There was the throne of King Ghézo, who ruled from 1818 to 1858, mounted on the skulls of four enemies, his favourite drinking vessel made from, naturally, a human skull, and the royal spittoon, whose bearer, should he lose his grip, lost his head which, presumably, could then be recycled into a useful household item.
The youth culture of Carmine Street is bohemian in an easy, natural, even somehow wholesome way; few flaunt tattoos, whose bearers have no idea that in time those colors will run like Sunday comics left out in the rain.
Bruce, Stewart, Comyn, and Oliphant are among the noted names whose bearers went from northern France to England during the Norman Conquest in 1066 and then to Scotland in the reign of David I. To these and other French-speaking immigrants, David granted land in return for specified military service or contributions of money, as had been done in England from the time of the Conquest.
The women tried to walk a final stretch to the headquarters of the political party whose standard-bearer, Alassane Ouattara, won last November's election.
In an interview last week, Andy Zaltzman lamented the state of political comedy, whose flag-bearers – Mark Thomas, Rob Newman et al – are the same now as they were 10 years ago.
"Hillary may not explicitly tell us it's wrong for women to defend ourselves with guns.... Yet the so-called gun control movement, whose standard-bearer Hillary has become, is indeed permeated with extreme antigun ideology".
IT seems as if only a couple of weeks ago Democrats and Republicans were waging a vicious war over whose standard-bearer would become the 43rd president of the United States, while historian-journalists and journalist-historians somberly advised that at any minute the country's fabric could unravel like some hand-me-down sweater.
Four years later, on 24 November, Honduran voters will go to the polls again in a contest between the pro-democracy Libre party, formed by people who opposed the coup, and the ruling National party, whose standard-bearer will be Juan Orlando Hernández, the president of the National Congress, who supported the 2009 military coup.
Still, forcing a woman to defend her legislative efforts to identify and eventually reduce childhood obesity by accusing her of trying to invade the privacy of teenage girls is an interesting tactic for a party whose standard-bearer has repeatedly dismissed women who disagreed with him as unattractive or overweight.
David's era was the Age of Enlightenment, whose standard-bearers (David Hume, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Heinrich Heine, and others) revolutionized economics, politics, and religion, steering them away from authoritarian tradition, toward reason and the common good.
The most important office or function in Mongol administration was that of the darughatchi (seal bearer), whose powers were at first all-inclusive; only gradually were subfunctions entrusted to specialized officials in accordance with Chinese bureaucratic tradition.
