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(Encyclopedia) Joseph II, 1741–90, Holy Roman emperor (1765–90), king of Bohemia and Hungary (1780–90), son of Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, whom he succeeded. He was the first…
(Encyclopedia) Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th BaronByron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baronbīˈrən [key], 1788–1824, English poet and satirist.
Ranked with Shelley and Keats as one of the…
(Encyclopedia) Byzantine art and architecture, works of art and structures works produced in the city of Byzantium after Constantine made it the capital of the Roman Empire (a.d. 330) and the work…
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2008 Academy Awards | Oscar winners and nomineesThe 2008 Academy Awards were presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. All of the nominees are listed below; the Oscar winners…
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The 2008 Academy Awards will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk…
(Encyclopedia) Henry VI, 1421–71, king of England (1422–61, 1470–71).
Henry was a mild, honest, and pious man, a patron of literature and the arts and the founder of Eton College (1440). He was,…
(Encyclopedia) serf, under feudalism, peasant laborer who can be generally characterized as hereditarily attached to the manor in a state of semibondage, performing the servile duties of the lord (…
