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Benedict of Aniane (also called Witiza, the Second Benedict) (c. 747 – 11 February 821) was a saint born in France. The son of the Goth, Aigulf, Count of Maguelone in Languedoc, France, Witiza was educated at the Frankish court of Pippin the Younger, and entered the royal service. After taking part in the Italian campaign of Charlemagne in 773 where he almost drowned in the Tesin near Pavia while trying to save his brother, Benedict decided to become a priest. He was received into the monastery of St. Sequanus (Saint-S ...

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The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the United States and Imperial Japan during February and March of 1945, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. As a result of the battle, the United States gained control of the island of Iwo Jima, and the airfields located there. The battle is famous for the raising of the US flag by American troops during the battle. Japan suffered a heavy loss; about 21,000 Japanese troops were entrenched on the island, and only 200 survived. The fighting was intense and the American troops cap ...

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• Battle of Iwo Jima - The Island
• Battle of Iwo Jima - Background
• Battle of Iwo Jima - Japanese Defense Preparations
• Battle of Iwo Jima - D-Day
• Battle of Iwo Jima - Dramatizations

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Saint Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879) was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. From February to July 1858, she reported eighteen visions of "a lady" who is believed to be the Virgin Mary. Her story made the town a major site for pilgrimages. In 1933 she was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church. Bernadette was the daughter of François Soubirous, a miller, and his wife Louise, a laundress. She was the eldest of six children. Hard times had fallen on rural France and t ...

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Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: eKapa or SaseKapa) is the third most populous city in South Africa. As the oldest city in South Africa, it is known affectionately as the Mother City. It is the legislative capital of South Africa, as well as capital of the Western Cape province. Cape Town is famous for its natural harbour, as well as its location near the Cape of Good Hope. Its central area is dominated by Table Mountain, so named after its flat top ...

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• Cape Town - History
• Cape Town - Government
• Cape Town - Demographics
• Cape Town - Tourism
• Cape Town - Sports teams and stadiums
• Cape Town - Transport
• Cape Town - Further education in Cape Town

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Charles X Gustav (Karl X Gustav) (November 8, 1622 – February 13, 1660), was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death. He was the son of John Casimir, Margrave of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and Princess Catherine of Sweden, half-sister of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who produced his son and successor, Charles XI. Charles X was the second Wittelsbach king of Sweden after Christopher. Charles X Gustav of Sweden - Heir to the throne. H ...

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• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - Heir to the throne
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - Early days as King
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - War on Poland
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - War on Denmark
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - The Estates in Gothenburg
• Charles X Gustav of Sweden - Family

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Barbara Clementine Harris (born 12 June 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion and in any branch of Christianity that believes in Apostolic succession. Prior to her ordination to the priesthood, Harris served as head of public relations for the Sun Oil Company. Harris has long been active in civil rights issues, participating in freedom rides and marches in the 1960s. Throughout her various careers, ...

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Barbara Pierce Bush (born June 8, 1925) is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of current U.S. President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and the sister of Scott Pierce. Barbara Bush - Early life. Barbara Pierce was the third child of the former Pauline Robinson (1896-1949) and her husband, Marvin Pierce (1893-1969), who later became president of McCall Corporation, the publis ...

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• Barbara Bush - Early life
• Barbara Bush - Marriage and family
• Barbara Bush - First Lady of the United States
• Barbara Bush - Later life
• Barbara Bush - Controversies

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George Alexander Kohut (April 22, 1842 – May 25, 1894) was a rabbi and orientalist; born at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died in New York. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being R. Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, R. Amram (called "The Gaon," who died in Safed, Palestine, where he had spent the last years of his life), and R. Chayyim Kitssee, rabbi in Erza, who was his great-granduncle. Th ...

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• Alexander Kohut - Early Training
• Alexander Kohut - Talmud Dictionary
• Alexander Kohut - New York

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The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Neapolitan doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 (Note: The papal bull Inter gravissimas was signed in the year 1581 for unknown reasons, but printed on 1 March 1582. Although the use of the date 1581 is often attributed to the supposed adoption by the papacy of a reckoning by which the year began on 25 March, other contemporaneous papal bulls have years that do not agree with March years, let alo ...

