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- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House of Hesse (May 1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Hermann Hesse ( [ˈhɛr.man ˈhɛ̞.sɘ] German-Swiss novelist and poet. Hesse gained a wide readership ...29 KB (4,532 words) - 10:19, 22 January 2024
- , also spelled Maryinsky Theater) is a historic theater of opera and ... The theatre is named after Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Tsar ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- Augustana), is the primary confession of faith used in the Lutheran ... The Augsburg Confession provides a succinct statement of 28 articles ...11 KB (1,732 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- Court Jew is a term for Jewish leaders who rose to positions of influence ... the local high society and present petitions of the Jews to the ruler. ...12 KB (1,873 words) - 20:25, 28 May 2020
- 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 ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- – March 13, 1881) was the tsar (emperor) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- A Fabergé egg is considered to be any one of the sixty-nine ... his assistants between 1885 and 1917. Fifty of those eggs—known as the Imperial ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- November 1, 1894) reigned as Tsar (Emperor) of Russia from March 14, 1881 ... role that his father had granted members of the educated class, he gave ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- poet whose work draws on the classical style of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... Hölderlin was a profoundly spiritual man. The stresses of being a ...14 KB (2,228 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( ... – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ...45 KB (6,850 words) - 00:19, 3 January 2024
- the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- 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 ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during ... Unlike many of the poets who had memorialized the great achievements ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 14:37, 27 January 2023
- important contributions are the founding of Moscow State University, the ... Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- was forced to flee the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when communism gained ... especially the eggs representative of Easter, made of precious metals ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of ... Zürich against an attack by an alliance of Swiss Catholic forces. His ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
- ), or half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures ... One of the first people to use the term half-timbered was Mary Martha ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 23:35, 30 April 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 00:05, 8 January 2024
- June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved ... by 30 percent on average; in the territory of Brandenburg, the losses had ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- ) is a school of philosophy within Hinduism dealing with the nature ... one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ...17 KB (2,516 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and ... Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947 ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ... Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression ...31 KB (4,676 words) - 21:40, 26 February 2023
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...50 KB (7,770 words) - 11:32, 20 September 2023
- was the first and most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...61 KB (9,597 words) - 08:35, 10 March 2023
- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 ... The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- [[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...55 KB (8,686 words) - 14:59, 10 May 2024
- to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to Ghettos ... Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a businessman ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city ... After World War I, Munich became a hotbed of right-wing politics, ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...46 KB (7,311 words) - 03:55, 24 November 2022
- order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...34 KB (5,036 words) - 15:01, 30 April 2023
- The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively ... The self-interests of the various parties hampered the process over ...102 KB (14,729 words) - 11:39, 3 May 2023
- sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- Viking peoples and revered as the "God of Thunder." Historical evidence ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... France (including the North American colony of New France and the French East ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- " He was the most successful flying ace of World War I. Richthofen was ... Von Richthofen was the most famous member of the Lutskreitkräfte ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
