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- According to Catholic tradition, Saint Linus (d. c. 67 - 80) was the ... The earliest sources do not agree with one another concerning Linus ...11 KB (1,675 words) - 04:02, 26 November 2022
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. Gordian was the son of Antonia Gordiana and ... Gordian III died before he could make much of a mark. For just over ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took ... The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- The Gallipoli peninsula ( Gelibolu Yarımadası , Καλλίπολις/Kalli ... ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... Great Britain had become a dominant colonial power during the eighteenth ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... The Gurkha rose in that aftermath, becoming a power in Nepal from ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 08:38, 8 January 2024
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian ... The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President ... The speech was delivered over 10 months before the Armistice with ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- PC (June 4, 1833–March 25, 1913) was a British army officer. He served ... The reality of colonialism was exploitative and—until the conquered ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- The Zulu Kingdom (Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu ... The legacy of the Zulus is one of pride in a highly organized people ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL (July 5, 1853 – March 26, 1902 was a ... Africa's natural resources, proceeds of which founded the Rhodes Scholarship ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
- 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and was the first premier of the Northern ... Bello combined traditional leadership qualities with knowledge of ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... his faith and attacked his reforms, instead of condemning them, he won them ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
