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- King David II of Scotland succeeded his father, Robert I better known as Robert the Bruce in 1329 at the age of five, and ruled until his death ...9 KB (1,346 words) - 20:57, 19 May 2020
- Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of ... * King David I of Scotland. * Edith of Scotland, also called Matilda ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- Margaret (1283 – 1290), usually known as the Maid of Norway, literally ... She was the daughter of King Eirik II of Norway and Margaret, daughter ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... The church adheres to the Bible and the Westminster Confession of ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart, popularly known as Mary, Queen of ... Palace, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland to King James V of Scotland ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:03, 7 November 2022
- to the English military occupation of Scotland during significant ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- he is often mentioned as the associate of Jeremy Bentham and as the father ... James Mill was born April 6, 1773, at Northwater Bridge, in the parish ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Award of the Peace Prize to Lord Boyd ... Orr grew up in Kilmaurs, near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland ...11 KB (1,795 words) - 02:42, 4 November 2022
- Ailred or Ælred or Ailred of Rievaulx, Abbot of Rievaulx (b. Hexham ... several years at the court of King David I of Scotland in 1130 where Ailred ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- William of Normandy (French: Guillaume de Normandie) (1028 – September ... William invaded England with his band of Normans, defeated the English ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- saint, sometimes referred to as Columba of Iona, or, in Old Irish, as ... Columba) was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Uí Néill clan in Gartan ...21 KB (3,411 words) - 19:21, 22 December 2022
- [[File:Drawing of William de Marisco.jpg|right|thumb|300px|As illustrated ... penalty ordained in England for the crime of treason. It is considered by ...18 KB (2,928 words) - 19:19, 14 August 2020
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA ... Academy Awards. The awards are in the form of a theatrical mask. ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland early in the ... accepted the invitation to take the throne of the Kingdom of England. The ...14 KB (2,279 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay ... opportunity to understand the lives of our remote ancestors. Its importance ...24 KB (3,569 words) - 22:43, 29 January 2023
- Mary II (April 30, 1662 – December 28, 1694) reigned as Queen of ... William III, who became the sole ruler of both countries upon her death ...22 KB (3,330 words) - 22:05, 16 December 2022
- David Livingstone (March 19, 1813 – May 1, 1873) was a Scottish ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Church of St Matthew ... Built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar, the structure ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the seventh largest ... built in 1128 at the order of King David I of Scotland. ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- took the lead in reforming the Church in Scotland along Calvinist lines following ... that to Knox more than to any other man Scotland owes her political and religious ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- Scotland (Scottish Gaelic Alba) is a nation in northwest Europe and ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...48 KB (6,984 words) - 23:12, 30 July 2023
- travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English ... to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- The Battle of the Boyne was a turning point in the Williamite war ... its symbolic importance has made it one of the most infamous battles in ...20 KB (3,207 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746) was the last military clash ... as cultural vandalism, with the destruction of a way of life that many had ...24 KB (3,671 words) - 11:38, 20 September 2023
- Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...29 KB (4,444 words) - 15:41, 7 December 2022
- A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. The word cairn comes ... balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering and ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- in law, drafting parliamentary bills for Scotland. After working on an article ... Pursuing this he gathered large quantities of material and developed ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 05:07, 3 August 2022
- Sir William David Ross KBE (April 15, 1877 – May 5, 1971) was a ... Ross also wrote books on Kant's ethics, each of Aristotle's ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- Natural theology is a branch of theology, which attempts to establish ... The existence of God and the immortality of the soul are but a few ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- progressive educator, author, and founder of Summerhill School. He is best ... for students to govern themselves requires of them considerable moral responsibility ...15 KB (2,308 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- Ogilvy, David [[Image:David ogilvy.jpg|thumb|300 px|David Ogilvy]] David MacKenzie ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 20:00, 19 May 2023
- #039;s deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, ... 039;s real interests lay with "a policy of friendship with Germany" ...23 KB (3,538 words) - 17:39, 22 December 2022
- Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison which ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- The Tower of London (known historically simply as The Tower), is an ... The Tower of London is sometimes identified with the White Tower, ...20 KB (3,219 words) - 04:47, 1 May 2023
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States—for ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... brought up by his maternal grandparents in Scotland. [http://news.bbc ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- Matilda of Flanders (c. 1031 – November 2, 1083) was Queen consort ... Matilda was daughter of count Baldwin V of Flanders and Adèle (1000 ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- align:center;" | [[Image:Portrait of Edward VI of England.jpg|200px]] ... text-align: left;" | Lady Jane Grey Mary I |- | style="vertical ...24 KB (3,796 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... to establish colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; he founded ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen ... who persuaded her husband to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais after ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- di San Luca, and was associated with some of the leading artists of his ... Wright is currently rated as one of the leading indigenous British ...28 KB (4,262 words) - 00:34, 10 February 2023
