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  • King Cheoljong (1831 - 1863) (r. 1849-1863) was the 25th king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. Cheoljong was only a very distant relative of his ...
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  • Bimbisara (ruled 544-491 B.C.E.) was a king of the Magadha empire and belonged to Haryanaka dynasty, which ruled until approximately 326 B.C ...
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  • Sinmun of Silla (r. 681 – 692) was the thirty-first king of Silla ... was the eldest son of Silla's unifier-king, King Munmu (문무왕, 文武王 ...
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  • House," it earlier referred to the king's palace but eventually ... The earliest instance where pr-`3 is used specifically to address ...
    12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
  • Conference (SCLC) with Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery was tireless in ...
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  • She was the daughter of King Eirik II of Norway and Margaret, daughter ... in June of 1281. With only one son of the King, also named Alexander, then ...
    12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
  • Jizi had been a relative of the last king of the Shang Dynasty, King ... that Jizi went to Joseon. In this account, King Wu of Zhou recognized Jizi ...
    11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
  • from 1908 until 1917, when he proclaimed himself king of Hejaz, which received international recognition. His family had ruled the Hejaz since 1201 ...
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  • Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (1574 – 1641) was the fifteenth king of the Joseon Dynasty. His personal name was Yi Hon (李琿). He came to ...
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  • Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea and the father of King Sejong the Great, did not take the throne ...
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  • #: The assassin poisoned the king. # (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous. #: That factory is poisoning the river. ...
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  • Jehoiakim ("he whom Jehovah has set up," Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים) was one of the last kings of Judah. The son of King Josiah, ...
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  • Farouk I of Egypt ‎(February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt ...
    13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
  • Alexander Jannaeus (also known as Alexander Jannai/Yannai) was king and high priest of Judea from (103 B.C.E. to 76 B.C.E.). His Hebrew name ...
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  • name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...
    14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
  • games, and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia, famous for his ... ==King of the gods== Zeus [[Image:Zeus Hermitage St. Petersburg 20021009 ...
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  • including the Cave of the Divine King, Cave of the Great Kings, ... the largest and most important monasteries. King Valagambahu has been traditionally ...
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  • Yi Ha-eung, best known by his title as regent to King Gojong, Daewongun ... Yi Myeongbok was crowned King Gojong of Joseon in 1864, and Daewongun ...
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  • in an intellectual contest in the court of King Darius and thus won the king ... than a warning from God given through the Egyptian king. ...
    11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
  • 9, 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV of Scotland and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. It ...
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