Prior+occupation
51Empress Wang Zhengjun — Infobox Monarch|royal|consort name = Wang Zhengjun title = Empress of Western Han Empress Ziaoyuan spouse = Emperor Yuan of Han children = Emperor Cheng of Han predecessor = Empress Wang successor = Empress Xu date of birth = 71 BC place of birth …
52Empress Zhao Feiyan — (趙飛燕) (c. 32 BC 1 BC),Peterson, Barbara Bennett He Hong Fei Han Tie Wang Jiyu Zhang Guangyu. (1999) Notable Women of China M.E. Sharpe . pp. 87 90. ISBN 0 7656 0504 X.] formally Empress Xiaocheng (孝成皇后), was an empress during the Han Dynasty. Her …
53Christian Calendar — Christian Calendar † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Calendar GENERALITIES All civilized peoples and even those which seem to be only just emerging from utter barbarism keep some kind of record of the flight of time and are… …
54Emigration — Prior to October 1941, Jews living in areas under German occupation could still emigrate. From 1933 to 1938, the Nazis encouraged Jewish emigration from Germany. Nazi policy toward Jewish emigration changed after Kristallnacht, when a policy… …
55History of the Jews in Belarus — Prior to World War II, Jews were the third largest ethnic group in Belarus, and comprised more than 40% of the population in cities and towns. Most ethnic Belarusians lived in rural areas. The population of cities such as Minsk, Pinsk, Mogilev,… …
56United States Ambassador to Norway — Prior to 1905, Sweden and Norway were politically united. The United States Ambassador to Sweden thus was the US representative for Norway as well as Sweden. In 1905 Sweden and Norway peacefully separated and Norway became an independent… …
57Earl of Moray — Prior to the formal establishment of the peerage, Earl of Moray, numerous individuals ruled the kingdom of Moray or Mormaer of Moray until 1130 when the kingdom was destroyed by David I of Scotland. History of the Earldom of Moray For the history …
58South Carolina during the American Revolution — Prior to the American Revolution, the British began taxing American colonies to raise revenue. South Carolinia residents were outraged about the 1767 Townshend Acts that taxed tea, paper, wine, glass, and oil. To protest the earlier (1765) Stamp… …
59Deportations — Prior to World War II, the NKVD experimented with the mass deportation of suspected peoples. In 1935, NKVD Commissar Genrykh Yagoda ordered the deportation of 40,000 Finns, Poles, and Germans from the Leningrad oblast as a reaction to the… …
60HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
