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  • applied equally to low and high alike. A king who failed to rule justly ... of Surrey's castles in retaliation. King Edward then intervened, and ...
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  • Annals of Lü Buwei, in which he advised King Hui of Zhao (r. 298-266 B ... The Annals of Lü Buwei describes how Gongsun Long advised King Hui ...
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  • Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, the king's cousin, Mortimer led ... however, largely due to the reign of the King of whose behalf Mortimer had ...
    18 KB (2,777 words) - 02:39, 16 December 2022
  • Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...
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  • Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from 1035 to 1040. His suffix, "Harefoot" was for his speed, and the ...
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  • was born into the servant or slave class, Cheonmin, King Sejong's new policy of breaking class barriers allowed Jang to be recruited into the national ...
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  • Haakon Haakonsson (1204 – December 15, 1263) (Norwegian Håkon Håkonsson, Old Norse Hákon Hákonarson), also called Haakon the Old, was king ...
    19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
  • beol)), 徐伐 (서벌, seobeol). In 503, King Jijeung standardized the characters ... According to Korean records, King Bak Hyeokgeose founded Silla in ...
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  • Rajendra Chola I, the son of Rajaraja Chola I, the great Chola king of South India, succeeded his father in 1014 C.E. as the Chola emperor. During ...
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  • [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... Upon the assassination of his grandfather, King Abdullah, and the ...
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  • == Savior of the King == life of Sigismund of Luxemburg (Hungarian king, from 1433 Holy Roman emperor ...
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  • discovery was of the palace of the Assyrian King Sargon II. He unearthed not ... to be the palace of Sargon II, an Assyrian king who reigned from 722 to 705 ...
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  • to the fourteenth century. As the first king in a new dynasty, historians ... During his lifetime, King Taejo was also known as Wang Geon. Taejo ...
    14 KB (1,907 words) - 02:50, 27 February 2023
  • of Tutankhamun, popularly called the "King Tut" exhibit and first ... tomb of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of King Tutankhamun, and found numerous ...
    10 KB (1,496 words) - 17:00, 20 May 2024
  • Neill to rise and engage in battle against King Diarmait at Cooldrevny in ... *King Kenneth I of Scotland *King Donald II of Scotland ...
    12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
  • spiritual wholeness, and his advice to the king to act justly, were exactly ... him to spend several years at the court of King David I of Scotland in 1130 ...
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  • of the Magyars (997-1000/1001) and the first King of Hungary (1000/1001-1038). Stephen was born under the pagan Turkic name "Vajk," but ...
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  • of the nineteenth century. Theologian Karen King suggests that the original ... and circumstances unclear. Scholar Karen King believes, however, that references ...
    15 KB (2,491 words) - 18:05, 27 December 2022
  • of politics," a treatise to help a king in "the acquisition and ... work, a book that frequently discloses to a king what calculating and sometimes ...
    17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
  • at the Battle of Maldon in Essex, when King Aethelred "The Unready ... In 994 the Danes, under King Sweyn Forkbeard and Olaf Trygvason, returned ...
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