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- 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
- 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
- Sinmun of Silla (r. 681 – 692) was the thirty-first king of Silla ... was the eldest son of Silla's unifier-king, King Munmu (문무왕, 文武王 ...11 KB (1,743 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- House," it earlier referred to the king's palace but eventually ... The earliest instance where pr-`3 is used specifically to address ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Conference (SCLC) with Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery was tireless in ...1 KB (199 words) - 17:12, 14 August 2020
- She was the daughter of King Eirik II of Norway and Margaret, daughter ... in June of 1281. With only one son of the King, also named Alexander, then ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- Jizi had been a relative of the last king of the Shang Dynasty, King ... that Jizi went to Joseon. In this account, King Wu of Zhou recognized Jizi ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself king of Hejaz, which received international recognition. His family had ruled the Hejaz since 1201 ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- #: The assassin poisoned the king. # (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous. #: That factory is poisoning the river. ...2 KB (225 words) - 20:10, 22 August 2023
- Jehoiakim ("he whom Jehovah has set up," Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים) was one of the last kings of Judah. The son of King Josiah, ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 2023
- Farouk I of Egypt (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 B.C.E.). His Hebrew name ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 14:25, 18 July 2023
- name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- games, and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia, famous for his ... ==King of the gods== Zeus [[Image:Zeus Hermitage St. Petersburg 20021009 ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- including the Cave of the Divine King, Cave of the Great Kings, ... the largest and most important monasteries. King Valagambahu has been traditionally ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- Yi Ha-eung, best known by his title as regent to King Gojong, Daewongun ... Yi Myeongbok was crowned King Gojong of Joseon in 1864, and Daewongun ...9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:43, 12 January 2024
- in an intellectual contest in the court of King Darius and thus won the king ... than a warning from God given through the Egyptian king. ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- 9, 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV of Scotland and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. It ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 17:39, 28 March 2024
- I, he was a staunch supporter of the king when civil war broke out in 1642. law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects with the ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- Daniel at the court of Cyrus, the Persian king of Babylon near the end of ... The narrative of priests of Bel, the king asks Daniel, "Do you ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- • † also Elector of Hanover • ‡ also King of Hanover }} ==See also== *:Template:English Monarchs *:Template:Scottish Monarchs ...2 KB (249 words) - 15:56, 19 May 2023
- between Amenhotep III and the Babylonian king Kadeshman-Enlil shows a fascinating ... of the period. Letters from the Babylonian king Kadashman-Enlil I anchor the ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1964) • UNICEF (1965) • René Cassin (1968) • International Labour Organization (1969) • Norman Borlaug (1970) • ...2 KB (193 words) - 12:15, 5 October 2022
- King Gongmin (공민왕 恭愍王1330 – 1374) ruled Goryeo (Korea) from 1351 until 1374. He was the second son of King Chungsuk( 충숙 忠肅王 ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 09:05, 20 December 2022
- #:He was epitheted "the king of fools". epithet|71418339 ...2 KB (250 words) - 20:27, 5 March 2024
- ), also known as Azariah, was the king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah ... :I will destroy the king [e] of Ashdod and the one who holds the ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- In 1833, he was appointed professor of political economy at King& ... lecture on political economy, delivered at King's College, London, 27th ...8 KB (1,180 words) - 01:42, 14 December 2022
- War. The Norwegian forces were led by king Håkon Håkonsson and the ... since about 1100, its kings vassals of the king of Norway. Since the 1240s ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- Kingdom during the fourteenth year of King Jinheung's reign, just ... jpg|270px|thumb|right|Pine tree that bowed to King Sejo.]] ...9 KB (1,412 words) - 21:05, 20 January 2022
- For humans, various species, such as the king colobus (C. polykomos ... species of African primates and the king colobus also is considered ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 18:03, 31 October 2023
- Gojong, the Joseon Dynasty's last king. Only direct descendants in ... A military leader in the waning days of the Goryeo period, King Taejo ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- a supposed edict of Cyrus in which the king names Yahweh rather than Marduk ... 539 B.C.E., assuming the titles of "king of Babylon, king of Sumer ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to Vijayanagara ... to that time, mentions that the King of Bisnaga used to listen ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- specifying what she was queen (or female king) of, but not so Pope Boniface ... she married Haakon, in 1363, he was yet co-king of Sweden, making Margaret ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- 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
