The Star Wars prequel trilogy, colloquially referred to as the prequels, is a series of epic space-opera films written and directed by George Lucas. It...
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Roman Empire with the earliest known examples of the Renaissance architecture. The lands of the Bohemian Crown were never part of the ancient Roman Empire...
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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. It is associated with the...
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Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured...
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Catholic Church (redirect from Roman Catholic)
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide...
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small, intimately sized vessels used Roman numeral designations as part of their names: Renaissance I through Renaissance VIII. These are the current names...
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Italy (redirect from Roman New Republic)
invasion of Charles VIII of France initiated a series of wars in the peninsula. During the High Renaissance, popes such as Julius II (1503–1513) fought for control...
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Remember", Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala and Kylo Ren and Rey from the Star Wars saga, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist from Brokeback Mountain, and Jake and...
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Callan, 77, American excommunicated Roman Catholic priest. Jon Camp, 75, British bass guitarist and singer (Renaissance). Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri, 77, Indian...
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gained worldwide fame for his role as Han Solo in the space opera film Star Wars (1977), a part he reprised in four sequels over the next four decades...
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Napoleonic Wars 1000km 620miles 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire...
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List of films set in ancient Rome (redirect from List of films set in Roman Empire)
films and tv shows set in the city of Rome during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, or the Roman Empire. The films only partly set in Rome are so noted...
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Seneca the Elder (category Ancient Roman rhetoricians)
in epitome only. His principal work, a history of Roman affairs from the beginning of the Civil Wars until the last years of his life, is almost entirely...
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Popes and other European monarchs and states during the Italian Wars and the European wars of religion. Some authors have described the legendary Alberto...
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Class of 1972. In 2004, Weller completed a Master of Arts degree in Roman and Renaissance Art at Syracuse University, and occasionally taught courses in ancient...
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Campania (redirect from Campania (Roman province))
the 340s BC, the Samnites were engaged in a war with the Roman Republic in a dispute known as the Samnite Wars, with Rome claiming the rich pastures of northern...
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Wars, expanded into Cyrenaica and subjugated Kush in the 3rd century BC. In the 1st century BC, Ptolemaic Egypt became entangled in a Roman civil war...
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but revived in the larger works of the Renaissance, when artists took inspiration for their "Massacres" from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths...
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History of Genoa (section Middle Ages and Renaissance)
Second Punic War (218-201 BC). The Carthaginians accordingly destroyed it in 209 BC. The town was rebuilt and, after the Carthaginian Wars ended in 146 BC...
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Gardens of Bomarzo (category Italian Renaissance gardens)
arcane: examples are a large sculpture of one of Hannibal's war elephants, which mangles a Roman legionary, or the statue of Ceres lounging on the bare ground...
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Venus (mythology) (redirect from Venus roman goddess)
Trojan prince Aeneas, and thus a divine ancestor of the Roman people as a whole.: 23 The Punic Wars saw many similar introductions of foreign cult, including...
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centuries-lasting and frequent Byzantine–Sasanian wars, the Muslim Arabs began to make inroads into historically Roman territory, taking the Levant and North Africa...
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Adrian (2016). Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World. Hachette UK. p. 276. Bedoyere, Guy. "Architecture in Roman Britain". Heritage Key....
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docu-drama Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty. Dance's debut film as a screenwriter and director was Ladies in Lavender (2004), which starred Judi Dench...
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concept of "Amphoreus" takes inspiration from Greco-Roman mythology with some influences of Renaissance and Neo-Classical aesthetic. In terms of combat mechanism...
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Terni (category Roman sites of Umbria)
in Latin as Interamnātēs Na(ha)rtēs. Interamna was founded as an Ancient Roman town, albeit settlements in the Terni area well precede this occurrence...
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of Hungary, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, The Holy Roman Empire, and Habsburg Spain. The wars were dominated by land campaigns in Hungary, including...
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Club, president/student director of the choir, executive member of the Renaissance Leadership Team, and publicity chair of the Writing Club. In 2015, she...
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listening to the History of Rome podcast as he was writing the script for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In a Wall Street Journal article Johnson states: "The...
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Cliff Robertson (category American military personnel of World War II)
which Robertson starred in, replacing Rex Harrison. Robertson then made a war film, Up from the Beach (1965) for Fox and guest-starred on that studio's...
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