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  Use of ordinals by monarchs - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ordinal numbers or regnal numbers are used to distinguish between persons with the same name who held the same office.
In any case, it is usual to count only the monarchs or heads of the family, and to number them sequentially up to the end of the dynasty.
For example, when Mary I of England acceeded to the throne, her regnal style was announced as "the most high, most puissant, and most excellent Princess Mary the First, by the Grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and Ireland Supreme Head".
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  Use of ordinals by monarchs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ordinal numbers or regnal numbers are used to distinguish between persons with the same name who held the same office.
In any case, it is usual to count only the monarchs or heads of the family, and to number them sequentially up to the end of the dynasty.
For example, when Mary I of England acceeded to the throne, her regnal style was announced as "the most high, most puissant, and most excellent Princess Mary the First, by the Grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and Ireland Supreme Head".
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 Use of ordinals by monarchs . Edward III of England . Reuss . Victoria of the United Kingdom . Luxembourg . Albania . ...
The tradition of numbering monarchs dates back at least as early as the reign of Edward III of England King Edward III of England.
For example, Boris III of Bulgaria and his son Simeon II of Bulgaria Simeon II were given their regnal numbers because it was decided that the medieval kings between 679-1018 and 1186-1393 would be included, even though their dynasty only dated back to 1887 and had no connection to the previous monarchies.
May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was a British monarch Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Useful alternative terms are usability and accessibility, both from the field of human-computer interaction.
Uses and gratifications, also known as usage and gratifications or needs and gratifications, is not a single approach but a body of approaches to media analysis that developed out of many varied empirical studies, beginning in the mid 20th century.
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks, and the third to deal with the Culture, his fictional technological utopia.
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 Encyclopedia: List of British monarchs
The British monarch or Sovereign is the monarch and head of state of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, and is the source of all executive, judicial and (as the Queen-in-Parliament) legislative power.
A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state, whose titles and ascent are often inherited, not earned, and who represents a larger monarchical system which has established rules and customs regarding succession, duties, and powers.
King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England April...
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: British_Monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This is a list of the monarchs of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of some of the various kingdoms that have existed in the British Isles, namely:
English monarchs, and subsequently British monarchs, then styled themselves King of France or Queen of France until the Act of Union 1800, which led to the creation of the United Kingdom in 1801.
All Scottish monarchs held the title King of Scots or Queen of Scots, with the exception of the last three: Mary II, William III and Anne I used the style "of Scotland" rather than "of Scots".
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 Encyclopedia: Ordinal (monarchs)
An ordinal is the number placed after a monarch's regnal name to differentiate between a number of kings, queens or princes reigning with the same regnal name.
The ordinal for King Juan Carlos I of Spain is used in both Spanish and English, though the British tradition of not using "I" as an ordinal until there is a "II" is sufficiently strong that he is sometimes simply called King Juan Carlos of Spain in English.
The lack of an ordinal in the case of queens consort and princesses consort complicating the recording of history, as there may be a number of consorts over time with the same name with no way to distinguish between them.
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 List of British monarchs - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of some of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely:
British monarchs then styled themselves "King/Queen of France" until the Act of Union, which led to the creation of the United Kingdom in 1801.
However using that title is problematic because the 'state' of Great Britain was not created until the Act of Union 1707.
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 Maney Publishing - Notes for Contributors - Italian Studies
Use a single (not double) space after the full point at the end of sentences.
Be consistent in the use of ì/í, ù/ú in Italian.
An EN rule is used to indicate a span or a differentiation (pp.
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 List of British monarchs
This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely
Royal titles are also complicated because in some cases, names of kingdoms are used that did not officially come into existence until later, or came into existence earlier without immediate adoption of the royal title.
Furthermore, monarchs continued to use ordinals attached to the two previous kingdoms, for instance James VII/II.
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 A Routledge Journal: parallax - Instructions for Authors
Italics are also used for the titles of works of art, films, for foreign words not fully naturalised into English, for emphasis and within interviews to indicate the speech of the questioner and their name.
Hyphens are used to avoid repetition of vowel (re-enter); where two or more words are read as one (a late-nineteenth-century novel); with the use of 'mid' (in the mid-nineteenth century) and in order to avoid ambiguity (to re-cover the sofa; to recover lost time).
Roman numerals are used sparingly: for ordinals for monarchs and popes; in small capitals for the volumes of books (not journals or series) and for subdivisions within books, plays or long poems.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: History_of_the_United_Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For the remainder of the 16th century, the Tudor monarchs expanded their control over Ireland from the small Pale around Dublin to control over the whole island by 1603.
He worked to narrow the rift post-Suez with the U.S., where his wartime friendship with Dwight D. Eisenhower was useful, and the two had a pleasant conference in Bermuda as early as March 1957.
But images of massed militant miners using violence to prevent other miners from working, along with the fact that (illegally under a recent Act) the NUM had not held a ballot to approve strike action, swung public opinion against the strike--especially in the south and the moderate Nottinghamshire coalfield.
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 ORDINAL NUMBERS
Ordinal numbers, or ordinals for short, are numbers used to denote the position in an ordered sequence: first, second, third, fourth, etc. The mathematician Georg Cantor showed in 1897 how to extend this concept beyond the natural numbers to the infinite and how to do arithmetic with these transfinite ordinals.
Whenever you have two ordinals S and T, S is an element of T if and only if S is a subset of T, and moreover, either S is an element of T, or T is an element of S, or they are equal.
There are ordinal numbers which can not be reached from ω with a finite number of the arithmetical operations addition, multiplication and exponentiation.
