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Sher Khan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sher Khan or Sher Shah , 1486-1545, Afghan ruler in N India. He enlisted in the service...was elsewhere engaged, he overran Bengal. A brilliant strategist, Sher Khan routed the army of Humayun in 1539, and a year later decisively defeated...
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Sher Ali
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sher Ali or Shere Ali , 1825-79, emir of Afghanistan...members of his family, notably his brothers. Sher Ali turned from his friendship with the British...brought on the second of the Afghan Wars. Sher Ali's forces were defeated by the British...
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Sher Shah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sher Shah see Sher Khan .
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Sher, Antony
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Sher, Antony (1949– ), South African-born actor, who trained in London and then worked at the Everyman...
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Humayun
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...However military opposition, particularly that of Sher Khan in Bihar, grew in strength. Sher Khan overran Bengal in 1537, and Humayun was...Tahmasp of Persia in 1544. After the death of Sher Khan's son, Humayun, with Persian support...
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hunchback
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...Richard the Third.’ When Anthony Sher was preparing to play this role, he did...deformity. Seeking alternative models, Sher visited a number of patients suffering...forward. It was the latter condition that Sher felt was most convincing for Shakespeare...
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Jahan, Nur
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...named Ali Quli Istunjuloo, who was renamed Sher Akfan after he killed a lion with his word. Sher Akfan secured an administrative post serving...imperial court upon her own family. Her father, Sher Akfan, was promoted to chief minister for Jahangir...
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Chakmas
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Buddhist religion. The last king of this dynasty was a ruler named Sher Daulat. He was credited with supernatural powers and was supposed...of curiosity, hid herself and watched him do this one day. Sher Daulat found her spying on him and, in a fit of rage, killed...
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Junagadh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...grown there, and the fishing industry is important. Junagadh was wrested from the Mughal empire in the mid-18th cent. by Sher Khan Babi, a Muslim freebooter who established a dynasty that was later supported by the British. In 1947 the Muslim ruler...
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Winfrey, Oprah
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...ins, during Good Morning, America, and soon she was moved to the morning talk show Baltimore Is Talking with cohost Richard Sher. After seven years on the show, the general manager of WLS-TV, American Broadcasting Company's (ABC) Chicago affiliate...
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