Though a Bohemian is a native of the Czech province of Bohemia, a secondary meaning for bohemian emerged in 19th century France. The term was used to describe artists, writers, and disenchanted people of all sorts who wished to live non-traditional lifestyles. "The term 'bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gypsy, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits .... A bohemian is simply an artist or littérateur who, con ...

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Banat (Romanian: Banat; Serbian: Банат or Banat; German: Banat; Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság; Slovak: Banát) is a geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of Timiş, Caraş-Severin, Arad, and Mehedinţi), the western part to Serbia-Montenegro (the Serbian Banat, mostly included in the Vojvodina, except for a small part included in Central Serbia), and a small ...

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The Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegården) is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1711, it is the largest cemetery in the city. It is sometimes called the Nørrebro Cemetery, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, look at the old graves and monuments, and to have a picnic. A flea market operates along its walls every Saturday from May to October. The cemetery is one of five run by Copenhagen Municipality. The other cemeteries are Vestre Cemetery, Brøn ...

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Baja California Sur is one of the 31 States of Mexico, occupying the part of the Baja California Peninsula south of the 28th parallel. It is bordered to the north by the state of Baja California, to the west by the Pacific Ocean, and to the east by the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The state is known for its natural riches, and for its tourism. In the north is located the Vizcaíno Desert, as well as the small coastal lakes of San Ignacio and Ojo de Liebre, which are protected by the federal government. T ...

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Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by maneuvering the ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not intentionally use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner is the team which has scored most goals at the end of the match. The sport is also known by other names in some parts of the English-speaking world, usually assoc ...

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• Football soccer - Worldwide international competitions
• Football soccer - Major international competitions
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• Football soccer - Football around the world
• Football soccer - Teams and players
• Football soccer - Gameplay
• Football soccer - Other varieties of the game
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by evan haworth-staines The Atlantic slave trade was the capture and transport of black Africans into bondage and servitude in the New World. It is sometimes called the Maafa by African Americans. This term means holocaust or great disaster in kiswahili. The slaves were one element of a three-part economic cycle—the Triangular Trade and its infamous Middle Passage—which ultimately involved four continents, four ...

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Banganapalle (also Banagana Palli) is a town in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It lies in Kurnool district, 70 km south of the town of Kurnool. Banganapalle is famous for its benishaan mangoes. Nearby places of tourist interest include: Yaganti - Hindu piligrimage place Veerabramhendra Swami Matham Mahanandi Belum Guhalu Between 1790 and 1948, Banganapalle wa ...

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Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people. As ...

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• Assamese language - Early Assamese 6th to 15th century AD
• Assamese language - Middle Assamese 17th to 19th Century AD
• Assamese language - Modern Assamese

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth Century. He was also an important critic, and translator. Charles Baudelaire - Life and work. Baude ...

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The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848–19 March 1930) was a British statesman and the thirty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is perhaps best known as author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, promising a homeland for the Jewish people. Arthur Balfour - Early Life. The eldest son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire, and of Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridg ...

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• Arthur Balfour - Succession
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The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. Wittelsbach - Reign in Germany. The Wittelsbach family was the ruling dynasty of the German duchy of Bavaria from 1180 to 1918 and of the Rhine Palatinate from 1214 until 1805; in 1815 the latter territory was partly incorporated into Bavaria, which had been elevated to a kingdom by Napoleon in 1806. The family provided two Holy Roman Emperors: Louis IV (1314-1347) and Charle ...

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The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. Commissioned an Ensign in the British Army, he would rise to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshal. Wellington commanded the Allied forces during the Peninsular War, pushing the French Army out of Portugal and Spain and reaching southern Fran ...

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• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - The Duke of Wellington's Government January 1828–November 1830
• Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington - The Duke of Wellington's Caretaker Government November 1834–December 1834
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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 - Gawhar Khanum
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Controversy and Confusion
• Bahá'u'lláh's family - Facts
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Atlas architecture - Origin. Atlantes originated in ancient Greece and the term is the Latin plural of the word Atlas - the Titan who was forced to hold the earth (or sky in some versions) on his shoulders for eternity. The first atlantes found are ones from the Greek temple of Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily but similar figures have been already made in ancient Egypt out of monolith. Atlantes were later used in many other cultures - including the Roman and Aztec - and played a significant role in baroque architecture. ...

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August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining. August 19 - Events. 293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins. 1561 - Queen Mary Stuart returns to Scotland. 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1745 - ...

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August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. August 14 - Events. 1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and successor Macbeth 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan. (Traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of ...

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August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining. It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It is also known as the "Glorious Twelfth" in the UK, as it marks the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. August 12 - Events. 490 BC - the Battle of Marathon, in which Athens defeated an invasion army of Persians, may have been fought on this date in the proleptic Julian calendar - but see 12 Septe ...

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August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 143 days remaining. The term "the 10th of August" is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814. August 10 - Events. 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire. Destruction of Nineveh. AD 955 - Battle of Lechfeld: O ...

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August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 133 days remaining. August 20 - Events. 636 - Battle of Yarmuk: Arab forces led by Khalid bin Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. 917 - Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out. ...

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August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer on August 7. August 7 - Events. 1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Gre ...

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Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók was one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study of folk music and the music of non-Western cultures. Béla Bartók - Childhood and early years. Bartók grew up in the Greater Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which was partitioned by the Treaty of Trianon after World War I. His birthplace, Nagyszentmiklós (Great St Nicho ...

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• Béla Bartók - Piano
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The Bábís (in Persian بابی ها Bâbihâ) are members of a religious movement that flourished in Persia from 1844 to 1852, then lingered on in exile in the Ottoman Empire (especially Cyprus) as well as underground. Its founder was 'Ali Muhammad of Shiraz (1817-1850), who took the title Báb – meaning "Gate" – from a well-known Shi'i theological term. The implication was that 'Ali Muhammad was an avenue through which continuing divine revelation could flow — a controversial and in fa ...

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• Bábís - The Nayriz Upheaval
• Bábís - After the martyrdom of the Báb
• Bábís - Background to Opposition by Clergy and State
• Bábís - Succession
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