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  • " it earlier referred to the king's palace but eventually became ... the nemes, an ornate kilt, and a double crown—to symbolize the unity of ...
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  • Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown and also known by its short ... ought to have. It asserts the Subject's right to petition the Monarch ...
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  • his king father in hiding during Japan's invasion of Korea, rebuilding ... to Lady Kim, a concubine, while Seonjo's Queen, Euiin, remained childless ...
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  • early kingdoms of Korea. He was the eldest son of Silla's unifier ... it was absorbed into Goryeo. Sinmun's father, King Munmu, and grandfather ...
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  • formal name of which is Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress The ... The Tower's primary function was a fortress, a royal palace, ...
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  • the usual form of authority, the term "royal charter" was common ... body. The principles of the charter's function, however, remain the ...
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  • while not as great as either his father's or son's, was historically ... Charibert, was the son of Pepin II's brother, Martin of Laon. Of ...
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  • was some skepticism he was really Canute's son, this was probably just ... England's magnates favored the idea of installing Harold Harefoot ...
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  • Retrieved December 16, 2022. Mary's uncle was King Charles II; ... Retrieved December 16, 2022. Mary's mother died in 1671; her father ...
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  • Beaufort remarried shortly after Henry's birth. Leaving her son with ... During her son's reign, Beaufort built a fine estate at Collyweston ...
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  • earlier. Among his father King Taejo's eight sons, he ultimately appears ... Taejong's foundational leadership played a vital role in establishing ...
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  • Catholics. "Toleration in France was a royal notion, and the religious ... Henrey IV believed that re-establishing royal authority in France ...
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  • up to the end of the monarchy and Korea's entry into the modern world ... orchestrated twelve year old Gojong's succession to the throne. Cheoljong ...
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  • of Hồ Chí Minh City, the country's largest city formerly known ... Forbidden City, modeled after China's Forbidden City. Much of the ...
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  • comet that bears his name. It was Halley's influence that caused Isaac ... in mathematics. He studied at St Paul's School, and then, in 1673, ...
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  • down through Gojong, the Joseon Dynasty's last king. Only direct descendants ... King Jeongjong's reign was even shorter than his father's ...
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  • was commemorated in Warsaw with Zygmunt's Column, commissioned by his ... == Royal titles == * Royal titles in Latin: Sigismundus Tertius Dei ...
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  • did not become entangled in other people's war, which is why she rejected ... by the grace of God, Valdemar Daneking's daughter" and "Denmark ...
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  • of Croatia (1308-1342). He belonged to the royal house of Anjou-Hungary, was ... whose efforts established his successor's achievements. Hungary's ...
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  • the Goryeo dynasty, at a time when rival royal clans were vying for political ... Taebong, and began his service under Gungye's command. ...
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  • e. those who held the lands directly of the crown in fee. last of all those of women, of the king's serjeants (servientes), of ...
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  • Taejo's father Yi Ja-chun was a former Mongol official, but his ... 500 years, the Joseon Dynasty. Taejo's role as military leader who ...
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  • His reign marked the continuing disintegration of royal power in England ... England. He has remained the patron saint of the Royal Family. ...
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  • afterwards, he claimed and received a crown from the pope and he became ... and, therefore, he named his sister's son, the Venetian Peter Urseolo ...
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  • what became the capital of one of Europe's most powerful and important ... kings through Louis Philippe, and all royal pretenders since then, have ...
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  • In Akhenaten's new state religion centered on the sun god, he ... was discovered in the ruins of an artist's shop in Amarna in 1912, now ...
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  • wage war. Afonso consolidated Portugal's Catholic identity, pledging ... Within less than 20 years of Afonso's death, Portugal was defined ...
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  • administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (country ... * [https://www.state.gov/u-s-bilateral-relations-fact-sheets/ U.S ...
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  • such case in British history. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued ... Anne's life was marked by many crises, both personally and relating ...
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  • in some of dramatic discoveries, including royal tombs, which revealed much ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...
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  • Taejo's career began in the turbulent Later Three Kingdoms period ... Taejo's ability as a military commander was soon recognized by ...
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  • On de Ulloa's return voyage, British privateers attacked his ... as only 5 parts per billion in the Earth's crust. In certain regions of ...
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  • and was ultimately named as Henry II's heir, but was unable to hold ... the ceremony and may have been Matilda's godmother. Matilda had blond ...
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  • " James truly believed that Mary's birth marked the end of the ... 1554, when he was succeeded by the Queen's mother, who continued as regent ...
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  • adopted the habits and customs of China's imperial tradition. Open to ... with them. Unfortunately, Kʻang-hsi's successors did not have the ...
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  • the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, it finally ... uniting both lands into one state. Roman's successors would mostly use ...
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  • explorations, which resulted in Spain's overseas empire and Spanish ... *Henry's half-brother Peter I of Castile and his wife, Maria ...
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  • or even ascend the throne without Parliament’s approval. Importantly, he ... Fair Maid of Kent". After Richard's elder brother had died in infancy ...
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  • also known as Lydia Kamakaeha Paki, had the royal name of Liliuokalani given ... Hawaii’s last sovereign queen was born on September 2, 1838, in ...
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  • of Normandy, but dependent on the British Crown. They comprise two separate ... commitment to looking after the Island’s native wildlife, and large ...
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  • During his youth, he served in the Royal Navy; he was, both during ... York) and was not expected to inherit the crown. He was baptized in the Great ...
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  • meant open rebellion against a ship’s captain. This occurred, for ... The Royal Navy’s Articles of War have changed slightly over the ...
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  • a delegate from the Parish of St. John's in the Colony of Georgia, not ... They had seized arsenals, driven out royal officials, and besieged the ...
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  • 1745, Maria Theresa obtained the imperial crown for her husband, Francis ... army, all of which strengthened Austria's resources. Continued conflict ...
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  • Coke is best known for his prevention of royal interference from manipulating ... Coke's works served not only as the definitive legal texts of ...
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  • in the north (including parts of today's North Korea, northeast China ... Kyushu in Japan, during that nation's formative years. The nature ...
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  • here. Crowntainers were developed by Crown Cork & Seal, now known ... off completely to be discarded. He received U.S. Patent No. 3,349,949 for his ...
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  • was controlled by Great Britain's first de facto Prime Minister ... Dorothea committed adultery but Sophia's refusal to stop her scandalous ...
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  • to restore the Jacobite line after James's death, but failed. James' ... Maria of France, was born at St. James's Palace in 1633 and created ...
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  • ; Royal Institute: Phummiphon Adunyadet) (December 5, 1927 - October ... The root of Bhumibol's longevity and endurance lay in his popularity ...
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  • years later in what was probably Bermuda's only independent military operation ... act, and this they submitted for the Crown's assent. The Crown ...
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  • Britain, but shared their and Germany's imperial ambitions. Leopold ... Leopold II and Marie Henriette Anne's children were: ...
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  • From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ... When George's father, King Edward VII died in 1910, he became ...
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  • played a major role in developing Korea's cultural tradition. Based upon ... From founding until becoming a full-fledged kingdom, Silla's ...
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  • he severely punished not only Israel's enemies, but also two Israelite ... ===Gideon's calling=== Gideon was the son of a man called Joash ...
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  • Owen Tudor, who was a squire in Henry V's court. After Henry's death ... of Grace, objecting to the King's "casting off" of ...
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  • in the soil of the land. Despite George's best efforts, the Greek monarchy ... He began his career in the Royal Danish Navy, but when only 17 was ...
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  • Dynasty Joseon Dynasties. Seongdeok's reign is recorded as the pinnacle ... Seongdeok was the second son of King Sinmun, Silla's thirty-first ...
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  • |official_name = Remembrance Day (Veterans Day For U.S.) ... silences, ceremonies honoring local veterans (U.S.) |longtype = ...
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  • The treaty resulted in the creation of the crown colony of Hong Kong, which ... Although a modestly sized colony, Hong Kong's strategic and economic ...
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  • 6, 1840, by representatives of the British Crown, and various Māori chiefs ... Considered New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty is nonetheless ...
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  • Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of ... Many of Goya's works are on display in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. ...
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  • The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ... The order's motto is fr|Honneur et Patrie (Honour and Fatherland ...
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  • of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother's accession in 1948, she became ... Wilhelmina's mother, Queen Emma, had acted as regent during her ...
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  • It is likely that Kobyla's origins were less spectacular. Not ... The family fortunes soared when Roman's daughter, Anastasia Zakharyina ...
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  • of Russia, which guaranteed Georgia's territorial integrity against ... Russia's failure to protect Kartli-Kakhetivery soon after the ...
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  • factions known as misls. Ranjit Singh's father Maha Singh was the commander ... every other part of it, where the rajah's influence and authority exists ...
