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  • Thumbnail for Succession to the British throne
    Succession to the British throne is determined by descent, sex, legitimacy, and religion. Under common law, the Crown is inherited by a sovereign's children...
    54 KB (6,238 words) - 18:00, 29 May 2024
  • "The Wars to Come" is the first episode of the fifth season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 41st overall. The episode...
    14 KB (1,585 words) - 13:34, 5 April 2024
  • been exiled to Essos and is plotting to return and reclaim the throne. The third follows the Night's Watch, a military order defending the realm against...
    332 KB (27,369 words) - 09:46, 9 June 2024
  • Throne of Glass is a high fantasy novel series by American author Sarah J. Maas, beginning with the entry of the same name, released on August 2, 2012...
    49 KB (4,213 words) - 04:13, 10 June 2024
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    and opposed by the native[citation needed] and Anglo-Irish Catholic Jacobites who supported James. Once James II had come to the throne in 1685, he had...
    4 KB (452 words) - 07:58, 2 October 2023
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    also claimed the throne of France. The claim dates from Edward III, who claimed the French throne in 1340 as the sororal nephew of the last direct Capetian...
    24 KB (3,140 words) - 08:46, 9 June 2024
  • Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by the American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, collectively known as The Throne. It was released on August...
    144 KB (11,354 words) - 21:07, 9 June 2024
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    of Hindustan. The throne is named after the dancing peacocks at its rear and was the seat of the Mughal emperors of India from 1635 to 1739. It was commissioned...
    39 KB (5,279 words) - 06:36, 20 May 2024
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    Francis Bacon (category Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge)
    proceedings in the case of Essex, as Essex had favoured James to succeed to the throne. The following year, during the course of the uneventful first...
    89 KB (10,195 words) - 09:01, 27 May 2024
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    throne the previous year in succession to his grandfather Louis XV who had reigned for 59 years. It was the first coronation since 1722 and only the second...
    4 KB (430 words) - 13:14, 9 May 2024
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    Aragon), with issue. The claimant to the throne of the last Greek kingdom is Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece. He belongs to the House of...
    37 KB (5,045 words) - 23:04, 4 April 2024
  • The characters from the medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones are based on their respective counterparts from author George R. R. Martin's...
    263 KB (38,709 words) - 10:54, 9 June 2024
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    Emirate of Jabal Shammar (category Pages using infobox country or infobox former country with the flag caption or type parameters)
    died 1947). A son of the 7th amir, he surrendered to Ibn Saud in 1921, after having come to the throne the year before, at the age of thirteen. Muhammad...
    16 KB (1,765 words) - 09:38, 13 May 2024
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    squabbling over the throne, diverting men, energy and resources that could have been used to affirm the dynasty's authority. By the late 13th century...
    75 KB (8,555 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2024
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    divine imperial power, the throne of the Emperor was known as the Dragon Throne. The term can refer to very specific seating, as in the special seating in...
    14 KB (1,870 words) - 17:11, 9 May 2024
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    attempts to consolidate power. Although it had been through the support of the Barakzai chief, Painda Khan Barakzai, that he had come to the throne, Zaman...
    47 KB (5,081 words) - 06:58, 6 June 2024
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    Hilderic (category Kings of the Vandals)
    with the Eastern Roman Empire. Procopius writes that he was "a very particular friend and guest-friend of Justinian, who had not yet come to the throne",...
    5 KB (600 words) - 15:52, 6 May 2024
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    people in the line of succession to the Belgian throne. The monarch is considered to have acceded to the throne upon her/his taking of the oath as required...
    9 KB (1,041 words) - 20:16, 2 May 2024
  • 2015, pursuant to the 2011 Perth Agreement, the Commonwealth realms changed the rules of succession to the 16 thrones of Elizabeth II to absolute primogeniture...
    70 KB (2,329 words) - 22:47, 5 June 2024
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    to inherit the throne. This had the effect of deposing the remaining descendants of Charles I, other than his Protestant granddaughter Anne, as the next...
    57 KB (6,644 words) - 20:59, 2 June 2024
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