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Charles the Bald
(Encyclopedia)Charles the Bald, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West. ...Charles the Fat
(Encyclopedia)Charles the Fat, French king: see Charles III, emperor of the West. ...Charles I, emperor of the West and Frankish king
(Encyclopedia)Charles I, emperor of the West and Frankish king: see Charlemagne. ...Kenneth II
(Encyclopedia)Kenneth II, d. 995, Scottish king (971–995). The son of Malcolm I (reigned 943–54), he became king of the united Picts and Scots in 971 and immediately led a savage raid on the British in Northumb...Visigoths
(Encyclopedia)Visigoths (West Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of Germans. Having settled in the region W of the Black Sea in the 3d cent. a.d., the Goths soon split into two division...Louis I, French king
(Encyclopedia)Louis I, French king: see Louis I, emperor of the West. ...Charles II, French king
(Encyclopedia)Charles II, French king: see Charles II, emperor of the West. ...John of Nepomuk, Saint
(Encyclopedia)John of Nepomuk, Saint nāˈpōmo͝ok [key], d. 1393, patron saint of Bohemia, a martyr. He is also called John Nepomucen. He was vicar general of Bohemia under King Wenceslaus IV (later Holy Roman Em...Charles III, 839–88, French king (Charles the Fat)
(Encyclopedia)Charles III or Charles the Fat, French king: see Charles III, emperor of the West. ...Carr, Eugene Asa
(Encyclopedia)Carr, Eugene Asa, 1830–1910, Union general in the U.S. Civil War, b. Concord, Erie co., N.Y., grad. West Point, 1850. In the Civil War he distinguished himself at Wilson's Creek (1861) and Pea Ridge...Browse by Subject
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