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The quarter was first known as 'Ribāt Taza رباط تازة' which was a Fatimid military camp. [2] It was first settled by Miknasa tribesmen before the Almoravid empire took over in 1074. They were replaced by the Almohad empire in 1132. In 1248 the city was captured by the Marinids. In 1914, it fell to the French.
[1] The title Twenty-Four Histories dates from 1775, which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor . This was when the last volume, the History of Ming , was reworked and a complete set of the histories was produced.
Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions. Players move their pieces around a board, the squares they land on determining the subject of a question they are asked from a card (from six categories including "history" and "science and nature").
The Stuarts returned to the restored throne in 1660, though continued questions over religion and power resulted in the deposition of another Stuart king, James II, in the Glorious Revolution (1688). England, which had subsumed Wales in the 16th century under Henry VIII, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great ...
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. 1898 – In Melbourne , the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution , which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia .
Menelik founded the first modern school in Addis Ababa in 1908 and sent several students to Europe. Haile Selassie sent hundreds of young men and women to study abroad and set up the capital's second modern school in 1925. He established schools and several cities, as well as training institutions and technical schools.
The Battle of Bab el Oued was principally a battle between the French Gendarmerie Mobile and the OAS Commando Delta.The French government forces used M8 Greyhound armoured cars to control the exits to the town whilst suspicious buildings were surveilled from the air by T-6 and T-28 aircraft departing from Boufarik Air Base.