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1450 - Events. March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen May 8 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. June 18 - Battle of Seven Oaks. Jack Cade's rebels are driven from London by loyal troops, ...

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May 18 - 1048 to 1899. 1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1123) 1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218) 1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539) 1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664) 1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667) 1662 O.S. - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (d. 1719) 1692 O.S. - Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752) 1711 - Ruđer Josip Bo ...

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May 18, May 18 - Events, May 18 - Births, May 18 - 1048 to 1899, May 18 - 1900 to 1999, May 18 - Deaths, May 18 - 1450 to 1899, May 18 - 1900 to 1999, May 18 - 2000 onwards, May 18 - Holidays and Observances

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In the Game Boy Advance installment of the series, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, it is revealed the main character Soma Cruz is in fact something of a reincarnation of Dracula. Apparently in the year 1999, Julius Belmont, the modern day member of the Belmont clan was finally able to defeat Dracula for good and seal away his Castle. These events have yet to be elaborated on other than brief mention in Aria of Sorrow. This was not the end of Dracula however, as it seems that after death his soul had been reincarnated in ...

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Dracula Castlevania, Dracula Castlevania - In-game appearance, Dracula Castlevania - History, Dracula Castlevania - Castlevania: Lament of Innocence 1094, Dracula Castlevania - After Lament of Innocence 1094 - 1450, Dracula Castlevania - Akumajō Dracula Castlevania 1450 - 1691, Dracula Castlevania - Simon's Quest 1692 - 1698, Dracula Castlevania - Son of Dracula, Dracula Castlevania - Reincarnation

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1513 - Events. January 20 - Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. March 11 - Leo X elected pope. March 27 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time mistaking it for another island. Later, on April 2, he landed somewhere on the east coast of the newly discovered land. April - Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition become the first Europeans known to visit Florida. June 6 - Italian Wars: Battle of Novara - Swiss t ...

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In many African societies the fear of witches drives periodic witchhunts during which specialist witch finders identify suspects, even today, with death by mobs often the result. Audrey I. Richards, in the journal Africa relates an instance when a new wave of witchfinders, the Bamucapi, appeared in the villages of the Bemba people. They dressed in European clothing, and would summon the headman to prepare a ritual meal for the village. When the villagers arrived they would view them all in a mirror, and claimed they could ident ...

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Witch-hunt, Witch-hunt - Early modern Europe, Witch-hunt - Evidence, Witch-hunt - Execution, Witch-hunt - The Burning Times, Witch-hunt - Africa, Witch-hunt - Other part of the world, Witch-hunt - Sociology, Witch-hunt - Modern usage, Witch-hunt - George Orwell, Witch-hunt - Arthur Miller, Witch-hunt - Modern witchhunts, Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming, Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse, Witch-hunt - Involuntary commitment, Witch-hunt - Political confirmation

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Zara Yaqob (Amharic "Seed of Jacob") (1399–1468) was negus negust (1434–1468) of Ethiopia (throne name Kuestantinos I or Constantine I), and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. Born at Tilq in the province of Fatagar (now part of the Oromia Region, near the Awash River), Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra. The British expert on Ethiopia, Edward Ullendorff, stated that Zara Yaqob "was unquestionably the greatest ruler Ethiopia had seen since Ezana, during the hey ...

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Antimony was recognized in antiquity (3000 BC or earlier) in various compounds, and it was prized for its fine casting qualities. It was first reported scientifically by Tholden in 1450, and was known to be a metal by the beginning of the 17th century. The origin of the name "antimony" is not clear; the term may come from the Greek words "anti" and "monos", which approximately means "opposed to solitude" as it was thought never to exist in its pure form, or from the Pharaonic (Ancient egypt) expression "Antos Ammon", which could be translated as "bloom of the god Ammon". The alchemi ...

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Antimony, Antimony - Notable characteristics, Antimony - Applications, Antimony - History, Antimony - Sources, Antimony - Precautions, Antimony - Compounds

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Normandy was the home of the Normans in the early Middle Ages, the last people to successfully invade England. The Normans were a mixture of the indigenous Gauls and of the Viking invaders under the leadership of Rollo (Gange Rolf), who besieged Paris and was given the area of Normandy (Treaty of St.-Claire-sur-Epte, 911) in return for defending it against future pirate attacks. Rollo's descendant William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in 1066 and became king William I of England. Normandy remained associated with England until 10 ...

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Normandy, Normandy - Population, Normandy - Geography, Normandy - Regions, Normandy - Rivers, Normandy - History, Normandy - Channel Islands, Normandy - Culture, Normandy - Languages, Normandy - Arts, Normandy - Religion, Normandy - Food and drink, Normandy - Symbols

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The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a different context.

Part I of II, written by Michael Rogge

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In the 8th and 9th centuries CE, Classic Maya culture went into decline, with most of the cities of the central lowlands abandoned. Warfare, ecological depletion of croplands, and drought or some combination of those factors are usually suggested as reasons for the decline. There is archaeological evidence of warfare, famine, and revolt against the elite at various central lowlands sites. There is also conclusive geological evidence, found in shells recovered from Lake Chichancanab (in modern Quintana Roo state in Mexico) by a team from the ...

