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  • Arthur is a legendary British "king" of mythical proportions. Although his historicity is controversial, he ranks as one of the most ...
    21 KB (3,215 words) - 11:02, 16 August 2023
  • Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab and thus Queen of Israel in the mid ninth century B.C.E., portrayed as the most wicked woman in the Bible. ...
    16 KB (2,494 words) - 03:03, 1 August 2022
  • of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar (Šahryār), to delay ... must prove her fidelity and loyalty to her king, who suspects that all women ...
    16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
  • the only shrine that could be so used. King Asoka was most diligent in ... in that year (the twelfth year of King Asoka's reign), the right ...
    10 KB (1,612 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
  • After the death of King Wenceslaus of Bohemia, who had allowed the ... Supporters of Hus became a potent force and even King Wenceslaus of ...
    17 KB (2,645 words) - 21:21, 9 February 2024
  • In each county, the list opened with the holding of the king himself ... : "After this had the king a large meeting, and very deep consultation ...
    15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
  • Crown served "at the pleasure of the King," public officials were ... engender intolerable injustice, as the King's ministers would be ...
    16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
  • Allen, Buster Bailey and many others (King Porter Stomp, 1933). During ... alumni, as well as Ray Charles and B.B. King, to name a few. He toured ...
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  • order of the Queen"); meaning even the King needed express permission to enter. ... the former botanical garden of the king, the remaining facade was ...
    10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
  • Images exist depicting Nefertiti and the king riding together in a chariot ... ritual or state ceremony he conducted as king at his capital at Amarna honoring ...
    18 KB (2,906 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
  • was reportedly rebuilt and fortified by King Solomon. Structures thought ... Egypt and the Kingdom of Judah, in which King Josiah, fell while opposing ...
    12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
  • should then get permission from his king, though for obvious reasons ... * Mendis, N.K.G. (2001). The Questions of King Milinda: An Abridgement ...
    9 KB (1,341 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
  • 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
  • signed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215, by John, King of England. ... a toll on a road or bridge. This pledged to the King. Today, charters ...
    19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
  • Jewish faith. As God's agent—and the king's—he is empowered to ... 5), could hardly have been written by that king as it appears in Ezra, in ...
    13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
  • *Peter IV of Aragon and his wife Leonor of Portugal, daughter of King ... *Through John of Gaunt; King Edward III of England and his wife Philippa ...
    18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
  • for Henry VIII of England (until the king's death in 1547), Edward VI of England (1547-1553), Mary I of England (1553-1558), and finally ...
    6 KB (933 words) - 22:55, 30 April 2023
  • would be accurate as he gives them. was King of Northumbria from 634 until ... was written less than a century after the king's death, was profoundly ...
    27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
  • from Vietnam. He urged Martin Luther King, Jr. to oppose the Vietnam ... credits the thirteenth-century Vietnamese King Tran Nhan Tong with the origination ...
    19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
  • between the Ottomans and Europe. The Polish king, Jan Sobieski (elected 1674 ... and torn by internal conflict between the king Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki ...
    12 KB (1,753 words) - 00:14, 12 April 2023

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