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1. Joan
   Mythical Englishwoman, reputed to have become pope in 855, as John VIII, and to have died giving birth to a child during a papal procession. The myth was exposed in 1647 by Blondel in his...
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2. Joan
   (from the article `Philip V`) Philip was the second son of Philip IV, who made him count of Poitiers in 1311. When his elder brother, King Louis X, died in 1316, leaving an infant ...
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3. Joan
   (from the article `Spain`) ...Pacheco, marqués de Villena, initially gained ascendancy over the king, others vied for royal favour. The nobles, alleging Henry`s impotence, ... ...archbishop of Toledo (who later reversed himself), and opposed to King Henry IV, supported the succession claims of the princess Isabella, the ... [2...
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4. Joan
   queen of Castile (from 1504) and of Aragon (from 1516), though power was exercised for her by her husband, Philip I, her father, Ferdinand II, and ... [5 related articles]
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5. Joan
   Joan is a Catalan boy name. The meaning of the name is `God is Gracious` Where is it used? The name Joan is mainly used In Catalan.How do they say it elsewhere? Evan ( In Welsh and In English) John ( In English and In the bible) Jack ( In English) For the opposite sex use: In Russian, Czech, Serb...
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6. Joan
   A joan was a a close-fitting cap worn by women in the latter half of the 18th century.
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7. Joan
   Joan was the female pope. According to a story long believed, but since the 19th century acknowledged to be a fiction, she was said to have been a native of Mainz, who, falling in love with an Englishman at Fulda, travelled with him in man's attire, studied at Athens, and visited Rome. Under the nam...
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8. Joan
   (given name) `Joan` is mainly a female name in the English language, but can be a male name in French, Dutch and in Catalan. It is related to the names John, Jane, Jean, Jeanne, Johan, Joanna, Juan, Ivan, Siobhán, and Siwan. The English female name is an English form of the Old French name...
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9. Joan
   (album) `Joan` was a 1967 album by Joan Baez. Having exhausted the standard voice/guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with composer Peter Schickele (with whom she`d worked on the 1966 Christmas album, Noël), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-curr...
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