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  • lord, and a leading figure in the politics of his era. The acknowledged but ... #039;s actions greatly advanced the domain of the Papal States after his ...
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  • (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...
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  • Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... before=Alexander, Prince of Orange title=Heir to the Dutch throneas ...
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  • The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England ... Wellington is considered to have been one of the greatest British ...
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  • November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...
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  • 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...
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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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  • Anne (February 6, 1665 – August 1, 1714) became Queen of England ... both personally and relating to succession of the Crown and religious polarization ...
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  • "Amarna tablets") are an archive of correspondence on clay tablets ... The Amarna letters reveal a treasury of knowledge concerning the political ...
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  • , literally "Pure") refers to the collective body of all ... to inspire the Sikh community in the face of oppression and persecution ...
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  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...
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  • Sviatoslav I of Kiev (East Slavic: Святослав, ca. 942 – ... Sviatoslav was the first ruler of Kievan Rus' whose name is indisputably ...
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  • and Burma during the war. Her popular songs of yearning and hope, which moved ... to have a top ten hit album. At the time of her death in 2020 she had been ...
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  • "saddle"- after the shells of saddlebacked Galápagos tortoises ... The Galápagos archipelago is part of Ecuador, a country in northwestern ...
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  • country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...
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  • John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...
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  • Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...
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  • for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...
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  • The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...
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  • ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...
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