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In 1579 England’s Francis Drake, during the round-the-world trip that earned him his knighthood, took a break from harrying Spanish treasure galleons and stopped for repairs at Point Reyes (Drake’s Bay, just north of San Francisco).
All the British press speculated Monday on the reason why the British government had intervened to stop Sean Connery's being awarded a knighthood by the queen: Was it his Scottish nationalism, or was it his attitude on violence toward women?
The Times of London Wednesday published a front-page photograph of J. Paul Getty Jr. in top hat and tails outside Buckingham Palace, where he had been invested with a knighthood by the queen.
, people who don't exist) are suitable candidates for Jedi knighthood (perhaps Yoda will enlarge his definition of fear in subsequent episodes).
(The Templeton Prize helped its founder win a knighthood in 1987.