Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke is dead. Or so you Doonesbury fans thought until Monday, when cartoonist Garry Trudeau revealed that his character Duke was still alive, having become a comotose zombie after receiving a massage from a woman that worked for a Haitian voodoo center...
Unsatisfied with Trudeau's explanation? Think his solution was a tad too implausible? Well, take heart, Donnesbury fans, for Trudeau based Duke's bizarre transformation on a Harvard graduate student's recent scientific discovery...
...February 12th, 1554, 16-year-old Lady Jane Grey and her husband, 19-year-old Lord Guilford Dudley were executed for treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...
...inch the cold-hearted villain, complete with gaunt complexion, beady eyes and extended five o'clock shadow. The first of the principal actors to appear on-screen, we see him directly after the camera shows the ax being lowered over the head of King Edward's former favorite, the Duke of Somerset. After hearing of Somerset's death, Northumberland nestles back into his chair and with an admirable coolness, casually inquires, "Did he die well...