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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: SILCHESTER
 Silchester
 Silesia - in Habsburg empire
- and War of Austrian Succession
- ceded to Prussia in 1745
- and treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
- and the Seven Years' War
silk - process discovered in China
- Mistress of the Silkworms
- as material for writing and painting
- bombyx mori (silk worm)
Silk Road
- in Mongol times
Silla - kingdom in Korea
- uniting Korea
Silurian period - identified and named
Silva Xavier, Joaquim - and Brazil
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
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