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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Coronation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A coronation is a ceremony marking the investment of a monarch with regal power through, amongst other symbolic acts, the placement of a crown upon his or her head.
The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967.
A coronation following the Byzantine formula was instigated with the coronation of King Clovis of the Franks at Rheims (497), in which a dove was made to descend with an ampule of oil, with which the king was anointed.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Coronation   (1192 words)

  
 Head of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other examples of Heads of State in parliamentary systems using greater powers than normal due either to ambiguous constitutions or unprecedented national emergencies, such as the decision by King Léopold III of the Belgians to surrender on behalf of his state to the invading German army in 1940, against the will of his government.
Judging that his responsibility to the nation by virtue of his coronation oath required him to act, he believed that his government's decision to fight rather than surrender was mistaken and would damage Belgium.
However, the Canadian Letters of Creedence and Recall continue to be issued in the name of, and addressed to the Governor General alone.
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 MSN Encarta
Charles II’s coronation was held on April 23, 1661, 12 years after the death of his father.
An early champion of freedom of the press and English “liberty”, John Wilkes first came to prominence after he was accused of libel for criticizing a speech by George III in an issue of his weekly newspaper published on April 23, 1763.
One of England’s greatest landscape painters was born on April 23, 1775, and today has a major art prize named after him.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/quiz/Quiz.aspx?QuizID=920   (231 words)

  
 Pitcairn Philately
Through the years since the first definitive issue of Pitcairn stamps was released in 1940, the philately of Pitcairn Island has enjoyed a much-sought-after status among stamp collectors throughout the world.
The issue is on sale from February 15, 2006, and is available from the Pitcairn Philatelic Bureau –
Golden Jubilee of The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II The Art of Pitcairn Part II - Weaving
library.puc.edu /pitcairn/pitcairn/philately.shtml   (598 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent III
After the coronation Philip sent the legates back to Rome with letters requesting the pope's ratification of his election; but Innocent was dissatisfied with the action of the Bishop of Sutri and refused to ratify the election.
Innocent's exposition of his theory concerning the relation between the papacy and the empire was accepted by many princes, as is apparent from the sudden increase of Otto's adherents subsequent to the issue of the decretal.
Besides deciding on a general crusade to the Holy Land, it issued seventy reformatory decrees, the first of which was a creed (Firmiter credimus), against the Albigenses and Waldenses, in which the term "transubstantiation" received its first ecclesiastical sanction.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08013a.htm   (4243 words)

  
 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II wearing the [[Imperial State Crown and holding the Sceptre with the Cross and the Orb at her Coronation (June 2, 1953).]] After the Coronation, Elizabeth and Philip moved to Buckingham Palace in central London.
The only public issue on which the Queen makes her views known are those affecting the unity of each of her Realms, including Canada and the United Kingdom.
The Queen has never given press interviews, and her views on political issues are largely unknown except to those few Heads of Government who have private conversations with her.
elizabeth-ii-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net   (4345 words)

  
 KING (O. Eng. cyning, ... - Online Information article about KING (O. Eng. cyning, ...
Moreover, this sacrosanct character he acquired not by virtue of his " sacring," but by hereditary right; the coronation, anointing and vesting were but the outward and visible See also:
Louis XIV., would never have admitted that their coronation by the See also:
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encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KING_O_Eng_cyning_abbreviated_i.html   (4749 words)

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