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  • The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...
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  • There were two Battles of the Marne fought during World War I. The ... By the end of August 1914, the whole Allied army on the Western Front ...
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  • famous for capturing on film the horrors of Second World War. His works ... He is also noteworthy because of his reputation for personal integrity ...
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  • Georg Simmel (March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918) was one of the ... social groupings were no more than the sum of their parts, a view that is ...
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  • Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...
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  • scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...
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  • Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...
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  • and scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy," he was born ... Agricola was born 1494, as the second of seven children of a Tuchmacher ...
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  • February 10, 1923) was a German physicist of the University of Würzburg ... for his discovery, Röntgen chose the path of humility. When others wished ...
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  • ) (known as ING Group) is a financial institution of Dutch origin ... clients in 50 countries with a workforce of over 130,000 people. It has ...
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  • from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... largely eastward, forming communities in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia ...
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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... Robert Michels was born on January 9, 1876, in Cologne, Germany, into ...
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  • Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ... A founding member of Magnum Photos, together with Robert Capa and ...
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  • 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...
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  • | location = Brühl, Germany | deathdate = 1976|4|1|1891|4|2 ... graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ...
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  • #039;s education, particularly the invention of the kindergarten system for ... near Rudolstadt in Thuringia (now Germany), the fifth of six children ...
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  • The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of Prince ... Social unrest at the end of World War I led to the German Revolution ...
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  • , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...
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  • occurred in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty from November ... and China was defeated by Britain. In view of the weakness of the Qing government ...
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  • that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...
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