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- #REDIRECTPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ...45 bytes (6 words) - 14:06, 9 April 2021
- Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name. Nestled in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, this maritime province ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, KBE (January 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978 ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
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- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- #REDIRECTPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ...45 bytes (6 words) - 14:06, 9 April 2021
- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence in Christian European noble houses. The first historical examples of ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince-electors, kings, and emperors of Prussia, Germany, and Romania. It originated ...30 KB (4,097 words) - 18:41, 7 February 2024
- The Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms) was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück) signed in October and May 1648 which ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from June 11, 1727 until his death. He was the last British monarch to ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- Joseph von Fraunhofer (March 6, 1787 – June 7, 1826) was a German optician who was the first to study and classify the dark lines that appear ...10 KB (1,534 words) - 02:14, 11 August 2022
- Nicola (Antonio) Porpora (August 17, 1686 – March 3, 1768) was an Italian composer of baroque operas and opera seria. He was also a teacher ...5 KB (709 words) - 23:33, 14 November 2022
- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the last Spanish Habsburg king ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second Battle of Höchstädt) was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (November 11, 1599 – March 28, 1655) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden. She was the daughter ...22 KB (3,602 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Nangklao (Rama III), or King Jessadabodindra (full royal name Prabath Somdej Pra Paramadhiwarasetha Maha Jessadabodindra Siammintarawirodom Borommadha ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469 – 1523) was a German-Jewish convert to Catholicism who became a famous anti-Jewish polemicist. After associating ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 07:19, 5 April 2024
- in 1615 to work as court composer to the Prince-elector of Saxony. He held his Dresden post until the end of his life (sowing the seeds of what ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- of James I of England). Incidentally, the Prince-Elector had control of the Rhenish Palatinate, a state along the Rhine that Spain sought to acquire ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (1574 – 1641) was the fifteenth king of the Joseon Dynasty. His personal name was Yi Hon (李琿). He came to ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 08:20, 27 July 2023
- Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor Taejo of the Jeonju Lee lineage. Joseon Monarchs ruled Korea for 500 years ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- Empress Suiko (推古天皇 Suiko Tennō) (554 C.E. – April 15, 628 C.E.)April 15, 628 C.E. corresponds to the Seventh Day of the Third Month ...9 KB (1,420 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- Anne of Cleves (September 22, 1515 – July 16, 1557) (German: Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg) was the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England from ...14 KB (2,263 words) - 04:57, 31 July 2023
- Cai Lun ( t=蔡倫|s=蔡伦|p=Cài Lún|w=Ts'ai Lun ) (ca. 50–121 C.E.), courtesy name Jingzhong (敬仲), is conventionally regarded as ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on March 8, 1702, succeeding William III and II. Her ...29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
- Árpád (c. 845 – c. 907) was the second Grand Prince of the Magyars (c. 895 – c. 907). Under his rule the Magyar people moved from Etelkoz ...14 KB (1,600 words) - 16:21, 13 January 2024
- Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea and the father of King Sejong the Great, did not take the throne ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 19:15, 24 October 2022
- Imperial Diet to Brandenburg-Prussia. Since the prince-elector guaranteed Saxony's religious status quo, Augustus's conversion alienated some ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 06:08, 3 August 2023
- George III (George William Frederick; June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from October 25, 1760 ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- , or "Maud" as she was known to all who were close to her, is one of Canada's most beloved authors. A writer of poetry, short ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- Cao Pi (Ts'ao P'ei.曹丕, 187-June 29, 226 [http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%ABe%C3Q&king=%A4 ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 19:30, 25 November 2023
- King Cheoljong (1831 - 1863) (r. 1849-1863) was the 25th king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. Cheoljong was only a very distant relative of his ...11 KB (1,646 words) - 07:55, 13 January 2023
