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1557, the Emperor Jiajing (嘉靖帝, the 12th emperor), ordered the transcription ... reign of the Emperor Jiajing (嘉靖帝 the 12th emperor), the Encyclopedia ...

India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century (Pearson Education, 2009 ... India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century. Pearson Education, 2009 ...

made up Bradley's new command, the 12th Army Group. By August, the ... River Elbe in mid-April. By V-E Day, the 12th Army Group was a force of ...

on a global scale until the nineteenth century, the idea of public education ... success, but by the late eighteenth century the physical extent of some ...

plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with ...

until developments in the late nineteenth century with Gottlob Frege and Bertrand ... *Copi, Irving M., and Carl Cohen. Introduction to Logic (12th ed. ...

an ancestor of the Kara-Khitans, 10-12th century CE.]] ... From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh Century China Sung's Foreign ...

Apsaras dance on a stone pillar in the 12th century temple called the Bayon ... counted more than 1,860 at the twelfth Century monument, some carved on ...

Suffolk, in the course of the fourteenth century, and members of it occasionally ... In 1771, he was again sent to Germany, this time for duty with the ...

Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ... had occurred by the beginning of the tenth century C.E., a couple of centuries ...

in the first half of the nineteenth century. Hudson's Bay Company ... In the nineteenth century, Yukon was a segment of the Hudson Bay Company ...

Mount Sinai. However, in the fourth century, under the Byzantine Empire ... (French Calvinists) in 1583 during its 12th National Synod: ...

later than Thutmose's own death in his 12th regnal year.Gardiner, 1964 ... had been built under Sesostris III of the 12th Dynasty—to be dredged in ...

won international renown during the past century, brought to the world's ... and botanists in literature for over a century and in Hindu mythology for ...

largest electoral successes in the twentieth century. Gill Bennett ... * Pons, Silvio, and Robert Service (eds.). A Dictionary of 20th-Century ...

quot; (or living Imam), since the 12th Imam of the majority of Shi'a, who went into "occultation" in 940 C.E. is referred to as ...

composer, one of five great nineteenth-century Russian composers known ... permeated Russian culture of the late 19th century. Though Tchaikovsky was ...

European explorers arrived in the eleventh century. French colonists established ... since the middle of the twentieth century. Fishing, mining, forestry ...

Pagan to Christian: The Story in the 12th-Century Tapestry of the Skog Church.]] ... * Leiren, Terje I. From Pagan to Christian: The Story in the 12th ...

Founded perhaps as early as the tenth century, Timbuktu is an African ... African continent, when by the fourteenth century they had established a system ...

defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the ... the deadliest earthquake in the twentieth century and resulted in over 240 ...

book of poems, and spanned much of the nineteenth century. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult ...

However, during D-Day, several tank units, notably the 12th SS Panzer ... and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century. Penguin Group, 2006. ISBN ...

some did not comply, but Alastair MacIain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, waited until ... and Campbells—since the late twentieth century the Clachaig Inn, a hotel ...

gradually set in from about the second century B.C.E. For written texts ... of the Rigveda are dated from the eleventh century. The Vedic period ...

raised four daughters and one son, Henry, the 12th Viscount. ... it hope to survive into the twentieth century. Lieven states, that as ...

Revolutionary-Military Committee on October 12th. Dzerzhinsky was a member ... *Nenarokov, Albert P. Russia in the Twentieth Century. New York: William ...

Robert Service, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard ... "Year of the Great Break: Toward the 12th Anniversary of October" ...

The seventeenth century historian Bernabé Cobo said of the plaza: ... in Lima during the early twentieth century. It is located on land originally ...

Europe, especially from the twelfth century to the nineteenth century ... (French) half-timbered buildings date from the 12th century. ...

invasion of the country in the eighth century. However, a more popular ... At the end of the seventeenth century the vihuela was slowly replaced ...

the city's development. By the ninth century C.E. the city had become ... day Tunis, was founded in the ninth century B.C.E. by settlers from Tyre. ...

which did not survive into the twentieth century. While four teams from the ... L. and the 11 teams formed a new N.L.; the 12th team would be whichever of ...

would not have survived. Until the twelfth century brought translations from ... [[Image:Diagrammatic T-O world map - 12th century.jpg|thumb|The medieval ...

