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- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... his faith and attacked his reforms, instead of condemning them, he won them ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- Vidal Sassoon, CBE (January 17, 1928 – May 9, 2012) was a British ... Sassoon was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ...17 KB (2,513 words) - 21:48, 12 January 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- The Cyrus Cylinder (c.539-530 B.C.E) is an ancient artifact consisting ... The Cyrus Cylinder is among the most significant ancient texts to ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- The “Fulani Empire” is now known as the Sokoto Caliphate or “Sultanate ... Founded by Usman dan Fodio in 1804, it was one of the most powerful ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- The Siege of Malakand took place between July 26–August 2, 1897 ... The British faced a force of Pashtun tribesmen whose tribal lands ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- GCVO), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), Distinguished ... was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... or "The Great Assassin" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Cyprus fell in 1571, and the Venetians retained Crete until 1670. ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book ... scholars seemed to have used codices in order to distinguish their writings ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- Carib, Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean ... Like most of the indigenous peoples of the New World, the Carib suffered ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 19:15, 26 November 2023
- ) and born as Ahmad Khān Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani ... The Pashtuns of Afghanistan often call him Bābā ("father" ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone FRGS (October 6, 1779 – November ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:48, 10 November 2022
- often established in an underdeveloped part of a state’s territory, to detain ... In the penal colony system, prisoners were deported to distant areas ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... theatres from 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published ... Under Budge's directorship, the British Museum came to hold arguably ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an ... Under Akbar the Great, the empire grew considerably, and continued ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... The islands were named by the Spanish Francisco Eliza who explored ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- الدین ایبک) was a Turkic ruler of medieval India, the first Sultan ... The Muslim presence in India would see Hindu-Muslim conflict, violence ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis ... Bougainville saw human rights as the property of all. All people ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
