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94 relations: A. H. Wheeler, Abdur Rahman Khan, Adolf Schlagintweit, Adventure fiction, Alexander Gardner (soldier), Alexander the Great, Allahabad, Anno Dracula series, Arley Munson Hare, Billy Woods (rapper), Borderlands 2, Borneo, Botany, British Raj, Carl Barât, Central Asia, Christopher Plummer, Civilization V, Daniel Dravot, Déjà Q, DreamWorks, Emirate of Afghanistan, Encyclopædia Britannica, Escape (radio program), First Anglo-Afghan War, Freemasonry, Garth Nix, Germany, H. G. Wells, Harsil, Heat stroke, Henry George Raverty, Henry Walter Bellew, Henry Yule, History Will Absolve Me, Humphrey Bogart, Indian Railway Library, Iron Maiden, J. M. Barrie, J. Michael Bailey, James Brooke, Jimmy Buffett, John Huston, John Keay, John Wood (explorer), Josiah Harlan, Kafiristan, Kashgar, Kim Newman, Kingsley Amis, ..., Lahore, List of explorers, Martini–Henry, Masonic ritual and symbolism, Master of the Moon, Michael Caine, Michael Specter, Murchison Award, Muslim, New Criticism, New Historicism, Nuristan Province, Omar Ali Saifuddin II, Paganism, Pete Doherty, Princely state, Psychiatric hospital, Q (Star Trek), Qing dynasty, Royal Geographical Society, Royal United Services Institute, Rudyard Kipling, Sarawak, Scarlet Traces, Sean Connery, Siah-Posh Kafirs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, Star Trek: The Next Generation, T. S. Eliot, The Final Frontier, The Libertines, The Libertines (album), The Man Who Would Be King (film), The Man Who Would Be Queen, The New York Times, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, The Road to El Dorado, The Sleeper Awakes, The Storyteller (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Wali Khan (khoja), Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, White Rajahs, William Watts McNair. Expand index (44 more) »
A. H. Wheeler
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Abdur Rahman Khan
Abdur Rahman Khan (عبد رحمان خان) (between 1840 and 1844October 1, 1901) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.
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Adolf Schlagintweit
Adolf von Schlagintweit (9 January 1829 − 26 August 1857) was a German botanist and explorer of Central Asia.
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Adventure fiction
Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.
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Alexander Gardner (soldier)
Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (or Gardiner) (Gordana Khan) (1785–1877) was a traveller, soldier and mercenary.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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Allahabad
Prayag, or Allahabad is a large metropolitan city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Allahabad District, the most populous district in the state and 13th most populous district in India, and the Allahabad Division.
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Anno Dracula series
The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman—named after Anno Dracula (1992), the series' first novel—is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.
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Arley Munson Hare
Arley Isabel Munson Hare, MD (1871-c. 1941) was an American physician, surgeon, author, and lecturer.
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Billy Woods (rapper)
Billy Woods is an American alternative hip hop artist from New York City.
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Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2 is an open world action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games.
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Borneo
Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
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Carl Barât
Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is a British musician, best known for being the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the garage rock band The Libertines.
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Central Asia
Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.
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Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian actor.
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Civilization V
Sid Meier's Civilization V is a 4X video game in the ''Civilization'' series developed by Firaxis Games.
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Daniel Dravot
Daniel Dravot (DRAV-it) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's novella "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and its film adaptation.
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Déjà Q
"Deja Q" is the 13th episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 61st episode of the series overall.
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DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures (also known as DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film production label of Amblin Partners.
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Emirate of Afghanistan
The Emirate of Afghanistan (د افغانستان امارت) was an emirate between Central Asia and South Asia, which is today's Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Escape (radio program)
Escape was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.
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First Anglo-Afghan War
The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Disaster in Afghanistan) was fought between British imperial India and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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Garth Nix
Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Harsil
Harshil is a village and a cantonment area on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, on the way to the Hindu pilgrimage, Gangotri, in Uttarkashi district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand). Situated at a height of 7,860 ft (2,620 metres.) from sea level, Harshil lies 73 km. from Uttarkashi, and 30 km away from Harshil lies the Gangotri National Park, spread over 1,553 square km.
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Heat stroke
Heat stroke, also known as sun stroke, is a type of severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than and confusion.
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Henry George Raverty
Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.
