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Entry of John II of France and Joan I of Auvergne into Paris after their coronation at Reims in 1350, later manuscript illumination by Jean Fouquet. The ceremonies and festivities accompanying a formal entry by a ruler or their representative into a city in the Middle Ages and early modern period in Europe were known as the royal entry, triumphal entry, or Joyous Entry. [1]
Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". [1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: [2]
In 1968, on their Four Fairy Tales and Other Children's Stories album, the Pickwick Players performed a version of this story that is actually a version of "The King's New Clothes" from the film Hans Christian Anderson. In this version, two swindlers trick the Emperor into buying a nonexistent suit, only for a boy to reveal the truth in the end.
The King, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex walk behind the Queen’s coffin during the procession from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’ Cathedral (Jon Super/PA)
Watch live as King Charles travels in procession to the State Opening of Parliament ahead of his speech on Tuesday (7 November).. The King will open Parliament for the first time as monarch with a ...
The monarch and Camilla have personally chosen to make their outward journey in the more comfortable Diamond Jubilee State Coach.
The precise origins of both the tune and the lyrics are uncertain and debated. [1]The lyrics are regularly attributed to Joseph-François Domergue [2] [1] (1691 – 2 April 1728, died in Avignon), priest-dean of Aramon, [3] in the Gard, from 1724 to 1728, whose name appears on the first manuscript copy of the lyrics, dated 1742 [1] and preserved in the library of Avignon.
Processions played a prominent part in the great festivals of Greece, where they were always religious in character. The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later ...