to swear loyalty to sb
71Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light — Visionaries title screen Genre Action/Adventure Science fantasy Format …
72October 2010 — was the tenth month of that year. It began on a Friday and concluded after 31 days on a Sunday. Portal:Current events This is an archived version of Wikipedia s Current events Portal from October 2010 …
73Plantagenet, Richard, Duke of York — 1) (1411–1460) By laying claim to the Crown of England, Richard Plantagenet, duke of York, transformed a factional struggle for control of the royal government into a dynastic civil war, pitting his family, the house of YORK, against the… …
74Joseph II — (1741–90) Monarch. Joseph was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765. He pursued a policy of state control for the Church with the aim of ‘rationalising’ society through an ‘enlightened’ programme of centralisation. The policy was first instituted in …
75Allegiance — Loyalty due to one s lord. At Salisbury, in 1086, William I had all landowners in England swear allegiance to him. It was a sign, if one were needed, of the new king s power: all land in the kingdom was his. Cf. Domain …
76Oath of office — Lyndon B. Johnson taking the presidential oath of office in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government… …
77Oath of Allegiance (United Kingdom) — King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede …
78Qur'an oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress — Ellison s photo op reenactment of his swearing in ceremony with Thomas Jefferson s Quran In mid November 2006 it was reported that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress (for Minnesota s 5th congressional district) …
79English Post-Reformation Oaths — English Post Reformation Oaths † Catholic Encyclopedia ► English Post Reformation Oaths The English Reformation having been imposed by the Crown, it was natural that submission to the essential points of its formularies should have… …
80Oath of Allegiance (Canada) — Peter MacKay (left) reciting the Oath of Allegiance, as administered by Kevin G. Lynch (right), Clerk of the Privy Council, and in the presence of Governor General Michaëlle Jean (seated, centre), at Rideau Hall, 14 August 2007 The Canadian Oath… …
