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  • And he joins us along with a man they call King James, fellow Olympian Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2008 2008

  • The notes by the Reformers from the margin of the Geneva version, have been reprinted with what is usually called King James 'version, the one now in use, in the editions printed at Amsterdam, at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

    Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 Various

  • He calls King James, The Lion of Righteousness; and saith, when he died, or was dead, there would reign a noble White King; this was Charles the

    William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641

  • Set in 1605 London, Cain's play imagines that Shakespeare is asked by King James to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot as a propagandist against the Catholic rebels.

    Backstage: Arena Stage's 2011-12 season; Michael Kahn directs opera in Dallas Jane Horwitz 2011

  • The translators convened by King James strove for a literal representation of the Hebrew text and generally reproduced its sequence of parallel clauses linked by "and."

    The Good Book's Great Prose Lessons Robert Alter 2011

  • For all his scholarly proclivities, King James I didn't actually translate the Bible himself.

    Four Centuries of Love and Suffering for the Word Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Clearly an ambitious man of humble origins, he receives a coat-of-arms, becomes a part-owner of a player's company, eventually with King James as company patron, and buys the largest house in Stratford and the prestigious Blackfriar's gatehouse in London.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • Clearly an ambitious man of humble origins, he receives a coat-of-arms, becomes a part-owner of a player's company, eventually with King James as company patron, and buys the largest house in Stratford and the prestigious Blackfriar's gatehouse in London.

    Jonathan Hobratsch: Shakespeare Is Shakespeare Jonathan Hobratsch 2011

  • The Fair of Muff began in 1608, it is said, when King James I approved a license to trade horses to a local merchant.

    History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish 2010

  • The Fair of Muff began in 1608, it is said, when King James I approved a license to trade horses to a local merchant.

    Finding the Next Winner Lucy Pawle 2010

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