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Henry Walter Bellew
Henry Walter Bellew MRCP (30 August 1834 – 26 July 1892) was an Indian-born British medical officer who worked in Afghanistan.
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Henry Yule
Sir Henry Yule KCSI (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist.
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History Will Absolve Me
"History Will Absolve Me" (Spanish:"La historia me absolverá") is the title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.
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Indian Railway Library
The Indian Railway Library was an enterprise conducted in Allahabad from 1888.
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.
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J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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J. Michael Bailey
John Michael Bailey (born July 2, 1957) is an American psychologist and professor at Northwestern University.
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James Brooke
Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Kingdom of Sarawak in Borneo.
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Jimmy Buffett
James William Buffett (born December 25, 1946) is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman.
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American-Irish film director, screenwriter and actor.
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John Keay
John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS, widely known as John Keay, (pronounced 'Kay') is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.
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John Wood (explorer)
John Wood (1812 – 14 November 1871) was a Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, principally remembered for his exploration of central Asia.
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Josiah Harlan
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor (12 June 1799 − October 1871) was an American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king.
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Kafiristan
Kāfiristān, or Kāfirstān (کافرستان), is a historical region that covered present-day Nuristan Province in Afghanistan and its surroundings.
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Kashgar
Kashgar is an oasis city in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
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Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer.
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
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Lahore
Lahore (لاہور, لہور) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi.
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List of explorers
The following is a list of explorers.
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Martini–Henry
The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot lever-actuated rifle that was used by the British Army.
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Masonic ritual and symbolism
Masonic ritual refers to the scripted words and actions that are spoken or performed during the degree work in a Masonic Lodge.
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Master of the Moon
Master of the Moon is the tenth and final studio album by the American heavy metal band Dio.
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Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer, and author.
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Michael Specter
Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science and technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998.
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Murchison Award
The Murchison Award, also referred to as the Murchison Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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New Criticism
New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.
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New Historicism
New Historicism is a form of literary theory whose goal is to understand intellectual history through literature, and literature through its cultural context, which follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of "Cultural Poetics".
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Nuristan Province
Nuristan, also spelled Nurestan or Nooristan, (Nuristani: نورستان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.
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Omar Ali Saifuddin II
Omar Ali Saifuddien II was the 23rd Sultan of Brunei.
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Paganism
Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ).
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Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist.
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Princely state
A princely state, also called native state (legally, under the British) or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent), was a vassal state under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj.
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Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
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Q (Star Trek)
Q is a fictional character as well as the name of a race in Star Trek appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager series, as well as in related media.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.
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Royal United Services Institute
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), sometimes still referred to by its pre-2004 name, the Royal United Services Institution, is a British defence and security think tank.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Sarawak
Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.
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Scarlet Traces
Scarlet Traces is a comics story of the Steampunk genre, written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli.
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Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).
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Siah-Posh Kafirs
Siah-Posh (black-Robed) Kafirs used to designate the major and dominant group of the Hindu Kush Kafirs inhabiting the Bashgul (''Kam'') valley of the Kafiristan, now called Nuristan.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to DS9) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369–2375.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion is a trade paperback released by Pocket Books in 2000.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The Final Frontier
The Final Frontier is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 13 August 2010 in Germany, Austria and Finland, 17 August in North America, 18 August in Japan, and 16 August worldwide.
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The Libertines
The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).
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The Libertines (album)
The Libertines is the second album by English indie rock band The Libertines.
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The Man Who Would Be King (film)
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor adventure film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling novella of the same title.
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The Man Who Would Be Queen
The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism is a 2003 book by the psychologist J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales, is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1888.
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The Road to El Dorado
The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure musical fantasy comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation.
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The Sleeper Awakes
The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.
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The Storyteller (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
"The Storyteller" is the 14th episode of the first season of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Wali Khan (khoja)
Wali Khan (sometimes spelled Vālī-khan) was a member of the Ak Taghliq clan of East Turkestan Khojas, who invaded Kashgaria from the Kokand during the Afaqi Khoja revolts on several occasions in the 1850s, and succeeded in ruling Kashgar for a short while.
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Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
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White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were a dynastic monarchy of the British Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo, from 1841 to 1946.
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William Watts McNair
William Watts McNair (13 September 1849 – 13 August 1889) was a British surveyor, the first British explorer of Kafiristan (now Nuristan).
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References
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