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- Saint Nicholas ( Νικόλαος his figure has been developed into more of a legend, and his persona has ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris ... The modern depiction of Santa Claus as a plump, jolly man wearing ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 03:18, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- signers of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina and, at the ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... many Christian clergymen were sent to Japan from Catholic, Protestant, and ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- 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. ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- An antipope (from Latin: meaning "rival-pope" or "counter ... is a person who makes a controversial, yet substantially accepted ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was ... Gracian wrote a number of literary works, including political commentary ...13 KB (1,963 words) - 05:58, 26 August 2023
- an astute politician, humanitarian and a successful military commander ... and the Soviet Union during World War II, at a time when Finland faced the ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- Orders, worked for the papal curia and as a canon, but his greatest interest ... Alberti was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the ...24 KB (3,831 words) - 20:08, 25 October 2022
- Alexander exercised wide ranging powers. From 1918 until 1929 his power ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- combating the "heresy" to practice a more exemplary standard of ... #039;s role, if any, in the Inquisition is a subject of debate. His friend ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 19:37, 22 December 2022
- 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 ...28 KB (4,475 words) - 16:52, 22 November 2023
- – January 27, 1940) was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- 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 ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,938 words) - 06:35, 11 March 2024
- beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from January 22, 1901, until his ... Queen Victoria, he was largely excluded from wielding any political power ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ... Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess ...45 KB (6,850 words) - 00:19, 3 January 2024
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... to leave India intact. He later became a mentor to his great-nephew ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- 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
- (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965), was a German theologian, musician ... Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ...33 KB (4,954 words) - 05:02, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,719 words) - 11:15, 19 May 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- 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 ...47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
- 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 ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- the years immediately following World War I. A collection of articles from ... After Reed's death from typhus in 1920, Bryant continued to write ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- March 31 1943) was a Russian historian and liberal politician. Milyukov ... class family of Nikolai Pavlovich Milyukov, a professor in architecture who ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from February 6, 1952 until her ... In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince ...84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
- she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. Throughout Henry II's reign, he excluded Catherine from influence ...68 KB (10,504 words) - 16:16, 3 December 2023
- German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15, 1888 to November ... exercised final decision-making authority. If a genuinely democratic system ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
