Search results for "King" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...5 KB (863 words) - 03:26, 29 July 2022
- 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
- of Anjou, and Charles Robert of Anjou-Hungary, King of Hungary and King of Croatia (1308-1342). He belonged to the royal house of Anjou-Hungary ...26 KB (3,949 words) - 19:12, 4 December 2023
- Khitans executed. Gang Gam-chan urged to King Hyeonjong to escape from the ... 000 men. This time, many officials urged to king to enter peace negotiations ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- (Karageorgevich) was the first king of Yugoslavia (1929–34) ... Montenegro in December 1888. His father was King Peter I of Serbia and his ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- such as life, wisdom, truth, power, Holy of Holies, King of King, and Lord of Lords among others. Another application of Neoplatonic principles ...7 KB (1,028 words) - 08:24, 2 December 2022
- she famously traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon. The city was already ... This kingdom was at its height under king Ezana, baptized as Abreha ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- * Ravana, a rakshasa with 10 heads, was the king of the rakshasas ... over Ravana, the loyal Vibhishana was made king of Lanka (Section 289). ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 00:11, 8 December 2022
- Wales, September 16, 1387, and he reigned as King of England from 1413 to 1422. Henry was son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and Mary ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 15:24, 22 February 2022
- contained evidence of extensive warfare, as King Priam's Troy, validating ... army destroyed Troy at the time of King Priam, as described in Homer’s ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- * Luke names him as Judas, son of James, or in the King James Version: ... to the Armenians," when he baptised King Tiridates III of Armenia in ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 08:48, 12 May 2024
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265) was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- during, and after the fall of Jerusalem to King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon ... destruction of Solomon's Temple under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host. His career in radio ...42 KB (5,955 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2023
- courtyards.Basil Guy and Francis Assaf, The King's Crown: Essays on XVIIIth ... * Guy, Basil, and Francis Assaf. 2005. The King's Crown: Essays ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- The step pyramid at Saqqara, designed by Imhotep for King Djoser ... found on the site were inscribed with this king's name. From its design ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- asks Jesus concerning the whereabouts of King Herod I, and is informed that ... preserves the less happy ending that the king, after his wife had determined ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Liliuokalani given to her by her brother, King Kalakaua when he declared ... Paki and H.C. Konia (a grand daughter of King Kamehameha I). Hanai is a ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- her male suitors. She unwittingly attracted King Henry VIII's attentions ... Upon his return, Wyatt, respected by King Henry due to his political ...9 KB (1,558 words) - 22:57, 30 April 2023
- King Bimbisara of the Śiśunāga Dynasty led an active and expansive ... Accounts differ slightly as to the cause of King Ajatashatru's ...20 KB (3,019 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- given the throne after the death of the previous king Amenhotep I. During his reign, he campaigned deep into the Levant and Nubia, pushing the borders ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2023
- There, he became well-acquainted with King Hákon Hákonarson, meeting ... by Gizurr Þorvaldsson, an agent of the king. Snorri's last words ...13 KB (2,143 words) - 05:13, 13 October 2022
- years after Ashoka's death, when the king Brhadrata, the last of the ... Following the Mauryans, the first Brahmin king was Pusyamitra Sunga ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- received version, and Wenzi as a teacher of King Ping of the Zhou (周平王 ... or "Literate," comparable with King Wen of Zhou (周文王) or ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- in three languages, telling the story of King Darius' conquests, with ... floats above, giving his blessing to the king. One figure appears to have ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- made Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV, King of Spain. The treaty stated ... As Philip was not yet recognized as its king, Spain did not at first send ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- she died, she became the first female fellow of King's College. She retired in 1971, but continued to write, teach, and supervise students until ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- 039;s sin. As court prophet to Judah's King Hezekiah, the Bible reports ... that tell us that Isaiah was the cousin of King Uzziah, suggests he was of ...20 KB (3,364 words) - 02:59, 8 March 2024
- ) = "covered shelter." King Laxmi Narsingh Malla built that ... hippie spot during the seventies. The Shah King's Palace stands right ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 20:17, 28 February 2023
- bull calf. The shrine was thus destroyed by King Josiah of Judah during his ... drew its residents out (Josh. 8:17). The king of Bethel is listed among ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- escaped unharmed from the catastrophe. King Joseph I of Portugal and the ... Like the king, the prime minister Sebastião de Melo (the Marquis ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- Māyā married king Śuddhodana (Pāli: Suddhodana), the ruler of ... Queen Māyā and King Suddhodhana had no children twenty years into ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
