He was initially named Napoleone di Buonaparte, acquiring his first name from an uncle who had been killed fighting the French,[
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William of Tyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 18 views
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expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel,
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The highest religious and political offices in Jerusalem were usually held by Europeans who had arrived on pilgrimage or crusade. William was one of the few natives with a European education, and he quickly rose through the ranks.[12] After his return to the Holy Land in 1165, he became canon of the cathedral at Acre. In 1167 he was appointed archdeacon of the cathedral of Tyre by Frederick de la Roche, archbishop of Tyre, with the support of King Amalric I
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 10 views
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Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
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Baldwin spent his youth in his father's court in Jerusalem, having little contact with his mother, Agnes of Courtenay, Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon, and later Lady of Sidon, whom his father had been forced to divorce.[citation needed] Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre (later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom), who made a disturbing discovery about the pr
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He did not ratify Raymond's treaty with Saladin
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Black Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 5 views
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Black Stone
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Kaaba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 13 views
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The Kaaba (Arabic: الكعبة al-Kaʿbah, IPA: [ˈkɑʕbɐ]: "Cube")[1] is a cuboidal building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam.[2] The building predates Islam, and, according to Islamic tradition, the first building at the site was built by Abraham. The building has a mosque built around it, the Masjid al-Haram. All Muslims around the world face the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are.
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In her book, Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that the Kaaba was dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity, and contained 360 idols which either represented the days of the year,[13] or were effigies of the Arabian pantheon. Once a year, tribes from all around the Arabian peninsula, be they Christian or pagan, would converge on Mecca to perform the Hajj.
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'King Fahad' gate of the Grand Masjid at nigh
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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 50 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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This was removed by user:UninvitedCompany and relpaced with Category:Wikipedia official policy. On 12 May 2005 user: Radiant! removed the category and added a {{policy}} top box.
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Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 50
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I was concerned that some categories are getting diffused unnecessarily, and that we might be hurting ordinary users' ability to search intuitively. So I made an overview-table of the current "diffusion-state" (with suggested "improvements") of major biography categories
Viking ring fortress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views
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Viking ring fortress
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the vikking would make man made hills they would make big forts because they had pretty good struff and they would try to attack themt hey would go and kill them put they would always win but now present day they found a bohta dool bured just in case you dont know what that is its a chiness religon doll of there god they would traid china and india so that hoiw it got there
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Harald I of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views
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Harald Bluetooth caused the Jelling stones to be erected to honour his parents.[
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ring forts were built in five strategic location
Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views
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Norse mythology has its roots in Proto-Norse Iron Age Scandinavian prehistory. It flourishes during the Viking Age and following the Christianization of Scandinavia during the High Middle Ages passed into Scandinavian folklore, some aspects surviving to the modern day.
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Most of the existing records on Norse mythology date from the 11th to 18th century, having gone through more than two centuries of oral preservation in what was at least officially a Christian society. At this point scholars started recording it, particularly in the Eddas and the Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, who believed that pre-Christian deities trace real historical people. There is also the Danish Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus, where the Norse gods are more strongly Euhemerized.
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In Norse mythology there are 'nine worlds' (níu heimar), that many scholars summarize as follows:
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Viking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 11 views
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During the 20th century, the meaning of the term was expanded to refer not only to the raiders, but also to the entire period; it is now, somewhat confusingly, used as a noun both in the original meaning of raiders, warriors or navigators, and to refer to the Scandinavian population in general. As an adjective, the word is used in expressions like "Viking age", "Viking culture", "Viking colony", etc., generally referring to medieval Scandinavia. The pre-Christian Scandinavian population is also referred to as Norse, although that term is properly applied to the whole civilization of Old-Norse-speaking people. In current Scandinavian languages, the term Viking is applied to the people who went away on Viking expeditions, be it for raiding or trading.[4] The term Varangians made its first appearance in Byzantium where it was introduced to designate a function. In Russia it was extended to apply to Scandinavian warriors journeying to and from Constantinople. In the Byzantine sources Varangians are first mentioned in 1034 as in garrison in the Thracian theme. The Persian geographer Al Biruni has mentioned the Baltic Sea as the Varangian Sea and specifies the Varangians as a people dwelling on its coasts. The first datable use of the word in Norse literature appears by Einarr Skúlason in 1153. According to Icelandic Njalssaga from the 13th century, the institution of Varangian Guard was established by 1000. In the Russian Primary Chronicle the Varangian is used as a generic term for the Germanic nations on the coasts of the Baltic sea that likewise lived in the west as far as the land of the English and the French.[5] The word Væringjar itself is regarded in Scandinavia as of Old Norse origin, cognate with the Old English Færgenga (literally, an expedition-goer).
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The Gokstad Viking ship on display in Oslo, Norway.
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A reconstructed Viking Age long house
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Franks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 20 views
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Modern scholars of the Migration Period are in agreement that the Frankish identity emerged at the first half of the 3rd century out of various earlier, smaller Germanic groups, including the Salii, Sicambri, Chamavi, Bructeri, Chatti, Chattuarii, Ampsivarii, Tencteri, Ubii and Batavi, who inhabited the lower Rhine valley between the Zuyder Zee and the river Lahn and extended eastwards as far as the Weser, but were the most densely settled around the IJssel and between the Lippe and the Sieg. The Frankish confederation probably began to coalesce in the 230s.
Salian Franks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 5 views
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Their language belongs to, and is ancestral to, the family of Low Franconian dialects.
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