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Miss Battle-Axe is sick with the flu, and so a very strict substitute teacher is sent to teach her class. 35: 35 ... Henry finds a false family tree chart, that was ...
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhri (Arabic: سَعْد بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاص بْنِ وهَيْب الزُّهري, romanized: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhrī) was an Arab Muslim commander. He was the founder of Kufa and served as its governor under Umar ibn al-Khattab.
The Hyksos (/ ˈhɪksɒs /; Egyptian ḥqꜣ (w) - ḫꜣswt, Egyptological pronunciation: heqau khasut, [4] "ruler (s) of foreign lands"), in modern Egyptology, are the kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt [5] (fl. c. 1650–1550 BC). [a] Their seat of power was the city of Avaris in the Nile Delta, from where they ruled over Lower Egypt ...
105,000 dead [ 1 ] The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487. The wars were fought between supporters of the House of Lancaster and House of York, two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet.
Atrocities. Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace, with entire villages wiped out as a result. Poles were burned alive, flayed, impaled, crucified, disembowelled, dismembered and beheaded.
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
Hephaestus (UK: / h ɪ ˈ f iː s t ə s / hif-EE-stəs, US: / h ɪ ˈ f ɛ s t ə s / hif-EST-əs; eight spellings; Greek: Ἥφαιστος, translit. Hḗphaistos) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture and volcanoes. [1]
t. e. The Tang dynasty (/ tɑːŋ /, [6] [tʰǎŋ]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.