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- Jehu (יְהוּא, Yehu—"The LORD is he") was king of Israel, 842–815 B.C.E. He assumed the throne after being anointed by a messenger ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 04:42, 31 July 2022
- Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- to the throne of England. She married Malcolm III, King of Scots, becoming his queen consort in 1070. Her influence, which stemmed from a lifelong ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife of the assassinated civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- of the Venerable Bede and Eadbert, the king, was his brother. These two ... In 781, King Elfwald sent Alcuin to Rome to petition the Pope for ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- Goryeo Dynasty and the founder and the first king of the Joseon Dynasty, the final dynasty in Korea before it became a modern republic. The name 'Taejo ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- text in English prose relating the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Le Morte d'Arthur was wildly popular in the decades ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The Jacobean era ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- Later, with Ben E. King's yearning sound on lead tenor, the group ... Five Crowns, including lead singer Ben E. King, promoting them under the ...11 KB (1,592 words) - 15:35, 30 April 2023
- known for his mediation in England between King Henry III and his rebellious ... of the state, and to be regularly consulted by the King. ...11 KB (1,739 words) - 23:29, 17 December 2022
- Agrippa I, also called Agrippa the Great (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson of Herod the Great and son ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 06:49, 16 June 2023
- Few personal details have been recorded of the great king. His mother ... The fragment from Natya-darpana mentions the king Ramagupta, the elder ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- Captivity in the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia c. 538 B.C.E. He ... three months after replacing his father King Jehoiachim, who had died during ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ... Ahasuerus, the king of Persia, is married to the beautiful Queen Vashti ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- in the form of a dialogue addressed to the king Ptolemy, it was apparently ... anointed priests and teacher of Ptolemy the king, apparently Ptolemy Philometer ...7 KB (1,086 words) - 06:27, 12 August 2023
- an elite royal guard, when he helped King Jayanegara, the son of Majahapit ... Majapahit, rebelled against the Majapahit king Jayanegara (ruled 1309-1328 ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- נאמן (ne’eman), meaning "God, King [who is] Trustworthy." ... In the King James Bible, the word amen is preserved in a number of ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- #039;s house) became the Maison du Roi (King's house), the latter ... of the dukes can be seen. No duke or king actually lived here. The names ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the ... Hammurabi was a First Dynasty king of the city-state of Babylon, and ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, and the father of ... to the highest heaven and was replaced as king of the gods by Marduk. His ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- The Star of David is a widely recognized symbol of Judaism, named after King David of ancient Israel, which consists of two interlocking equilateral ...12 KB (2,021 words) - 19:53, 9 February 2023
- it also houses the many treasures of King Tutankhamen and many interesting ... ==King Tutankhamun== [[Image:Tutmask.jpg|thumb|200px|Golden funeral ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- two of his greatest works (Idylls of the King and Ulysses) are concerned ... Tennyson attended King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, and entered ...9 KB (1,502 words) - 16:53, 20 July 2023
- for Shakespeare's company, the King's Men. Both during his ... first for the Children and then for the King's Men. ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- When Harald Klak, the newly baptized king of parts of Denmark, returned ... in response to a request from the Swedish king Björn at Hauge for a mission ...11 KB (1,722 words) - 05:16, 31 July 2023
- decorations, and landscape. The King, Louis XIV and his chief minister ... received the title of First Painter to the King in 1664. He was also named ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu twenty-third according to some historians) king of Portugal and the Algarves ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- Due its connections to royalty, it was spared King Henry VIII's ... Since the coronations in 1066 of both King Harold and William the ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- On February 27, he discovered a tomb of a king, identified by inscriptions ... mentioned Psusennes I, the third king of the Twenty-first Dynasty ...8 KB (1,137 words) - 05:24, 24 November 2022
- hold the title of Grand Prince. The first King of Hungary (Saint Stephen ... kings of Hungary (with the exception of King Matthias Corvinus) were matrilineal ...26 KB (3,604 words) - 06:17, 13 June 2023
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471 ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- but this did not prevent his imprisonment. King James I of England did not ... His cousin, Gervase, was knighted by King James before becoming lieutenant ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 21:16, 30 April 2023
- became the capital of Lan Xang. In 1560, King Setthathirath I moved the ... Laos. When Laos achieved independence, the king of Luang Prabang, Sisavang ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1284 – June 19, 1312) was the favorite, and possibly lover, of King Edward II of England. A Gascon ...19 KB (3,020 words) - 22:48, 28 March 2023
- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- a significant role in the religious cultus. King Sargon was the first ruler ... E. (although the later "archaeologist king" of Babylonia, Nabonidus ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Dermot MacMurrough (1110 - May 1, 1171) was a King of Leinster in Ireland. Ousted as King of Leinster in 1166, he sought military assistance from King ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- province, near the modern city of Anyang. King Pangeng established Yin on ... At the beginning of the fourteenth century B.C.E. King Pangeng of ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- dynastic succession, until the coming of King Ibrium and his son Ibbi-Sipish ... the name of Ibbit-Lim, a previously known king of Ebla. This inscription ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- analyzed a claim such as "The present King of France is bald" into ... false. So the sentence, "The present king of France is bald," is ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Hugh Capet (c. 940 – October 24, 996) was the first King of France of the eponymous Capetian dynasty from his election to succeed the Carolingian ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- upon his father's death in 1105. King Yejong’s reign was characterized ... King Yejong was a great patron of Daoism, preferring its precepts ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- a bas-relief representing two images of the king worshiping the falcon-headed ... in present-day Syria, in which the Egyptian king fought against the Hittites ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- King You of Zhou (reigned 781 B.C.E. - 771 B.C.E.) (周幽王, zhōu ... After the death of King You, the nobles supported Prince Yijiu as ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- throne just thirty years after his father, King Taejo, founded the Goryeo ... gaining more fame and recognition from the king. In 903, he led a famous naval ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- Afonso I, King of Portugal, more commonly known as Afonso Henriques, (July 25, 1109 – December 6, 1185), also known as the Conqueror, was the ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 19:49, 28 September 2020
- kinsman and eventually becomes the foremother of King David. and written shortly after the time of King David in the tenth century ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- model and the settlers' allegiance to the king. The Mayflower ... In England, such authority came from the king but in remote America it could ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- tensions with Antipas' neighbor, King Aretas of Nabatea, who was ... appeal to him for promotion to the title of king rather than tetrarch, an ambitious ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
