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for his light, elegant, and airy style and the list of his buildings includes ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...

composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus. He also discovered ... Born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, Herschel was ...

Electroplating involves the coating of an electrically conductive ... The process used in electroplating is called electrodeposition and ...

Cross of the Military Division of the Order of the Bath who were also Knights ... 1805, he was created a Knight of the Order of the Bath, a senior knighthood ...

May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788) was one of the foremost portrait and landscape ... He is recognized among the most innovative and enigmatic artists of ...

science. Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and ... The Confessions, and De Quincey himself, are notable not just for ...

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS ... Lord Cromer was one of the most experienced and famous colonial administrators ...

George (KCMG) and a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). However, it should ... (Grand Cross of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath). ...

strong personality. They are considered one of the oldest breeds of domestic ... The origin of the Abyssinian is shrouded in mystery. Early cat books ...

Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of the Bath ... In early 1944, Slim was appointed a Companion of the Order of the ...

[[File:Isaac Pitman.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Isaac Pitman, from 'The ... British phonographer, famous for developing the most widely used system of ...

Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...

Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...

author, and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud, the ancient ... 5, 1817 in Paris, France, into a family of Huguenot descent. His father ...

09, 1588), better known simply as Sinan was the chief architect and civil ... where he traveled widely both as a commander of soldiers and a military engineer ...

Urea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen ... It was the first organic compound to be artificially synthesized from ...

ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey ... Chaucer is generally considered not only the father of English literature ...

The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition ... While the Arthaśāstra tradition played a key role in the establishment ...

c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani ... Most of what we know about pre-Spanish conquest Aztec history is derived ...

Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... In total, Lake Ladoga covers an area of 6,700 fresh water square miles ...

Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 - February 7, 1823) was an English author ... She married William Radcliffe, an editor for the English Chronicle, at Bath ...

:This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ...

) is a city in Ajmer District in India's Rajasthan state. The ... Prithviraj Chauhan founded Ajmer (Ajaya-meru in Sanskrit) in the late ...

was a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western ... pistols at his disposal. It was reported in the General History of the Pirates ...

and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the ... His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear ...

general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... * British Order of the Bath * French Legion of Honor * Order of the ...

shapes and colors as shown in this ball from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany]] to sophisticated lenses and optical fibers, the multiple uses of glass have ...

The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major ... both Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and Companion ...

and Mrs. Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she ... eight plays, one biography, and 20 volumes of journals and letters. In addition ...

came to public notice when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the de facto office due to the ...

The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...

who exerted a considerable influence on the development of Elizabethan ... in his own right, Daniel stands out as one of the most versatile of all English ...

7, 1573 - January 10, 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645 ... Laud wanted the reconciliation of all Christians, hoped and prayed ...

Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר meaning Day of Atonement ... In the Bible, the day is called Yom HaKippurim (Leviticus 23:27) and ...

was knighted as a member of the Order of the Bath (hence the postnominal ... County, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Vice Admiral of the ...

as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army ... He physically fed, clothed, and nursed the sick. It is perhaps regrettable ...

Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) was the ... The Ferrari brand could inspire others who have developed elite technologies ...

Corrosion is the deterioration of a material's essential properties ... The rusting of iron is a well-known example of corrosion. Other metals ...

in today's Turkey c. 306 C.E. Known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as ... Veneration of Saint Barbara was common from the ninth century until ...

Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into ... that is resistant to acid (and alkali). The artist then scratches off ...

church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great ... a visual Axis Mundi for connecting with the Divine. Furthermore, they ...

poet, and politician, considered to be one of the most important poets in ... Little definitive is known of Sturluson's life, and much of what ...

The Char Dham ('the four abodes/seats') constitutes the ... All four pilgrimage sites sit in the Himalayas, previously difficult ...

quot;) is a Hindu goddess married to Shiva (the ascetic god of destruction ... Parvati is a decidedly maternal figure, raising with Shiva the divine ...

for his actions while stationed in the Canadian colonies. His efforts ... heroics earned him membership in the Order of the Bath, and he had the privilege ...

(敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper ... he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization ...

Northern Africa is generally accepted to refer to the northernmost ... * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list is highly controversial ...

as a French painter. His versatility in the popular style of Rococo, led ... One of the great painters and draftsmen of the eighteenth century ...

Garuda (from the Sanskrit: Garuḍa myth, Garuda is a lesser divinity, usually the vehicle (or vahana) of Vishnu ...

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... * 1955: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath--GCB (1943: CB ...

