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29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... She was the eldest daughter of Emperor Charles VI, who promulgated ...

1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus ... owned a sugar plantation. She was a daughter of Joseph-Gaspard de Tascher, ...

official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...

[[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...

thumb|right|Friedrich II. (the Great), King of Prussia, aged 68, by Anton Graf.]] Frederick II of Prussia, also known as Frederick the Great (January ...

16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...

The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra ... The aim of the Académie Royale de Danse was to reestablish the perfection ...

, Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...

) (May 21, 1527 – September 13, 1598) was King of Spain from 1556 ... his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known ...

Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...

) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest ... state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel ...