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22 hours ago · Charles II of Spain[a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), also known as El Hechizado, or the Bewitched, was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor. Charles became king at the age of four, but ...
22 hours ago · Built for the Kassite King Kurigalzu I. [108] Treasury of Atreus: Greece: Europe: 1250 BCE Tomb The tallest and widest dome in the world for over a thousand years. [109] Chogha Zanbil: Iran: Asia: 1250 BCE Temple One of the few extant ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia. [110] Mortuary Temple of Seti I: Egypt: Africa: 13th century BCE Temple ...
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22 hours ago · Edward I[a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly ...
22 hours ago · The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]
22 hours ago · Warsaw. Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [7][b] is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous ...
22 hours ago · Virgin Mary depicted by Muslim painter Hossein Nuri. In Islam, Mary is known as Maryam (Arabic: مريم, romanized: Maryam), mother of Isa (عيسى بن مريم). She is often referred to by the honorific title "Sayyidatuna", meaning "Our Lady"; this title is in parallel to "Sayyiduna" ("Our Lord"), used for the prophets. [42]
22 hours ago · Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1937, MA and Ph.D., Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer (such that Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau" for broad scope of his writing reflected upon such topics as the mind of Sir Francis Bacon, the prehistoric origins of man, and the ...
