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  • had begun with the execution of the king, for which some elements of ... England shortly before the restoration of King Charles II, and lived at Queen ...
    21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
  • the Lady Anne Hyde. Her paternal uncle was King Charles II, and her older ... George of Denmark, brother of the Danish King Christian V, who was also ...
    29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
  • with Melchizedek, the mysterious priest-king of Salem (the future Jerusalem): :Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was ...
    25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
  • In an expedition to Tangier, undertaken in 1436, by King Edward of ... (Bartolomeu Dias' voyage of 1488), King John II of Portugal refused ...
    34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
  • and feared by its neighbors, but its king Dhana, of the Nanda Dynasty ... Accounts say that he also met the Nanda king, angered him, and made a narrow ...
    32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
  • or execution by virtue of his status as King Gojong's father. ... towards the palace but Queen Min and the King escaped in disguise and fled ...
    29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
  • as his sister. God (Yahweh) strikes the king and his house with plagues ... is taken prisoner during a war between the King of Shinar ...
    32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
  • 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland ... #039;s mother, Lucy Walter,Antonia Fraser, King Charles II (London, U.K.: ...
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  • of Government. The History of the Present King of Great-Britain is a History ... grievances are directed personally at the King (as in “He has refused his ...
    24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
  • the 1960s, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She is famous for her ... Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
    35 KB (5,782 words) - 21:42, 16 April 2023
  • one's opponent is reduced to a single king, apparently indicating that ... shogi consist of those used in Heian shogi, king, gold general, silver general ...
    60 KB (9,463 words) - 14:25, 27 January 2023
  • The poet declares that it is he, rather than a king, upon whom the Muses have bestowed the two gifts of a scepter and an authoritative voice (Hesiod ...
    12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
  • one of the nineteen Cardinals who refused King Henry VIII of England an annulment ... VI. In 1523, he was sent by Adrian VI to King Louis of Hungary, to encourage ...
    15 KB (2,393 words) - 19:13, 26 November 2023
  • such diverse virtuosos as bluesman B.B. King and traditional country singer ... a standard that is still followed. B. B. King maintains that Jefferson was ...
    16 KB (2,469 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
  • where he slew Yaropolk and was proclaimed konung (king) of all Kievan Rus. In addition to gaining control of his father's extensive domain ...
    12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
  • but it is said that one of the paragraphs in the king's speech was suggested by him and even inserted in his own words. In 1786, Mrs. Price died ...
    12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
  • said, saw her father, Sukarno, as a "Good King" of Javanese legend. Suharto was the "Bad Prince" who had usurped the Good King ...
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  • saved from falling into the hands of the king by the shrewd tactics of Rahab ... nor fugitives," except for Ai's king, who is captured and hung ...
    26 KB (4,240 words) - 00:19, 19 November 2023
  • of the deity be revealed. Reliefs show king and queen offering flowers ... both Akhenaten and Amenhotep III, then co-king with Tutankhamun, whom he ...
    35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
  • land bought from local Koya Temne subchief King Tom and regent Naimbana, and ... * King's Gate, which was erected in stone with a statement inscribed ...
    24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023

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