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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: SHETLANDS
 Shetlands - and the Vikings
- in the Scottish kingdom
 - brief account
Shields, Ella - and Burlington Bertie
Shi Huangdi - Chinese emperor
- the terracotta army
- and Chinese coins
Shijing - the 'Classic of Poetry'
Shi'ism - sect within Islam
- in Iran
- and Ismail I
Shikaneder, Emanuel - The Magic Flute
shilling - origin as a coin
Shimonoseki - treaty of 1895
Shining Path - terrorist group in Peru
Shinto - and the kami of Japan
shinty
- brief account
Shinwell, Manny
 ship fever - or typhus
Shipley Art Gallery - Gateshead
ship money - and Charles I
- outlawed by parliament
- brief account
shipping forecast (in Britain)
SHIPS
ships of the line - in navies
- brief account
Shipton, Mother
Shiraz - and Sa'di
- and Hafiz
shire horse - carthorse
Shires (term in Britain)
- capital of Karim Khan
Shirley, Robert - at the Persian court
Shiva - Hindu god
shogun - original use of title
- the first
Shona people - and Great Zimbabwe
- subdued by the Ndebele
shooting (sport in Britain)
Shops Act - of 1911
Shoreham - and Samuel Palmer
- brief account
shortbread (in Scotland)
Shorthorn (cattle)
Short Parliament - of 1640
Short Treatise on Whist - by Hoyle
shot heard round the world - in 1775
Shotley - and the plague
Shotoku Taishi - regent in Japan
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