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  • Murtogh O'Brien (born c. 1545) was an Anglican bishop of Killaloe, in County Clare, Ireland. He was of a branch of the clan O'Brien known as O'Brien-Arra...
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    Acolnahuacatl (also Aculnahuacatl, Acolnahuacatzin) was a king of the Tepanec city of Azcapotzalco. He was likely a son of the king Xiuhtlatonac. He married...
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  • Potii-ta-rire is the goddess of magic in Tahitian mythology. Robert D. Craig: Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989 v t e v t e v t e...
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    Krasnoludek or krasnal is the Polish name for a mythological type of gnome or dwarf, common in many Polish and translated folk tales (for example, Brothers...
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    Gausfred III (died 1164) was the count of Roussillon from 1113 until his death. He was the son and successor of Girard I, who was assassinated, leaving...
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  • Charietto was an Ancient German headhunter and bounty hunter who worked for the Romans. He operated on the Rhine frontier near Treverorum. According to...
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  • Władysław II of Płock (pl: Władysław II płocki; aft. 31 October 1448 - 27 February 1462), was a Polish prince member of the House of Piast from the Masovian...
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    The Kharkov Collegium also known as Kharkiv Collegium or Kharkiv College (from 1721 to 1726 Belgorod Slavic School) was an educational institution in the...
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    The Remigiusberg in the county of Kusel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a hill, 368 metres high, which belongs to the western part of the...
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  • Claude Buffet (19 May 1933 – 28 November 1972) was a French criminal who was executed along with his accomplice, Roger Bontems (1936–1972), on 28 November...
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    Easter Greenock Castle was a castle of unknown design near the burgh of Greenock, Scotland. Built sometime in the mid-sixteenth century, the castle formed...
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  • Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship is a biography by Owen Wister, depicting his long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard classmate. It was...
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  • Karl Schröder (1912–1996) was a German cinematographer. During the 1930s he worked on Kulturfilms for UFA. In the 1950s he began working on feature films...
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    Laurence Howell (c. 1664–1720) was a nonjuring Church of England clergyman and divine. Howell was born about 1664 at Deptford and received his education...
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  • The 2010 Iceland power outages was a massive, widespread power outage that occurred nationwide in Iceland, on Wednesday, September 1 to 21, 2010, at approximately...
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    The Ala Afrorum, or Ala Afrorum Veterana, was a Roman cavalry unit founded in Africa Proconsularis. The unit formed an ala quinquagenaria, with a total...
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    The 72-foot Olinger Tower contains the Charles S. Hill Memorial Carillon, the oldest authentic carillon in Colorado. From 1961 through 1999, the Hill Carillon...
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  • Sir William Uvedale (1455 – 1524) was an English soldier and courtier. William Uvedale was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Uvedale of Wickham, Hampshire...
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    William Sermon (c. 1629–1679) was an English physician and medical writer. William Sermon, born probably in 1629, was "nearly related" to one Edmond Sermon...
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  • William Stanley Roscoe (1782 – 31 October 1843) was an English poet, banker and abolitionist. William Stanley Roscoe, son of William Roscoe by his wife...
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