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Saint Nicholas ( Νικόλαος his figure has been developed into more of a legend, and his persona has ...

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...

Italian as the Volto Santo or Holy Face, is a Roman Catholic relic, which ... century, the Veil of Veronica became a central icon in the Roman Catholic ...

signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina and, at the ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...

Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... many Christian clergymen were sent to Japan from Catholic, Protestant, and ...

inside Vatican City. Its dome is also a dominant feature of the Roman ... it covers an area of 5.7 acres and has a capacity of over 60,000 people. ...

An antipope (from Latin: meaning "rival-pope" or "counter ... is a person who makes a controversial, yet substantially accepted ...

the center of the country, Ljubljana lies in a basin surrounded by peaks of ... of the name Ljubljana. It could derive from the ancient Slavic city called ...

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was ... Gracian wrote a number of literary works, including political commentary ...

an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander ... and the Soviet Union during World War II, at a time when Finland faced the ...

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Alexander exercised wide ranging powers. From 1918 until 1929 his power ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...

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of the British monarch. The Palace is a setting for state occasions ... buildings and more than 50,000 people visit the palace each year as guests ...

– January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...

fourth Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from October 16, 1978, until his ... John Paul II was pope during a period in which Catholicism's ...

6, 1812 – September 15, 1891, O.S.) was a Russian novelist best known ... Goncharov was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy ...

beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from January 22, 1901, until his ... Queen Victoria, he was largely excluded from wielding any political power ...

– July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ... Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess ...

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... to leave India intact. He later became a mentor to his great-nephew ...

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 ...

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 – August 24, 1832) was ... of the scientific community, he made a major contribution to his field. ...

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 ...

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 ...

– 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 ...

western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to a ... The son of a poor school teacher and textbook writer, William Hogarth ...

– 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 ...

of the literati, Eliot pronounced himself a "classicist in literature ... Eliot was born into a prominent family from St. Louis, Missouri. His ...

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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 ...

) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the ... The famous Sistine ceiling depicts scenes from Genesis in striking detail ...

rule the country until the imposition of a Stalin-directed republic, dictated ... II. The country achieved full independence from the Ottoman Empire (Treaty ...

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 ...

From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ... Born to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, except for a family tradition ...

on February 14. The day originated as a Western Christian feast day ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31 ... and obtaining large amounts of free candy from their neighbors. When this ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from February 13, 1689, and as ... "William and Mary." Mary, although a sovereign in her own right ...

(January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965), was a German theologian, musician ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...

to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings ... The center was initiated in 1960 by a Lower Manhattan Association ...

Britain. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567, until the death ... James was a successful monarch in Scotland, but the same was not true ...

Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early life, during which ... Labour Party (RSDLP). Iskras base was moved from Munich to London and then ...

S.), 1814–June 19 (July 1 N.S.), 1876) was a well-known Russian revolutionary ... and external authority, whether emanating from the will of a sovereign or ...

the years immediately following World War I. A collection of articles from ... After Reed's death from typhus in 1920, Bryant continued to write ...

March 31 1943) was a Russian historian and liberal politician. Milyukov ... class family of Nikolai Pavlovich Milyukov, a professor in architecture who ...

Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from February 6, 1952 until her ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...

she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. Throughout Henry II's reign, he excluded Catherine from influence ...

German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15, 1888 to November ... exercised final decision-making authority. If a genuinely democratic system ...

in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...

Sub-Roman Britain is a term derived from an archaeologists' label ... passed on to future generations. During a later age, the Roman legacy ...

psychologist, and musicologist, he was also a passionate theologian and Bishop ... Oresme evolved a geometrical method of plotting speed or intensity ...

two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in ... Tiananmen Square. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership ...

of Cambridge. His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...

Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major turning point in the ... Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth. ...

Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1742 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk ... help the Indian to survive the transition from one culture to another, transcending ...

was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from November 17, 1558, until her ... Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. This was a period of English disengagement ...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington ... The memorial consists of two low, black granite walls that meet to ...

#039;s contributions to them—remain today a standard source on the original ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...

and political theory. He is also seen as a founder of modern biblical ... Spinoza was born to a family of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish ...

Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born May 6, 1953) is ... have resigned had there been any truth to a BBC report that his government ...

beauty, which attracts up to 150,000 tourists a year. Tourism accounts for ... A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and ...

and newly urbanized masses uprooted from their traditional village ... eras of Christianity. His near death as a child in a parish fire, leadership ...

Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (January 6, 1741 – December 15, 1810 ... and political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was ...

was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and leader of ... President Ronald Reagan, with whom she shared a similar domestic policy philosophy ...

of the border. If the world is to become a place of peace and plenty for ... restoration of English power over Ireland, a process of settling Protestants ...

Eskimos or Esquimaux is a term referring to aboriginal people who ... Although spread over a vast geographical area, there are many commonalities ...

 – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat ... against Lenin's Bolsheviks. Exiled from Russia in 1908, Kollontai ...

of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, ...

activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the ... Reed was not only a witness to the revolution, but an enthusiastic ...

Howe attempted to interdict the passage of a vitally important French grain ... admirals, faced with disobedience from their captains and ill-discipline ...

widespread and she was later celebrated as a martyr in English Protestant ... Due to a lack of parish records from the period, historians do not ...

October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed ...

Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British ... the Enderby quartet of comic novels about a reclusive poet and his muse; ...

) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist ... novellas Musk-Ox (May 1863) and The Life of a Peasant Woman (September, 1863 ...

President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination ... in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat ...

of what is now the state of Kentucky, a territory west of the Appalachian ... Boone was a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War ...

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016 ... which he traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group with his ...

The Cherokee (ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, a-ni-yv-wi-ya, in the Cherokee language ... "ja-la-gee" in western dialect) or A-ni-yv-wi-ya (pronounced "ah ...

The Beatles were a highly influential English rock 'n' roll ... in their music. In large measure, as a group, they influenced the ...

The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Delegates from a majority of states agreed to this mode of election. ...

The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country situated in Northern Europe ... Finland consistently ranks high on a number of international analysis ...

The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the ... One year later, Rome was struck by fire and a plague. On the military front ...

The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Soviet ... Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ...

Poetry (from the Greek " ποίησις ," poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is ...

(November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet and ... Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate ...

work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...

Church, and sovereign of Vatican City State from March 2, 1939 until his death ... On March 2, 1876, Eugenio Pacelli was born in Rome into a wealthy ...

(November 30, 1874 –January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known ... Churchill saw himself as a champion of democracy against tyranny, ...

A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of – ... not have as its aim to defend or even explain a particular set of beliefs. ...

as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first ... Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where ...

The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a ... set out on foot to obtain help. Rescuers from California attempted to reach ...

The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... parties hampered the process over nearly a century of autocratic experimentation ...