What the French Canadians wanted was not a change of overlord but independence.
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The landlord was Himmerod Abbey, and the overlord was the Archbishopric of Trier.
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Rainn Wilson as Gallaxhar, an evil alien overlord who hopes to take over Earth.
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In 808, King Gudfred forced the Obodrites to acknowledge him as their overlord.
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The claim was based upon his position as feudal overlord of the Duke of Normandy.
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We'd just like to say for the record that we welcome our new smooth jazz overlord.
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Gero defeated Mieszko I in 963 and forced him to recognize Otto I as his overlord.
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And Mick is the bluff overlord, cracking jokes as he metaphorically cracks skulls.
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It may be that Offa was the effective overlord of Kent from 764 until at least 776.
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A person who has general authority over others
The Way of the Tiger is the name of a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young ninja, Avenger, on his quest to avenge his foster father and recover the Scrolls of Kettsuin. ...
Overlord (known as Supremacy: Your Will Be Done in Europe) is a strategy video game designed by David Perry & Nick Bruty and produced by Probe Software for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS computers in 1990. The game was also ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. ...
Overlord is a combat flight simulator by Rowan Software. It was released in 1994 for the Amiga and PC MS-DOS platforms. It is based on Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of continental Europe during World War II. ...
Overlord is a third-person action-adventure game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. ...
Childhood's End is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, which narrates a fictional evolution of the human race. It was first published in 1953 in book form, but had previously appeared in 1950 as a short story titled "Guardian Angel" in Famous Fantastic Mysteries magazine. ...
Overlord is a comic-book supervillain created by Erik Larsen, first appearing in Larsen's Savage Dragon series and serving as that title's first principal villain. Like many of Larsen's characters, Overlord was based on a character that Larsen had created during his childhood. ...
"Overlord: The Triumph of Light 1944-45" is an epic poem by Nicholas Hagger.
Overlord is a 1975 film in black and white film and directed by Stuart Cooper. Set around the D-Day invasion ('Operation Overlord'), Overlord is a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death. ...