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3 unusual facts about A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court


Conrad Stargard

The Conrad Stargard books clearly belong to the subgenre started by Mark Twain's classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in which a modern person goes back in time and anachronistically introduces various modern technical innovations and social institutions centuries sooner than happened in our history.

Lost in La Mancha

Finding the source material by Miguel de Cervantes too vast, Gilliam and his co-writer decided to create their own version of the Quixote story, including a major change inspired by A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Milray

Mark Twain introduced a fictional elaboration of the mill in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.


Alan Tew

He also composed all the music for the series, The Hanged Man, some of which has been used as incidental music for The Two Ronnies, The Sweeney, the 2009 blacksploitaion spoof Black Dynamite, and would eventually become the intro music for the American TV series, The People's Court.

Arthur R. Miller

His weekly television titled Miller's Court was aired on Boston's WCVB-TV from 1979-1988 and was the first American TV show dedicated to the exploration of legal issues.

Audra Levi

Later in her career, Audra conducted television program syndication sales for Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in the Western Region, including The People’s Court, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra and Friends.

Battle of Ballantyne Pier

Strike supporters set up a makeshift hospital at the Ukrainian Hall, and the police did the same for their wounded at the Coroner's Court on Cordova Street.

Bodewin Keitel

As Keitel learned over the radio from the failed attack, he returned immediately back to Gdansk, could only be confirmed by phone from his brother Wilhelm Keitel"?title=Hasso von Boehmer">Boehmer was taken before the People's Court and executed in 1945.

British International Motor Show

The British International Motor Show was held regularly between 1903 and 2008, initially in London at Crystal Palace, Olympia and then Earl's Court before moving to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham in 1976 where it stayed until 2004.

Death of Gareth Williams

Vincent Williams from the Metropolitan Police informed the Westminster Coroner's Court that experts were agreed that it was impossible for Gareth Williams to have locked himself in.

Earl of Clonmell

Family homes included Bishopscourt (aka Bishop's Court) in County Kildare, Ireland (1838-1914) and Eathorpe Hall in Warwickshire, England (pre-1877 to post-1909).

Gerald Ellis Rosen

Most recently, he lectured to high-ranking Chinese Judges at the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, China and Egyptian judges in Cairo, as well as lecturing at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hans and Sophie Scholl

By February 22, 1943, they had been sentenced to death by the People's Court, led by Judge-President Roland Freisler and were executed by Guillotine on the same day in the Stadelheim Prison.

Jerry Sheindlin

He was a short-lived judge on the television program The People's Court from 1999 to 2000 television season and most of the 2000–01 season before being replaced by Marilyn Milian.

John Drinker

His father made a number of successful real estate investments in Philadelphia, including the property known as Drinker's Court.

KNWA-TV

Syndicated programming on KNWA includes Anderson, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Entertainment Tonight, Judge Judy, The People's Court, and The Doctors.

Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery

He died at Earl's Court, Kensington, London, in August 1703, aged 32, and was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother, Charles.

Lü Gengsong

In February 2008, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou announced the verdict over Lü to four years in jail.

March 1504 lunar eclipse

In 1889 Mark Twain used an altered version of the real story of the rescue of Columbus in his novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Nevile's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge

The west side was transformed from 1673 onwards when the master, Isaac Barrow, persuaded his friend Christopher Wren to design a library for the college.

The "Old Guest Room" on the south side of the range bears the mottos 'Vernon semper viret' and 'Le bon temps viendra' in lozenges on the ceiling.

Once Upon a Classic

The episodes consisted of adaptations of such classic literature as "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and Leatherstocking Tales; some of these adaptations were produced by other broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV in the United Kingdom.

People's Court

The People's Court, the first widely popular American "court show" in which actual small claims court cases were heard by a psuedo-judicial arbitrator

La Corte del Pueblo, the Spanish-language version of The People's Court that aired on the Telemundo network

Philip Richard Fendall II

Fendall became the Editor of the National Journal in Washington, D.C. from 1824 to 1830, which was established by his close friend Peter Force (1790–1868), who at one time was Mayor of Washington, D.C. President Monroe appointed him judge of the Orphan's Court for Alexandria County.

Production music

American TV has also utilized British library music, most notably with the themes for Monday Night Football ("Heavy Action" by Johnny Pearson) and The People's Court ("The Big One" by Alan Tew).

Recorder's Court

Boyle, Kevin, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, chronicles Sweet's life and trial, and was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.

Sagramore

Sagramore was portrayed by William Bendix in the 1949 film version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

St Catherine's Court

After her divorce from Flynn and marriage to American film producer James Keach, Seymour rented the manor as a film set, recording studio and latterly country house estate/hotel for corporate events and weddings.

English Rock/Electronic Band New Order also recorded part of their 2005 album Waiting for the Sirens' Call there, And the Home was also Rented by Robbie Williams as seen in the first episode of MTV Cribs.

Supreme People's Court

Since March 2013, the President of the Supreme People's Court and Chief Grand Justice has been Zhou Qiang.

WSST-TV

WSST-TV is a locally-owned independent station in the South-Central Georgia town of Cordele, featuring news and other local programming for the region—more than any other station, plus top-rated syndicated fare, like Extra, Martha Stewart, Entertainment Tonight, The People's Court, Matlock and many more.

Xu Xianming

Supreme People's Court.

Yang Zili

The Beijing Intermediate Court turned down her request, but she filed a new request to the Supreme People's Court and is still awaiting its decision.


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