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- The Governor-General of India (fully Governor-General and Viceroy ... In 1858, India came under the direct control of the British Crown ...22 KB (3,062 words) - 08:16, 24 May 2024
- for his light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and ... Gordian III died before he could make much of a mark. For just over ...15 KB (2,338 words) - 04:18, 24 May 2024
- 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989) was a famous British novelist best known for ... Du Maurier was born in London (though spent most of her life in her ...9 KB (1,407 words) - 22:15, 25 January 2024
- According to Catholic tradition, Saint Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the ... The earliest sources do not agree with one another concerning Linus ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took ... The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... The Gurkha rose in that aftermath, becoming a power in Nepal from ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian ... The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President ... The speech was delivered over 10 months before the Armistice with ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- PC (June 4, 1833–March 25, 1913) was a British army officer. He served ... The reality of colonialism was exploitative and—until the conquered ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- The Zulu Kingdom (Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu ... The legacy of the Zulus is one of pride in a highly organized people ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902 was a ... Africa's natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