– September 15, 1938) was a twentieth century American novelist and short ... brain. An attempt to operate on September 12th revealed that the entire right ...

Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ... island in Indonesia and is the world's 12th largest island with an area ...

until the beginning of the twentieth century, that is, they were hostile ... from London. He departed the morning of the 12th, gathering what available ...

and Zhejiang, mostly in the second century B.C.E., only to be stopped ... After the Han Dynasty collapsed at the end of the second century ...

the great international statesmen of this century. I have never seen such ... Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Penguin Books ...

*Rees-Moog, William. "Time the mandarins joined the 21st century." The Times. October 30, 2000. *Swan, Conrad. "The forgotten babies ...

Haeinsa serves as the head temple of the 12th Diocese of the Korean Buddhist ... hermitage in the late twentieth century. Far from serving as solely ...

carnival and parody traditions of the twelfth century, Boureau (1988) ... pope exists from earlier than the mid-12th century, almost exactly four hundred ...

In the twelfth century, King Richard the Lionheart enclosed the White ... A Royal Menagerie was established at the Tower in the thirteenth century ...

Beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century, Lusaka became ... In the 12th century, waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants arrived. In ...

various individuals from the seventeenth century, it developed as an intellectual ... broke out shortly after noon of the 12th, and the week-long scuffles ...

at the beginning of the twentieth century, is Dallas's other ... Before Texas was claimed in the sixteenth century as a part of New ...

for the building of the Panama Canal over a half-century later. Under Taylor´s administration, the United States Department of the Interior was ...

in either the eleventh or the thirteenth century, when the city converted ... The first mosque on the site was built in the thirteenth century, ...

quarter but for the rest of the nineteenth century it never reached within ... * Morley, J. The Life of Richard Cobden, 12th edition. London: T. ...

By the thirteenth century, many European towns were demanding that ... has its origins in the eighteenth century, when surgeons were barber ...

their Christianity. In the twentieth century, some Egyptian nationalists ... and the Muslims remained through the 12th century, such as the 1176 revolt ...

pancakes on Shrove Tuesday dates to the sixteenth century. ... de Bienville, in the late seventeenth century, when King Louis XIV sent ...

likely written during the fifth century, contained authoritative ... Johannes Goropius Becanus in the sixteenth century and Athanasius Kircher in ...

city of Dubrovnik by the end of the eleventh century. Positioned at ... Ragusa and Dubrava was reclaimed in the 12th century, unifying the city around ...

clay tablets in the library of the seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal ... and publicized in the nineteenth century. Utnapishtim's story ...

manufacturing industry. In the twentieth century, Sweden emerged as a welfare ... [[Image:Scandinavia-12th century.png|thumb|right|300px|Kingdoms of ...

Han Dynasty in the beginning of the third century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional ... China at the beginning of the fourth century began nearly three centuries ...

he obtained a commission as ensign in the 12th Foot of the the Suffolk Regiment ... was lain out in the early years of the twentieth century. ...

are foreign texts dating from the ninth century. Three others are East Slavic ... Ahmad ibn Rustah, a tenth century Muslim geographer from Persia, wrote ...

major centre. The empire in the nineteenth century is often referred to as ... increased in power during the nineteenth century. The Sultan is chosen by ...

The South Korean economy is now the 12th largest economy in the world ... dynasties, emerging into the twenty-first century with an identity crisis ...

that time and continued until only about a century before the present day. ... Rabbi Petachiah of Ratisbon, a twelfth century Jewish traveler, reported ...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, issues shifted to involve ... During the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, several militant groups staged ...

started arriving at some time before the seventh century C.E.. ... to Cyprus to visit Lazarus in the first century C.E., when the ship was ...

On maps from the nineteenth century (as early as 1810 John Pinkerton ... The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cusco area around the 12th ...

1833-1834. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Oregon Trail had been ... according to the USGS, the 12th largest in the United States. ...

reforms of King Josiah in the seventh century B.C.E. Beersheba languished ... King Josiah of Judah in the late seventh century B.C.E., on the grounds that ...

and compromises essential to fourteenth century politics and diplomacy, ... nobles, such as Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick, Richard Fitzalan ...

