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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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  • advocating independence from the kingdom of Great Britain which influenced ... and the French Revolution. In Rights of Man, written in reply to Edmund ...
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  • Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...
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  • philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...
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  • born Australian Catholic priest, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, and ... In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ...
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  • Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...
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  • #039;s deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, ... Hitler but that his desire for peace with Britain was genuine. Hess blamed ...
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  • The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...
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  • accolades, and the moniker "The Hero of Upper Canada." Known as ... from the United States during the War of 1812. While many in Canada ...
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  • guitar" style. He produced a streak of hit singles in the late 1950s ... including his 1986 collaboration with Art of Noise that featured a reworking ...
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  • David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...
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  • right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.]] in large cities due to the rapid influx of large numbers of people, Howard ...
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  • Scottish historian, a co-founder and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society ... as well as Farsi, drew on a wide range of Indian sources. Aspects of ...
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  • The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July 24, ...
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  • Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...
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  • The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... Opera House as the permanent ballet company of the newly-founded opera and ...
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  • in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...
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  • The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... problems, leaving minorities on both sides of the border. If the world is ...
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  • Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on ... American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature ...
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  • and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...
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