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- Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав Мудрый; Christian name: George; Old Norse: Jarizleifr) was ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Diana Spencer) (July 1, 1961—August 3, 1997) was the first wife of Charles ...23 KB (3,638 words) - 11:53, 29 January 2024
- Leopold II of the Belgians (April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909) succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, the first king of the independent ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- } Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard) (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013, after ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Mumtāz Mahal (April 1593 - June 17, 1631) (Persian, Urdu: ممتاز محل; pronunciation / mumtɑːz mɛhɛl /; meaning "beloved ornament ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Christina (December 8 Note that the birth date is December 8 in the Julian calendar, which was in effect in Sweden at the time, corresponding ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen consort of Edward III of England. Born in Hainaut, Flanders (today France ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- Prince Aritomo Yamagata (山縣 有朋, Yamagata Aritomo) (June 14, 1838 – February 1, 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (June 3, 1865 – January 20, 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- The Eighty Years' War, or Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands against the Spanish king ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) was the last military clash ever to be fought on British soil. It was between the forces of the Jacobites ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Horace Newton Allen (1858 - 1932), a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served as a diplomat, made a remarkable ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат , Georgievskiy traktat; გეორგიევსკის ტრაქტატი ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 14:54, 2 May 2023
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan covers the years from about 710 to 784 C.E., during which the Empress Genmei ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign and independent state in Western Europe located along the French Riviera ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- Emperor Hirohito or Emperor Shōwa (昭和天皇, Shōwa Tennō) (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted Funk is a musical style advanced primarily by African-American artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone in ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- Alexander I also called Alexander I Karađorđević or Alexander the Unifier Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian: Aleksandar I Karađorđević ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle ...18 KB (2,992 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple compound in Indonesia, and one of the largest Hindu temples in Southeast Asia, located approximately ...15 KB (2,259 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro Aisin-Gioro is ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein I of Jordan, 1997]] Hussein bin Talal (حسين بن طلال ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- Stephen III of Moldavia, or Stephen III (c. 1433 - July 2, 1504), also known as Stephen the Great ( Ştefan cel Mare ; Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt ...12 KB (1,884 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- 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. ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- The Primary Chronicle (Old-Slavonic: Пов ѣ сть времяньныхъ л ѣ тъ; Russian: Повесть временных лет, Povest ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- Yan Zhitui ( c=顏之推|p=Yán Zhītuī|w=Yen2 Chih1-T'ui1 , 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician, and government ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- The Shunzhi Emperor (顺治帝, Shunzhi (reign name, or nien-hao), personal name Fu-lin, temple name (miao-hao) Shih-tsu, posthumous name (shih ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also spelled Monte Corvino (1246, Montecorvino, Southern Italy - 1328, Peking ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- Niccolò di Bernado dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England is a hereditary title and the senior Dukedom in the Peerage of the United ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Huang Taiji (November 8, 1592 – September 21, 1643; reigned 1626 – 1643) ( c=皇太極|p=Huáng Tàijí ; transliteration from Manchu: Hong ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
- Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827)(Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- category:image wanted {{Infobox Korean name |hangul=신문왕 |hanja=神文王 |rr=Sinmun Wang |mr=Sinmun Wang |hangulborn=정명 or 일초 ...11 KB (1,743 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- Lumbini (Sanskrit: sa|लुम्बिनी , "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated in Matthew Paris ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; December 24, 1845 – March 18, 1913) was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913 ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- An Lushan ( t=安祿山|s=安禄山|p=Ān Lùshān ) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Turkic-Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China ...11 KB (1,832 words) - 18:40, 26 July 2023
- Sir Samuel White Baker (June 8, 1821 - December 30, 1893) was an English explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) All dates in the article are New Style (unless otherwise stated). The ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- The Taiping Rebellion was a large-scale revolt, waged from 1851 until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Muslims( الطائفة ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana (Bangla: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান) (982 - 1052 C.E.), a Buddhist teacher from ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- Yáng Guìfēi ( t=楊貴妃|s=杨贵妃|p=Yáng Guìfēi ) (literally means, "precious princess consort") (June 1, 719 — July 15 ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August 31 1880 – November 28 1962) was queen regnant of the Netherlands from ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- The Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝) (born Hongli, September 25, 1711 – February 7, 1799) was the fifth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680), was an accomplished seventeenth-century ...14 KB (2,358 words) - 05:00, 9 April 2024