By the mid-twelfth century, most of continental Southeast Asia was ... surviving structure is probably the tenth-century Nat Hlaung Gyaung. The shrines ...

* 9th Battery, 12th Regiment, Royal Artillery * 50 naval ratings from ... against the British camp. The eighteenth century historian, Ghulam Husain ...

school attendance in the nineteenth century, most education worldwide ... in the West began in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century ...

from Ukraine in the beginning of twentieth century), the effects here were ... Ukrainian self-determination. At the 12th Congress of the Communist ...

Haleakalā on Maui in the late eighteenth century. The newest volcano is Lōihi ... missionaries in the early nineteenth century, who assigned letters from ...

his maternal grandfather, George Gordon, 12th Laird of Gight, a descendant ... was unusual for a man of the nineteenth century. ==Scandal and Exile== ...

unify Japan, which had been disrupted by a century of civil strife. The period ... It was not until the late nineteenth century that Japan would again fight ...

selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In February ... Bob Broeg's Redbirds: A Century of Cardinals’ Baseball ...

Around the third century B.C.E., the central area of Yunnan around ... In the fourth century, northern China was largely overrun by nomadic ...

approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Although establishing the ... Polyphony, in use since the 12th century, became increasingly elaborate ...

to Greece around the tenth or ninth century B.C.E. The Greek word for ... did not become commonplace before the 12th century. It has been argued, ...

white, Europeans. From the days of the nineteenth century gold rush, when many Chinese came to dig for gold, public opinion favored Caucasian over non ...

The term classical mechanics was coined in the early twentieth century ... who along with al-Khazini in the 12th century, unified statics and dynamics ...

world in the last 100 years. It has been a century of massive social, economic ... Northwest Passage followed in the 17th century, including Henry Hudson ...

were popular throughout the eighteenth century and remain so today. They ... fashionable street in the late eighteenth century. (Fellow playwright Sean ...

Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the Netherlands, was founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village ...

from Dunkerque and came to London on the 12th and lodgeth at the house of ... among the most successful of seventeenth-century Britain's indigenous ...

and that such dependence still existed a century later, supporting a view ... politics of America for the past half century, and how myths and suspicion ...

Alleghany Mountains by the mid-eighteenth century. A band of the Nanticoke ... New transportation links in the early nineteenth century encouraged ...

of the United States, Minnesota is the 12th-largest state by area. ... who arrived in the 1600s. Late that century, the Ojibwe Indians migrated ...

Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century, 111–112. Another council ... Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century, 159. However, Walter did ...

Sumeria about 4,500 years ago. By the 15th century, toxic chemicals such as ... * Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment, 12th ed. Belmont: ...

of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict ... had explored the Ohio Country nearly a century earlier. ...

sort you must be ruthless" and 20th century democratic Britain would ... Battle of the Bulge, the front of the U.S. 12th Army Group was split, with ...

and pluricontinental nation since the 15th Century, if the country were to ... * Gallagher, Tom. Portugal: A Twentieth-Century Interpretation. Manchester ...

crusaders in the second half of the 12th century, attracted by a sparsely ... weakened by the end of the fourteenth century, when political alliances ...

who was writing in Al-Andalus in the 12th century, admired him deeply and ... until the early years of the twentieth century, the first modern censored ...

times between the middle of the second century B.C.E. and the first century ... announced the discovery of a new, 12th cave. There was one blank ...

most influential people of the twentieth century. He is credited by many ... "Abbas and the 12th Imam of Shia," Ansar.org [http://www ...

978-1371253288). From the mid-twentieth century, poetry has sometimes been ... (15 B.C.E.–50 C.E.), Marie de France (12th century), Biernat of Lublin (1465 ...

hits, and was later acknowledged as the 12th most profitable American film ... for Three Came Home, and although 20th Century Fox postponed the production ...

in the early part of the ninteenth century was from the west country ... Throughout the ninteenth century, shipbuilding, both on the Bay of ...

During the mid-eighteenth century, Qianlong began to face severe pressures ... * 12th: Prince Yong Ji, son of the Demoted Empress Ulanara, the Step ...

