (common in Western classical music) was copied from a Middle Eastern and Central Asian stringed instrument called the rebab.
A lot of that belief comes in the knowledge that should he navigate his way past Cilic, waiting for him in the semi-finals will be either Djokovic's conqueror, American 28th seed Sam Querrey, or Canadian Milos Raonic.
The EP's seven tracks took the band nearly three years to craft (understandable given the members' other commitments and well-documented perfectionism) and exist as a sort of dual continuation of both Conqueror and Blasphemy's now-classic sounds.
Lourdes Caban, 41, a hairdresser who works at a salon near the Triangle, said she grew up in Puerto Rico with the belief that Columbus was more of a conqueror of the native Taino people than a discoverer.
Aside from being the most impassioned fleet — an  important quality for pre-modern militaries — Dany's proven herself a conqueror with the most diverse army; the Dothraki's equivalent to huns or mongols, and her Unsullied equivalent the elite Persian Immortals.
After Aegon the Conqueror united Westeros under one king, the Targaryen dynasty continued to use dragons to enforce their rule until a civil war called the Dance of the Dragons decimated the population of royal Targaryens and dragons alike.
Anna Claire Cantrell hasn&apost let her age stop her from learning everything there is to know about the British royal family, or from educating her classmates on every royal throughout history, from William the Conqueror to Meghan Markle.
The bespectacled 21-year-old, conqueror of six-times Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic, suffered from blisters on his foot before retiring from the match while trailing 6-1 5-2 against 19-times grand slam champion Roger Federer.
Among other objects, William the Conqueror is thought to have gifted relics of several of the Holy Innocents -- infant boys slaughtered in Bethlehem on the orders of King Herod -- to the monastery, according to a statement from English Heritage.
And so a broad reconsideration of Bloomberg's news and media offerings fell to Mr. Micklethwait, 53, a relative of the Duke of Norfolk and a descendant of William the Conqueror, the nobleman who led the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066.
His Swiss conqueror snatched a pulsating fourth-set tiebreak 22013-9 before winning 6-7(4) 4-6 20013-3 7-6(9) 6-3 to reach his 11th Wimbledon semi-final and keep up the tilt for an eighth title.
To give you an idea of how grand and ancient this place is: William the Conqueror chose the location after invading England in 1066 because it was near London and had a sweet forest for hunting right on its doorstep.
A son of William the Conqueror, who ascended to the throne after the death of his elder brother William II, Henry has been described as a usurper because he seized the crown while another elder brother was away on a Crusade.
The next day, he visited the tomb not of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, but the tomb of Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror, the 15th-century Ottoman sultan whose imperial armies marched westward from Constantinople as far as Bosnia.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal paid the ultimate respect to his Australian Open conqueror Dominic Thiem on Wednesday, seeing something of himself in the hard-working Austrian after falling short in a quarter-final classic under the lights on Rod Laver Arena.
OXON HILL, Md. — President Donald Trump arrived at the Conservative Political Action Conference as a conqueror, not just of Hillary Clinton and all other 2016 contenders, but of any rival visions for what the modern Republican Party should stand for.
A velociraptor surveys a sprawl of suburbia from the top of a ridge like an arriving conqueror, while the aquatic nightmare that is the mosasaurus emerges out of a wave by a beach, poised to devour surfers like so many passed apps.
How the Seven Kingdoms match up nicely to the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons (the Heptarchy period), how the real life Vikings were like the Ironborn, and who Aegon Targaryen might've been (William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England).
The tiebreak left Kohlschreiber running on empty in the third set and Murray needed just another 30 minutes to secure a meeting with seventh-seeded Frenchman Lucas Pouille, who beat Federer's Russian conqueror Evgeny Donskoy 6-4 5-7 7-6(2).
But, the conqueror of Rousimar Palhares opted to pull out of the fight with Ayari due to receiving medical treatment prior to signing with the UFC—treatment which could have been at odds with the UFC-accredited US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
His offices are full of reminders, as if arranged by a set decorator, that Icahn is a conqueror: the walls are lined with oil paintings depicting famous battles, as well as framed stock certificates and other trophies from companies that he has subdued.
That Luiz — a player who, more than most, this summer came to symbolize English football's spendthrift culture, its obsession with acquisition, its buying for the sake of buying — still finished on the losing side, though, felt instructive, given the identity of Chelsea's conqueror.
