Humbert I

[huhm-bert]

noun

1. Umberto I, 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.

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He was succeeded by his son, Humbert I., who fell by the assassin's hand whilst riding on the outskirts of Milan in 1900.

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For example, despite Stanley Kubrick's film of Lolita being scripted by Nabokov himself, I find James Mason's Humbert Humbert a completely different beast from the Humbert Humbert I picture in the novel.

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After reading of the anarchist assassination of Italy's King Humbert I, the idea of killing the President began to grow in his mind.

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Amade′us, Duke of Aosta, for a short time King of Spain, second son of Victor Emanuel of Italy, and brother of Humbert I, King of Italy.

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With General Humbert I usually passed the greater part of each forenoon—a distinction, I must confess, I owed to my skill as a chess-player, a game of which he was particularly fond, and in which I had attained no small proficiency.

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