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- Andalusia, located in the southern portion of Spain, is one of the seventeen autonomous regions of the country. It contains eight distinct provinces ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- Barbary pirates, and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and is befriended by the captain of a Portuguese ship off the ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
- For the next seventeen years, the frontier between Moor and Castilian was fixed in the hill country just outside Toledo. Finally, in 1212, through ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 06:52, 20 July 2023
- first clash was at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor on April 25, and the second ... defeated the King at the Battle of Edgecote Moor, and held Edward at Middleham ...33 KB (5,447 words) - 22:07, 18 November 2022
- * Moor, Johannes C. de. The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism. (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium, 91.) Leuven: ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- three Mohawks including Joseph to be educated at Moor's Indian Charity School in Connecticut, the forerunner of Dartmouth College, where he studied ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 18:51, 21 May 2024
- edited by Geert Jan van Gelder and Ed Moor (Leiden, ND: Rodopi Publishers ... edited by Geert Jan van Gelder and Ed Moor. Leiden, ND: Rodopi Publishers ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- 4, 1872, to John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. and Victoria Moor. Coolidge was the only President to be born on the 4th of July, Independence Day. He dropped ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- *Moor, Edward. The Hindu Pantheon. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 2000. ISBN 8177550292 * [http://www.info-sikh.com/GoraPage1.html Sikh Basics ...18 KB (2,879 words) - 20:00, 4 March 2024
- follows the descent of its protagonist, Karl Moor, the brilliant and ambitious son of a nobleman. Karl's deceitful brother Franz convinces their ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor in western Scotland, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- *Moor, Edward. The Hindu Pantheon. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 2000. ISBN 8177550292 *Tapasyananda, Swami. Bhakti Schools of Vedanta. Hollywood ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
- is often represented as a young African or Moor and Caspar may be depicted with distinctive Oriental features. In modern literature and film, ...20 KB (3,254 words) - 04:59, 5 November 2022
- between two aristocratic brothers, Franz and Karl Moor. Franz is portrayed as a villain attempting to cheat Karl out of his inheritance, though the motives ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- * Pavord, Anna, Andrew Moor, and Christopher Garibaldi. Flower Power: The Meaning of Flowers in Art, 1500-2000. 2003. Philip Wilson Publishers ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 15:42, 21 January 2023
- still residing in Spain after the end of the Moor control of Spain), who were suspected of either continuing to adhere to their old religion (often ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- * Fountain of the Moor (1653-1654) - Marble, Piazza Navona, Rome * Constantine (1654-1670) - Marble, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican City ...23 KB (3,452 words) - 18:55, 21 May 2024
- Moor is not the same as Moslem. Moor comes from the Latin Mauroi, meaning an inhabitant of North Africa. Iberians came from North Africa, and ...47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
