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- the Hebrew Bible and the Holy Qu'ran as a prominent visitor to King Solomon ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 – August 24, 1832) was ... of the scientific community, he made a major contribution to his field. ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- Denmark June 10, 1921 – April 9, 2021) was a member of the British royal ... born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- on the Glagolitic alphabet, is still used in a number of Slavic and other ... Thessaloniki in 827 and 826 respectively to a Byzantine Greek drungarios ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- – November 8, 397, Candes, Gaul) was a bishop of Tours who has become ... As a soldier in the Roman army, Martin shared his cloak with a freezing ...18 KB (2,840 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to a ... The son of a poor school teacher and textbook writer, William Hogarth ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- of the literati, Eliot pronounced himself a "classicist in literature ... Eliot was born into a prominent family from St. Louis, Missouri. His ...25 KB (3,801 words) - 02:02, 27 February 2023
- de Balzac, Nikolai Gogol, Victor Hugo, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Mikhail Lermontov ... | title = Istanbul: Memories of a City | publisher = Vintage Books ...29 KB (4,183 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
- March 24, 1603), and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. Cecil became the main ... Cecil was not a political genius or an original thinker; but he was ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... The famous Sistine ceiling depicts scenes from Genesis in striking detail ...23 KB (3,674 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- rule the country until the imposition of a Stalin-directed republic, dictated ... II. The country achieved full independence from the Ottoman Empire (Treaty ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Volkhov Rus, Ilmen Rus, or Novgorod Rus) was a polity that flourished during ... and Timerevo, were under the rule of a monarch or monarchs using the ...42 KB (6,324 words) - 00:33, 9 January 2024
- From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ... Born to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, except for a family tradition ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 07:49, 3 August 2022
- on February 14. The day originated as a Western Christian feast day ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...35 KB (5,116 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2023
- Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31 ... and obtaining large amounts of free candy from their neighbors. When this ...37 KB (5,487 words) - 23:07, 3 August 2023
- Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York ... openly in their chosen fields. Yet he was not a campaigner for gay rights or ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and celebrated composer ... The young Mozart toured as a child and won the patronage of both nobility ...34 KB (5,408 words) - 16:10, 10 October 2020
- Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific ... Luther's assertion that music was, "a gift from God, not a human ...38 KB (5,972 words) - 07:13, 5 April 2024
- reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from February 13, 1689, and as ... "William and Mary." Mary, although a sovereign in her own right ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