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Maya civilization, Maya civilization - Origins, Maya civilization - Political structures, Maya civilization - Art, Maya civilization - Architecture, Maya civilization - Urban design, Maya civilization - Building materials, Maya civilization - Building process, Maya civilization - Notable constructions, Maya civilization - Writing and literacy, Maya civilization - Writing system, Maya civilization - Writing tools, Maya civilization - Scribes, Maya civilization - Literacy, Maya civilization - Mathematics, Maya civilization - Religion, Maya civilization - Agriculture, Maya civilization - Decline of the Maya, Maya civilization - Rediscovery of the Pre-Columbian Maya, Maya civilization - List of Maya sites, Maya civilization - Most important sites, Maya civilization - Other important Maya sites, Maya civilization - Reference

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A different approach is called for if you're trying to record ghosts as opposed to spirits. Here, a ghost would be some kind of paranormal activity that is obvious and external to the observer. If you live in a house where strange things are always happening, or you know of a local house or area that is reputed to be haunted, you might take your tape recorder, camera or camcorder and set it up when you expect strange things to occur.

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Around 1450 BC there was cultural activity near Bogotá, in "El Abra". In 1000 BC, groups of Amerindians developed the political system of "cacicazgos" (answering to a figure known as the Cacique) with a pyramidal structure of power, especially in the cases of the Muisca or Chibcha people. They have been considered to have one of the most developed political systems in South America, after the Incas. Spanish explorers made the first exploration of the Caribbean littoral in 1500 led by Rodrigo de Bastidas. Christopher Columbus navigated near ...

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Colombia, Colombia - History, Colombia - Politics, Colombia - Geography, Colombia - Departments, Colombia - Most Important Cities Of Colombia, Colombia - Economy, Colombia - Demographics, Colombia - Religion, Colombia - Culture, Colombia - Miscellaneous topics

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500,000 Years: Pre-historic and Proto-historic existance of early mankind 2500 - 1500 B.C.: Harappa Culture 2500 - 700 B.C.: Rigvedic Aryan Civilization 599 B.C.: Jainism 567 - 487 B.C.: Budha 550 B.C - 600 A.D.: Budhism remained prevelent 550 - 515 B.C.: Persian Invasion to west of Indus River 326 B.C.: Alexander's Invasion 322 - 298 B.C.: Chandra Gupta Maurya Period 273 - 232 B.C.: Ashoka's Period 125 - 160 B.C.: Rise of the Sakas (Scythians known as Jat ancestors) 2 B.C.: Beginning of Rule of the Sakas.

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History of the Punjab, History of the Punjab - Introduction, History of the Punjab - Indo-Aryans, History of the Punjab - Vedic Punjab, History of the Punjab - Epic Punjab, History of the Punjab - Paninian Punjab, History of the Punjab - Persian Domination, History of the Punjab - Alexander's Invasion and the Indo-Greek kingdoms, History of the Punjab - Sakas Kushanas and Hephthalites, History of the Punjab - Muslim invasions and the Shahi Kingdom, History of the Punjab - The Delhi Sultanate and Mughal empire, History of the Punjab - The Rise of Sikh Power, History of the Punjab - The British in Punjab, History of the Punjab - The Punjab of India and Pakistan, History of the Punjab - Punjab History Timeline

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The transportation system in Delaware is under the governance and supervision of the Delaware Department of Transportation, also known as "DelDOT".([1]) DelDOT manages programs such as a Delaware Adopt-a-Highway program, major road route snow removal, traffic control infrastructure (signs and signals), toll road management, Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, the Delaware Transit Corporation (branded as "DART First State", the state government public transportation organization), among others. Almost ninety percent of the state's public roa ...

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Delaware, Delaware - History, Delaware - Native Americans, Delaware - Colonial Delaware, Delaware - American Revolution, Delaware - Slavery, Delaware - Law government and politics, Delaware - Legislative branch, Delaware - Judicial branch, Delaware - Executive branch, Delaware - Politics, Delaware - Geography, Delaware - Topography, Delaware - Climate, Delaware - Demographics, Delaware - Religion, Delaware - Important cities, Delaware - Top 10 richest places in Delaware, Delaware - Economy, Delaware - Transportation, Delaware - Culture, Delaware - Media, Delaware - Religion, Delaware - Sports, Delaware - Botanical gardens, Delaware - Music in Delaware, Delaware - Festivals, Delaware - Education, Delaware - Colleges and universities, Delaware - Miscellaneous information, Delaware - Other places named Delaware, Delaware - Delaware Native Americans

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Immanuel Velikovsky was born in Vitebsk in what is today Belarus. He learned several languages as a child, performed exceptionally well in Russian and mathematics at the Medvednikov Gymnasium after moving to Moscow, and graduated with a gold medal in 1913. He then travelled to Europe, visiting Palestine, briefly studying medicine at Montpellier, France, and taking premedical courses at the University of Edinburgh. Having returned to Russia before the outbreak of World War I, Velikovsky enrolled in the University of Moscow and received ...