(from about 1,000 B.C.E. to the fourth century B.C.E.). Scenes of everyday ... art which had its origins in the 12th century. In water puppetry, the ...

Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ... الحريري back to the 12th century ]] Historiography of early ...

they encountered in the early seventeenth century. The origin and exact ... ;Archaic Era - 8th millennium B.C.E. to 12th century B.C.E. ...

his father. By the end of the nineteenth century, the RLDS had also rejected ... of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 12th edition. Independence, MO: ...

110,000 in the early twenty-first century—of American Indians of ... from Virginia during the eighteenth century. They were concentrated ...

Chinese texts from the third century C.E. contain the first records ... first-world status by the end of the twentieth century. ...

[[Image:Liber Iudiciorum visigòtic.png|thumb|150px|From the 12th ... The name Catalunya (Catalonia) began to be used in the twelfth century ...

Spanish Inquisition. In the seventeenth century, it was known for its religious ... to this day. Up until the nineteenth century, peat was dug up, dried ...

been conceived sometime in the fourteenth century, likely as a humanization ... Further, one notorious tengu from the 12th century was himself understood ...

| Session = 12th | Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/483 ... Tourism has been a factor at Chichen Itza for more than a century ...

In the second half of the 20th century, renewal often resulted in ... drastically in Detroit during the 12th Street Riot. By the 1970s many ...

Gershom's ban since the eleventh century. Some Sephardi and Mizrahi ... Wednesday 12th This A.M, I wrote a Revelation consisting of 10 pages ...

Americans by the turn of the twentieth century. Whites in Virginia continued ... first Republican governor in the twentieth century. Holton was succeeded by ...

until the Gupta period (fourth to sixth century C.E.), by which time the ... is based on an early Iron Age (c. tenth century B.C.E.) collection that ...

or cited it after its recanonization in the late 12th century can be advised to begin with one of the 18 or so versions believed to have been transcribed ...

In the Book of Daniel (second century B.C.E.), there occur the names ... In visual portrayals beginning at the end of the fourth century C ...

| era = 20th century | color = #B0C4DE ... lighting a dhuni fire in a fire-ring on the 12th of each month. After dhuni ...

notes that had been used since the 7th century. However, they did not displace ... to issue banknotes, and in the early 12th century the government finally ...

Leonard Cohen's 12th studio album, Old Ideas, was released worldwide ... Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, was recorded after a triumphant ...

in the Middle Ages. By the fifth century Greece had started using ... hydraulic-powered trip hammer by the first century B.C.E. Although it found ...

Egypt (1st - 2nd Dynasties; until c. 27th century B.C.E.) ... *Coptic (3rd–12th century C.E.) ===Writing=== Egyptologists refer ...

account written in the mid to late ninth century mentions a Julian, count ... It was not until Queen Ximena in the ninth century that Pamplona was officially ...

Lutang (孫祿堂) in the early twentieth century, it has developed a worldwide ... Shaolin Temple in Henan during the sixth century, taught physical exercises ...

"Power transformers – the second century" Power Engineering ... *Heathcote, MJ. 1998. J&P Transformer Book, 12th ed. Oxfod, UK: ...

Since the last half of the twentieth century, Ohio State University has ... graduates currently places Ohio State as 12th in the nation and tenth among ...

and in Europe dates to the 4th or 5th century.Milham, Willis I. (1945 ... Pieter and François Hemony in the 17th century reliably cast many bells ...

its theoretical relationship to the sixth century Chalukya dynasty of Badami ... Caliphate in Bhagdad, and by the 12th century Chinese fleets frequented ...

. That civilization vanished in the 15th century for unknown reasons. ... were the foundation to the nineteenth century Chicago; the expansion of ...

to the Russian Far East in the nineteenth century, later deported to Central ... Report 19, December 1982 -January 8, 1993 (12th Report) U.S.-Russian Joint ...

