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1. The King
   The King of Town, self-nicknamed the "KOT", is the de jure ruler of Free Country, USA (though labor day suggests that his title is self-proclaimed). However, nobody wishes to acknowledge this; it's therefore possible that this character is a satire on the obsolescence of monarchy. One of his main problems is that he is a glutton and will eat anything in front of him (except peas and The Cheat). His favorite food is butter. As a result of his unhealthy eating habits, he has many, sometimes serious, health problems, as it is the norm for him to have several heart attacks after eating. According to the record book, he is the "least healthiest (man?)". As revealed in the sbemail pizza joint, he spends most of his day calling random numbers in hopes of finding a new restaurant, and has found The Pizz as a result.
2. Windows Media -- Microsoft Windows
   The Microsoft Windows Media Player control is a Microsoft ActiveX® control used for adding digital media playback capabilities to Web pages. It provides a programming interface for rendering digital media files and streams.
3. Esther -- King
   Esther (named for the goddess, Ashtar) was a Persian Jew who was orphaned at a young age. The Israelites had been exiled to Babylonia in 586 B.C.E. and still remained there. Esther's cousin, Mordecai, was older than she and he raised Esther. Esther was still a young woman when her presence was requested at the palace of King Ahasuerus.
4. King Arthur
   The King Arthur history is a long and varied one, involving his wife Guinevere, his favorite knight Lancelot, and a series of struggles, victories, and betrayals. Arthur first won recognition as king through a contest set up by the druid Merlin. Merlin put the sword Excalibur in a stone and said whoever could draw it out would be king. To everyone's amazement, Arthur did so and was crowned. After his coronation, he defended Briton against barbarian invaders and led his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail.
5. The King of Comedy
   Wow no more of the 1980's fade hair cut Steve Harvey, one of the original ?Kings of Comedy? and host of the popular morning radio show, ?The Steve Harvey Morning Show?, is sporting a new look these days. Harvey, who turned 51 on Thursday, made a decision to change the way he looked and has been working with 8-time Mr. Olympia, Lee Haney and it shows. Harvey ... launched a ?50 and Fly? campaign which will be detailed in the upcoming issue of Jet magazine where he unveils his new look. Be sure to pick it up when it hits stands January 21.
6. The King -- Miscellaneous
   The two pumps will enhance production from the King field by an average of 20 per cent. After its 2002 start-up, the King field reached peak production in 2004, with recent production averaging 27,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. In addition to the increase in production, this project will allow a seven per cent increase in recovery factor, extending the economic life of the field by five years.
7. Burger King
   Burger King's trademark product is a hamburger called the Whopper. The Whopper is ... a line of sandwiches all made with the same ingredients. The regular Whopper has a 4 ounce burger patty, mayonnaise, lettuce, tomato, ketchup, onion and pickle on a sesame seed roll. It is available in all markets.
8. Stephen King
   The long march to the Dark Tower began in 1970 when Stephen King, still a fledgling writer with outsized ambitions, was an undergraduate at the University of Maine. It was then that he wrote the opening chapters of the first book in the series. The project faltered for a while, was eventually revived and has since proceeded in fits and starts, with gaps as long as six years between installments. Recently, in the aftermath of his near-fatal accident in 1999, King turned his full attention to this long, protracted saga, producing three large volumes in rapid succession. The seventh and final volume, The Dark Tower, should more than satisfy his voracious readers. It is an absorbing, constantly surprising novel filled with true narrative magic, a fitting capstone to a uniquely American epic.
9. Alan King
   Alan King was born Irwin Alan Kniberg in New York City on December 26, 1927, the youngest of eight children. After living for a time on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the family moved to another tough neighborhood, the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. He grew up in a family environment which fostered his interest in storytelling, but it was the streets of New York that pointed him toward humor. Boys learned to defend themselves early on the mean streets of Brooklyn, and if it was not with their fists, it was with humor, and King had an answer for everything.
10. King Arthur -- King Arthur Legend
    The historicity of the King Arthur legend has long been debated by scholars. One school of thought, based on references in the Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae, would see Arthur as a shadowy historical figure, a Romano-British leader fighting against the invading Anglo-Saxons sometime in the late 5th to early 6th century. The Historia Brittonum ("History of the Britons"), a 9th century Latin historical compilation attributed in some late manuscripts to a Welsh cleric called Nennius, gives a list of twelve battles fought by Arthur, culminating in the Battle of Mons Badonicus, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. However, recent studies suggest that the Historia Brittonum cannot be considered a reliable source for the history of this period.[3]

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