- armies. Although he reportedly refused a king's crown when it was offered ... With the Midianites vanquished, a movement arises to make Gideon king ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- Like the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Zhou acted merely as a ... themselves dukes of the Zhou dynasty king; but now the warlords began ...14 KB (2,355 words) - 22:04, 18 November 2022
- them suitable allies for England's King Henry VIII in the aftermath ... her chair when Henry entered the room. The king reportedly took an immediate ...14 KB (2,263 words) - 04:57, 31 July 2023
- who served as royal secretary in the time of King Josiah. of Jerusalem and the execution of King Zedekiah in 586, King Nebuchadnezzar ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- that the mausoleum holds the bodies of of King Micheon or King Gogugwon. ... bestowed by Murong Jun of the Former Yan on King Gogugwon in 354, indicating ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- Jehu (יְהוּא, Yehu—"The LORD is he") was king of Israel, 842–815 B.C.E. He assumed the throne after being anointed by a messenger ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 04:42, 31 July 2022
- Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- to the throne of England. She married Malcolm III, King of Scots, becoming his queen consort in 1070. Her influence, which stemmed from a lifelong ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- of the Venerable Bede and Eadbert, the king, was his brother. These two ... In 781, King Elfwald sent Alcuin to Rome to petition the Pope for ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first king of the Joseon Dynasty, the final dynasty in Korea before it became a modern republic. The name 'Taejo ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- text in English prose relating the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Le Morte d'Arthur was wildly popular in the decades ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 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
- Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ... Five Crowns, including lead singer Ben E. King, promoting them under the ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- known for his mediation in England between King Henry III and his rebellious ... of the state, and to be regularly consulted by the King. ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- Agrippa I, also called Agrippa the Great (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson of Herod the Great and son ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Few personal details have been recorded of the great king. His mother ... The fragment from Natya-darpana mentions the king Ramagupta, the elder ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- Captivity in the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia c. 538 B.C.E. He ... three months after replacing his father King Jehoiachim, who had died during ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ... Ahasuerus, the king of Persia, is married to the beautiful Queen Vashti ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- in the form of a dialogue addressed to the king Ptolemy, it was apparently ... anointed priests and teacher of Ptolemy the king, apparently Ptolemy Philometer ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- an elite royal guard, when he helped King Jayanegara, the son of Majahapit ... Majapahit, rebelled against the Majapahit king Jayanegara (ruled 1309-1328 ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- נאמן (ne’eman), meaning "God, King [who is] Trustworthy." ... In the King James Bible, the word amen is preserved in a number of ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- #039;s house) became the Maison du Roi (King's house), the latter ... of the dukes can be seen. No duke or king actually lived here. The names ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the ... Hammurabi was a First Dynasty king of the city-state of Babylon, and ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, and the father of ... to the highest heaven and was replaced as king of the gods by Marduk. His ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named after King David of ancient Israel, which consists of two interlocking equilateral ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- it also houses the many treasures of King Tutankhamen and many interesting ... ==King Tutankhamun== [[Image:Tutmask.jpg|thumb|200px|Golden funeral ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- two of his greatest works (Idylls of the King and Ulysses) are concerned ... Tennyson attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, and entered ...9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
- for Shakespeare's company, the King's Men. Both during his ... first for the Children and then for the King's Men. ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- When Harald Klak, the newly baptized king of parts of Denmark, returned ... in response to a request from the Swedish king Björn at Hauge for a mission ...11 KB (1,722 words) - 05:16, 31 July 2023
