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5 unusual facts about Rule the World


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# "Rule the World" (contains elements of "Shooting Star")

Rule the World

This song was also performed on 19 November 2009 for Children in Need on "Children In Need Rocks The Royal Albert Hall", where Gary Barlow dedicated it to his father, who had died 5 weeks earlier.

Take That performed the song at the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony whilst the Olympic Flame was extinguished.

The song was summited for an nomination for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards but didn't get nominated.

On 21 September 2008, the song managed to climb back up to #34 on the UK Singles Chart following a performance by contestants on BBC One's Last Choir Standing and on 30 November 2008 it managed to climb up the chart once again to #27 following its appearance on The X Factor, sung by Rachel Hylton.



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Dragon Knight

A Kraken, initially depicted as benign advisor to all marine and amphibious life, historical and mythical, but later revealed to be ambitious, and capable of magic, and desirous, according to Carolinus, "to rule the world".

Jan Udo Holey

He believes the Rothschilds head a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world and associates them with a mysterious cabal called the Illuminati, who plan a New World Order.

Jobsworth

An example of the phrase which gave rise to the term occurs in the 1965 Beatles movie Help!, when the assistant scientist character Algernon (played by Roy Kinnear) exclaims "Well it's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's like this, he's out to rule the world...if he can get a government grant."

Mamuralia

According to legend, Mamurius was commissioned by Numa, second king of Rome, to make eleven shields identical to the sacred ancile that fell from the heavens as a pledge of Rome's destiny to rule the world.

Shikamaru Nara

In this film, he aids Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno in fighting against Haido, a utopian idealist seeking to rule the world with a power called Gelel.