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unusual facts about Portrait of Henry VIII



1931 Valentine earthquake

The 1931 Valentine earthquake occurred on August 16 in the town of Valentine, Texas and was rated at VIII (Destructive) on the Mercalli intensity scale.

AfaR small RNA

It is an Hfq-dependent RNA which downregulates AfaD-VIII invasin translation by binding to and initiating cleavage of its mRNA.

Akiva ben Joseph

Aquila was a man after Akiva's own heart; under Akiva's guidance he gave the Greek-speaking Jews a rabbinical Bible (Jerome on Isa. viii. 14, Yer. ḳid. i. 59a).

Alqosh

From 1610 to 1617, the Patriarchate of Alqosh, under Mar Eliyya VIII, entered in Full Communion with Rome.

Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

In two 2007 episodes of the Showtime television series, The Tudors, Anne Stafford, portrayed by Anna Brewster, is presented as the 3rd Duke of Buckingham's daughter (she was his sister), and is involved not with Henry VIII but with a fictionalized version of the King's future brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

Battle of Solway Moss

However, a modern historian Marcus Merriman sees the battle and hostage-taking more as the culmination of James V's war rather than the beginning of Henry VIII's Rough Wooing.

Bavaria-Ingolstadt

Louis reigned until his own son, Louis VIII, usurped his throne in 1443 and delivered him to their enemy, Henry XVI, duke of Bavaria-Landshut.

Bessie Blount

Elizabeth Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his son, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

Blériot VIII

A similar control arrangement for roll and pitch control had been incorporated into an aircraft the previous year by Robert Esnault-Pelterie, but the Bleriot VIII was the first use in a single airframe of the combination of joystick and rudder pedals that is in use to the present day, for the basic format of aerodynamic aircraft control systems.

British Tortricoid Moths

Volume 2 (ISBN 0-903874-06-7), viii + 336 pages, with a blue dustjacket, published in 1979, covered the Olethreutinae.

Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra Selene II, also known as Cleopatra VIII, daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony

David Alpay

He later appeared in some chapters of the second season of The Tudors playing Mark Smeaton, a musician of Henry VIII's court, and narrated the 2008 short film Ten for Grandpa by director Doug Karr.

Elizabeth Tailboys

Elizabeth Blount, married name Elizabeth Tailboys, Henry VIII's mistress

Eric I, Duke of Schleswig

Eric (Longbone), from 1295 Lord of Langeland (1272–1310), married Sophia Burghardsdatter (died 1325), daughter of Queen dowager Jutta of Denmark and Count Burchard VIII of Querfurt-Rosenburg, Burgrave of Magdeburg

European numerals

Roman numerals, the numeral system devised and formerly used by the Romans and still used today to write names such as Elizabeth II or Henry VIII, etc.

Fathers and Suns

Holly was last seen in Series VIII episode "Only the Good..." and they mentioned Holly was offline due to water damage in Back to Earth after Lister had left a bath running for nine years and the Skutters hadn't dried him out.

Handley Page Hampden

Interest in the HP.52 by the Swedish for placing a potential order led to the HP.53 prototype, which was subsequently used as a testbed for a pair of 1,000 hp (750 kW) Napier Dagger VIII 24-cylinder H-block air-cooled inline engines.

Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

At the accession of Henry VIII on 21 April 1509 Stafford was imprisoned in the Tower on suspicion of treason, but was released without charge.

Henry VIII of Legnica

In 1388, Henry VIII, in exchange for his resignation of the administration of the diocese of Wroclaw, received from Pope Urban VI the Bishopric of the remote Cambrai in Flanders.

Hindkowans

Long before the partition of British India, Grierson, in the Linguistic Survey of India, employed the term Hindko to mean "the language of Hindus" (viii, 1:34).

In Coena Domini

Under Urban V (1363) the list contained seven cases; under Gregory XI (1372) nine; under Martin V (1420) ten; under Julius II (1511) twelve: under Paul III (1536) seventeen; under Gregory XIII in 1577 twenty, and under the same pontiff in 1583 twenty-one; under Paul V (1606 and 1619) twenty; and the same number in the final shape given to it by Urban VIII.

Ipswich Cardinals

The name comes from one of Ipswich's most famous sons, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was Henry VIII's Lord chancellor (Chief advisor to the king).

John II, Count of Ziegenhain

The Counts of Hohenlohe, who based their claim on the fact that Albert I of Hohenlohe had married Elisabeth of Hanau, who was a granddaughter of Count Gottfried VIII of Ziegenhain via her mother, Elisabeth of Ziegenhain, who had married Lord Ulrich V of Hanau.

