La Reyne le veult (“The Queen wills it”) or Le Roy le veult (“The King wills it”) is a Norman French phrase used in the Parliament of the United Kingdom to signify that a public bill or private bill has received Royal Assent from the Monarch. It is a legacy of the time prior to 1488 when Parliamentary and judicial business was conducted in French, the language of the educated classes after the Norman conquest of 1066.
Should royal assent be refused, the expression La Reyne/Le Roy s’avisera,“The Queen/King will be advised” (i.e., will take the bill under advisement), a paraphrase of the Law Latin euphemism Regina/Rex consideret (“The Queen/King will consider [the matter]”), would be used, though no British monarch has denied royal assent since Queen Anne of England withheld it from the Scottish Militia Bill 1708.
For a supply bill, an alternative phrase is used: La Reyne/Le Roy remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult (“The Queen/King thanks her/his good subjects, accepts their bounty, and wills it so”).
Carl XVI Gustaf is the reigning King of Sweden, although he is only the tenth king by that first name. That is because King Charles IX (reigned 1604 to 1611) took his number according to a fictitious History of Sweden. That Charles was actually the third Swedish king by that name. The name Charles is Carl in Swedish.
Bonnie Lynn Raitt was born in 1949 in Burbank, California. Her father, John Raitt, became a major Broadway star in the 40’s & 50’s & her mother, Majorie Haydock, was a piano player.
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Gov. Chris Christie’s poll ratings among his New Jersey constituents are now the lowest they have ever been, calling into question whether he will run for President of the United States after all.
Originally, New Jersey consisted of two separate colonies: East Jersey and West Jersey. East Jersey was originally colonized by Dutch settlers from New Amsterdam, while West Jersey was originally colonized by Swedish settlers from New Sweden. After the British takeover, the two divisions were formalized, but the border was never clearly delineated and the two sections became one in 1702.
One of the popular tourist attractions in the ACT is the telecommunications tower that is situated above the summit of Black Mountain, to the northwest of the city. It provides panoramic views of Canberra and into New South Wales.
The four Iowa-class battleships, initially launched for World War II between 1942 and 1944, were reactivated in the 1980s. They are all deactivated now and on display:
BB-61: USS Iowa; on display in Los Angeles, California
BB-62: USS New Jersey; on display in Camden, New Jersey
BB-63: USS Missouri; on display in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
BB-64: USS Wisconsin; on display in Norfolk, Virginia
All four battleships are popular tourist attractions.
The church (later cathedral) of Saint John the Baptist in Norwich in England was a gift to the to the Catholics of Norwich from the 15th Duke of Norfolk in thanksgiving for his marriage to Lady Flora Abney-Hastings.
Justinian wife Theodora was one of the few Roman Empresses to hold actual political power, stated her career as a prostitute, which for once made the common accusation made against wives of political opponents accurate.
Is is implied but not explicitly stated that Gita Lodz, the secretive heroine of Scott Turow’s World War II novel Ordinary Heroes, may have been a prostitute after leaving her native Poland.
Scott Turow is an attorney who works pro bono in most of his cases, including a 1995 case where he won the release of Alejandro Hernandez, who had spent 11 years on death row for a murder he did not commit.
Scott Turow was an assistant United States attorney in Chicago before entering private practice. He wrote his first novel,* Presumed Innocent*, on the train while going to and from work.
In 1932 the son of Charles Lindbergh was apparently kidnapped; this soon became known as the “Crime of the Century.” After a ransom was paid, the baby’s corpse was discovered not far from the Lindbergh home. Immigrant Bruno R. Hauptmann was convicted of the crime and sent to the electric chair. However, more than 80 years after the events, the crime is still controversial and it is now widely believed that Hauptmann was innocent of the kidnapping and murder.
In one theory, Lindbergh’s mentally disturbed sister-in-laww caused the baby’s death, with Lindbergh concocting an elaborate kidnapping hoax as cover-up.
