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 Afro-Asiatic - language group of north Africa
Afwerki, Isaias - president of Eritrea
Aga Khan - leader of Nizari Ismailis
Agacher Strip - disputed region
Agadir - German gunboat in 1911
 Agamemnon - brief account (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Agamemnon - tragedy by Aeschylus
Agar, Eileen - brief biography (Tate)
- career and bibliography (Gillian Jason)
Agassi, Andre - career (Hickok Sports)
- career (ESPN)
Agassiz, Louis - and ice ages
- brief biography (Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)
- brief biography (Lefalophodon)
Agathocles - tyrant of Syracuse
Agathon - brief biography (Theatre History)
 Age Concern
Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of - brief history (All Music)
Aghlabids - ruling from Kairouan
- chronology of rulers, 800-909 (Liber Patrum) **
Agincourt - battle in 1415
- brief account
 - as a turning point in history
- brief account (Leaders and Battles)
 - indenture to serve Henry V in 1415
Agnadello - battle in 1509
- brief account (Boglewood)
Agnelli, Giovanni - brief biography(Spartacus)
Agnesi, Maria - brief biography (University of St Andrews)
Agnesi, Maria Teresa - brief biography (Karadar)
Agnew, Thomas - and Roger Fenton
Agni - god of the Aryans
- brief account (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Agnon, Shmuel - brief biography (Kirjasto)
'agnostic' - coined by T.H. Huxley
agnosticism - Huxley's position (Victorian Web)
Agra - captured by Babur in 1526
- imprisonment of Shah Jahan
Agricola - governor of Britain
Agricola - history by Tacitus
- brief biography (BBCi)
Agricola, Alexander - brief biography (Karadar)
agriculture - the beginnings
Agrigentum - Greek temple
Agrippa - and daughter of Augustus Caesar
Agrippa, Julius Marcus - brief account (Livius)
Agrippa Posthumus - son of Julia and Agrippa
- murdered by Tiberius
Agrippina - wife of Germanicus
- brief biography (Columbia Encyclopedia)
- brief biography (Photo Archive)
- brief biography in Italian (Portale delle donne)
- related items
Agrippina - wife of Claudius, mother of Nero
- murdered by Nero
- brief biography (Columbia Encyclopedia)
- brief biography in Italian (Portale delle donne)
Agt, Andreas van - career (Ministry of General Affairs) * *
Aguilera, Christina - brief biography (Gale-Thompson)
Agustín I - emperor of Mexico
Agutter, Jenny - brief biography (TMAWeb)
AH - Anno Hegirae
Ahern, Bertie - and Irish peace process
- brief biography (CAIN Web Service)
Ahidjo, Ahmadou - Union Camerounaise
- president of Cameroon
ahimsa - in Jainism
Ahmad bin Said - imam of Oman
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim - invades Ethiopia
Ahmad ibn Tulun - ruler of Egypt
Ahmad Khan Abdali - Afghan leader
- and the Durrani empire (Library of Congress Country Studies)
Ahmed I - and princes in the harem
Ahmed Fuad II - king of Egypt
Ahmes - mathematical papyrus
- brief account of papyrus (Malaspina)
Ahmet, Sultan - mosque in Istanbul
Ahmose - Egyptian pharaoh
- brief biography (Tour Egypt)
Aho, Juhani - brief biography (Kirjasto)
Ahrens, Carl - brief biography (Malaspina)
Ahriman - see Angra Mainyu
Ahura Mazda
- depicted at Naqsh-e-Rustam
- and the sacred flame
- brief account of myth (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Aida - and Cairo
Aidan, St
AIDS - history of the disease
- and tuberculosis
- in Namibia
- statistics (Avert)
Aigai - identified at Vergina
Aiken, Conrad - brief biography (Kirjasto)
Aiken, Howard - brief biography (Inventors)
aikido - brief history (Hickok Sports)
Ailey, Alvin (American Ballet Theatre) **
Ailsa Craig
