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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Hinduism]]. In some [[religious denomination|denominations]] of Christianity, a '''relic''' is an...
7: ...cited is the veneration of Polycarp's relics recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp (written 150-160 AD...
9: ...[[Caesar of Heisterbach]]. These miracle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages. ...
15: ... the mystic potency belong to spirits, in varying degrees to the faithful, and to inanimate objects. T...
17: ..., the "idols" of our museums and archaeology, and destroying it accounts for some of the righteous rag... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...] by appointment of the Spanish Crown. He is regarded as the first [[Europe]]an known to have visited ...
4: ...m and to which the natives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serving as Gove...
6: ...right|thumb|Cacique Agueybana greeting Juan Ponce de León]]
7: ...d been damaged. Not wishing to serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north o...
9: ...de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]]. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...ntry's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman]] period had se...
5: ...|right|Alexandria's state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated ...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
19: ...in. Alexander's seers, and in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that...
21: ...t the foundation, but are thwarted when Alexander descends in a glass box, and armed with exact knowle... - List of popes (77758 bytes)
4: ...s]], and there have been either 265 or 266 popes, depending on whether a source counts [[#Notes on num...
6: ...] of the Roman Province'' and ''[[Servus Servorum Dei|Servant of the Servants of God]].''
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29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]]...
36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small> - Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
3: ...ugustus, the pre-Augustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the struc...
5: ...s traditionally set in [[476]], when [[Odovacar]] deposed the last Emperor and sent the Imperial insig...
7: ...various semantic periods or eras. Such names include [[Byzantine Empire]], [[Eastern Roman Empire]] an...
9: ...r") imperial power showed its naked face, with golden crowns and ornate imperial ritual. We now know t...
14: ===Political Developments=== - Venice (22017 bytes)
2: ...ant center of commerce (especially the [[spice trade]]) and [[art]] in the [[Renaissance]].
6: ... Its strategic position at head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invuln...
8: ... Venice were laid: the [[Venetian Arsenal]] was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of ...
10: ...enetian sovereignty when it was threatened by invaders.
12: ...stablished the [[Latin Empire]]. Considerable plunder was brought back to Venice, including the [[Mark... - Vatican City (21873 bytes)
1: ...he world in terms of area and population. Its borders are coextensive with the [[Holy See]], the eccl...
3: ...Vatican City]] (sometimes referred to as the President of Vatican City). Currently, they are [[Pope B...
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8: ...itatis Vaticanæ<br>Stato della Città del Vaticano'''</big></big>
10: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:... - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
23: *[[Adelard of Bath]], (12th century){{fn|C}}
26: *[[Aedesius]], (d. 355)
27: *[[Aenesidemus]], (1st century BC){{fn|R}}
37: *[[Alain de Lille]], (c. 1128-1202)
44: *[[Alcibiades]], (c. 450-404 BC) - Rome (33048 bytes)
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12: |align="center" width="140px"|City [[Seal (device)|seal]]
15: |align="center" colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"|<small>City [[motto]]: '...
17: |Founded|| [[21 April]][[753 BC]] mythical,<br> [[1st mil... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
1: ...tor]] [[Prescott Bush]]), his father (former President [[George H. W. Bush]]), and his brother ([[Jeb ...
2: {{Infobox President | name=George Walker Bush
5: | order=43rd President
8: | preceded=[[Bill Clinton]]
9: | succeeded=[[Incumbent]] - Roman commerce (14626 bytes)
1: ... of their empire was due to their commercial [[trade]].
3: ...)|Equestrian]] order were involved in businesses, despite their upper class values that laid the empha...
5: ...cus]]. The abacus, using [[Roman numerals]], was ideally suited to the counting of [[Roman currency]] ...
9: ...d shops, manning stalls or hawking goods by the side of the road. They were also present near Roman mi...
16: ...were preferred for small settlements and piracy made coastal settlement particularly hazardous for all... - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: ...04565.JPG|thumb|280px|Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the "inland waterwa...
2: ...anches of the [[Bacchiglione]], which once surrounded the ancient walls like a [[moat]].
7: ...e of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who undertook the restoration removed them, throwing all t...
9: ...lose by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door...
11: ...ing century; tradition says that the building was designed by [[Nicola Pisano]]; it is covered by seve...
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