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• Gregorian calendar - History
• Gregorian calendar - Invention
• Gregorian calendar - Beginning of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Adoption outside of Roman Catholic nations
• Gregorian calendar - Proleptic Gregorian calendar
• Gregorian calendar - Confusion with British vs. American usage
• Gregorian calendar - Difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates
• Gregorian calendar - Months of the year
• Gregorian calendar - Accuracy
• Gregorian calendar - Calendar seasonal error
• Gregorian calendar - Numerical facts
• Gregorian calendar - Number of leap years starting on a given day of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Days of the week
• Gregorian calendar - Reference

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History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Background. For a discussion of the period of history leading up to apartheid, see History of South Africa. The first recorded use of the word "apartheid" (International Phonetic Alphabet [əˈpɑː(r)teɪt] or [-taɪt] in English and [aˈpartheid] in Afrikaans) was in 1917 during ...

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• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Creation of apartheid
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Background
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Legal system created
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - The apartheid system
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Apartheid in South Africa from day to day
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - The homeland system
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Forced Removals
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Black White Indian and coloured
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Apartheid in international law
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Resistance
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - The ANC and the Pan African Congress
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - The Sharpeville Massacre
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Resistance goes underground
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - The Black Consciousness Movement and the Soweto riots
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - White resistance
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - International relations
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - UN arms embargo
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Total onslaught
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Destabilisation and sabotage
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Conservatism
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - State security
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - HIV/AIDS epidemic
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Winds of change
• History of South Africa in the apartheid era - Notes

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History of Yemen. History of Yemen - Ancient history. Yemen was one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Near East. Its relatively fertile land and adequate rainfall in a moister climate helped sustain a stable population, a feature recognized by the ancient Greek geographer Ptolemy, who described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia (better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning "fortunate Arabia." Between the 12th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was dominated by three ...

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• History of Yemen - Ancient history
• History of Yemen - Persian period
• History of Yemen - Medieval history
• History of Yemen - Modern History
• History of Yemen - Former North Yemen
• History of Yemen - Former South Yemen
• History of Yemen - Republic of Yemen

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Bahá'u'lláh's family covers Bahá'u'lláh's family, in particular his three wives and his children. Bahá'u'lláh (بهاءالله "The Glory of God" in Arabic) was the founder and prophet of the Bahá'í Faith. He was born to a Persian nobleman in 1817 and went out to be a leader in the Bábí movement, and then established the Bahá'í Faith in 1863. Bahá'u'lláh's family - Titles of descendents. One of Bahá'u'lláh's titles is "Sadratu'l-Muntahá", which translates from Arabic as the tree beyond ...

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• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Titles of descendents
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Ásiyih Khánum title given by Bahá'u'lláh: Navváb
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Fatimih Khanum title given by Bahá'u'lláh: Mahd-i-'Ulya
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Gawhar Khanum
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Controversy and Confusion
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Facts
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Range of different possibilities
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Possible rebuttals

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Janet Jackson released her third album Control on March 2, 1986. It would prove to be the beginning of an amazing career. The album featured production by successful producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis as well as Ms. Jackson herself. The subject matter dealt with Janet's independence,emergence from the Jackson family, and recent annulment from James DeBarge. She wanted to be known as an individual and this was the album that set the stage for her inevitable success. The album went 5x Platinum (as of December 2005) and spawned s ...

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• Control album - Track listing
• Control album - Personnel
• Control album - Singles released

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Aryabhata was India's first satellite, named after the great Indian astronomer of the same name. It was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975 from Kapustin Yar using a Cosmos-3M launch vehicle. Aryabhata was built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to conduct experiments related to astronomy. The satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere on 11 February 1992. Other related archives11 February, 19 April, 1975, 1992, Aryabhata, Cosmos-3M, Indian, Indian Space Resea

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Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal and headquarters of Darjeeling district, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya at elevations of between 2,000 and 3,000 metres above sea level. With India attaining independence on 15 August 1947, the district of Darjeeling remained in the partitioned section of Bengal (West Bengal) and therefore in the Indian union. With the district's sub-Himalayan and geographical condition, it occupied a unique status in the state. The only remaining industry, that is the Te ...

