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During the 10th to 15th centuries, the islands formed part of the Kingdom of Norway until they were annexed into the Kingdom of Scotland due to a royal dispute involving the payment of a dowry. [5] In 1707, when Scotland and England united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, trade between Shetland and continental Northern Europe decreased.
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.Born in Dallas and raised there and in Miami, he was the first solo white rapper to achieve commercial success following the 1990 release of his best-known hit "Ice Ice Baby".
A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, and for specialised purposes thereafter. In addition to representing a sound value (a phoneme), runes can be used to represent the ...
Canaan (/ ˈkeɪnən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; [ 1 ] Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan; [ 2 ] Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic -speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had ...
Borneo (/ ˈbɔːrnioʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [ 3 ] The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [ 4 ] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [ 5 ] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [ 4 ]
Understanding of the oldest branchings in the tree of life only developed substantially with DNA sequencing, leading to a system of domains rather than kingdoms as top level rank being put forward by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler, and Mark Wheelis in 1990, uniting all the eukaryote kingdoms in the domain "Eucarya", stating, however, that ...
Julianne Alexandra Hough (/ hʌf /; born July 20, 1988) [ 1 ] is an American dancer, actress and television personality. In 2007, she joined the cast of ABC 's Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, winning two seasons with her celebrity partners. [ 2 ] After leaving the show in 2009, she returned in 2014 to serve as a judge on ...