#039;s reign during the late fifteenth century, Japan, too, gained a seat ... By the last decade of the sixteenth century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi as ...

transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century.]] from the dark ages of the late tenth century and evolved into the Gothic ...

brought Islam, which by the sixteenth century, was established in the ... Mexico, beginning in the late sixteenth century. The Philippines opened ...

cabin that opened in 1859 on the corner of 12th Street between Market and ... of that history, each year for more than a century, Denver hosts the National ...

is on water or on foot. In the 19th century a causeway to the mainland ... in Italy from Euboea island in the eighth century B.C.E., were possibly the ...

Greek historian, Herodotus, of the fifth century B.C.E. ... a chronicle composed in the fifteenth century, states that the name is ...

| Caption =12th century stone sculpture of God Vishnu ... In Sri Vaishnavism, another school dating from around the tenth century ...

him from the harsh rigors of eighteenth century New England farm life."Daniel ... Colonel in the Civil War commanding the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, but ...

of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century to the beginning of the ... referred to as the Renaissance of the 12th century. Meanwhile, trade grew ...

text written beginning in the second century B.C.E .and compiled in the ... [[File:HippocraticOath.jpg|thumb|upright|A 12th-century [[Byzantine ...

event of either military or twentieth century history. The cultural and ... the policing exercises of the nineteenth century, in the days when the Royal ...

including Shirley Temple from 20th Century Fox, at the time, the most ... this technique. publisher = Twenty-First Century Books| isbn = 978-0-7613 ...

marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century, Manila (then Maynilad) ... In the mid-sixteenth century, the area of present-day Manila was governed ...

at Montreal 1956, scoring 7/10 to tie for 8-12th places, with Larry Evans winning. ... Master, was called "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch. At ...

Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century that the economic ministries ... The 12th and last plan was characterized by perestroika. During the ...

At the turn of the century, political machines attempted to gain clout ... robbed the Kansas City Fairgrounds at 12th Street and Campbell Avenue ...

the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As historian Richard Pipes ... election date was finally set for November 12th. The first meeting of the ...

of antisemitic violence. In the nineteenth century, the Reform Jewish movement ... these commentaries. Beginning with the 12th century they worked independently ...

The late twentieth century saw two breakthroughs in the field. The ... Stars with Giant Planets,] Proceedings of 12th Cambridge Workshop on Cool ...

centimeters) were all being used. By the 12th dynasty, metal hooks with ... Canning, developed during the 19th century, has also had a significant ...

by Greece in the late nineteenth century, also played a part; the ... to court for the return of four rare sixth century Byzantine mosaics which ...

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the House was frequently ... Pelosi, who represents California's 12th congressional district within ...

|1982–2011: Deputy, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Supreme People ... * Kleiner, Jürgen. Korea, a Century of Change. River Edge, NJ: World ...

are frequently traced to the nineteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant ... not only a democracy, but the world's 12th largest economy. Arguably ...

a leader of the Third Crusade in the 12th century. Barbarossa was the major ... course of both World War II and twentieth century history. ...

as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He was in government office ... it was to become from the mid nineteenth century. Lord Palmerston preferred ...

and culture. Before the nineteenth century, Romanian documents use ... country in southeastern Europe and the 12th-largest in Europe, or slightly ...

First settled in the tenth century B.C.E. by speakers of Proto-South ... burial monuments (dolmen) in the tenth century B.C.E. resembling their ...

roots, however, begin in the seventeenth century, when British, Dutch, and ... In the nineteenth century, the U.S. became an industrial power. The ...

in the field of entertainment at the 12th Soul Train Music Awards.magazine ... Top-selling R&B Female Artist of the Century with certified US sales ...

Idrisi called it Salunik already in the 12th century. It is the basis for the ... size, with a population of 150,000 in the mid-12th century. ...

Despite an expanse of more than half a century since the division ... particularly tense in the twenty-first century. In 2002, U.S. President ...

when visiting the city in the 19th century, who, sending a letter back ... The latter arrived around the 14th century to settle first on the shores ...

From the twentieth century, worldwide consciousness that international ... org/ New Hope Academy], pre-school through 12th grade, Landover Hills, Maryland. ...

day Cádiz) near Tartessos. In the ninth century B.C.E., the first Greek ... during the Second Punic war in the second century B.C.E., and annexed it under ...

At the end of the 17th century, Peter the Great, who was interested ... in the city architecture of the early 18th century. In 1724 the Academy of ...