Life of Kings

• Eugene is in prison where "Chess Man" gambles cigarettes with him

over chess games. When Eugene is ready to be released he confides
that he is concerned about not having many friends on the outside
any more. He receives a wooden king chess piece from Chess Man
and is told "Take care of the King, everything else follows".
• Traditionally, some textbooks from the United States and Canada used a
system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista,
Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria) while textbooks in
countries like Great Britain, India, Greece, Brazil and other countries use
five kingdoms only (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera).

• Some recent classifications based on modern cladistics have explicitly

abandoned the term "kingdom", noting that the traditional kingdoms
are not monophyletic, i.e., do not consist of all the descendants of a
common ancestor.
• In 1938, Herbert F. Copeland proposed a four-kingdom classification
by creating the novel Kingdom Monera of prokaryotic organisms; as a
revised phylum Monera of the Protista, it included organisms now
classified as Bacteria and Archaea. Ernst Haeckel, in his 1904 book
The Wonders of Life, had placed the blue-green algae (or
Phycochromacea) in Monera; this would gradually gain acceptance,
and the blue-green algae would become classified as bacteria in the
phylum Cyanobacteria.[6][7]
• A definition of a phylum based on body plan has been proposed by
paleontologists Graham Budd and Sören Jensen (as Haeckel had done
a century earlier). The definition was posited because extinct
organisms are hardest to classify: they can be offshoots that diverged
from a phylum's line before the characters that define the modern
phylum were all acquired. By Budd and Jensen's definition, a phylum
is defined by a set of characters shared by all its living representatives.
• King Diamond is a Danish heavy metal band formed in 1985 by
vocalist King Diamond, guitarists Andy LaRocque and Michael Denner,
bassist Timi Hansen and drummer Mikkey Dee. Diamond, Denner and
Hansen had recently departed the group Mercyful Fate, and decided
to form a new band under the King Diamond moniker, as it was
already known from the Mercyful Fate days.[1][2] In 1986, King
Diamond released their debut album Fatal Portrait. Since then the
band have released a total of twelve studio albums (most of them
concept albums), two live albums, two extended plays, five
compilations and five singles.
• Following the completion of the supporting tour for "Them", Mikkey
Dee left King Diamond.[3] However, he was rehired to play drums on
the band's follow-up album, after which he was replaced by Snowy
Shaw.[3] On 21 August 1989, King Diamond released the album
Conspiracy, which charted at number 41 on the Swedish album chart,
[21] number 64 on the Dutch album chart,[21] and at number 111 on
the Billboard 200.[22][23] A continuation of the storyline from
"Them", Conspiracy was the first King Diamond album recorded in the
United States being recorded at Rumbo Recording Studios in Canoga
Park, California. A music video was also made for the track "Sleepless
Nights".[24]