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  • (1353 – October 28, 1412) was Queen of Norway, Regent of Denmark and ... in 1375) actually styled herself Queen of Denmark. Instead, she called ...
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  • and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... Mommsen was born in Garding, Schleswig, and grew up in Bad Oldesloe ...
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  • poet. He was the first German realist writer of significance. Realism eschewed ... Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of ...
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  • region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... the intervening years before the Second War of Schleswig (1864), Sweden and ...
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  • and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... and Schleswig initiating the Second War of Schleswig. The Austro-Prussian ...
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  • The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...
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  • first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...
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  • The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... monarchy in 1849. After the Second War of Schleswig (Danish: Slesvig ...
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  • [[Image:Catherine03.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Equestrian portrait of Grand ... II Velikaya, born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst; May 2, 1729 ...
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  • ) was de facto regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first ... Godunov's life was the subject of two of the great works of Russian ...
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  • George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...
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  • on a delicate pale buff body. The invention of a pottery glaze suitable for ... of a lead glaze, was a major advance in the history of pottery. A ...
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  • leader from Friesland (today a province of The Netherlands). His followers ... Friesland. Friesland was ravaged by war in the late fifteenth and ...
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  • a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine during World ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...
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  • American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to ... to have been the author of the phrase "Information Superhighway ...
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  • 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...
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  • The history of use of bows and arrows can be traced as far back as ... The remains of a prehistoric man (from the Neolithic period) discovered ...
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  • Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...
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  • Nazi medical doctors and officials accused of criminal human experimentation ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...
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  • He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since ... and Grass has been an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party ...
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