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60 Minutes is an Australian version of the American newsmagazine television show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights. A New Zealand version uses segments of the show. The program is one of five inducted into Australia's television Logie Hall of Fame. [1]
From the age of thirteen until his death, the life of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566–1625) was characterised by close relationships with a series of male favourites. The influence James's favourites had on politics, and the resentment at the wealth they acquired, became major political issues during his reign.
Charles I was proclaimed "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland" at the Mercat cross of Edinburgh. In his later years King James was sometimes immobilised by illnesses. In April 1619 he had to travel in a litter, and then was carried in a chair. [3] Although King James became increasingly infirm, he continued to ride and hunt.
In 1597–1598, James wrote two works, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies and Basilikon Doron (Royal Gift), in which he established an ideological base for monarchy. In the Trew Law, he sets out the divine right of kings, explaining that for Biblical reasons kings are higher beings than other men, though "the highest bench is the sliddriest to sit upon". [1]
James I of Aragon (1208–1276), surnamed the Conqueror, was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona and Lord of Montpellier 1213–1276, King of Majorca 1231–1276, and King of Valencia 1238–1276. James II of Aragon (1267–1327), called The Just (Catalan: El Just), reigned as King James II of Aragon and Velancia and Count of Barcelona 1291 ...
60 Minutes was a top ten show for 23 seasons in a row (1977–2000), an unsurpassed record, and has made the Top 20 for every season since the 1976–1977 season, except from 2005 to 2008. [34] 60 Minutes first broke into the Nielsen Top 20 during the 1976–77 season.
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King left Scotland in 1826 as a free settler with financial capital who arrived in Sydney early in 1827 and went into business as a merchant. [1] King set up a business in "King Street" Sydney, including glass and other merchandise that he had brought with him. He had previously been employed in a glass factory in Edinburgh. [2]