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  • Fabergé eggs he designed for the Russian royal family until he was forced ... and have opened a store on Moscow's Red Square, bringing full circle ...
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  • Marseille, France, October 9, 1934) of the Royal House of Karađorđević ... be a union became a takeover. Alexander's own dictatorial style and centralization ...
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  • Dias, who had first rounded Africa's Cape of Good Hope in 1488, ... Da Gama's voyage was successful in establishing a sea route from ...
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  • in continuous occupation. The castle's floor area is approximately ... and sometimes their prison. The castle's history and that of the British ...
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  • Website of British Monarchy, [http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page44.asp ... Her father was a descendant of Edward IV's commoner Queen, Elizabeth Woodville ...
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  • and is best known for leading Goryeo's military to victory during ... and be long remembered. Gang Gam-chan's birth site is called Nakseongdae ...
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  • Shang Yang's economic theory placed an overwhelming emphasis ... Shang Yang’s real name was Kung-sun Yang; he was also known as Wei ...
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  • for five centuries as one of the world's longest running monarchies ... the Gyeongbokgung palace as the seat of royal power. An unbroken patrilineal ...
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  • xml&nav=7 The history of the Kyujanggak Royal Library, Seoul National Univ ... the 19th king, Sukjong, by Myeongseong's birth, the clan battled poverty ...
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  • time, a tradition was started within the royal Russian family that included ... presented as an Easter gift for the Tsar's wife Maria Fyodorovna. ...
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  • France from the beginning of her husband's reign in 1328 until 1589. Joan's significant patronage of learning sustained the tradition ...
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  • his elder brother, Edward. He served in the Royal Navy during World War I, ... Republic of Ireland in 1949, King George's reign saw the acceleration ...
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  • Angevin dynasty. He was one of Hungary's most active and accomplished ... of Stephen II of Bosnia who became Louis's vassal, and Elisabeth of Kuyavia ...
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  • who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution ... were the honorable ones who stood by the Crown and the British Empire. However ...
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  • or she acts as the head of His Majesty's Government and like other Prime ... Historically, the monarch's chief minister (if, as was not always ...
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  • consolidated the Capetian monarchy's rule, controlling a larger ... As prince, just before his father's death, he negotiated the ...
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  • Basin around 896, although Árpád's father, Álmos was probably ... one of the most "saintly" of all royal families. Just as Hungary ...
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  • throne of the kingdom. He received also the crown-princely title 2nd Prince ... Sidonia) was named regent in his father's will. His mental instability ...
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  • in the British parliament as a New Year’s gift to Queen Victoria on ... eldest son, Naungdawgyi (literally "Royal Elder Brother," born ...
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  • of the Bishop of Rome as Christ's deputy on earth. This understanding ... to have aroused the hostility of Rome's nobility, who saw the papal ...
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  • conservative mother of the previous crown prince, who had died before ... The Daewongun's treachery derived from the belief that Christianity ...
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  • It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ... of the poison arsenic in King George's hair have lent support to the ...
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  • in the eight years between Ahmose I's 17th regnal year and his death ... the kingdom formed by his father's military conquests and maintained ...
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  • He was himself overthrown by Edward's son, Edward III. In 1321, he ... assumed power and ordered Mortimer's execution by hanging. Mortimer ...
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  • to Paris. Conservative factions in Narai’s court, however, were suspicious ... he claimed descent from of the Lao royal lineage of Khun Borom. Scholar ...
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  • France. The Library was originated from the royal library by Charles V in 1368 ... The National Library of France traces its origin to the royal library ...
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  • houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent ... The Lancaster patriarch John of Gaunt's first title was Earl of Richmond ...
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  • In 668, under King Munmu (King Muyeol's successor) and the General ... in 674, defeated by General Kim Yu-shin's forces. Tang forces withdrew ...
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  • He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. ... to Catholicism shortly before Edward's birth, so Edward was baptized ...
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  • weakened the political authority of the crown. Many subjects broke away ... the existence of non-Muslim customs in the royal court after Dia Kossoi's ...
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  • as three territories, with a grouping under the Crown. Saint Helena ... is famous for being Napoleon Bonaparte's place of exile between 1815 ...
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  • as well continued to inspire Slovenian's desire to reunify their territory ... or Sanneck, on the river Sann, today's Savinja river, at Braslovče ...
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  • and became a subject of the British crown on January 22, 1727. His ... of Messiah stand as a legacy to Handel's Christian faith. Messiah was ...
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