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Catherine the Great

(Encyclopedia)Catherine the Great: see Catherine II. ...

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini

(Encyclopedia)Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: see Pius II. ...

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Simeon

(Encyclopedia)Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Simeon: see Simeon II. ...

Piccolomini, Enea Silvio de'

(Encyclopedia)Piccolomini, Enea Silvio de': see Pius II. ...

Reichstadt, Napoleon, duke of

(Encyclopedia)Reichstadt, Napoleon, duke of: see Napoleon II. ...

Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia)Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of gədŏlˈfĭn [key], 1645–1712, English statesman. He early established a lasting friendship with John Churchill (later duke of Marlborough), and their polit...

George VI, king of Great Britain and Ireland

(Encyclopedia)George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52), second son of George V; successor of his elder brother, Edward VIII. He attended the ro...

Clarendon Code

(Encyclopedia)Clarendon Code, 1661–65, group of English statutes passed after the Restoration of Charles II to strengthen the position of the Church of England. The Corporation Act (1661) required all officers of...

Scanderbeg

(Encyclopedia)Scanderbeg or Skanderbeg both: skănˈdərbĕg [key], c.1404–1468, Albanian national hero. His original name was George Castriota or Kastriotes, but the Ottomans called him Iskender Bey, and this wa...

Přemysl

(Encyclopedia)Přemysl pərzhĕmˈĭsəl [key], earliest dynasty of Bohemia. Its semilegendary founder was the peasant Přemysl, whom the Bohemian Princess (sometimes called Queen) Libussa chose as her husband at s...