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Nevertheless, The Chieftain closed after just three months. The fault lay partly in Burnand's weak and pun-filled libretto, but also was a result of changing audience tastes, as musical comedy , such as those produced at the Gaiety Theatre by George Edwardes , was supplanting light opera on the London stage.
Moran joined the Irish Army Reserve in September 1997 and the US Army National Guard in November 2000. [3] He was deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2005 as a tank platoon leader (during which his unit received a Valorous Unit Award), and Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010 (during which his unit received a Meritorious Unit Commendation).
Iron Jacket was a Comanche chieftain and medicine man whom the Comanche believed had the power to blow bullets aside with his breath. His name probably resulted from his habit of wearing a Spanish coat of scale mail into battle, which protected him from most light weapons fire.
The band's name came from the book Death of a Chieftain by Irish author John Montague. [4] Assisted early on by Garech Browne, they signed with his company Claddagh Records. They needed financial success abroad and succeeded in this. [citation needed]
Persephone – The widow of the recently deceased Dahl Rhen chieftain Regland and Second Chair. [8] After the death of her husband she becomes the target of assassination by the new chieftain. With the help of Raithe and Malcolm, Persephone survives the attempts and manages against all odds to help her clan survive an attack from a Miralyith.
A chief might be considered to hold all political power, say by oratory or by example. But on the North American continent, it was historically possible to evade the political power of another by migration. The Mingos, for example, were Iroquois who migrated further west to the sparsely populated Ohio Country during the 18th century.
A chieftain is a tribal chief or village head. Chieftain or Chieftains may refer also to: A position subordinate to Chief of a Scottish clan. Chieftain (tank), the main battle tank of the British Army during the 1960s and 1970s; The Chieftain, a 1894 comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand. The Chieftain, a 1984 Norwegian drama film
Datu Sikatuna (or Catunao) was a Datu or chieftain of Bo-ol in the island of Bohol in the Philippines.He made a blood compact and alliance with the Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi on March 25, 1565 at Hinawanan Bay, barangay Hinawanan, Loay. [1]