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• Darjeeling - Notable people

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The War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Habsburg dominions in 1740, namely becoming Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, and Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla. For a woman to inherit such vast territories involved many complications, which were perceived long before, and Emperor Charles VI had long anticipated them, getting all the other powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713. The plan was for her to succeed ...

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• War of the Austrian Succession - Frederick Invades Silesia: 1740
• War of the Austrian Succession - Silesian Campaign of 1741
• War of the Austrian Succession - The Allies in Bohemia
• War of the Austrian Succession - Campaign of 1742
• War of the Austrian Succession - The French at Prague
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1743
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1744
• War of the Austrian Succession - The campaign of 1745
• War of the Austrian Succession - Operations in Italy 1745-1747
• War of the Austrian Succession - Other theaters of operations
• War of the Austrian Succession - Later campaigns
• War of the Austrian Succession - General character of the War
• War of the Austrian Succession - Naval Operations
• War of the Austrian Succession - See Also

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USS Batfish (SS/AGSS-310), a Balao-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the batfish, any of several fishes; a pediculate fish of the West Indies, the flying gurnard of the Atlantic, or a California sting ray. Originally named Acoupa, hull SS-310 was renamed Batfish 24 September 1942; launched 6 May 1943 by Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Fortier; and commissioned 21 ...

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List of Presidents of Ethiopia - Chairmen of the Provisional Military Administrative Council 1974-1987. Aman Mikael Andom: 12 September - 17 November 1974 Mengistu Haile Mariam: 17 November - 28 November 1974 Tafari Benti: 28 November 1974 - 3 February 1977 Mengistu Haile Mariam: 11 February 1977 - 10 September 1987 List of Presidents of Ethiopia - Presidents of Ethiopia 1987-present. Mengistu Haile Mariam: 10 September 1987 - 21 Ma ...

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List of Presidents of Ethiopia, List of Presidents of Ethiopia - List of Heads of State of Ethiopia from 1974, List of Presidents of Ethiopia - Chairmen of the Provisional Military Administrative Council 1974-1987, List of Presidents of Ethiopia - Presidents of Ethiopia 1987-present

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1983 in South Africa - January. 26 January - One person is killed and five injured by a bomb the explodes at the New Brighton Community Council offices 30 January - A bomb explodes at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court Explosion 1983 in South Africa - February. 10 February - Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres burn 5 square kilometres of land in the Richards Bay area in an arson attack 11 February - The Drakensberg Administration Board offices are dama ...

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1983 in South Africa, 1983 in South Africa - Events, 1983 in South Africa - January, 1983 in South Africa - February, 1983 in South Africa - March, 1983 in South Africa - April, 1983 in South Africa - May, 1983 in South Africa - June, 1983 in South Africa - July, 1983 in South Africa - August, 1983 in South Africa - September, 1983 in South Africa - October, 1983 in South Africa - November, 1983 in South Africa - December, 1983 in South Africa - Unknown date, 1983 in South Africa - Births, 1983 in South Africa - Deaths

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There are four alternative moments (and three different persons) where the Kingship of Spain is considered to begin: in 1479, when Ferdinand, already King Consort of Castile as husband of Isabel I of Castile, inherits Kingdom of Aragon at his father John II of Aragon's death. However, after this, the kingdoms became separate shortly, as Juana la Loca and Philip of Austria inherited Castile in 1504, but Aragon remained Ferdinand's; he even married again and had he produced a son, that son would have taken precedence in Aragon and ...

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List of Spanish monarchs, List of Spanish monarchs - Kings Queens of Spain, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Habsburg / House of Austria, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Bourbon, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Bonaparte, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Bourbon first restoration, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Savoy, List of Spanish monarchs - Interregnum: First Republic, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Bourbon second restoration, List of Spanish monarchs - Interregnum: Second Republic and Franco era, List of Spanish monarchs - House of Bourbon third restoration, List of Spanish monarchs - Notes

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