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 BRITISH MONARCHS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The British monarch or sovereign is the head of state of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, and is the source of all executive, judicial and (as the Queen-in-Parliament) legislative power.
By convention, the monarch dissolves parliament and issues a writ for new elections at the request of the Prime Minister, however it is an open question as to whether the monarch must always grant such a dissolution.
The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II (since February 6 1952) and the Heir Apparent is Charles, Prince of Wales (son of the Queen, born November 14 1948).
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 List of Belgian monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For example, the present king didn't become monarch on July 31, 1993 (the day his brother died) but on August 9 of that same year (when he took the constitutional oath).
In all other current monarchies, the monarch becomes a monarch the moment his predecessor dies or abdicates.
In Belgium, kings are always officially known with a ordinal, even when they are the first of their name.
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 List of British monarchs
Royal titles are also complicated because in some cases, names of kingdoms are used that did not officially come into existence until later, or came into existence earlier without immediate adoption of the royal title.
However using that title is problematic because the 'state' of Great Britain was only created in the Act of Union 1707.
Under the Act of Settlement, descendants of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, as the closest Protestant relatives of Anne, became entitled to the throne, and the Royal House name was changed when George, Elector of Hanover became King.
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 Parliament of the United Kingdom: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Parliament of the United Kingdom
While the House of Commons is directly elected by British subjects[?] on average every four to five years, the House of Lords is made up largely of appointed members, along with Bishops of the Church of England and a small number of hereditary peers elected by members of the hereditary peerage.
Where a prime minister has ceased to retain a majority in that vote and requests a dissolution, the Queen can in theory reject his request, forcing his resignation and allowing the Leader of the Opposition to be asked to form a new government.
Since then, parliament had been dominant, though the monarch still remains an important player in government, with government governing through the Royal Prerogative[?] (ie, powers of the monarch) and with the monarch's formal approval still being required for Acts of Parliament and Orders-in-Council (executive orders).
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 use - definition of use by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Used in the past tense followed by to in order to indicate a former state, habitual practice, or custom: Mail service used to be faster.
The act of using; the application or employment of something for a purpose: with the use of a calculator; skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
To use is to put into service or apply for a purpose: uses a hearing aid; used the press secretary as spokesperson; using a stick to stir the paint.
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 Use of ordinals by monarchs Details, Meaning Use of ordinals by monarchs Article and Explanation Guide
Use of ordinals by monarchs Details, Meaning Use of ordinals by monarchs Article and Explanation Guide
Use of ordinals by monarchs Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
This is an Article on Use of ordinals by monarchs.
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 British Monarchs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of someof the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely:
However using thattitle is problematic because the 'state' of Great Britain was only created in the Act of Union 1707.
To avoid confusion, historians ingeneral thus refer to all monarchs up to 1707 as monarchs of 'England' and 'Scotland' (so explaining their two ordinals wherethey existed), with the monarch's title at all times accurately following the 'official' name or names of the state or statesthey reigned over, where it differed from the official royal title.
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 History of the United Kingdom: united kingdom history, education history in kingdom nursing united, united kingdom ...
In 1541 the Irish Parliament offered to change the status of Ireland to a kingdom, creating the Kingdom of Ireland (1541-1800) with Henry VIII as its monarch; Henry, regarding the way he styled himself as beyond the law of Parliament, refused, but began to style himself as King of Ireland the next year anyway.
To avoid confusion, historians generally avoid using the term King of Great Britain until 1707 and instead to match the ordinal usage call the monarchs kings or queens of England and Scotland.
Separate ordinals were abandoned when the two states merged with the Act of Union 1707, with subsequent monarchs using ordinals apparently based on English not Scottish history (it might be argued that the monarchs have simply taken the higher ordinal, which to date has always been English).
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 Use map settings - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Use map settings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Use map settings - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Use map settings.
""use map settings"" is a word used in Blizzard games StarCraft and WarCraft to describe custom tailored maps.
In StarCraft especially, UMS (use map settings) maps are wildly popular.
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 Swedish kings
In some monarchies it is customary not to use an ordinal when there has been one holder of that name.
For example, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is not called Victoria I. This tradition is applied in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden and Norway.
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 Dictionary use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise -- the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"
-- what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
, use of goods and services -- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
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 List of British monarchs - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This is a list of British monarchs, that is, the monarchs on the thrones of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely
Monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
From 1965 to 1970 she was also proclaimed Queen of Rhodesia by the White apartheid government there, although she never accepted this office.
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Extract of bitter almond was once used medicinally but even in small doses is severe and in larger doses can be deadly; the prussic acid must be removed before consumption.
It was said that it could be used to treat cough, sore throat, fever, indigestion, aches and pains, warts, and all kinds of maladies.
Chiefly among its medical uses, according to Pliny the Elder, was its role as a herbal contraceptive.
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monarchs on the thrones of some of the various kingdoms that have existed on, or incorporated, the island of Great Britain, namely:
Charles IV, Edward III (nephew of the Charles IV) claimed the French throne.
However using that title is problematic because the 'state' of Great Britain was only created in the
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 Ibstone . Buckinghamshire . Chiltern Hills . Edward the Confessor . England . Saint Nicholas . Roman . Stokenchurch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This dates back to the Anglo Saxon period, when swans were bred in Buckinghamshire for the monarch king s pleasure.
# The numbering of English monarchs starts from scratch after the Norman conquest, which explains why the Use of ordinals by monarchs regnal numbers assigned to English kings named Edward begin with the later Edward I of...
Solutions to recurrence relations are found by systematic means, often by using generating functions formal power series or by noticing the fact that r n is a solution...
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