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  • Easter, also called Pascha, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion ...
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  • Bede (IPA: /biːd/ ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: /beda/ ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a Benedictine ...
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  • Dylan Marlais Thomas, (October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953) was an Anglo-Welsh poet who is widely considered one of the most influential English ...
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  • The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of Igbo and Cross River allies led by the Aro people which flourished in the ...
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  • British neighbors, nor very different from the Anglo-Saxons to the south.Ewan Campbell. Saints and Sea-kings: The First Kingdom of the Scots. (Edinburgh ...
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  • Henry III (October 1, 1207 – November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England, reigning for fifty-six years ...
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  • An adjective, in grammar, is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjective's subject), giving more ...
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  • The Spanish Armada or Great Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidona in 1588. ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[image:john.gower.southwark.london.arp.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The effigial monument ...
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  • Authority control is a term used in library and information science to refer to the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[image:Kataeb-miliita-crop.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lebanese Kataeb militia]] ...
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  • Category:Image wanted [[File:John Hume 2008.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John Hume]] John Hume (born January 18, 1937) is an Irish politician from Northern ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet, it was effected by Gen. Fazlollah ...
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  • The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company between 1814 and 1816. It is sometimes called the Gorkha War or the ...
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  • Category:Economists Robbins, Lionel Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (November 22, 1898 - May 15, 1984) was a British economist, famous for ...
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  • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524 or 525 C.E.) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ...
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  • Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855. A Roman by birth, Leo had been a Benedictine monk and served in the papal curia ...
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  • Richard Hooker (March 1554 – November 3, 1600) was an influential Anglican theologian, regarded, together with Thomas Cranmer and Matthew Parker ...
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  • Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), known for his writings as C. S. Lewis and by his friends and associates as Jack ...
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  • Odin (Old Norse: Óðinn) is the chief god in Norse mythology whose role in the Norse pantheon is complex and multivalent: he is known as the ...
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