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Alexander I
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Alexander I, who struggled to create a united state out of his politically and ethnically divided land.
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Pocahontas
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Pocahontas, personal name MATOAKA, Christian name REBECCA (b. c. 1595, vicinity of Jamestown, Va.—d. March 1617, Grave- send, Kent), Powhatan Indian woman who helped maintain peace between English colonists and native Americans by befriending the settlers at Jamestown, Va., and eventually marrying one of them; dramatic accounts of her unusual role have immortalized her name in American folk history.
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Lancelot
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Lancelot, also called LANCELOT DU LAC or LANCELOT OF THE LAKE, one of the greatest knights in Arthurian romance, the lover of Arthur’s queen, Guinevere, and father of the pure knight Sir Galahad.
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Nazim Hikmet
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Hikmet, Nazim, also called NAZIM HIKMET RAN (b. 1902, Salonika, now in Greece—d.
June 2, 1963, Moscow), poet who was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th-century Turkish literature.
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Moses de Leon
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Moses (ben Shem Toy) de Leon (b. 1250, Leon, Spain—d. 1305, ArevaLo), Jewish Kabbalist and presumably the author of the Seferha-zohar (“The Book of Splendour”), the most important work of Jewish mysticism; for a number of centuries its influence rivalled that of the Old Testament and the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary.
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Lambert, John
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Lambert, John (b. autumn 1619, Calton, West Riding, Yorkshire—d. March 1684, St. Nicholas Isle, off Plymouth, Cornwall), a leading parliamentary general during the English Civil War (1642—5 1) and the principal architect of the Protectorate, the form of republican government existing in England from 1653 to 1660.
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Herod Antipas
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Herod Antipas (b. 21 BC—cl. AD 39), son of Herod I the Great who became tetrarch of Galilee and ruled with relative competence
throughout Jesus of Nazareth’s ministry.
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