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King, Queen, Knave is the second novel written by Vladimir Nabokov (under his pen name V. Sirin) while living in Berlin and sojourning at resorts in the Baltic.Written in the years 1927–8, it was published as Король, дама, валет (Korol', dama, valet) in Russian in October 1928 and then translated into German by Siegfried von Vegesack as König, Dame, Bube: ein Spiel mit dem ...
King, Queen, Knave is a 1972 West German comedy film directed by Jerzy ... Adopted by his rich Uncle Charles and taken to Germany on the death of his parents, the ...
Death Battle helped popularize the use of mathematical calculations to determine the strength of fictional characters; in the battleboarding fandom, such calculations are called "calcs". [6] The show has also inspired a number of fan fiction sites and crossover fiction, most notably Death Battle Fanon Wiki. [32]
Her father was Captain (brevet Major) William Degacher (1841–1879) of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot, who was killed at the Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. [6] Although born William Hitchcock, in 1874, he and his older brother Lieutenant Colonel Henry Degacher (1835–1902), both followed their father, Walter ...
The novel takes place in a prison and relates the final twenty days of Cincinnatus C., a citizen of a fictitious country, who is imprisoned and sentenced to death for "gnostical turpitude." Unable to blend in and become part of the world around him, Cincinnatus is described as having a "certain peculiarity" that makes him "impervious to the ...
Myers was born in Birmingham, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. [4] He married choreographer Eleanor Fazan.. Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series Doctor Who; the theme to All Gas and Gaiters; and the theme for the BBC's Question Time.
Abel, King of Denmark; Acrotatus (king of Sparta) Adarnase II of Iberia; Adolf, King of the Romans; Áed mac Colggen; Aeddan ap Blegywryd; Ælfwine of Deira; Æthelfrith; Æthelhere of East Anglia; Æthelwealh of Sussex; Æthelwold ætheling; Agis III; Agüeybaná I; Ahab; Alahis; Alaric II; Alexander I of Epirus; Alfonso V of León; Ali Mirza ...
The novel was adapted into Bengali film, Saheb Bibi Golam (King, Queen, Knave) in 1956, starring Sumitra Devi, Uttam Kumar and Chhabi Biswas. [3] A Hindi version, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam released in 1962 starring Meena Kumari , Rehman , Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman among others, went on to become a huge hit.