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  • 11St. Anselm —     St. Anselm     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Anselm     Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church; born at Aosta a Burgundian town on the confines of Lombardy, died 21 April, 1109. His father, Gundulf, was a Lombard who had become a… …

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  • 12Nicolo Machiavelli —     NicolÒ Machiavelli     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► NicolÒ Machiavelli     Historian and statesman, b. at Florence, 3 May, 1469; d. there, 22 June, 1527. His family is said to have been descended from the old marquesses of Tuscany, and to have… …

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  • 13Bósa saga ok Herrauðs — Bósa saga ok Herrauðs, Bósa saga ok Herrauds or Saga of Bósi and Herraud is a legendary saga written around 1300 preserved in three 15th century manuscripts relating the fantastic adventures of the two companions Herraud (Old Norse Herrauðr) and… …

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  • 14The Adventure of the Yellow Face — one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1894 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.O …

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  • 15Saraswata Kingdom — was an ancient kingdom, territory or region that was situated on the banks of the river Sarasvati River during the pre historic ages. This region is mentioned in detail in as many as 20 chapters in Mahabharata from (9:35) to (9:54). The Yadava… …

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  • 16Battle of Radcot Bridge — Radcot Bridge, Oxfordshire, England, was the scene of a battle (19 December 1387) between troops loyal to Richard II, led by court favourite Robert de Vere, and an army captained by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby. BackgroundThe previous year… …

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  • 17Roman Catholicism in Asia — has its roots in the very inception of Christianity, which originated in the western part of the Asian continent in the area of the Levant, at the beginning of the 1st millennium CE.According to tradition, the Christian movement was started by… …

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  • 18happen — vb Happen, chance, occur, befall, betide, transpire are comparable when they mean to come to pass or to come about. Happen is the ordinary and general term and may imply either obvious causation or seeming accident, either design or an absence of …

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  • 19Gondophares — Infobox Monarch name =Gondophares title =Indo Parthian king caption =Profile of Gondophares, on one of his coins, minted in Gandhara. He wears a headband, earrings, a necklace, and a cross over jacket with round decorations. reign =Indo Parthian …

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  • 20Versailles train crash — One of the worst rail disasters of the 19th century, the Versailles train crash, occurred on May 8, 1842 at Meudon (Versailles), France. Following the King s fete celebrations at the Palace of Versailles, a train returning to Paris crashed at… …

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