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Ernest J. King. Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) during World War II. He directed the United States Navy's operations, planning, and administration and was a member of the Joint ...
Menelik II ( Ge'ez: ዳግማዊ ምኒልክ dagmawi mənilək[ nb 1]; horse name Abba Dagnew ( Amharic: አባ ዳኘው abba daññäw ); 17 August 1844 – 12 December 1913), baptised as Sahle Maryam (ሣህለ ማርያም sahlä maryam) was king of Shewa from 1866 to 1889 and Emperor of Ethiopia [ nb 2] from 1889 to his death in 1913. At ...
Genealogy of the mansas of the Mali Empire up to Musa, following Levtzion's interpretation of Ibn Khaldun. Bolded individuals reigned as mansa of the Mali Empire, with numbers indicating the order in which they ruled. The sixth mansa, Sakura, is not included as he was not related to the others. The upper, non-italicized name is the name given by Ibn Khaldun, the lower name is the name given in ...
A second reason is the example it set of free men, fighting for their country and their freedom: So almost immediately, contemporary Greeks saw Thermopylae as a critical moral and culture lesson. In universal terms, a small, free people had willingly outfought huge numbers of imperial subjects who advanced under the lash.
Herod the Great. Herod I[ 2][ 3][ a] or Herod the Great ( c. 72 BCE – c. 4 BCE) was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea. [ 4][ 5][ 6] He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea. Among these works are the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base [ 7][ 8][ 9] —the ...
Cnut ( / kəˈnjuːt /; [ 3] Old Norse: Knútr Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈknuːtr]; [ a] c. 990 – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, [ 4][ 5][ 6] was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. [ 1] The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule ...
Midas. In the Nathaniel Hawthorne version of the Midas myth, Midas' daughter turns to a golden statue when he touches her (illustration by Walter Crane for the 1893 edition) Midas ( / ˈmaɪdəs /; Greek: Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.
Leopold I of Belgium. Mother. Louise of Orléans. Signature. Leopold II[ a] (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest-surviving son of King Leopold I and Queen Louise, Leopold ...