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The five kings of Wa ( 倭の五王 ) are kings of ancient Japan who sent envoys to China during the 5th century to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims to power by gaining the recognition of the Chinese emperor.
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Over the next thirteen years, she bore Henry eight children: five sons, three of whom would become kings, and three daughters.
The Israelites killed Balaam, and the five kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba.
The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál, and describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.
Eric says that with him are five kings, that he will tell them the name of them all, and that he, himself, is the sixth.
* While RV 6. 61. 12 associates the Sarasvati River with the five tribes ; and RV 7. 95-6 with the Paravatas and the Purus ; in RV 8. 21. 18, a number of petty kings are said to dwell along the course of Sarasvati,
Legend has magnified the victory into the rout of 200, 000 Muslims under five kings ; but so far was the battle from being decisive that in 1140 the Moors were able to seize the fortress of Leiria, built by Afonso in 1135 as an outpost for the defence of Coimbra, his capital.
King John, however, was deeply infatuated with his young, beautiful wife ; he neglected his state affairs to spend time with Isabella, often remaining in bed with her until noon, although it was the custom for kings to rise at five o ' clock in the morning to commence their duties.
In ancient China, the title of prince developed from being the highest title of nobility ( synonymous with duke ) in the Zhou Dynasty, to five grades of princes ( not counting the sons and grandsons of the emperor ) by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese word for prince Wang (, literally, King ) as Chinese believe the emperor Huang Di () is the ruler of all kings.
Despite knowing three of the five kings who reigned during his lifetime, there is no evidence that he was knighted.
Only five years later, Canada had three successive kings in the space of one year, with the death of George V, the accession and abdication of Edward VIII, and his replacement by George VI.
Susa became a frequent place of refuge for Parthian and later, the Persian Sassanid kings, as the Romans sacked Ctesiphon five different times between 116 and 297 CE ( Susa was briefly captured only by Roman emperor Trajan in 116 AD and never again would the Roman Empire advance so far to the east ).
For instance, Emperor Huizong of Song canonized five colored dragons as " kings ".
The Valley of Ajalon was first mentioned in the Book of Joshua as where Joshua defeated five Amorite kings.
It describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.
This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoichin, and Zedekiah.
One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, which first appears in Akkadian during the Old Babylonian period as a circa 1, 000 line epic known by its incipit, šūtur eli šarrī, ‘‘ Surpassing all other kings ,’’ which incorporated some of the stories from the five earlier Sumerian Gilgamesh tales.
The Athenians are said to have called themselves Cecropidæ, during the reigns of the five following kings, in his honor.
Ten years after leaving Britain, he wrote an epistolary book, in which he reproved five of the British kings.
Part two consists of a condemnation of five British kings, Constantine, Aurelius Conanus, Vortiporius, Cuneglas, and Maelgwn.
The only contemporary information about the person is provided by Gildas, who includes Maelgwn among the five British kings who he condemns in allegorical terms in his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae.
Neither outrage nor a doctrinal dispute would seem to justify beginning the condemnation of the five kings with a personal attack against the mother of one of the kings, calling her an " unclean lioness ".
The composition is by an anonymous author from the 10th century and is referred to as Eiríksmál, and describes Eric Bloodaxe and five other kings arriving in Valhalla after their death.
Eric says that with him are five kings, that he will tell them the name of them all, and that he, himself, is the sixth.
The famous poem about the battle in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the deaths of five kings and seven earls among Athelstan's enemies, along with ( or among them ) Constantine's son:
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There are five Houses in Ying Wa College.
Upon entering the Ying Wa College, new students are divided into five houses.
* According to the Book of Song, a Chinese emperor appointed five kings of Wa to Supervisor of All Military Affairs of the Six Countries of Wa, Silla, Imna, Gara, Chinhan, and Mahan in 451
According to the Book of Song, a Chinese emperor appointed five kings of Wa to the position of ruler of Silla in 421, but what is confusing is that the Japanese ruler gave a remote region to an immigration of Silla according to the Nihon Shoki.
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By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.
Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.
I have chosen five contrasting pairs, ten men in all, and they are arranged in roughly chronological order.
Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).
With five shots at the immediate command of the hunter's trigger finger, the gun and load are a deadly combination.
Unlimited game bags are possible and legal in more than 40 states, on shooting preserves ( one of the newer phases of modern game-management ) for five and six months each year.
Out of many factors which might be cited, five are most important: 1.
When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.
The numbers of successes on the five individual shots are, then, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1.
The totals for these five categories are not too uneven, namely 20, 15, 11, 16, 9 respectively.
If it were wholly random and unrelated, it would be 2.0, assuming the five classes were equal in n, which approximately they are.
If we have five problems whose solution we seek in relatively united fashion, then there are twice as many issues which, I judge, sharply divide us, intergroup relations practitioners and lay people.
The ideal storage temperature for long periods is about fifty-five degrees, with an allowable range of five degrees above or below this, provided there are no sudden or frequent changes.
In other words, the house-holders are encouraged to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations while the monks have to observe them very strictly.
In most amphibians, there are four digits on the fore foot and five on the hind foot, but no claws on either.
There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and hexadecimal computation.
Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.
Elections for the National assembly are to take place every five years, and the President is automatically the leader of the winning party or coalition.
The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the Hutchinson system of plant taxonomy when it contained only five families, of which only two are retained in the APG III classification.
There are five recognized subtypes of motor neuron diseases.
It includes all land under temporary crops ( double-cropped areas are counted only once ), temporary meadows for mowing or market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow ( less than five years ).
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