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Immanuel Velikovsky, Immanuel Velikovsky - Biography, Immanuel Velikovsky - Velikovsky's Theories, Immanuel Velikovsky - The Revised Chronology, Immanuel Velikovsky - Criticism, Immanuel Velikovsky - Books by Velikovsky, Immanuel Velikovsky - Organisations sympathetic to Velikovsky's work:

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Like the Aztec and Inca who came to power later, the Maya believed in a cyclical nature of time. The rituals and ceremonies were very closely associated with hundreds (possibly thousands) of celestial/terrestrial cycles which they observed and inscribed as separate calendars (all of infinite duration). The Maya shaman had the job of interpreting these cycles and giving a prophetic outlook on the future or past based on the number relations of all their calendars. If the interpretations of the shamen spelled bad times to come, sacrifices would ...

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Maya civilization, Maya civilization - Origins, Maya civilization - Art, Maya civilization - Architecture, Maya civilization - Urban design, Maya civilization - Building materials, Maya civilization - Building process, Maya civilization - Notable constructions, Maya civilization - Writing and literacy, Maya civilization - Writing system, Maya civilization - Writing tools, Maya civilization - Scribes, Maya civilization - Literacy, Maya civilization - Mathematics, Maya civilization - Religion, Maya civilization - Agriculture, Maya civilization - Decline of the Maya, Maya civilization - Rediscovery of the Pre-Columbian Maya, Maya civilization - List of Maya sites, Maya civilization - Most important sites, Maya civilization - Other important Maya sites, Maya civilization - Reference

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The Maya used a base 20 numbering system (see Maya numerals). Also, they (or their Olmec predecessors) independently developed the concept of zero by 357 AD (Europeans did not embrace zero until the 12th century). Inscriptions show them on occasion working with sums up to the hundreds of millions and dates so large it would take several lines just to represent it. They produced extremely accurate astronomical observations; their charts of the movements of the moon and planets are equal or superior to those of any other ...

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Maya civilization, Maya civilization - Origins, Maya civilization - Art, Maya civilization - Architecture, Maya civilization - Urban design, Maya civilization - Building materials, Maya civilization - Building process, Maya civilization - Notable constructions, Maya civilization - Writing and literacy, Maya civilization - Writing system, Maya civilization - Writing tools, Maya civilization - Scribes, Maya civilization - Literacy, Maya civilization - Mathematics, Maya civilization - Religion, Maya civilization - Agriculture, Maya civilization - Decline of the Maya, Maya civilization - Rediscovery of the Pre-Columbian Maya, Maya civilization - List of Maya sites, Maya civilization - Most important sites, Maya civilization - Other important Maya sites, Maya civilization - Reference

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Sociology has attributed the occurrence of witchhunts to the human necessity to blame problems on someone. For example, Europe during the periods in which witchhunts prevail relied upon agriculture; if this failed one year, the consequences would very likely be disastrous. Crop failures often correlated with the occurrence of witchhunts, leading sociologists to state that communities often took out their anger of a lack of food on supposed 'witches'. This can be paralleled in more recent examples such as the Nazi use of anti-semitism to appo ...

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Witch-hunt, Witch-hunt - Early modern Europe, Witch-hunt - Evidence, Witch-hunt - Execution, Witch-hunt - The Burning Times, Witch-hunt - Africa, Witch-hunt - Other part of the world, Witch-hunt - Sociology, Witch-hunt - Modern usage, Witch-hunt - George Orwell, Witch-hunt - Arthur Miller, Witch-hunt - Modern witchhunts, Witch-hunt - Religious deprogramming, Witch-hunt - Day care sex abuse, Witch-hunt - Involuntary commitment, Witch-hunt - Political confirmation

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Colombia has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated her from ancient, to colonial and modern times. The historic amalgam of three main groups: Amerindians, Spanish colonist/European immigrants, and imported African slaves, are the basis of Colombia's current demographics. This miscegenation has created a racial and ethnic continuum; an order characterized by fluidity and ambiguity in which any claims of inclusion withi ...

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The region is bordered along the northern coasts by the English Channel. There are granite cliffs in the west and limestone cliffs in the east. There are also long stretches of beach in the centre of the region. The bocage, patchwork of small fields with high hedges, typical of the western areas caused problems for the invading forces in the Battle of Normandy. There are meanders of the Seine as it approaches its estuary which fo ...

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Normandy, Normandy - Population, Normandy - Geography, Normandy - Regions, Normandy - Rivers, Normandy - History, Normandy - Channel Islands, Normandy - Culture, Normandy - Languages, Normandy - Arts, Normandy - Religion, Normandy - Food and drink, Normandy - Symbols

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