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The Man Who Would Be King, the Glossary

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan.^[1]

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1888 books
1888 short stories
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Freemasonry in fiction
Lost world novels
Short stories by Rudyard Kipling
Short stories set in Afghanistan
Short stories set in British India

A Salty Piece of Land

A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by bestselling author and songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

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A. H. Wheeler

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Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto/Dari: عبدالرحمن خان.) (between 1840 and 1844 – 1 October 1901) also known by his epithets, The Iron Amir, was Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901.

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Adolf Schlagintweit

Adolf von Schlagintweit (9 January 1829 – 26 August 1857) was a German botanist and explorer of Central Asia.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Alexander Gardner (soldier)

Colonel Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner, also known as Gordana Khan (گوردانہ خان; ਗੋਰਦਾਨਾ ਖ਼ਾਨ; 1785–1877), was a traveller, soldier, and mercenary active in Afghanistan and Punjab.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Arley Munson Hare

Arley Isabel Hare (Munson; November 14, 1871 – c. 1941) was an American physician, surgeon, author, and lecturer.

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Bande dessinée

Bandes dessinées (singular bande dessinée; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Billy Woods

Billy Woods (born 1977–1979; stylized in all lowercase) is an American rapper based in New York.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Carl Barât

Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is a British musician, best known for being the co-frontman with Pete Doherty of the Indie Rock band the Libertines.

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Cartoon Brew

Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and animation historian Jerry Beck that was launched on 15 March 2004.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation and founded in 1928, with consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s, and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor.

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DreamWorks Pictures

DreamWorks Pictures (also known as DreamWorks SKG and formerly DreamWorks Studios, commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film studio and distribution label of Amblin Partners.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Emirate of Afghanistan

The Emirate of Afghanistan, known as the Emirate of Kabul until 1855, was an emirate in Central Asia and South Asia that encompassed present-day Afghanistan and parts of present-day Pakistan (before 1893).

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Escape (radio program)

Escape is an American radio drama.

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First Anglo-Afghan War

The First Anglo-Afghan War (ده انګريز افغان اولني جګړه) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842.

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Frederick Wilson (Raja)

Frederick Wilson (21 January 1817 – 21/22 July 1883) also known as Raja of Harsil, Pahari Wilson or Shikari Wilson was a British sportsman, army deserter, and settler in the Himalayas.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Game Boy Color

The Game Boy Color (GBC or CGB) is an 8-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on October 21, 1998, and to international markets that November.

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Garth Nix

Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Glénat Éditions

Glénat Éditions SA is a French publisher with its head office in Grenoble.

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Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado

Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado is an adventure video game developed by Revolution Software.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Harsil

Harsil is a village, tourist hill station and army area located on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, on the way to Gangotri, a Hindu pilgrimage site in Uttarkashi district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Heat stroke

Heat stroke or heatstroke, also known as sun-stroke, is a severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than, along with red skin, headache, dizziness, and confusion.

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Henry George Raverty

Henry George Raverty (31 May 1825 – 20 October 1906) was an Cornish officer and linguist in the British Indian Army.

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Henry Walter Bellew

Henry Walter Bellew MRCP (30 August 1834 – 26 July 1892) was an Indian-born British medical officer who worked in Afghanistan.

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Henry Yule

Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Orientalist and geographer.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor.

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Indian Railway Library

The Indian Railway Library was an enterprise conducted in Allahabad from 1888. The Man Who Would Be King and Indian Railway Library are a. H. Wheeler books.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

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James Brooke

Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (December 25, 1946 – September 1, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

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John Keay

John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS (born 1941) is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans.

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John Wood (explorer)

John Wood (1812 – 14 November 1871) was a Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, principally remembered for his exploration of central Asia.

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Josiah Harlan

Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor (June 12, 1799 – October 1871) was an American adventurer who travelled to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king.

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Kafiristan

Kāfiristān, or Kāfirstān (کاپیرستان; Persian: کافرستان), is a historical region that covered present-day Nuristan Province in Afghanistan and its surroundings.

