Search results for "Order of the British Empire" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- ) 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
- The British Virgin Islands is a British overseas territory, located ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great ... The government he led put in place the post-war consensus, based upon ...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- 1850 – June 5, 1916) was an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 14:28, 9 February 2022
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 04:06, 24 May 2024
- The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...18 KB (2,776 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range of modest height in northern ... In the Bible, a specific but unidentified "Mount Carmel" ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- Abraham Lincoln. He was a staunch supporter of the Union and of the emancipation ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- The Fall of Rome or the Fall of the Roman Empire refers to the defeat ... Some European nations saw themselves as so indebted to the legacy ...28 KB (4,463 words) - 00:34, 25 March 2024
