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Charles VIII
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Factor VIII
Factor VIII (antihaemophilic factor) One of the blood clotting factors. Factor VIII is a soluble protein that stimulates the activation of Factor X by Factor IXa, which in turn converts prothrombin to thrombin, thus causing the fibrin matrix of a blood clot to form. Haemophilia is due to a... Read more |
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Acts of Succession
Succession, Acts of, 1534, 1536, 1543. Henry VIII used statutes to make the adjustments to the succession that his complicated matrimonial history necessitated. The first Act (25 Hen. VIII c. 22) declared Mary illegitimate as a consequence of his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. The second (28... Read more |
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Anne de Beaujeu
Anne de Beaujeu , c.1460-1522, regent of France, daughter of the French King Louis XI. With her husband, Pierre de Beaujeu, duc de Bourbon, she acted as regent for her brother, Charles VIII, after the death (1483) of Louis XI. Preserving the royal authority, she put down the rebellious great nobles... Read more |
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Prince of Wales Arthur
Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486–1502), was the eldest son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and the elder brother of Henry VIII. At the age of 15 he was married to Catherine of Aragon and set up court at Ludlow. Five months later he was dead of consumption and buried in Worcester... Read more |
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treaty of Greenwich
Greenwich, treaty of, 1543. On 1 July 1543, after their defeat at Solway Moss the previous year, the Scots made peace and agreed to a marriage between the infant Queen Mary and Prince Edward, Henry VIII's heir, which would lead to a union of the kingdoms. The terms were repudiated by the... Read more |
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Philippe de Comines
Philippe de Comines , c.1447-c.1511, French historian, courtier, and diplomat. In 1472 he left the service of Charles the Bold of Burgundy to enter that of Louis XI of France, who rewarded him richly. After Louis's death he plotted against Charles VIII and was banished from court. He later regained... Read more |
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Innocent VIII
Innocent VIII 1432-92, pope (1484-92), a Genoese named Giovanni Battista Cibo; successor of Sixtus IV. He was made a cardinal in 1473. His close friend, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II), largely directed the papal affairs. Like his predecessors, Innocent wished to stop the... Read more |
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Queen consort of Louis VIII King of France Blanche of Castile
Blanche of Castile Born to wealth, Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) took the reins of leadership early in life as the wife of Louis VIII, King of France and later as co-regent during her son, Louis IX's, minority. She proved to be a good, albeit strong willed leader, keenly adept at dealing... Read more |
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Acts in Restraint of Annates
Annates, Acts in Restraint of, 1532, 1534. These formed part of the campaign by Henry VIII's government, designed either to cajole the papacy into granting an annulment of the king's first marriage, or to give statutory authority for the English church to act independently of Rome.... Read more |
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Why Queen Cleopatra was definitely not Black!
...brother and his murdered wife. Ptolemy VIII ruled jointly with his mother...Ptolemy VII. Ptolemy XI son of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra V had children...Soter II as Ptolemy XI instead of Ptolemy VIII. In reality, the father of Queen... |
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Tôd: Les Inscriptions du temple ptolémaique et romain, vol. II: Textes et...
...a pronaos for the earlier building, in the reign of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes Il/Cleopatra II. Their cartouches are clear...with the assured warm and rounded raised relief of Ptolemy VIII in the Hall of Offerings (Tôd III, 287) and the... |
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Tod: Les Inscriptions du temple ptolemaique et romain.(Book review)
...a pronaos for the earlier building, in the reign of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II/Cleopatra II. Their cartouches are clear...with the assured warm and rounded raised relief of Ptolemy VIII in the Hall of Offerings (Tod III, 287) and the more... |
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Edfou VII.(Book review)
...both Edfou VII (2004) and Edfou VIII (1998). Readers interested in the...the project appeared in his Edfou VIII (1998), pp. vii-x. There we...the building of the Edfu temple, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II. The source for |
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Edfou VII
...both Edfou VII (2004) and Edfou VIII (1998). Readers interested in the...the project appeared in his Edfou VIII (1998), pp. vii-x. There we learned...the building of the Edfu temple, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II. The source for his... |
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ANCIENT WISDOM THE MFA CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF BRINGING EGYPTIAN ART TO TOWN
...held in a gallery dominated by the huge sandstone Koptos Gateway, built in the second century BC on the orders of Ptolemy VIII, a member of the Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt beginning in 331 BC. Inside the gate are a pair of gorgeous silk banners... |
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CLEOPATRA
...His story centers on the Cleopatra/Caesar axis only, essentially celebrating the triumph of Caesar's forces over Ptolemy VIII. The Cleopatra opera by Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) is, according to the notes, a world premiere. Mattheson... |
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Books received.(Bibliography)
...By Carla Bagnoli. Milan: LED, 2000. Pp. 272. Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics. By Andrew Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 281. Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism... |
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Le propylone d'Amon-Re Montou a Karnak-Nord.(Le propylone d'Amon-Re Montou a...
...ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 2000. Pp. viii + 570, illus. (paper). The propylon...that extends through the reigns of Ptolemy III Euergetes I and Ptolemy IV Philopator...Ubersetzung und Kommentierung der Urkunden VIII, Texte Nr. I-Nr. 50 (Wiesbaden... |
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Le propylône d'Amon-Rê Montou à Karnak-Nord
...ARCHÉOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 2000. Pp. viii + 570, illus. (paper). The propylon...that extends through the reigns of Ptolemy III Euergetes I and Ptolemy IV...Ubersetzung und Kommentierung der Urkunden VIII, Texte Nr. 1-Nr. 50 (Wiesbaden... |
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