Zverev, who did not face a break point all tournament, broke again right at the start of the second but squandered the chance of a double-break two games later as Thiem, conqueror of Rafael Nadal in the last eight, hung on.
They are named 1086 after the year the Nyetimber estate was cited in the Domesday Book, the survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror, and are priced well beyond other English wines, about $190 for the white and $20163 for the rosé.
To be fair, one could say the same of Camus, when he asserts, in "The Myth of Sisyphus," that "the absurd man" should try out, in the name of freedom, a variety of roles: the conqueror, the seducer, the actor, and the writer.
Playlist: "She Tides the Deep" / "Procession a la Guillotine" / "Hiroshima" / "Siberia" / "Seth" / "Spoils to the Conqueror" / "Undertow/Lambs - Part 4" / "Queen of Antlers" /"Torch" / "The Mountain" Spotify | Apple Music The fact is, there's no way to recreate Jucifer's live show in the studio.
The legendary Aegon the Conqueror on his ferocious dragon, Balerion the Black Dread This one comes with an asterisk because while the summary for Fire and Blood explicitly teases learning the "origin of Daenerys's three dragon eggs," Martin later shied away from outright confirmation.
Mr Murray's conqueror, Mischa Zverev, is one of the few active players to rely heavily on the serve-and-volley tactic, and Coco Vandeweghe, the American who eliminated Ms Kerber, has used a cannonball serve to record her only career titles on speedy grass courts.
With a moving performance of Estelle's "Conqueror," the 16-year-old singer, who nearly died in a fatal plane crash, once again impressed Howie Mandel, Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Mel B during night one of the 12th season of the NBC reality competition show.
We don't know a lot of details about Kamehameha's violent campaigns — since less developed societies did not write as much down as, say, Christopher Columbus or Thomas Jefferson — but we can assume that he, as a king and conqueror, oversaw mass enslavement, rape and torture.
Domesday Book, through which William the Conqueror made legible the English lands he had invaded in 1066, was concerned almost entirely with primary landowners; peasants are listed by first name—a very vague form of identity—along with other assets such as land and mills.
He could withstand the grappling pressure of the likes of Benson Henderson and Gilbert Melendez—who are both great wrestlers in their own right—but Pettis couldn't withstand the wrestling of Alvarez nor the constant pressure provided by his conqueror as champion in dos Anjos.
It was as if keyboardist Danalogue the Conqueror and drummer Betamax Killer crafted the setting for saxophonist King Shabaka to come in with his raw, wailing horn, taking us to distant realms we were able to sense, somehow, on more than an auditory level.
Viewers are first greeted with sweeping views of the glass-and-steel skyscrapers and bridges of the London skyline, before Mr. Eyre's camera alights on the Tower of London, a symbol of military might since William the Conqueror erected fortifications on the site in 1066.
Progressive historians — admittedly in the minority still — are trying to educate Pakistani students about their country's ancient history and religions, after years of being told that Pakistan's history begins only with the invasion of Sindh by the Arab conqueror Muhammed bin Qasim in A.D. 711.
It starts with Aegon the Conqueror, the first Targaryen king of Westeros who conquered Westeros with his siblings, and it goes all the way through Aerys II, the Mad King, who GOT fans will recognize as Daenerys' father and the last of the Targaryen kings.
In the books, Nymeria's deadly wolf pack is causing all sorts of mayhem in the Riverlands, and it's speculated she'll either come back to fight alongside Arya in the battle against the dead or even fight in a battle against a different conqueror, Daenerys Targaryen.
CreditCreditLynsey Addario for The New York Times In an old part of Istanbul, in a district named Fatih for the Muslim conqueror, tucked inside ancient Byzantine walls in a neighborhood known as Karagumruk, there is a narrow barbershop with pistachio green and glittery countertops called Golden Scissors.
The disembodied narrator also muses on the interplay between the cultural understanding of such events and their lingering effects, such as how years after shooting the 1956 Genghis Khan film The Conqueror near a former nuclear test site, John Wayne and 90 other crew members developed cancer.
With Trump's incessant self-congratulating reveries about his Electoral College upset, he presents himself as some magical conqueror, but his tally of electors was decidedly un-magical in the context of the last four decades and even less charmed when one examines the vote count behind it.
She is a bundle of paradoxes that naturally occur all the time in real life but less frequently on the big screen: damaged yet strong; prickly yet vulnerable; brilliant about so many things, yet apparently clueless when it comes to human interaction; both a victim and a conqueror.
