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  • Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red ... The term is also used for the wood of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...
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  • mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...
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  • The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ... to Europe. Though Napoleon brought most of Western Europe under his rule ...
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  • ) refers to India's smallest state in terms of area and the fourth ... ranks the largest city. The historic city of Margao still exhibits the influence ...
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  • Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... administrator, who enjoyed the respect of his men. Most of those whom ...
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  • 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...
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  • Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...
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  • Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island nation ... Archaeologists place the first arrival of humans on the island to ...
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  • Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke (ca. 1501/1507 – May 19, 1536) ... was the second wife of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. ...
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  • A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is ...
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  • The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...
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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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  • Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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  • Berlin is the capital city and one of the 16 states of the Federal ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...
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  • ) for short, is the capital and the largest city of Thailand. Bangkok ... Bangkok has one of the fastest rates in the world for construction ...
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  • Jewish rebels who fought against the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the ... in Jerusalem and combining the office of king and High Priest. This ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • Augustan literature is a style of English literature produced during ... The chronological anchors of the era are generally vague, largely ...
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  • 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...
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  • Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...
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  • The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...
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  • ) was a parliament of the French Revolution, following the two-year ... The Convention came about in the wake of the King's Flight to ...
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  • is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress ...
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  • Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...
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  • (The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...
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