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, encompasses ... The Thar Desert's name derives from the word t'hul, the ...

and drawing. He is generally regarded as one of the founders of impressionism ... de Gas, and Augustin de Gas, a banker. The de Gas family was moderately ...

August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... *The Most Honorable Order of the Bath *The Royal Guelphic Order ...

– August 27, 1975) was de jure Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 ... Ethiopia was different from that within. To the outside world, he was heir ...

Canning is a method of preserving food by first sealing it in air ... From a public safety point of view, foods with low acidity (i.e., ...

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein ... He successfully commanded Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein, a major ...

In Korea, Buddhist temples are abundant. Many of the oldest and most ... ==Brief History of Korean Buddhism== :See Korean Buddhism for more ...

Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on ... Distillation is used for a variety of purposes. Water is distilled ...

to as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south ... *Democratic Republic of the Congo *Republic of Congo *Equatorial Guinea ...

Cosmetics are substances used to enhance or protect the appearance ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates cosmetics ...

soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ottoman ... The first Mamluks served the Abbasids caliphs in ninth-century Baghdad ...

under an applied shear stress regardless of the magnitude of the applied ... by their container) while gases do not. The distinction between solids ...

statesman and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was ... an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth ...

statesman. His most famous plays, including The Rivals, The School for Scandal ... as well. He is said to have have paid the burgesses five guineas each ...

The Negev Desert is located in modern day Israel, expanding nearly ... The Negev's borders are somewhat ambiguous, though generally ...

) refers to a race of large serpentine creatures that abound in the ... In Sanskrit, the term nāgaḥ ( sa|नागः ) refers specifically ...

The Jenolan Caves are a leading example of impressive caverns in the ... The caves are the most celebrated of several similar groups in the ...

imperial loyalist whose effort to forge the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance (1866 ... Ryoma was born January 3, 1836, in central Kochi, in the feudal domain ...

Magdeburg, the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ... The city also enjoyed frequent periods of prosperity. The current ...

D (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891), was the first Prime Minister of Canada ... met his mother, Helen Shaw, in 1811. After the failure of his father's ...

Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...

Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...

Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants ... Since ancient times, some species of cotton plants have been cultivated ...

Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... The region was devastated by drought in the 1980s, bringing to head ...

Lady Jane Grey (July 1536 – February 12, 1554), a granddaughter ... Lady Jane had a reputation as one of the most learned women of her ...

He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and then to the United States in 1871. Bell is widely acclaimed for inventing and developing the telephone ...

1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...

A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... In the summer, the direction of rotation of the blades is set to blow ...

William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was ... title=Great Master of the Order of the Bath|years=1827 – 1830 ...

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent ... Many scholars argue that the U.N. definition of Southern Africa is ...

[[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great (Russian: Екатерина ...

and author. A prolific writer, he was among the most recognized monastic figures ... Merton was a leading voice of interfaith engagement. Drawing from ...

Budapest is the capital city of Hungary. It is its country's ... Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, ...

JPG|250px|thumb|The Brick Store in Bath, New Hampshire, the oldest ... rural area. It usually has a broad selection of merchandise in a relatively ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...

rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... * Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 1991 ...

Monothelitism (from the Greek, referring to "one will") ... An outgrowth of the Monophysite controversy from the previous two ...

Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... allies, Edward did much to restore law and order to England. His motto was ...

Veliky Novgorod, the third largest city in Russia and the administrative ... The preeminence of Veliky Novgorod in Russian culture is represented ...

The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent ... Sometimes exceptions are made to some of these duties in exceptional ...

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally ... known technically as a matrix. Common types of matrices include: metal plates ...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is the third largest ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...

The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... A major city of Hindu learning, Varanasi is commonly referred to as ...

Leech is the common name for any of the annelids (segmented worms ... leeches are predatory, feeding on a variety of invertebrates, such as worms ...

, Eng: Mound or Tell of the Dead) was one of the most prominent cities ... Lothal's dock—the earliest discovered—connected the city ...

A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...

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 ...

σχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece, and the earliest ... If Sophocles was the dramatist whose primary theme was fate, Aeschylus ...

Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...

The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... The Gurkha rose in that aftermath, becoming a power in Nepal from ...

early Christian theologian, who taught that the Son of God was not eternal ... He was possibly of Libyan and Berber descent. His father's name ...

castration before puberty. This is done in order for the child to be more ... Castrati were rarely referred to as such. More common was the term ...

novelist, poet, and critic. Scott was among the first to draw upon history ... Scott’s works follow the transition from the eighteenth century ...

and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... engravings include Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome ...

Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... was Nefertiti, who has been made famous as the most “beautiful women in ...

/ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...

