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Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
Kings of the Sun is a 1963 DeLuxe Color film directed by J. Lee Thompson for Mirisch Productions set in Mesoamerica at the time of the conquest of Chichen Itza by Hunac Ceel. Location scenes were filmed in Mazatlán and Chichen Itza. [3] The film marks the second project Thompson completed with Yul Brynner within a year — the other being ...
James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 until his death at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He inherited the throne at the age of fifteen on the death of his father, James III, at the Battle of Sauchieburn, following a rebellion in which the younger James was the figurehead of the rebels.
King Charles II opposed James's conversion, ordering that James's daughters, Mary and Anne, be raised in the Church of England. [49] Nevertheless, he allowed the widowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess. [50] James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673. [51]
"Children of the Corn" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. [1] The story has been adapted into several films, spawning a horror feature film franchise of the same name beginning in 1984 .
Portrait of James when Duke of York in 1684, by Godfrey Kneller. Mary of Modena in c. 1687 after her coronation as queen consort, a portrait by Godfrey Kneller.. James's predecessor and elder brother, King Charles II, had come to the throne in the 1660 Stuart Restoration, which followed the English Civil Wars, the execution of Charles I and the five year republic known as The Protectorate.
Children of the Sun, a 1960 animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley Children of the Sun (1962 film) , a Moroccan film directed by Jacques Séverac Children of the Sun (2007 film) , an Israeli documentary
William Alexander and other courtier poets started to anglicise their written language, and followed the king to London after 1603. [83] James's role as active literary participant and patron made him a defining figure in many respects for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which reached a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, [84] but his ...