- 7, 1573 - January 10, 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645 ... Laud wanted the reconciliation of all Christians, hoped and prayed ...19 KB (2,977 words) - 11:10, 10 May 2023
- Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... Critics have speculated that Peter Pan was a reflection of Barrie ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 08:18, 13 March 2024
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- The Book of Common Prayer is the foundational prayer book of the Church ... The Book of Common prayer is considered to have significantly contributed ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- is considered to have been the best backhand of all time. Budge was held in ... From January of 1937 until late in 1938, Budge won an amazing 92 consecutive ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
- Charles II (May 29, 1630 – February 6, 1685) was the King of England ... due to the uncertain political situation of the time. His father was executed ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... These wars were between supporters of the king's right to absolute ...48 KB (7,492 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury ... a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster ... Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- parties in relation to the devolution of power to Northern Ireland. ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- became a celebrity in London toward the end of her life. She was a daughter ... Pocahontas' life has formed the basis of many legends. Because ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 08:11, 24 November 2022
- June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- by legal scholars as to whether the use of the 1911 Act to pass the 1949 ... *The continued ability of the House of Lords to veto a bill to prolong ...24 KB (3,606 words) - 20:48, 26 March 2024
- May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. Thus, May ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- Greek were emphasized. Four distinct uses of the word can be noted, the ... education for the most able irrespective of their social or economic background ...25 KB (3,841 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England ... He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... the "Writings" or Ketuvim, one of the three main sections into ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- ) (Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh ; Nouvelle-Écosse capital, Halifax, is a major economic center of the region. It is the fourth ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... Possibly, they would question the teaching of the Church and the authority ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- "Sheep Islands," are a group of islands in Northern Europe ... represented in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- developed by the established Church of England. Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries ... full Highland dress, including a tartan kilt of his mother's clan, for ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- Katherine or Katharine Parr(e), was the last of the six wives of Henry VIII ... One of Henry's more educated wives, Catherine displayed a keen ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- The English Historical School of Economics, although not nearly as ... The school considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures ...27 KB (3,885 words) - 08:56, 5 September 2023
- is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian ... Celebrations often include large displays of fireworks at midnight ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary ... In the early stages of his career, Agassiz made a name for himself ...18 KB (2,730 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- was launched in 1982, and an Irish version of the paper was launched on February ... "Daily Mail reader" has become something of a phrase in ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 07:46, 12 January 2024
- flightless bird native only to the island of Mauritius, located in the Indian ... Extinction is a natural part of the history of life, and some researchers ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most ... Edward was crowned at the age of 14, following the deposition of his ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- and theologian. He was a prominent leader of the east-coast revivals of ... Jonathan Edwards, born on October 5, 1703, was the son of Timothy ...24 KB (3,948 words) - 00:21, 4 August 2022
- The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... The development of the office of Prime Minister coincides with the ...42 KB (6,582 words) - 21:49, 26 April 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...44 KB (6,632 words) - 10:49, 13 December 2023
- align:center;" | [[Image:Elizabeth I of England - coronation portrait ... | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | Mary I ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period of English history from the ... English monarchs bear the title "Duke of Normandy." England also ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... When he assumed power in 1971, Uganda had experienced a series of ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- image_caption = David Hume | name = David Hume | birth = April 26, 1711 (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ...48 KB (7,545 words) - 08:05, 28 January 2024
- to the Indian Ocean to protect the ships of the British East India Company ... born into a reputable family in Greenock, Scotland in 1645. However, recent ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- was an English politician, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most ... He served as Secretary to the Protector of King Edward, and as an adviser ...19 KB (3,064 words) - 23:35, 3 December 2023
- first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- the Transcendentalist movement as the editor of its journal The Dial. When ... From 1839 to the mid-1840s she organized discussion groups of women ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- Catholic) who want union with the Republic of Ireland to re-unite the whole ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- tendencies are readily apparent in a number of his best know works. He writes ... "Cultural history shows us that every art form with the throb ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... Meanwhile, King David I of Scotland was dissuaded by his subjects ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- 1860 - October 23, 1946) was born in England of Scottish parents. He was raised ... He was founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the founding pioneers ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- and songwriter, widely considered one of the greatest blues guitarists ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- widely admired English-language essayists of the twentieth century. He is ... India, during the period when India was part of the British Empire under the ...23 KB (3,458 words) - 10:53, 13 December 2023
