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• Ship building and repairing
  ...]-built hulls fastened with [[leather]] thongs. Sometime around the [[12th century]], northern European ships began to be built with a straight [[sternpost]], ...ted iron when it became readily available in the latter half of the [[19th century]].
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• Oxford University (Medieval)
  ...uring in Oxford on theology and canon law before the middle of the twelfth century, but these were probably private teachers attached to St. Frideswide's mona Half a century later Oxford was famous throughout Europe as a home of science and learning
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• Croatian Identity
  ...ence of the Croat name, dux/rex Croatorum, does not appear until the ninth century. The Charter of Duke Trpimir is indeed the oldest text that mentions the Cr ...zantine scholar, 6th century Roman bureaucrat) and was recorded in the 6th century (events cia. 518 <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zlYSBAAAQBAJ&pg
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...ng preceded the Pueblo civilization encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, the region was governed as a province of Mexico after 1821 and ceded to th For nearly forty years New Mexico was forgotten. As the sixteenth century progressed, Spanish settlement advanced slowly, but steadily through northe
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• Wet floor sign spoof
  ...nt part of British culture during the [[Elizabethan]] period of the [[16th Century]]. Thus, it has often been argued that the wet-floor sign was introduced to
  9 KB (1,416 words) - 20:35, 15 February 2010
• Frank Drake
  {{For|the comic book character|Frank Drake (comics)}} {{For|the 16th Century naval commander|Francis Drake}}
  7 KB (965 words) - 00:40, 25 December 2017
• Directory:Kathy O'Connell/Robert De Niro
  '''In 1986 De Niro played a 16th-century Spanish soldier'''-turned-Jesuit-priest in Roland Joffe's solemn historical
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...history. When Spanish and French explorers arrived in the area in the 16th century, they found a land inhabited by many small tribes of Native Americans, the ...nd many others have subsequently served in state and local offices. As the century drew to a close, all of South Carolina's citizens were able to participate
  16 KB (2,509 words) - 19:21, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Texas
  ...d 17th centuries, the region became a province of Mexico in the early 19th century. Texans won their independence in 1836 after a gallant but losing stand at === The Late Nineteenth Century ===
  21 KB (3,274 words) - 19:30, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Xcel Energy Inc.
  ...inneapolis-based Northern States Power Company (NSP) with Denver-based New Century Energies. * 1990:Company increases dividends for 16th consecutive year.
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• Directory:Korcula History 2
  The manner they where first mentioned was in the 9th century when the Republic of Venice recorded that Narentani ''or'' Narentines, who ...(a Germanic tribe related to the Goths) invaded Roman Dalmatia in the 5th century. They ruled parts of Roman Dalmatia from 480 to 535 AD.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...Directory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 16th state in [[Year Admitted:=1796]]. First visited by the Spanish in 1540, the === The Early Nineteenth Century ===
  19 KB (3,007 words) - 19:22, 17 January 2013
• Vallegrande Speak
  ...usa (modern Dubrovnik). Ragusan Dalmatian probably disappeared in the 17th century.}} ...est record of the term is the Italian - cima, at the beginning of the 17th century. <ref>Lingua Franca in the Dalmatian Fishing and Nautical Terminology by J.
  31 KB (5,076 words) - 16:50, 11 July 2023
• Directory:Korcula History
  ...=false The Late Medieval Balkans:] A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century by John Van Antwerp Fine (p8)</ref> Therefore Constantine with a strong arm ...ref> Greek colonists formed a small colony on the island in the 4th or 3rd century B.C.
  30 KB (4,859 words) - 23:50, 17 April 2019
• Directory:Netherlands
  ...Provinces declared their independence from Spain in 1579; during the 17th century, they became a leading seafaring and commercial power, with settlements and ...iginating with WILLIAM I, Prince of Orange, in the latter half of the 16th century
  28 KB (3,655 words) - 20:50, 3 March 2008
• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...of the United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, a pioneer in [[international arbitration]] and staunch advocate of world p .... He supported the [[Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|16th Amendment]], which allowed for a federal income tax, and the [[Seventeenth
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• Dalmatian Italians
  ...nguist Bartoli) nearly one third of Dalmatia in the first half of the 19th century. Then in 1816 Austrian census registered 66 000 Italian speaking people amo Barbarian invasions from the 6th century on-wards, <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6WjSYwIGIm4C&pg=PA48&dq
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...early as 6,000 years ago. At the time of European exploration in the 16th century, there were more than 10,000 Indians in Louisiana. Tribes of the Muskhogean
  18 KB (2,816 words) - 19:16, 17 January 2013
• Defence of Korcula
  [[File:Venetian galley at Curzola-engraving.jpg|thumb|right|575px|A 19th century engraving of a Venetian galley fighting a Genoese fleet at the battle of Cu ...and finally Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) of the Ottoman fleet in the 16th century.
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