Lake Erie is the eleventh largest lake on Earth by surface area. ... Of the five Great Lakes of North America, it is the fourth largest ...

[[Image:Portrait of David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips.jpg|thumb|right ... is credited with systematizing economics in the nineteenth century, and was ...

short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...

quot;), also referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... The development of the office of Prime Minister coincides with the ...

more advanced designs became a major source of mechanical power during the ... although other sources of heat such as solar power, nuclear power ...

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...

1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature ... Sherwood's childhood was uneventful, although she recalled it ...

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1847) (Irish: Dónal Ó Conaill), known as The Liberator, ... or The Emancipator, A Short History of Ireland: Monster Meetings. BBC. ...

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...

remembered primarily for three major works, the Speculum Meditantis, Vox Clamantis ... Gower was very popular in his own times, and his influence on the ...

The Gospel of Matthew (literally, "according to Matthew"; ... The Christian community traditionally ascribes authorship to Matthew ...

Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...

Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after ... impact. Indeed, Islam has become woven into the very fabric of Indian civilization ...

a radical departure in poetics and framed the American experience in terms ... Whitman's poetry advanced a new aesthetic that boldly fused the ...

writer, academic, journalist, and scholar of early modern English literature ... controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international ...

The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the ... The reign of Titus was struck by multiple natural disasters, the most ...

thumb|250px|Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...

Cusco (also spelled Cuzco, and in the Quechua language as Qusqu ... ) is a city in southeastern Peru near the Sacred Valley in the Andes ...

Refrigeration is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space ... Cold is the absence of heat, hence in order to decrease a temperature ...

The Apostle Peter, also known as Saint Peter, and Cephas—original ... role by Jesus, who reportedly gave him the keys of heaven and called ...

Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from ... was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art ...

Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... 039; lives. Widely worshiped among Hindus as the lord of beginnings, Ganesha ...

who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...

A galaxy is a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of ... May 18, 2018. all orbiting a common center of mass. Galaxies can also contain ...

“rikishi” face off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin ... The Japanese consider Sumo a gendai budō (a modern Japanese martial ...

Vanilla is the common name and genus name for a group of vine-like ... flavor and scent and is widely used today in the preparation of desserts and ...

Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward VIII held the titles of ...

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...

English) is a strong mineral acid with the chemical formula H2SO4. It ... million tonnes, with an approximate value of $8 billion. Principal uses ...

to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...

Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ...

Miyamoto Bennosuke or Miyamoto Musana), was the best-known Japanese swordsman ... but he gradually came to realize that the strategic principles and practical ...

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the ... ). From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day has been associated ...

The Tibetan people are indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...

especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Lawrence was made a Companion in the Order of the Bath and awarded ...

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth ... The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the ...

The Storming of the Bastille ( Prise de la Bastille pʁiz də la bastij| insurgents storming and seizing control of the medieval armory, fortress ...

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... *Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)(Great Britain)-1942 ...

; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...

Shogi (将棋 shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a ... The oldest document referring to shogi dates from the tenth century ...

Viking refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors ... In the main remembered for their ferocity and pillaging raids, the ...

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In general terms, geothermal energy is thermal energy (the energy ... In terms of alternative energy, geothermal energy is the energy that ...

The Jesus myth hypothesis, or simply Jesus myth, refers to the theory ... The hypothesis was first proposed by historian and theologian Bruno ...

The RMS Titanic, a British Olympic class ocean liner, became famous ... In the early part of the twentieth century, White Star Line sought ...

The term Carthage refers both to an ancient city in North Africa—located ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...

The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the ... The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, following ...

process in which critical thinking faculties of the human mind are bypassed ... theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a ...

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... von Washington, knight commander of the Order of the Bath. ...

The King James Version of the Bible, or Authorized Version, first ... ==History of the Text== The New Testament of the King James Version ...

quot; in Hindi) or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and ... (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the princely ...

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... An Islamic nation, it is home mainly to the Tajiks, who share culture ...

) is a series of waves created when a body of water, such as an ocean ... and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometers long). Consequently ...

Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...

and naval officer. He was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War ... exonerated in a political influence scandal of the 1980s as a member of the ...

| image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg ... knighthood, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. This entitled him ...

, IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India ... The Arabian Sea borders Karnataka to the west, Goa to the northwest ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

converts solar energy into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes ... The term "photovoltaic" comes from the Greek φώς (phos ...

The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...

England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... England is often mistakenly considered the same as the United Kingdom ...

Θεσσαλονίκη [θesaloˈnici]), is the second-largest city in Greece ... ), literally "the co-capital", url=https://books.google.com/books ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...