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Royal Biographies: Viscount Linley

Viscount Linley by David Johnson Related Links Royal Family TreeThe Queen MotherPrincess MargaretLady Sarah Armstrong-Jones IN 1961 Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon had a son, David Albert…

Julie Andrews Biography

Julie Andrews(Julia Elizabeth Wells)actressBorn: 10/1/1935Birthplace: Walton-on-Thames, England Academy Award-winning film and stage actress known for her freshfaced, innocent appeal first on stage…

The Hungry Stones: The Victory

by Rabindranath Tagore The Hungry StonesOnce There Was a KingThe Victory She was the Princess Ajita. And the court poet of King Narayan had never seen her. On the day he recited a new…

Other ATP Tournaments, 2005

TournamentSingles championExxonMobil Open, Doha, QatarRoger FedererABN AMRO World Tennis, Rotterdam, NetherlandsRoger FedererDubai Duty Free, Dubai, UAERoger FedererAbierto Mexicano TELCEL,…

John Sergeant WISE, Congress, VA (1846-1913)

WISE John Sergeant , (Son of Henry Alexander Wise, grandson of John Sergeant, brother of Richard Alsop Wise, and cousin of George Douglas Wise), a Representative from Virginia; born in Rio de…

Clovis I

(Encyclopedia) Clovis IClovis Iklōˈvĭs [key], c.466–511, Frankish king (481–511), son of Childeric I and founder of the Merovingian monarchy. Originally little more than a tribal chieftain, he became…

Cyrus the Great

(Encyclopedia) Cyrus the GreatCyrus the Greatsīˈrəs [key], d. 529 b.c., king of Persia, founder of the greatness of the Achaemenids and of the Persian Empire. According to Herodotus, he was the son…

Kingdoms and Monarchs of the World

Top of Page Monarchies used to rule the world. From the beginning of all human society in Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago, to the end of the British Empire in the mid-20th century, kings and queens…

Mahabharata

(Encyclopedia) MahabharataMahabharataməhäˌbärˈətə [key], classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed between 200 b.c. and a.d. 200. The Mahabharata, comprising more than 90,000 couplets,…