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Kashgar

Kashgar (قەشقەر) or Kashi (c) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Les Crutchfield

Leslie Marcellus Crutchfield (January 23, 1916October 6, 1966) was an American scriptwriter for radio and television series between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, most notably for the Western series Gunsmoke, which aired on CBS Radio from 1952 to 1961 and on CBS Television from 1955 to 1975.

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List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers.

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Lost world

The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genres that involves the discovery of an unknown Earth civilization.

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Martini–Henry

The Martini–Henry is a breech-loading single-shot rifle with a lever action that was used by the British Army.

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Masonic ritual and symbolism

Masonic ritual is the scripted words and actions that are spoken or performed during the degree work in a Masonic lodge.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Michael Specter

Michael Specter (born 1955) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer, focusing on science, technology, and global public health at The New Yorker since September 1998.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Mike Walker (radio dramatist)

Mike Walker is a radio dramatist and feature and documentary writer.

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Murchison Award

The Murchison Award, also referred to as the Murchison Grant, was first given by the Royal Geographical Society in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years.

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National Library of New Zealand

The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003).

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New Criticism

New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.

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New historicism

New Historicism, a form of literary theory which aims to understand intellectual history through literature and literature through its cultural context, follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of cultural poetics.

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Nuristan Province

Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto:; Kamkata-vari: Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.

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Nuristanis

The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan.

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Omar Ali Saifuddin II

Omar Ali Saifuddin II (3 February 1799 – 18 November 1852) was the 23rd Sultan of Brunei.

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Paganism

Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Pete Doherty

Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.

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Prayagraj

Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, major depressive disorder, and others.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Raja

Raja (from, IAST) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Revolution Software

Revolution Software Limited is a British video game developer based in York, founded in 1989 by Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, David Sykes, and Noirin Carmody.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal United Services Institute

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI, Rusi) is a defence and security think tank with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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Scarlet Traces

Scarlet Traces is a Steampunk comic series written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli.

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Sean Connery

Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Libertines (album)

The Libertines is the second studio album by English indie rock band The Libertines.

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The Man Who Would Be King (film)

The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales, is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1888. The Man Who Would Be King and The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales are a. H. Wheeler books.

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The Road to El Dorado

The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 animated musical adventure comedy film directed by Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul (in their feature directorial debuts), from a screenplay by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, as well as additional sequences directed by Will Finn and David Silverman.

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The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed late 21st to early 22nd century London in which he has become the richest man in the world.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Wali Khan (khoja)

Wali Khan (sometimes spelled Vālī-khan) was a member of the Ak Taghliq clan of East Turkestan Khojas, who invaded Kashgaria from the Kokand during the Afaqi Khoja revolts on several occasions in the 1850s, and succeeded in ruling Kashgar for a short while.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King

Also known as Daniel Dravot, Danny Dravot, Dravot, Daniel, Man Who Would Be King, Peachey Carnehan, The Man Who Would Be A King.

, Kafiristan, Kashgar, Kingsley Amis, Lahore, Les Crutchfield, List of explorers, Lost world, Martini–Henry, Masonic ritual and symbolism, Michael Caine, Michael Specter, Microsoft Windows, Mike Walker (radio dramatist), Murchison Award, National Library of New Zealand, New Criticism, New historicism, Nuristan Province, Nuristanis, Omar Ali Saifuddin II, Paganism, Persians, Pete Doherty, Pine, PlayStation, Prayagraj, Princely state, Psychiatric hospital, Qing dynasty, Raja, Revolution Software, Royal Geographical Society, Royal United Services Institute, Rudyard Kipling, Sarawak, Scarlet Traces, Sean Connery, T. S. Eliot, The Libertines, The Libertines (album), The Man Who Would Be King (film), The New York Times, The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, The Road to El Dorado, The Sleeper Awakes, United Kingdom, Video game, Wali Khan (khoja), Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, White Rajahs, William Watts McNair.

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See also

1888 books

1888 short stories

A. H. Wheeler books

Freemasonry in fiction

Lost world novels

Short stories by Rudyard Kipling

Short stories set in Afghanistan

Short stories set in British India

References