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18 hours ago · Tokugawa Ieyasu [a] [b] (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; [c] January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi ...
18 hours ago · Oda Nobunaga used European technology and firearms to conquer many other daimyōs; his consolidation of power began what was known as the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573–1603). After Nobunaga was assassinated in 1582 by Akechi Mitsuhide , his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the nation in 1590 and launched two unsuccessful invasions of ...
18 hours ago · Belize founded. The Anglo-Saxon, English, or Baymen 's settlement of Belize is traditionally thought to have been effected upon Peter Wallace's 1638 landing at the mouth of Haulover Creek. As this account lacks clear primary sources, however, scholarly discourse has tended to qualify, amend, or completely eschew said theory, giving rise to a ...
18 hours ago · 1 February 1699 [1] An Act to prohibit the Exportation of any Corn Malt Meale Flour Bread Biscuit or Starch for One Yeare from the Tenth Day of February One thousand six hundred ninety eight. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867) Distillation Act 1698 (repealed) 10 Will. 3.
18 hours ago · Elizabeth (given name) Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew name Elisheva ( אֱלִישֶׁבַע ), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", [citation needed] as rendered in the Septuagint. [citation needed]
18 hours ago · Introduction. Botany ( Greek Βοτάνη - grass, fodder; Medieval Latin botanicus – herb, plant) [2] and zoology are, historically, the core disciplines of biology whose history is closely associated with the natural sciences chemistry, physics and geology. A distinction can be made between botanical science in a pure sense, as the study of ...
18 hours ago · The history of nudity involves social attitudes to nakedness of the human body in different cultures in history. The use of clothing to cover the body is one of the changes that mark the end of the Neolithic, and the beginning of civilizations. Nudity (or near-complete nudity) has traditionally been the social norm for both men and women in ...