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Алексей Константинович Толстой; September 5|1817|August 24 – ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- Saint Alexander Nevsky (Алекса́ндр Яросла́вич Не́вский in Russian; transliteration: Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskij ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- Melodeons are very small pressure type reed organs, sometimes called "lap organs," which were built in the United States around 1840 ...14 KB (2,056 words) - 04:20, 9 November 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px|James I wore the insignia of the Order of the Garter for the ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- The Daoguang (Tao-kuang) Emperor (Daoguang (reign name, or nien-hao), personal name Min-ning, posthumous name (shih) Ch'eng-Ti, temple name ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- Taejo of Goryeo (877-943, r. 918-943 Combining his rule of Taebong and Goryeo. He only established Goryeo in 936. ), the founder of the Goryeo ...14 KB (1,907 words) - 02:50, 27 February 2023
- "Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 00:39, 8 December 2022
- Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin (Гаври́ла Рома́нович Держа́вин, July 14, 1743 – July 20, 1816) was Russia's finest ...6 KB (907 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( Александр Порфирьевич Бородин , Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) (October 31/November ...8 KB (1,152 words) - 08:55, 18 July 2023
- Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – July 15, 1015, Berestovo), also known as Saint Vladimir of Kiev, was the grand prince of Kiev who ...12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- . [[image:Heinrich der Seefahrer.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Henry the Navigator]] Henry the Navigator (1394 - 1460) was the third son of John I of ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( [ɑ̃twan də sɛ̃.tɛg.zy.pe.ʀi] ) (June 29, 1900 – presumably July 31, 1944) was a French writer and aviator ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The Jacobean era ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- Emperor Gao (256 B.C.E. or 247 B.C.E. – June 1, 195 B.C.E.), commonly known inside China as Gaozu ( c=高祖|p=Gāozǔ , Wade-Giles: Kao Tsu ...17 KB (2,890 words) - 20:34, 31 December 2021
- Prussia Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for centuries ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- Mongkut (Rama IV of Siam) (October 18, 1804 – October 1, 1868), was king of Siam (Thailand) from 1851 to 1868. Historians have widely regarded ...12 KB (1,824 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- Taejo of Joseon (1335-1408; r. 1392-1398), born Yi Seonggye, was the main figure in overthrowing the Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1284 – June 19, 1312) was the favorite, and possibly lover, of King Edward II of England. A Gascon ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 22:48, 28 March 2023
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was a Victorian era English poet. Her family was artistically talented and ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978, Kyoto — c. 1014 or 1031 Kyoto), Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court at the height of the ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- Emperor Kangxi of China, also known as K'ang-hsi, May 4, 1654 – December 20, 1722) was the fourth Emperor of China of the Manchu Qing ...20 KB (3,209 words) - 02:38, 5 October 2022
- Phuttaloetla Nabhalai, Rama II, now known as Buddha Loetla Nabhalai (February 24, 1767 – July 21, 1824), was the son of King Rama I and Queen ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of ...35 KB (5,027 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- Heike (平家) or Taira (平) or Heishi (平氏) is a Japanese clan name. Along with Minamoto, Taira was a hereditary clan name bestowed by the ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:27, 21 January 2024
- The Danegeld ("Dane gold") was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged. The expeditions ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January 27, 1859 – June 4, 1941) was the third and last German Emperor and ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Beelzebub, also Ba‘al Zebûb or Ba‘al Zəvûv (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, and ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 10:24, 26 September 2023
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic language: Слово о плъку Игоревѣ, Slovo o plŭku Igorevě; Modern Ukrainian: ...10 KB (1,577 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- From 962 to 1517, the Archbishop of Cologne was a prince-elector and an ecclesiastical elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and ruled a large temporal ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- Li Houzhu ( c=李後主|p=Lǐ Hòuzhǔ|l=The Latter Lord Li , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主, literally "the ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used by two separate figures who lived during the generation of Adam ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October 14, 1633 – September 16, 1701) became King of England, King of Scots, and ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- Brass is the term used for alloys of copper and zinc. It has a yellow color, somewhat similar to gold. The proportions of zinc and copper can ...6 KB (938 words) - 13:23, 11 February 2022