"Fire & Blood" starts off with Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold the throne, all the way up to the civil war, known as the Dance of the Dragons, that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
Against the backdrop of Italian, Chinese and European flags, a host of Chinese and Italian ministers and business leaders signed 29 separate agreements at the Villa Madama, marking the culmination of Mr. Xi's visit to Rome, where he was welcomed as a prized ally and, critics said, conqueror.
Evander Holyfield — the former four-time heavyweight champion and two-time conqueror of Mike Tyson who amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in his boxing career — went to the closet in a hotel room across from Kennedy Airport on Wednesday afternoon and retrieved an iron and ironing board.
LONDON — The Bayeux Tapestry, an 19663th-century treasure showing the tale of how William the Conqueror came to invade England in 1066, is set to be displayed in Britain after France agreed it could leave the country for the first time in 950 years, French officials said Wednesday.
Cotton fields flashed by in the blue of morning until we finally reached Samarkand, a city as old as Rome or Babylon, whose architectural riches surpass even Bukhara's — many built by Timur (also known as Tamerlane), the Turco-Mongol conqueror of the late Middle Ages who made it his capital.
On the contrary, we admired the heroic names that Rukorera had given to his big, strapping sons—the names of famous ancient warriors in epic poems: Impangazamurego, he who is armed with a powerful bow; Rugeramibungo, he who has perfect aim; Rutiru-kayimpunzi, he who never flees; and Rwasabahizi, conqueror of conquerors.
But rather than using a horn to turn the tide of battle, TV-Euron simply got to fight a dragon-less fleet and has made no mention of any such horn — suggesting a significantly simplified role in the show plot that positions him as an ally to Cersei rather than a sovereign conqueror.
Aegon the Conqueror took Westeros with three dragons and a relatively small number of troops by offering the great lords of the realm a simple deal: Either bend the knee (as the scions of Houses Stark, Tully, and Lannister did) and keep your lands and titles or else be burned to death.
"America's love affair with sport hunting," Dray writes, "led to enhanced appreciation of the great outdoors, and to public acceptance of the need for management of wildlife populations and wilderness; but it also contributed to the wholesale slaughter of birds and animal species," and fed the myth of the American as heroic conqueror.
Then, with the prince still in earshot — still climbing his way back to the castle because William the Conqueror built his fortress on a hill, and so the road leading to its modern gates is steep and awkward to navigate in dress shoes — a wave of furious boos swelled up from the crowd.
According to NPR, the full title was His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, King of Scotland Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and UGANDA in Particular.
In her latest novel, Sarah Dunant returns to the Borgias, that flamboyant family of 15th-century clerics and cutthroats, a larger-than-life clan that includes Pope Alexander VI, also known as Rodrigo; his son Cesare, a reluctant cardinal turned conqueror; and the infamous Lucrezia, whose reputation Dunant has done much to restore.
Henley's Dream" ( The Getty Address), "Not Having Found" ( The Getty Address), "Tour Along the Potomac" ( The Getty Address), "Drilling Profitably" ( The Getty Address), "The Bride" ( Bitte Orca), "Gun Has No Trigger" ( Swing Lo Magellan), "Just From Chevron" ( Swing Lo Magellan), "Maybe That Was It" ( Swing Lo Magellan), "Keep Your Name" ( Dirty Projectors), "Zombie Conqueror (Feat.
This is a thing that greatness can do to people, and it is a reason why most happy people, at some point in their lives, realize that they would prefer to be good—to be kind, to be present, to be a friend or a partner or a helpmeet, instead of being a conqueror.
He skirts styles like Laurel Canyon folk-pop in "You're the One," the Beach Boys in "Blue Bird," British trad-rock in "Zombie Conqueror," pop-soul in "What Is the Time" and Gil Evans-tinged ensemble arrangements in "(I Wanna) Feel It All," though he skews all of them toward asymmetry and surprise tangents.
Ultimately, for these books and show to come to a satisfying end, someone needs to become a Robert the Bruce or a William the Conqueror, a medieval politician who understands the right balance of genuine public spiritedness, utter ruthlessness, general competence, coalition-building, loyalty-maintenance, and charismatic leadership to win as both of those men did.
History is political, because it's about power and the victor, the conquered and the conqueror, the 'savage' and the 'civilized' and in the telling of Africa's history, 'savages' and losers don't write history so the names of many philanthropists, teachers, healers, artists, activists, scientists, creators, queens and kings of societies in Africa have ceased to exist.

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