Aimard, Pierre-Laurent - brief biography (All Music)
Ain Mallaha - Stone Age site (Metropolitan Museum)
Ainsley, John Mark - career (San Francisco Opera)
Ainsworth, William Harrison - brief biography (Victorian Web)
Ainu - in Japan
Air and Fire - by Scheele
Airedale - terrier
Air Force Cross and Medal
airship - brief history (Tiscali)
Airy, George - brief biography (NAHSTE)
AIS - in Algeria
A'isha - wife of Muhammad
- at the Battle of the Camel
- brief biography (Columbia Encyclopedia)
Aislabie, John - Studley Royal
Aitchison, Craigie - brief biography (Tate)
Aix-la-Chapelle - and the Octagon
- peace of 1668
- treaty of 1748
- congress in 1818
Ajanta - and rock-cut architecture
- and Buddhist murals
- discovery of the caves
- brief history (UCLA)
Ajax - wrestles in the Iliad
Akayev, Askar - profile (BBC) V V
Akbar, Mogul emperor
- and Moghul miniatures
- brief biography (Boloji)
- and the arts (Boloji)
Akela - and the Cubs
Aker - brief account of myth (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Akh - brief account of myth (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Akhenaten - Egyptian pharaoh
- Princesses' Fresco
Akhmatova, Anna - biography and poems (Academy of American Poets)
- brief biography (Kirjasto)
Akkad - the city of Sargon
- brief history (Columbia Encyclopedia)
Akrotiri - Minoan town
Aksum - first Ethiopian kingdom
- brief history of pre-Aksumite period (Ethiopian History)
- brief history (Ethiopian History)
- brief history of Ge'ez language (Ethiopian History)
- chronology of rulers (History Files)
Akuffo, Frederick - ruler of Ghana
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke - brief biography (Kirjasto)
Akwamu - in the 17th century
Alabama - extended to coast in 1813
- statehood in 1819
- and the Confederate states
- and the five state capitals (ADAH)
- brief history (Southeastern Genealogy)
Alabama, SS - and Gladstone
Abbas al- - ancestor of the Abbasids
Aladdin - in the Arabian Nights
- brief account
Alagna, Roberto - career (EMI Classics)
Alain, Jehan - brief biography (Karadar)
Alain-Fournier - dedicated page (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Alam al-Halfa - engagement in 1942
Alamanni - Germanic tribes
- defeated by Clovis
Alamaro, Moshe - brief biography (Inventors)
Alamein, El - in the campaign of 1942-3
- brief account
- and the Royal Navy (Royal Navy)
Alamo - siege of 1836
Alamut - stronghold of the Assassins
Alanbrooke, Field Marshal
- brief biography (Spartacus) V V
à la poupée - signs to look for (University of Kansas)
Al-Aqsa - mosque in Jerusalem
- massacre of Muslims by crusaders
Alaric - leader of the Visigoths
Alaska - route into America
- discovered in 1741 by Bering
- purchased by USA in 1867
- statehood in 1959
- brief history (Lonely Planet)
- prehistoric culture (National Park Service)
- native peoples (Library of Congress)
- Russian missionaries (Library of Congress)
- fur trade (Library of Congress)
- gold rush (Library of Congress)
Al Azhar mosque - in Cairo
- early dome
Alba, duke of - in the Netherlands
- brief biography (Coloquio)
Alban, St
Albani, Emma - brief biography (Canada Heirloom)
ALBANIA
 - tour through time
- under Turkish rule from 1478
- invaded by Italy in 1939
- chronology of rulers from 1914 (History Files)
- brief history (Lonely Planet)
- narrative history (Library of Congress Country Studies)
- chronology of events from 1939 (BBC)
- contemporary facts and figures (BBCi)
- map of frontiers and towns (University of Texas**)
- index to online maps (University of Texas)
Albany (London)
Albany - and the Iroquois
- and the Dutch
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