- decorations, and landscape. The King, Louis XIV and his chief minister ... received the title of First Painter to the King in 1664. He was also named ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu twenty-third according to some historians) king of Portugal and the Algarves ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- Due its connections to royalty, it was spared King Henry VIII's ... Since the coronations in 1066 of both King Harold and William the ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- On February 27, he discovered a tomb of a king, identified by inscriptions ... mentioned Psusennes I, the third king of the Twenty-first Dynasty ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- hold the title of Grand Prince. The first King of Hungary (Saint Stephen ... kings of Hungary (with the exception of King Matthias Corvinus) were matrilineal ...26 KB (3,604 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471 ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- but this did not prevent his imprisonment. King James I of England did not ... His cousin, Gervase, was knighted by King James before becoming lieutenant ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2023
- became the capital of Lan Xang. In 1560, King Setthathirath I moved the ... Laos. When Laos achieved independence, the king of Luang Prabang, Sisavang ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 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
- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- a significant role in the religious cultus. King Sargon was the first ruler ... E. (although the later "archaeologist king" of Babylonia, Nabonidus ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Dermot MacMurrough (1110 - May 1, 1171) was a King of Leinster in Ireland. Ousted as King of Leinster in 1166, he sought military assistance from King ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- province, near the modern city of Anyang. King Pangeng established Yin on ... At the beginning of the fourteenth century B.C.E. King Pangeng of ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- dynastic succession, until the coming of King Ibrium and his son Ibbi-Sipish ... the name of Ibbit-Lim, a previously known king of Ebla. This inscription ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- analyzed a claim such as "The present King of France is bald" into ... false. So the sentence, "The present king of France is bald," is ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Hugh Capet (c. 940 – October 24, 996) was the first King of France of the eponymous Capetian dynasty from his election to succeed the Carolingian ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- upon his father's death in 1105. King Yejong’s reign was characterized ... King Yejong was a great patron of Daoism, preferring its precepts ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- a bas-relief representing two images of the king worshiping the falcon-headed ... in present-day Syria, in which the Egyptian king fought against the Hittites ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- King You of Zhou (reigned 781 B.C.E. - 771 B.C.E.) (周幽王, zhōu ... After the death of King You, the nobles supported Prince Yijiu as ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- throne just thirty years after his father, King Taejo, founded the Goryeo ... gaining more fame and recognition from the king. In 903, he led a famous naval ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques, (July 25, 1109 – December 6, 1185), also known as the Conqueror, was the ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- kinsman and eventually becomes the foremother of King David. and written shortly after the time of King David in the tenth century ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- model and the settlers' allegiance to the king. The Mayflower ... In England, such authority came from the king but in remote America it could ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- tensions with Antipas' neighbor, King Aretas of Nabatea, who was ... appeal to him for promotion to the title of king rather than tetrarch, an ambitious ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- and political reasons, while the King saw them as essential for ... impeachment and subsequent execution of the king's advisers, Archbishop ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 21:03, 3 November 2022
- year 3 B.C.E.. In 1424 C.E., when the third king of Jurchen Li Manzhu invaded ... Goguryeo. The kingdom's second ruler, King Yuri, chose the site as the ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- (천왕봉, 天王峰), which means "King of Heaven Peak," rises ... (National Treasure no. 67), named by King Sukjong, is a three-story ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- the Pilgrimage of Grace, objecting to the King's "casting off" ... Shires"—as they came to be known under King James I. ...11 KB (1,689 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yošiyyáhuv, "supported of the LORD") was an important king of Judah whom the Bible praises as the ...13 KB (2,117 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- and can be seen and heard in the movie The King of Jazz. When Bing Crosby ... Bessie Smith, the empress of the blues, Joe King Oliver, and fellow guitarist ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- One of them, named Suro, became the king of Geumgwan Gaya, and the ... Gaya consisted of nine villages united by King Suro of Gaya. Some legends ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
