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Guy of Lusignan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 11 views

  • In 1168 Guy and his brothers ambushed and killed Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who was returning from a pilgrimage. They were banished from Poitou by their overlord, Richard I, then (acting) Duke of Aquitaine.
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      In 1168 , Guy and his brothers ambushed and killed Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Salisbury, who was returing from a pilgrimage. They were banished
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Balian of Ibelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 12 views

  • Early life
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      Balian was the youngest son of Barisan of Ibelin , and brother of Hugh and Baldwin.
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Bedouin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 13 views

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  • The Bedouin, (from the Arabic badawī (بدوي), pl. badū), are a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group (previously nomadic, currently mostly settled) found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the Arabian Desert. Non-Arab groups as well, notably the Beja of the African coast of the Red Sea, are sometimes called Bedouin.
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      The Bedouin, (from the Arabic badawī (بدوي), pl. badū), are a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group (previously nomadic, currently mostly settled) found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the Arabian Desert. Non-Arab groups as well, notably the Beja of the African coast of the Red Sea, are sometimes called Bedouin.
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Arabic numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 27 views

  • The reason that they are more commonly known as "Arabic numerals" in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the tenth century from Arabs of North Africa.
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      The reason that they are more commonly known as Arabic numerals in europe and the americas is tah they were introduced to europe in the tenth century from arabs of the North Africa
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Baldr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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  • Baldr
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      Baldr is a god in Norse Mythology associated with light, beauty , love and happiness
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Islamic Golden Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

  • Islamic Golden Age
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      The Islamic Golden age or the Islamic Renaisance is traditonally dated from the 9th to 13th centuries A.D , for 400 years but has extended to the 15th century by recent scholarship
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Leif Ericson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 9 views

  • first European to land in North America
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      Leif Ericson was the first european to land in North America. nearly five hundred years before Christopher Columbus.
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Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

  • Norse mythology
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      Norse Mythology has its roots in Proto-Norse Iron age Scandinavian prehistory .
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The major world religions - 9 views

  • Buddhism,
  • Buddhism
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      Buddhism developed out of the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama who , in 535 BCE , reached enlightment and assumed the title Buddha
  • Shinto
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      Shinto is an ancient Japanese religion , closely tied to nature , which recognizeds the existance of various ''Kami'' nature dieties. The first two deities , Izanagi and Izanami, gave birth to the Japanese islands and their childer became the deities of the various Japanese clans.
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