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  • Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with ... Neo-Hegelianism was prominent in Great Britain and in the United States ...
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  • Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...
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  • 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... in Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (now in Germany), into a prosperous family ...
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  • 1926) founded the first American department of sociology at the University ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...
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  • formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ... With the onset of World War I, the world would see the two alliances ...
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  • governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...
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  • speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint ... The speech was delivered over 10 months before the Armistice with ...
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  • theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...
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  • place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... on reforms that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the ...
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  • a world champion heavyweight fighter from Germany whose two fights with Joe ... After rising to the top of the heavyweight ranks, Schmeling fought ...
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  • radioactive mineral that is composed mainly of uranium dioxide (UO2). It is ... This mineral also contains minor amounts of radium and helium, which ...
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  • in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a method of synthesizing ammonia using ... 1927. After Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, the Nazis forced him to ...
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  • served as a major motivation for Nazi Germany's territorial aggression ... The idea of a Germanic people without sufficient space dates back ...
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  • A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education and ... may specialize in more practical areas of study, such as technology, ...
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  • educator, dedicated to the education of young children. After meeting ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...
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  • His initial insight was that a social group of human beings in many ways functions ... into an important family in Karlsruhe, Germany. His father was the head ...
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  • Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...
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  • that make up the class Crinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata ... . Although the basic echinoderm pattern of five-fold symmetry can be recognized ...
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  • 6, 1919 – February 22, 1943) was a student of medicine at the University ... in the Catholic faith. He was the father of three children, the last of ...
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  • in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...
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  • American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life. He graduated from ...
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  • The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... regimes. The conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing ...
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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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  • Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...
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  • American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... Astor was born in 1763 to a poor working class family in Waldorf, ...
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  • 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...
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  • A key figure of early Post-minimalism in the United States and one ... an emphasis on the physical properties of materials and the manner of ...
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  • The gnome is a class of legendary creatures throughout Europe and ... Despite varying forms, gnomes have the common attribute of being able ...
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  • Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...
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  • current in North America. In many parts of Europe, such as Germany, the ... While a number of countries have prep schools as part of their education ...
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  • whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of ... Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family ...
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  • The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology ...
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  • the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...
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  • Halite is the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known ... Halite occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that ...
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  • Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically ... it is connected with the principal feast day of Saint Joseph, spouse of the ...
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  • The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...
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  • or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...
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  • He is famous for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two ... Lincolnshire, England, the eldest son of Draper and Fanny Anne Hewitt ...
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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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  • A gas chamber is an apparatus consisting of a sealed chamber into ... The practice of using the gas chamber for executing condemned prisoners ...
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  • [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...
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  • the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended ...
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  • 1947) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, one of the founding fathers of classical ... which is now Hungary. He was the only child of a Hungarian father and a German ...
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  • an older [[Scotland|Scottish]] design of the Guillotine. This example ... is noted for long being the main method of execution in France and, more ...
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  • economist. He began his career as a member of the Austrian School of economics ... Morgenstern was born on January 24, 1902 in Görlitz, Germany. His ...
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  • first journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934. In 1939, Time magazine ... Her biographer said of her, "she was the voice of courage and ...
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  • | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...
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  • and distribute leaflets under the group name of the White Rose non-violent ... Sophie and her family loved Germany, and she and her brother had both ...
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  • its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in ... movements, Dadaism reflected the collapse of the cherished ideals of Western ...
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  • early contributions to the development of radar. He served as a professor ... become an often-unseen but indispensable part of modern life. ...
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