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2 unusual facts about The Chieftain


Charles Kenningham

Kenningham returned to D'Oyly Carte in July 1895 to tour as Cyril in Princess Ida, Fitzbattleaxe in Utopia Limited, and Count Vasquez in The Chieftain.

The Chieftain

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.



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Bad Wurzach

Seibranz was once taxable for the most part by the chieftain of Waldburg-Zeil.

Clara

Following the involvement of the Chieftain, Hubert Fox in a rebellion in the 1640s – he was defending Catholic interests against the Puritan Oliver Cromwell who came to Ireland to suppress uprisings against English rule.

Destination Gobi

A flummoxed Pentagon okays the requisition, and the chieftain leads Widmark's band to Okinawa.

Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Illyrians defended their homeland from various conquerors for hundreds of years, before they were finally subdued by Rome after the Augustus managed to crush the last Great Illyrian Revolt (Bellum Batonianum or Pannonian Revolt), organised and led by Bato(n), the chieftain of the Daesitiates.

Korran

Inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script from the late 1st century AD bearing his name (Korra-Puman - Korra The Chieftain) were excavated on an amphora fragment at the international Roman trading port of Berenice Troglodytica in present day Egypt.

Montargis

Though the town is known to date to ancient times, during the Renaissance fanciful etymologies were invented to account for the place name Montargis, whether as mons argi, Mount of Argus, the place where the jealous goddess Juno charged Argus Panoptes with guarding her rival Io, or connected with the chieftain Moritas mentioned by Julius Caesar, in his Gallic Wars.

Paner

Raimal was the chieftain of this village and popularly known as Mehta or Mutha.

Sindhi Rajput

Rana Chandra Singh (Hindu Rajput) - was a Pakistani politician, a former federal minister and the chieftain of the Pakistani Hindu Sodha Thakur Rajput clan and the former Amarkot (present day Umerkot) jagir Naghar were converted to Islam.