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The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The primary copy of the text is inscribed on ...
Fresco detail of Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan. The Code was promulgated at a state council on 21 May 1349 in Skopje, the capital of the Serbian Empire.The foreword is as follows: "We enact this Law by our Orthodox Synod, by His Holiness the Patriarch Kir Joanikije together with all the Archbishops and Clergy, small and great, and by me, the true-believing Emperor Stefan, and all the Lords ...
These area codes were changed in February 1997 in order to allow service 0900 numbers: 9002 → 09090 Rain (Lech) 9003 → 09080 Harburg (Schwaben) 9004 → 09070 Tapfheim. 9005 → 09084 Bissingen (Schwaben) 9006 → 09078 Mertingen. 9007 → 09097 Marxheim. 9008 → 09089 Bissingen-Unterringingen. 9009 → 09099 Kaisheim.
Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States (2001–2009), United States Secretary of Defense (1989–1993), House Minority Whip (1989), Chair of the House Republican Conference (1987–1989), U.S. Representative from Wyoming (1979–1989), White House Chief of Staff (1975–1977), White House Deputy Chief of Staff (1974–1975) (Republican) [7]
Cyrus was born to Cambyses I, King of Anshan, and Mandane, daughter of Astyages, King of Media, during the period of 600–599 BC. By his own account, generally believed now to be accurate, Cyrus was preceded as king by his father Cambyses I, grandfather Cyrus I, and great-grandfather Teispes. [ 44 ]
Chivalry. Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century) Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christian institution of knighthood, with knights being members of various ...
Wessex. Father. Edmund I. Mother. Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury. Edgar (or Eadgar; [ 1 ]c.944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu.
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the ...