John Shelton

Sir John Shelton (1476/7–1539), courtier during the reign of Henry VIII of England

Keble College Boat Club

Olympic gold medallist Ed Coode rowed for the college 1st VIII during his time at Keble in the late 1990s.

Kenninghall

The house served as a residence for both of Henry VIII's daughters: Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth at different times during the reign of Edward VI.

Level five

Level-5, independent video game developer and publisher, one of ten largest in Japan; founded in 1998 by Akihiro Hino; high-profile titles True Fantasy Live Online, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King and Rogue Galaxy

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

Lord Thomas Howard

He is chiefly known for his affair with Lady Margaret Douglas (1515–1578), the daughter of Henry VIII's sister, Margaret Tudor, for which he was imprisoned in the Tower, where he died on 31 October 1537.

Maid of Kent

Elizabeth Barton, known as the Maid of Kent (1506? – 1534), prophetess executed during the reign of Henry VIII

Mary Carey

Mary Boleyn (c. 1499/1500 – 1543), married name Mary Carey, sister to Queen Anne and mistress of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France

Naucrary

Schomann, Antiq. (p. 326, Eng. trans.) — quoted by JE Sandys (Ath. Pol., viii., 13) — refutes Gilbert, Greek Constitutional Antiquities (Eng. trans., 1895), and in Jahrb. Class. Phil. cxi.

Nouréini Tidjani-Serpos

He has taught Comparative African Literature from 1972 to 1991 at the University of Paris VIII, at the National University of Benin, and at the Federal University of Benin City in Nigeria.

Otto VIII, Count of Hoya

Otto VIII, Count of Hoya (1530 – 25 February 1582 at Hoya Castle in Hoya) was the last ruling Count of Hoya.

Peace Bridge

The dignitaries who took part in the dedication ceremonies included The Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII), Prince George, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes, Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, New York Governor Al Smith and Ontario Premier Howard Ferguson.

Pierre Alamire

Manuscripts copied by Alamire can be found in many European libraries, including the Habsburg court library in Vienna, in London (the Henry VIII manuscript), the Vatican (a manuscript for Pope Leo X), Brussels, Munich, and Jena, which has the court books for Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.

Pius Schwizer

Jamaica VIII (* 1997), Selle Français, Mare, Father: Socrate de Chivre, Mother's Father: Kapoc, Owner: Pius Schwizer

Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866-1952), daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia

Rabbi Ishmael

Ishmael was of opinion that the Torah was conveyed in the language of man (Yerushalmi Yevamot, viii. 8d; Yerushalmi Nedarim, i. 36c), and that therefore a seemingly pleonastic word or syllable can not be taken as a basis for new deductions.

Rákóczi út

It starts at the Astoria, the intersection with Little Boulevard in the Downtown and runs to east between VII. and VIII. districts, crossing the Grand Boulevard until gets the Keleti Railway Station (the central inter-city and international railway terminal of Budapest).

Rolls-Royce Kestrel

One variant, the Kestrel VIII was configured as a 'pusher engine' for the Short Singapore flying boat.

Sandown Castle, Kent

Sandown Castle was one of Henry VIII's Device Forts or Henrician Castles built at Sandown, North Deal, Kent as part of Henry VIII's chain of coastal fortifications to defend England against the threat of foreign invasion.

Second Italian War of Independence

Ludwig von Benedek with the Austrian VIII Corps was separated from the main force, defended Pozzolengo against the Piedmontese part of the opposing army.

Silvio Antoniano

He was one of the compilers of the Roman Catechism and a member of the commission charged by Clement VIII with the revision of the Breviary.

Sivtsev Vrazhek Lane

"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy (Book VIII, Chapter 1 and First Epilogue, Chapter 5)

Sleaford Castle

Henry VIII stayed at Sleaford twice (once in 1541 with his queen Catherine Howard) and held a State Council at the Castle.

Southern Italy

Charles VIII expelled Alfonso II of Naples from Naples in 1495, but was soon forced to withdraw due to the support of Ferdinand II of Aragon for his cousin, Alfonso II's son Ferrantino.

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton

Southampton is a character in Hilary Mantel's novels on Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, (nicknamed Call-Me Risley for the pronunciation of the family name), and in Margaret George's novel, The Autobiography of Henry VIII

Via Aemilia

The boundaries of the Roman VIII regio roughly corresponded to those of the modern Italian administrative region of Emilia-Romagna.

Wulfhall

At the beginning of Edward's reign, he was nine years old and his eldest uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, was Lord High Protector of England, while another uncle, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, married Henry VIII's widow, Catherine Parr; both Edward and Thomas Seymour were executed for treason.


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