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  • Pseudo-Alexios II was the most famous among several pretenders to the throne of the Byzantine Empire who appeared in the early reign of Isaac II Angelos...
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    The Battle of Martyropolis was fought in summer 588 near Martyropolis between an East Roman (Byzantine) and a Sassanid Persian army, and resulted in a...
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  • Bettelheim is a surname and Jewish family. The first bearer of the Bettelheim name is said to have lived toward the second half of the 18th century, in...
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  • Harald Valdarsson, also known as Harald the Old (Old Norse: Haraldr inn gamli, born circa 568) appears only by name in Hversu Noregr byggðist, but his...
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    Arubani is the Urartian's goddess of fertility and art. She was also the wife of their supreme god, Khaldi. Mythology portal Asia portal Piotrovsky, Boris...
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  • Empress Murong (慕容皇后, personal name unknown), formally Empress Daowu (道武皇后), was an empress of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. Her husband...
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  • Nikac Tomanović (Serbian: Никац Томановић; fl. 1755–56), known in epic poetry as Nikac of Rovine (Никац од Ровина/Nikac od Rovina), was Montenegrin harambaša...
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  • Jessie Maye Smith, also known as "The Bird Lady of Tarrant County", was a self-taught ornithologist, made famous by a series of newspaper articles entitled...
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  • Jean Meuvret (1901–1971) was a historian of early modern France. He was a tutor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and was known in Europe and America for...
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