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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: POLE
Pole, Reginald - death of brother and mother
- in England from 1554
- brief biography
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
pole star - as navigational aid
police (in Britain)
poliomyelitis - history of the disease
polis - the Greek city-state
Polisario - in the Western Sahara
Polish corridor - in the 1930s
Polish Succession - war of 1733-8
Political Discourses - by Hume
political parties (in Britain)
Political Register - and William Cobbett
Politics - by Aristotle
Polk, James - and the annexation of Texas
- and the Mexican War
Poll, Hermann - and the harpsichord
Pollock's Toy Museum - toy theatre
Pollok House - art collection in Glasgow
poll tax - paid by non-Muslims
- in England in 1380-81
- in Britain in 1989
- brief account
polo - origins of game
- on Maidan-i-Shah in Isfahan
POLO, MARCO
- and Cipango
- and Muslims in Sumatra
- and Temple of Heaven in Peking
- and the Chinese junk
- on paper currency
Polo, Niccolo and Matteo - their journey
Polonnaruwa - Buddhist centre
Polovtsy - and Kiev
Poltava - battle in 1709
Polybus - On the Nature of Man
polygamy - and the Mormons
Polynesia - first settlement
polyphony - in medieval music
Pombal, marquis of - chief minister
Pomerania - incorporated in Poland
- eastern part as Pomorze
- annexed by Teutonic knights in 1308-9
- restored to Poland in 1466
- and the Hohenzollern
- seized by France in 1812
pommy (the term)
Pomorze - province of Poland
Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar)
Pompeii
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