- is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes ... for the individual, and the coming together of the community in laughter also ...22 KB (3,192 words) - 15:56, 11 August 2023
- Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... Folk rock had antecedents in the labor movement of the 1930s, notably ...14 KB (2,208 words) - 06:14, 1 April 2024
- in 1876, building on the pioneering efforts of Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci ... on March 3, 1847. He was the middle of three children, all boys. Both ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- a famous South Indian guru who has millions of followers around the world ... avatar (a "descent" or incarnation of God). His alleged miracles ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 15:00, 23 October 2023
- – July 17, 1887) was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created ... Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in the tiny frontier village of Hampden ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 09:38, 15 January 2023
- Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the twentieth century, it has ... #039; rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- Inquisition, (capitalized I) as broadly used, refers to the judgment ... to the modern mindset. However, the notion of religious liberty and of freedom ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling ... over spiritual values. Set in the context of the Cold War, of good vs. evil ...25 KB (3,815 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- The Industrial Revolution was a major shift of technological, socioeconomic ... century, eventually affecting most of the world. The impact of this ...43 KB (6,275 words) - 12:45, 1 February 2024
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... war with Britain in 1812 and a vast program of internal improvements afterwards ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... Pythagoras approached the question of being from an angle that was ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- Oswald (ca. 604–August 5, 642 C.E.)While Bede gives the year of ... Oswald's assessment in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of ...27 KB (4,245 words) - 13:29, 5 September 2022
- painted, cataloged, and described the birds of North America, as well as its ... In March, 2000, Audubon's complete, double-elephant folio copy ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- an annual commemoration observed on the 5th of November, primarily in the ... sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly ...26 KB (3,787 words) - 03:37, 27 July 2023
- The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United ... The House of Commons evolved at some point during the fourteenth century ...50 KB (8,030 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... from the copyright holder. A violation of the terms of [http://en.wikipedia ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- Canada. Founded in 1821, McGill is one of the oldest universities in ... degrees and diplomas in over 300 fields of study, including medicine. ...36 KB (4,859 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2023
- physicist famous for his application of probability theory to the study ... Boltzmann was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austrian Empire ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Mills during the early 1800s made it a place of pilgrimage for social reformers ... earliest years was the key to the formation of good character and to the amelioration ...26 KB (4,155 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain ... When Britain acquired an Empire of its own, reference to His or Her ...53 KB (8,072 words) - 04:48, 16 December 2022
- an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of ... ruler Charles the Simple had allowed a group of Vikings, under their leader ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English ... Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of ...32 KB (4,981 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- a frame. The basic shape and configuration of a typical bicycle's frame ... since been made, especially since the advent of modern materials and computer ...29 KB (4,462 words) - 03:45, 1 October 2023
- partnership with Lionel Richie. One of the best-selling music artists ... National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. He developed the ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- , was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary positions ... was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle, Denmark to ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly ... As a logical positivist, Ayer narrowed the sphere of philosophical ...30 KB (4,587 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- Ahmose I (sometimes written Amosis I and "Amenes" and meaning ... During his reign he completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos ...39 KB (6,109 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- 1856 – April 14, 1925) was a renowned turn-of-the century portrait painter ... was well known for painting the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...46 KB (7,168 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...39 KB (6,106 words) - 02:44, 17 January 2023
- The Order of Cistercians (OCist; Cistercienses ), sometimes called the White Monks (from the color of their habit ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- The Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations ... in the eighteenth century, among a group of men including John Wesley and ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- #039; label for the material culture of Britain in Late Antiquity. ... While the history of Roman Britain is reasonably well covered by contemporary ...51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
- Protestant Reformation and is the namesake of the system of Christian theology ... John Calvin was a leader of the Swiss protestant reformation. Reformed ...41 KB (6,575 words) - 04:41, 3 August 2022
- rule," which predicts the number of phases that a substance can ... Josiah Willard Gibbs was the only son and the fourth of five children ...19 KB (2,808 words) - 20:00, 7 September 2022