- Jack "J.L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born John Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada of a Polish–Jewish ...9 KB (1,211 words) - 08:50, 13 March 2024
- Molds (American English) or moulds (British English) are microscopic, multicellular fungi. They are generally composed of hyphae (filamentous ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- The Elephanta Caves represent the focal point of the Elephanta Island, located in the Mumbai harbour off the coast of Mumbai (Bombay), India ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Henry V of England (September 16, 1387 – August 31, 1422) was one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages. He was born at Monmouth, ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," is the name of the Canaanite god of rivers and the sea. Yam was also the ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- The Place Stanislas, known colloquially as the place Stan', is a large pedestrian square in Nancy, Lorraine, France. Built between the Old ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- Richard II (January 6, 1367 – February 14, 1400) was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He is perhaps best remembered ...19 KB (3,042 words) - 21:42, 8 December 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Mixed-couple.jpg|thumb|250 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- Juliana (Juliana Emma Louise Marie Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau) (April 30, 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the ...35 KB (5,244 words) - 09:51, 12 May 2024
- George IV (George Augustus Frederick; August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- The Yongle Emperor or “Yung-lo Emperor” (永楽帝 ) May 2, 1360 – August 12, 1424), born Zhu Di (Chu Ti; 朱棣; Pinyin Yonglo (reign ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the British Dominions beyond the ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William ...30 KB (4,758 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- The Mongol invasion of Rus' was heralded by the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 between Subutai's reconnaissance unit and the combined ...16 KB (2,408 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- Lee Ha-eung (1820 – 1898), served as the regent, Daewongun, or formally Heungseon Heonui Daewonwang, during much of the later nineteenth century ...9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:43, 12 January 2024
- Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was the leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs, in 1703-11, as ...24 KB (3,987 words) - 06:28, 24 May 2021
- Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; June 23, 1894 – May 28, 1972) was ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose ...38 KB (5,977 words) - 19:57, 7 May 2024
- Walter Tyler, commonly known as Wat Tyler (1320 – June 15, 1381) was the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt (1381) also known as Tyler ...10 KB (1,583 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- Emperor Wu of Han ( s=汉武帝|t=漢武帝|p=hànwǔdì ), (156 B.C.E. His date of birth is sometimes noted as being August 27. –March 29, ...44 KB (7,021 words) - 13:34, 31 January 2022
- The Longmen Grottoes (ch. 龍門石窟/ 龙门石窟, lóngmén shíkū; lit. Dragon's Gate Grottoes) or Longmen Caves are located ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- Taejo Lee Sung-gye founded Joseon (July 1392 - August 1910) (also Chosun, Choson, Chosŏn) in 1392. The dynasty continued until 1910, lasted ...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:30, 6 May 2024
- Abeno Nakamaro or Abe no Nakamaro (阿倍仲麻呂, abe (no) nakamaro) (c. 698 – c. 770 C.E.) was a Japanese scholar, administrator, and waka ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˌtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- Category:Public Isabella of Castile (April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504) was queen of Castile and Aragon. Together with her husband, Ferdinand ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- Tammuz (also known as Dumuzi) was the name of an ancient Near Eastern deity who was best known for his patronage of herdsmen and his romantic ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 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
- The Gempei war or Genpei war (源平合戦, Genpei kassen, Genpei gassen, 1180–1185) was a series of conflicts between the Taira and Minamoto ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, c. 1466 – July 12, 1536) was a Dutch humanist and theologian ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition of political statecraft that arose in India, which is epitomized by the ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 00:47, 29 November 2022
- The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2020
- Katherine of Aragon (Alcalá de Henares, December 16, 1485 – January 7, 1536), Castilian Infanta Catalina de Aragón y Castilla, also known ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- Luang Prabang, or Louangphrabang (Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ, IPA: /luaŋ pʰabaːŋ/), a city located in north central Laos, is situated ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Gene Sarazen (born Eugenio Saraceni) (February 27, 1902 – May 13, 1999) is one of only five golfers (along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 21:10, 23 October 2022
- is a masterpiece of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- 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
- The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Wei Zheng ( c=魏徵|w=Wei Cheng 580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen of Zheng (鄭文貞公), was a Chinese politician ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- Charles Le Brun (February 24, 1619 – February 22, 1690) was a true Renaissance man. The reputation he garnered for his paintings was matched ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265) was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- The Amarna letters (sometimes "Amarna tablets") are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly diplomatic, between the Egyptian ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- Category:Image wanted Philip Massinger (1583 - March 17, 1640) was an English dramatist famous for his plays throughout the 1600s. Born the second ...24 KB (3,692 words) - 03:47, 24 November 2022
