Anna Komnene

•  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist (1090 – August 20, 1153) was a Frankish abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube.

  

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•  Pope Eugene III

  Pope Blessed Eugene III (died July 8, 1153), born Bernardo da Pisa, was Pope from 1145 to 1153. He was the first Cistercian to become Pope .

  

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•  Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne

  Eustace IV (c. 1130 – 17 August 1153) was a Count of Boulogne and the son and heir of King Stephen of England. He became the Heir Apparent to his father's lands by the death of an elder brother before 1135, and inherited Boulogne through his mother, Matilda of Boulogne. In 1137, he did homage for Normandy to Louis VII of France, whose sister, Constance, he subsequently married in 1140 (as a widow she remarried to Count Raymond V of Toulouse).

  

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•  David I of Scotland

  David I or Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians (1113–1124) and later King of the Scots (1124–1153). The youngest son of Máel Coluim III and Margaret, David spent most of his childhood in Scotland, but was exiled to England temporarily in 1093. Perhaps after 1100, he became a dependent at the court of King Henry I. There he was influenced by the Norman and Anglo-French culture of the court.

  

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•  Viacheslav I of Kiev

  Viacheslav Vladimirovich, Prince of Smolensk (1113-1125), Turov (1125-1132, 1134-1146), Pereyaslavl (1132-1134, 1142), Peresopnitsa (1146-1149), Vyshgorod (1149-1151) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1139, 1151-1154). He was a son of Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. On 18 February 1139 he succeeded his brother Yaropolk II of Kiev as Grand Prince, but was driven out in March by Vsevolod II of Kiev.

  

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•  Petronilla of Aquitaine

  Petronilla of Aquitaine (c. 1125 – 1193) was the daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Aenor of Châtellerault. She was the sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was Queen consort of England. She is variously called Alix (or Aelith in Occitan) and Petronilla; she typically went by Alix after her marriage, while Petronilla seems to have been her childhood name (she is referred to as such in her father's will).

  

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•  Gampopa

  Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (1079-1153) "Sonam Rinchen from Gampo" — who was equally well known in Tibet as Dagpo Lhaje ("the Physician from Dagpo"), Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche ("Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo"), and Da'od Zhonnu, (the Tibetan for Candraprabhakumara) — established the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism today, as an institution. Another name for Gampopa was Ü-pa Tönpa.

  

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•  Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester

  Ranulf II, also known as Ranulf le Meschin or Ranulf de Gernon, was an Anglo-Norman potentate who inherited the honour of the palatine county of Chester upon the death of his father, who was descended from the Counts of Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy.

  

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•  Ayyad ben Moussa

  

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•  Henry Zdík

  Henry Zdík (about 1083 - 1150 Prague) was bishop of Olomouc from 1126 to 1150. In 1141 Zdik with papal authorization undertook a mission against the Prussians.

  

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•  Paolo Veronese

  Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19, 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. He adopted the name Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari, and became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona. Veronese, Titian, and Tintoretto constitute the triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance (1500s).

  

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•  Dzungars

  

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•  The Feynman Lectures on Physics

  The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1961–63. It includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism, Newtonian physics, quantum physics, and even the relation of physics to other sciences.

  

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•  Jan van Almeloveen

  Jan van Almeloveen was a Dutch painter, engraver, and draughtsman of the 17th century, principally known for some neatly-executed etchings of landscapes. He was born c. 1652 in Mijdrecht, according to an inscription on his 1678 mezzotint portrait of his father, Johannes ab Almeloveen, a preacher in that city. He made 38 prints in total, all of which are etchings, mostly landscapes, including Dutch villages and rivers.

  

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•  Zrodla, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

  

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