- 21, 1926 – September 8, 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- An aurora is a natural display of glowing light in the night sky, ... combines the name Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, with the word Boreas ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave ... are created equal, apparent to the framers of the U.S. Constitution, has ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English ... chaplain to Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, principal Secretary ...37 KB (5,465 words) - 20:16, 8 December 2022
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- As a philosopher, he was an early proponent of Empiricism. Locke also made ... him, John Locke is considered the first of the three major British Empiricists ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter ... Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her ...32 KB (5,051 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2022
- ; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), Hero of the Soviet Union, was ... Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk (now ...17 KB (2,467 words) - 10:29, 7 June 2023
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- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
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- combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special ... The quest for the Holy Grail makes up an important segment of the ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( ... published in London, the Manifesto is one of the world's most influential ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- Ireland, regarded by many as the one of the greatest footballers of ... Best had a rare combination of pace, blistering acceleration, balance ...22 KB (3,398 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... ferocity and pillaging raids, the voyages of the Vikings also linked different ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
- Many Jews converted to Christianity after the reconquest of Spain ... The conversion of these Jews to Christianity soon became suspect, ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States ... , National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared ...63 KB (9,615 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
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- with the 1641 publication, in Paris, of Rene Descartes' Meditationes ... body) discussed in the philosophical systems of six major figures in the Modern ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads ... Miller. That show, together with the success of director Tim Burton's ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 - 12 May 12, 1884) is considered one ... founded several music schools in promotion of Czech music and fostered a ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter ... A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name ...41 KB (6,464 words) - 11:35, 20 September 2023
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- Liberal Party statesman and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874 ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
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- several decades, played leading lady in some of the most notable productions ... distinctive husky voiced resonance. (Some of her quotes and quips, like ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
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- as Elvis but also called "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" ... Presley started as a singer of rockabilly, borrowing songs from both ...31 KB (4,709 words) - 17:51, 13 February 2024
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- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
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- , killing between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population. Almost ... Notable later outbreaks include the Italian Plague of 1629–1631 ...48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
- painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic ... From the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Velázquez's ...37 KB (5,925 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical ... Telegraphy forms the foundation for almost all of the communication ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
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- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
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- actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered ... than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
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- Fleming were among the most beloved athletes of their respective generations ... Skating Championships, the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, the European ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 19:00, 7 March 2024
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- East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
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- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...55 KB (8,699 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
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- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... the Maldivian ethnic identity is a blend of people of South Indian, Sinhalese ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
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- is a Christian belief, based on the Book of Revelation 20:1-6, that Christ ... These millennial views in Christianity, in spite of their differences ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew ...96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024
- are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- [[Image:Emancipation of Slaves 1834 monument - Victoria Tower Gardens ... Slavery is the social and/or legal designation of specific persons ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
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- The lion (Panthera leo) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family ... mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, much of Eurasia from ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- there has come about, in Parade, a kind of super-realism ('sur-réalisme ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...52 KB (7,797 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement ... at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. The Dominicans ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- Arches are used as supports for many types of vaults, with the barrel ... Michael Clarke, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms (Oxford University ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
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- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
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- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
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