- Cesare Borgia (September 13, 1475 – March 11, 1507) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal who resigned his church office to became a military commander ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- The House of Nemanjić (Serbian: Немањићи, Nemanjići; Anglicized: Nemanyid; German: Nemanjiden) was a medieval Serbian ruling dynasty ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
- Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington Palace, March 8, 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William III ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (柿本 人麻呂; c. 662 – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured prominently in the ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Zheng Chenggong ( t=鄭成功|p=Zhèng Chénggōng|w=Cheng Ch'eng-kung ; Pe̍h-oē-jī: Tēⁿ Sêng-kong); Koxinga ( t=國姓爺|p=Guóxìngyé ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Category:Public[[Image:Putuoshan_guanyin.JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Косовски бој or Бој на Косову was fought on St Vitus' Day (June 15, now celebrated ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerd) (February 16, 1497 - April 19, 1560) was a German professor and theologian, a key leader of the ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name. Nestled in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, this maritime province ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church in Westminster, London, ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Charles I (November 19, 1600 – January 30, 1649) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from March 27, 1625 until his execution ...42 KB (6,645 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, KBE (January 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978 ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- Hōjō Masako (北条 政子, 1156- 1225) is known in Japanese history as the “nun shogun” or “ama shogun” (尼将軍) because of her ...16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, historically known as the French Calvinists. Calvinism, and ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of enlightened rule”) (November 3, 1852 – July 30, 1912) was the 122nd imperial ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 B.C.E.) was a king of the Magadha empire and belonged to Haryanaka dynasty, which ruled until approximately 326 B.C ...11 KB (1,687 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is a highly prestigious annual award show hosted by the British ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- Maria Theresa (May 13, 1717 – November 29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and, through her marriage ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 04:11, 6 November 2022
- Fang Xuanling (房玄齡) (579–648), formal name Fang Qiao (房喬) but went by the courtesy name of Xuanling, That Fang's formal name ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor (July 25, 1852 – January 21, 1919), reigned 1863-1907 served as the twenty-sixth and final king of the five-century ...17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
- The Bagrationi dynasty (bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling family of Georgia. Their ascendancy lasted from the early Middle Ages until ...21 KB (3,136 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- Cinderella (French: Cendrillon, German: Aschenputtel), is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Xiang Yu (項羽, 项羽, Xiàng Yǔ, Hsiang Yü, original name Hsiang Chi) (232 B.C.E. - 202 B.C.E.) was a prominent general during the fall ...27 KB (4,419 words) - 14:30, 20 May 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern (April ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- The Árpáds or Arpads was the ruling dynasty of the federation of the Magyar tribes (ninth-tenth centuries) and of the Kingdom of Hungary (1000/1001 ...26 KB (3,604 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from February 13, 1689, and as Queen of Scots (as Mary ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- The spinels are an important group of oxide minerals with similar crystalline structures. Their general chemical formula may be written as (X ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 15:23, 27 April 2023
- Saint Stephen I (Hungarian: I. (Szent) István, Slovak: (Svätý) Štefan I.) (967 – August 15, 1038) was Grand Prince of the Magyars (997 ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- The Yongzheng Emperor ( 雍正 born Yinzhen 胤禛) (December 13, 1678 - October 8, 1735) was the fourth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with Rome against his Jewish countrymen during the First Jewish War of 66-73. The ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- } Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu ]; English Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Old Portuguese), (August 21 ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- Henry III (October 1, 1207 – November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- and well-educated. Her grandfather, George, Prince-Elector of Hanover, was the heir of Queen Anne of Great Britain. George succeeded as King George I ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its full name is Hōryū Gakumonji ...23 KB (3,463 words) - 00:01, 25 August 2023
- George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George) (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024