Zog I of Albania which geologists decided to call 'zone k', Zaphrentis, Caninia, Seminula and Dibanophylum): "King Zog caught syphilis and died". In the James Bond novel "The Man with the Golden Gun", Ian Fleming writes of the villainous Francisco Scaramanga telling his compatriots that the Rastafari of Jamaica "believes it owes allegiance" to the King of Ethiopia, this "King Zog or what-have-you." Fleming had been assigned with the task of escorting Zog when in exile after Albania was annexed by Italy. In 1983, British author Jack Smithers wrote an amusing thriller about a fictional attempt to recover the treasure of King Zog, and
Coronation of the Thai monarch theatrical performances, which showed its importance. When the capital city was sacked in 1767 by the Burmese troops of the Konbaung Dynasty in the war of 1765, most of the records about royal ceremonies were destroyed. The successive Thonburi Kingdom (1768–1782) had little time for royal ceremony, and its only monarch King Taksin never had a coronation ceremony. Nevertheless, the king tried to restore some of the old rites when he invited some Brahmins from Nakhon Si Thammarat to his court. When King Rama I established the Rattanakosin Kingdom with Bangkok as the capital in 1782, he performed a provisional