A prince regent (or prince-regent) is a prince who rules a monarchy as regent instead of a monarch, e.g., as a result of the Sovereign's incapacity (minority or illness) or absence (remoteness, such as exile or long voyage, or simply no incumbent). While the term itself can have the generic meaning and refer to any prince who fills the role of regent, historically it has mainly been used to describe a small number of individual Princes who were Regents.
In the English language the title Prince Regent is most commonly associated with George IV, who held the style HRH The Prince Regent during the incapacity, by dint of mental illness, of his father, George III (see Regent for other regents). Regent's Park and Regent Street in London are named after him.
This period is known as the British Regency, or just the Regency.
The title was conferred by the Regency Act on February 5, 1811. Subject to certain limitations for a period, the Prince Regent was able to exercise the full powers of the King. The precedent of the Regency Crisis of 1788 (from which George III recovered before it was necessary to appoint a Regent) was followed. The Prince of Wales continued as regent until his father's death in 1820, when he became George IV.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
Major Leslie James (Les) Hiddins AM (born 13 August 1946 in Brisbane, Queensland), aka "The Bush Tucker Man" is a retired Australian Army soldier and war veteran, who is best known for his love and knowledge of the Australian bush. Hiddins is recognised by his distinctively modified Akubra hat and big grin.
As a soldier with the Australian Army, Hiddins did two tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966 and 1968, the first as a forward scout in the infantry. In 1987 he was awarded a Defence Fellowship to research survival in northern Australia. He was the principal author of the Australian Army's Combat Survival manual (1987) and was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1987.
This research turned into the TV series The Bush Tucker Man. The series involves Hiddins driving around in a Land Rover Perentie, then in later episodes a County 110 with his trademark hat, finding and describing native Australian bush food or "Bush Tucker". Hiddins appeared in two ABC TV series of Bush Tucker Man, and the series Bush Tucker Man - Stories of Survival. He also appeared in the TV documentaries Pandora - in the Wake of the Bounty and The Batavia. His other publications are Bush Tucker Man - Stories of Exploration and Survival (1996), Bush Tucker Man - Tarnished Heroes (1997), Explore Wild Australia with the Bush Tucker Man (1999), Bush Tucker Fieldguide (2002). In 2000 Hiddins published four books specifically for children: The Coral Coast, The Top End, The Tropical Rainforest, and The Living Desert. He has released two CD-ROMs, From the Rainforest to Cape York Peninsula and From Arnhem Land to the Kimberley Ranges. The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has a Bush Tucker Man display with some of his original bush gear.
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George 'Beau' Brummel, a penniless but witty London gentleman, maintains a refined lifestyle with his loyal servant, cook Robinson. Only the friendship of the unpopular Hanoverian heir and Prince Regent, George, Prince of Wales, who acclaims Brummel's fashionable invention, dandy-ism, keeps the creditors from his back, even allows him unconditional credit. Alas a triangle with lady Julia and the equally dubious poet Lord Byron ends up costing him the prince's favor, so his debts come bite him with a vengeance.
Keywords: abuse, bankruptcy, bare-butt, beating, bed, byron, character-name-in-title, costume-drama, dandy, debt
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Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick his dogsbody are transplanted this time to Dickensian England in this one-off episode. He is kind, gentle and caring, but visits from an assortment of ghosts soon have him back to his old ways.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th-century, actor-playing-multiple-roles, alternative-comedy, anti-christmas, based-on-novel, black-comedy, british-comedy, character-name-in-title, christmas
Melchet: Greetings of the season to you, Blackadder! May the Yule log slip from your fire and burn your house down!
Lord Edmund Blackadder: HA! Got him with my subtle plan!::Baldrick: I can't see any subtle plan!::Lord Edmund Blackadder: Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"
Lord Edmund Blackadder: I trust Christmas brings to you its traditional mix of good food and violent stomach cramp.
Ebenezer Blackadder: My, what a jolly young girl.::Baldrick: Yeah, pity she nicked all the presents.
Ebenezer Blackadder: My what a jolly fellow.::Baldrick: Looked like a fat git to me.::Ebenezer Blackadder: Yes Baldrick, but if one peels away the layers of a 'fat git' you'll probably find a...::Baldrick: Thin git!
