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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: SILVERSTONE
 Silverstone (racing circuit)
 Silvester I - and Donation of Constantine
Sima Qian
- on the rich produce of China
Simeon, St - the stylite
Simnel, Lambert - and the English throne
- brief account
 Simon, John - 19th-century public health legislation
Simon, John - and the National government
Simon Bar-Cochba - captures Jerusalem
Simon Bolivar, SS - sunk by a mine
Simon de Montfort - Albigensian crusade
Simon de Montfort - Barons' War
- and the parliament of 1265
Simon Maccabaeus - leader of the Jews
- and the Essenes
Simone Martini - and International Gothic
simony - and Lateran synod of 1059
Simplon - Alpine pass and the Swiss
Simpson, Alan - Steptoe and Son
Simpson, James (obstetrician)
- on leprosy
- uses chloroform in childbirth
- first anaesthetic in childbirth
- invents 'air tractor'
Simpson, Wallis - and the abdication crisis
- and Edward VIII
Simpson, William - in the Crimean War
Sinai - early copper mines
- mining by Egyptians in c.2550 BC
- monastery of St Catherine
- restored to Egypt in 1982
Sinan, Turkish architect
Sind - occupied by Arabs in 712
Sindbad the Sailor - in the Arabian Nights
- brief account
Singapore - and Britain
- falls to Japanese in 1942
Sing a Song of Sixpence
singeing the king of Spain's beard - in 1587
Singh - as Sikh name
Singing Detective (Potter)
Sinhalese - moving into Sri Lanka
- and the name Ceylon
sinking fund - introduced by Pitt
- brief account
Sinn Fein - origin of name
- by-election victories from 1916
- leaders arrested in 1918
- election success in 1918
- and the northern Irish peace process
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