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  • Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, who falls in love with Imoinda ... The king, too, falls in love with Imoinda. He commands that Imoinda ...
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  • special nature was recognized by the local king, Indrabodhi, who married Padmasambhava ... accidentally stabbed the son of one of the king's ministers, releasing ...
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  • supporter and a close adviser to Taejo(King) Yi Seonggye ( 태조 太祖 ... Jeong was a strong supporter and a close advisor of Taejo (King) Yi ...
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  • the Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087, and King of England from 1066 to 1087 ... He was the grandnephew of Queen Emma, wife of King Ethelred the Unready ...
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  • Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan. ...
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  • The last one, Hoshea, was captured by king Shalmaneser of Assyria, and ... denounces the massacre carried out by King Jehu against the descendants ...
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  • he is portrayed as the primary deity and king of the gods. Enlil was the ... to hold the Tablets of Destiny and rule as king of the gods, while the triad ...
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  • deity of justice. An inscription left by King Hammurabi indicates that his ... :O scion of the heart of Uruk, King Gilgamesh!" ===Characteristics=== ...
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  • Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King Jr., Jacques Maritain, Gabriel ... Martin Luther King, Jr. was greatly influenced by personalism in his ...
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  • 1213-1259), who reigned as the twenty-third king of the Goryeo dynasty, refused ... of the Korean peninsula. Beginning with King Wonjong, for approximately ...
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  • purge of the descendants of Israel's King Ahab. After the ascension ... under the influence of Jezebel, wife of King Ahab of Israel. The prophet ...
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  • #039;s reign. Thomas was knighted at the king's coronation in 1509 ... 1536 by northern rebels who fought against King Henry's religious policies ...
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  • Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison ... Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled to Crete ...
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  • Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until deposed in January, 1327. His tendency ...
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  • (died 651), was an Irish monk who heeded King Oswald's call to revivify ... noble youth who had been raised there as a king in exile since 616 C.E. Divested ...
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  • Church. He engaged in conflict with King Henry II over the rights and ... Chancellor he defended the interests of the king but when he became Archbishop ...
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  • II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576) and King King Philip II of Spain (1527 ... invitation to be the painter of his court. King Philip II of Spain and others ...
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  • ) (c. 1165 – December 23, 1230) was queen consort to King Richard ... of support from Richard's brother, King John. She fought for her dower ...
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  • Jeroboam II (ירבעם השני) was the the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for 41 years (2 Kings 14:23 ...
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  • Seoul). His father was also worked for the king, Wang Geon, and had been awarded ... Jo of Goryeo led a coup and assassinated King Mokjong; he set up the crown ...
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