Ebenezer Blackadder: Baldrick, I want you to go out and buy a turkey so large you'd think it's mother had been rogered by an omnibus.
Mrs. Scratchit: [sobbing] No goose for Tiny Tom this year.::Ebenezer Blackadder: Mrs. Scratchit, Tiny Tom is fifteen stone and built like a brick privy. If he eats anymore heartily, he will turn into a pie shop.
Frondo: What news of the foul Marmydons?::Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: Scattered to the nine vectors, m'lord.::Frondo: And the Sheepsqueezers of Splatticon Five? Have they been suckcreamed as a Qvarnbeast's nobbo?::Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: Well they're dead, if that's what you mean.::Pigmot: Plus Commander, did you vanquish the Nibblepibblies?::Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder: No, my lord Pigmot, I did not vanquish the Nibblepibbles because you just made them up.
Ebenezer Blackadder: I'm afraid the only way you are likely to get a wet kiss at Christmas, or indeed at any other time, is to make a pass at a water closet.
Ebeneezer Blackadder: In fact, there is something in your stocking, Baldrick, something I made for you.::Baldrick: Ah, well that's the best kind of gift, Mr. B. What is it?::Ebeneezer Blackadder: It's a fist. It's for hitting people with. (Punches Baldrick) And the great thing is, you can use it again and again! (hits Baldrick again)
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Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Keywords: 1810s, 1970s, 19th-century, 2030s, addiction, adultery, affection, americana-hotel-manhattan-new-york-city, apparition, aristocracy
Look into my eyes.
Dr. Marc Chabot: I used to be in love with answers, but since I've known you I'm just as astounded by questions. Answers make you wise, questions make you human.
Dr. Marc Chabot: Could anyone among us, have an inkling or a clue... what magic feats of wizardry and voodoo you can do?
Robert Tentrees: [upon Melinda arriving at the table where he is playing roulette] Melinda... what a questionable surprise.
Dr. Marc Chabot: I opened the window, but you fell out.
Dr. Marc Chabot: Have you ever been to England, Miss Gamble?::Daisy Gamble: No, I'm afraid of flying. Well, not so much of flying, more so of the "no smoking" sign!
Daisy Gamble: What I wanted to ask you is this: Doctor, do you think, I mean, can people really be hypnotized out of something. You know, something like smoking?... It's stuck in the dictionary... I mean, can you see how yellow my fingers are? Look...::Dr. Marc Chabot: I beg your pardon?::Daisy Gamble: Aren't you looking for a piece of paper with an address on it?::Dr. Marc Chabot: Yes.::Daisy Gamble: Don't you have a dictionary?::Dr. Marc Chabot: Well, yes.::Daisy Gamble: Well, just see if it's in there... um... You see, the other night I heard this discussion going on in the bathtub - on the radio - and, um, this man said, uh... It's under 'X'... He said you could be, you know, hypnotized out of it without getting something else instead. You know, like, uh, fat or, uh, nervous, or acne.::Dr. Marc Chabot: Miss... uh...::Daisy Gamble: Gamble::Dr. Marc Chabot: What about this address?::Daisy Gamble: Isn't it the one you were looking for?::Dr. Marc Chabot: Yes, but uh, how did you do it?::Daisy Gamble: I don't know. I just saw you looking around for something and I wondered what it was and... I knew.
Dr. Marc Chabot: Rubbish! Pure, unadulterated rubbish!
Daisy Gamble: I'm an addict! I'm an addicted addict! I can't stop unless somebody like you can make me.
Daisy Gamble: Healthy. Adjusted. And no character. I mean no character of any kind. I mean, not even any, uh, characteristics!
Melinda Tentrees: Love is the exception to every rule, is it not?
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A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
Keywords: based-on-novel, innkeeper
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The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
Keywords: 1780s, 1810s, anti-capitalism, anti-semitism, banker, banking, based-on-play, bond, bribery, brother
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Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
Keywords: 19th-century, brother-brother-relationship, brother-killing-brother, creditor, death-of-brother, debtor, deceit, deception, double-murder, duchess