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Officials and members of parliament swiftly condemned Tehran for violating the country’s sovereignty, while the foreign ministry summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and demanded Iran cease attacks on the kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Paired eyes are common throughout the animal kingdom because they help moving animals judge direction, distance, and the location of objects around them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Another grower near Mid-Illovo, a region of rolling hills south of Durban, said most cane cutters in his area came from Lesotho, the tiny kingdom encircled by South Africa.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Set in the late Bronze Age, in about the 13th Century BC, The Odyssey tells the story of the hero Odysseus and his quest to return from the Trojan War to his kingdom of Ithaca.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Either that woman’s a diviner or she’s got relatives in the fairy kingdom she isn’t telling me about.”

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

Yet some traditions have outlived the kingdoms that created them.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Thriving thanks to their strategic geographical position, strong state backing and leading carriers, huge air hubs in the Gulf oil kingdoms have been shaken by the conflict over Iran.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

The show is called “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” but in the finale, Egg points out to Dunk that there are actually nine kingdoms in Westeros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

These stories were set in mythical African kingdoms ruled by black people, where no white man had ever set foot.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane