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- Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
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- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between the French army in Egypt under Napoleon Bonaparte and local Mamluk forces ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 19:55, 7 September 2022
- The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England is a hereditary title and the senior Dukedom in the Peerage of the United ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ...6 KB (974 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist who revolutionized science and ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- In Judaism, a Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; Greek: συνέδριον, meaning "sitting together" or "council") is an ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician, physicist and government administrator during the ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. In the 1780s his ...24 KB (3,977 words) - 08:23, 18 March 2024
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living ...18 KB (2,968 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was a German-Jewish financier and philanthropist often considered as one of the ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
- The Légion d'honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a French order established ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial rule over France (1805–1815). They ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was staged in Imperial Russia by army officers ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- category:Image wanted "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah Berlin, regarding the Russian author Leo Tolstoy ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Gall, Franz Joseph [[Image:Franz_Joseph_Gall.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Joseph Gall]] ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Melchiorre Gioja (September 10, 1767 - January 2, 1829), was an Italian philosopher, political economist, and statistician who played an important ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville (November 12, 1729 - August 31, 1811) was a French navigator and military commander. He was also a marked ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II Adolphus, widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political leaders during Colombia's ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Tuscany ( Toscana ) is a region in west-central Italy on the shores of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas. It has an area of 22990|km2|sqmi ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors) was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon's ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign) in 1812 was a turning point in the Napoleonic Wars. The campaign reduced the ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. His defeat put a final end to his rule as Emperor ...52 KB (8,210 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵, 法) ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Christies South Kensington.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Christie's auction house ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˌtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern (April ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Carl Philipp Gottfried von Note regarding personal names: von is a title prefix denoting some sort of (former) nobility, translated as of. It ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on October 21, 1805, was part of the War of the Third ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Category:Economists List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 – November 30, 1846) ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων ) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs, hymns, and personable poems celebrating ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1960s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 – August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 09:37, 11 April 2024
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- Category:Public Hugo, Victor [[Image:Victor Hugo.jpg|thumb|225px|Victor Hugo]] Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist ...37 KB (5,552 words) - 20:07, 3 May 2023
- The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a crusading ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a nineteenth century French writer and novelist ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also one of the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by territorial conquest or by establishing economic and political domination ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (born April 30, 1651 in Reims; died April 7, 1719 in Saint-Yon, Rouen) was a French priest and educational reformer ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 19:49, 22 December 2022
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- Category:Economists Say, Jean-Baptiste [[Image:Jean-baptiste Say.jpg|thumb|Jean-Baptiste Say]] Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 16:56, 2 April 2024
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 10:56, 9 May 2023
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- Cologne (Köln in German) is Germany's fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 22:35, 7 January 2024
- Niagara Falls is a set of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara River in eastern North America, on the border between the United States and ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829) was an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 20:56, 9 February 2024
- The Louvre Museum ( Musée du Louvre ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous art galleries and museums in the world ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French mathematician who initiated the movement to introduce rigor into the theorems ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14 ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ...18 KB (2,723 words) - 01:44, 27 July 2023
- Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who conclusively demonstrated the ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- Simon V de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 – August 4, 1265) was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- Prussia Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for centuries ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German polymath—a painter, novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- Category: Politics and social sciences Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Komora gazowa.jpg|thumb|250 px|Gas chamber at Stutthof concentration camp.]] ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette) (September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) was a French aristocrat and military ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827)(Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 17:30, 20 December 2022
- The Norman conquest of England was the invasion of the Kingdom of England by William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy), in 1066 at the Battle ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The term charisma originates from the Greek word χάρισμα meaning "gift" ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with a population of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Category:Public Hölderlin, Friedrich [[Image:Friedrich hoelderlin.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Friedrich Hölderlin]] Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin ...14 KB (2,228 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- Marie d'Agoult, born Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 – March 5, 1876), was a French author ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (June 20, 1763 – November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, about 130 miles (200 km) southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a French portraitist, who is best remembered ...17 KB (2,635 words) - 06:24, 13 June 2023
- Frances Burney (1752 – 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after marriage as Madame d’Arblay, was born in King’s Lynn, England, on June ...31 KB (4,786 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
