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  1. 19 hours ago · Signature. Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor. For reasons that are still debated, Charles experienced extended periods of ill ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_MiltonJohn Milton - Wikipedia

    19 hours ago · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ErasmusErasmus - Wikipedia

    19 hours ago · And the primary mechanism of accommodation is language,: 6 which mediates between reality and abstraction, which allows disputes of all kinds to be resolved and the gospel to be transmitted: in his New Testament, Erasmus notably translated the Greek logos in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word" more like "In the beginning was Speech: using Latin sermo (discourse, conversation, language ...

  4. 19 hours ago · The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the second independent air force in the world after the Finnish Air Force (established 6 March 1918), by merging the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).

  5. 19 hours ago · Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( / d ( ə) ˈvɔːrʒɑːk, - ʒæk / d (ə-)VOR-zha (h)k; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopold ˈdvor̝aːk] ⓘ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of ...

  6. 19 hours ago · Sumerian(Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized:eme-gir15 [a], lit.'' native language '' [1]) was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is a local language isolate that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_TempestThe Tempest - Wikipedia

    19 hours ago · The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, the rest of the story is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a wizard, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an ...

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