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Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 American historical-drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Garbo's follow-up project was Clarence Brown's lavish production of Conquest (1937), opposite Charles Boyer. The plot was the dramatized romance between Napoleon and Marie Walewska . It was MGM's biggest and most-publicized movie of its year, but upon its release, it became one of the studio's biggest failures of the decade at the box office ...
Conquest, a film starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer; Conquest, directed by Lucio Fulci; Conquest, a British-Canadian film; Conquest (TV series), a History Channel series; Conquest, a 1950s CBS news program hosted by Eric Sevareid; Conquest, an abandoned Netflix television drama created by Carl Rinsch
Ingvald Garbo (1891–1941), member of the Norwegian Resistance in WWII; Norman Garbo (1919–2017), American author, lecturer and painter; Raffaellino del Garbo (1466), Florentine painter; Juan Pujol García (1912–1988), codename "Garbo", Spanish double agent for the British; Garbo (singer) (Renato Abate, born 1958), Italian singer
As one of the only written sources about the Arab conquest of Sindh, and therefore the origins of Islam in India, the Chach Nama is a key historical text that has been co-opted by different interest groups for several centuries, and it has significant implications for modern imaginings about the place of Islam in South Asia. Accordingly, its ...
In addition it is surmised that the language of Urdu (literally meaning "horde" or "camp" in various Turkic dialects) was born during the Delhi Sultanate period as a result of the mingling of Sanskritic Hindi and the Persian, Turkish, Arabic favoured by the Muslim invaders of India [citation needed].
Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain , the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent , the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and various Muslim conquests , to mention just a few.
When Arjuna embarked on a conquest to help his brother Yudhishthira perform the rajasuya yajna, Bhagadatta was one of the first kings to be conquered by him. [2] He was particularly skilled in the use of elephants in warfare. [3] Riding on his elephant Supratika, he fought for the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra War. He was succeeded by his son ...