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  • Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was an important French diplomat of the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Talleyrand began his career ...
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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 ...
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  • Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte ...
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  • The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England is a hereditary title and the senior Dukedom in the Peerage of the United ...
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  • Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ...
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  • Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793– June 27, 1848), archbishop of Paris from 1840, was born at Saint Rome, in the department of Tarn. ...
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  • Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic ...
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  • Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827) was an Italian physicist who revolutionized science and ...
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  • A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave ...
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  • Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the Hohenzollern dynasty was elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and the first ...
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  • The French Revolutionary Wars began as the kingdoms of Europe, threatened by the revolution in France and seeking to protect their fellow king ...
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  • In Judaism, a Sanhedrin (Hebrew: סנהדרין; Greek: συνέδριον, meaning "sitting together" or "council") is an ...
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  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 – May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician, physicist and government administrator during the ...
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  • Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style. In the 1780s his ...
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  • The Paris Commune (1789 - 1795) was the government of Paris during the period of the French Revolution. Initially it was dominated by Republicans ...
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  • The September Massacres refers to the mass execution of prisoners in Paris between September 2nd and 6th in 1792. Coming right after the insurrection ...
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  • Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living ...
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  • Alphonse de Lamartine was a 19th century politician and a member of the Romantic school of literature. De Lamartine was a key Republican figure ...
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  • The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس, Qanā al-Suways), is a large, artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. ...
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  • Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was a German-Jewish financier and philanthropist often considered as one of the ...
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  • Jorge Ubico y Castañeda (November 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February 14, 1931 to July 4, 1944. Ubico is widely ...
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  • The Légion d'honneur or Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a French order established ...
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  • Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...
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  • Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...
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  • The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought during Napoleon Bonaparte's imperial rule over France (1805–1815). They ...
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  • Category:Public Bonaparte, Napoleon [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study by Jacques-Louis David (1812)]] ...
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  • Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) (April 20, 1808 – January 9, 1873) was ...
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  • The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising (Russian: Восстание декабристов) was staged in Imperial Russia by army officers ...
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  • Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral famous for his ...
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  • category:Image wanted "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah Berlin, regarding the Russian author Leo Tolstoy ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Gall, Franz Joseph [[Image:Franz_Joseph_Gall.jpg|thumb|right|Franz Joseph Gall]] ...
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  • Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong ...
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  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint ...
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  • Melchiorre Gioja (September 10, 1767 - January 2, 1829), was an Italian philosopher, political economist, and statistician who played an important ...
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  • Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville (November 12, 1729 - August 31, 1811) was a French navigator and military commander. He was also a marked ...
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  • Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632) (Gustav II Adolphus, widely known in English by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus ...
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  • Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political leaders during Colombia's ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors) was a major engagement in the Napoleonic Wars, when Napoleon's ...
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  • Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The French Revolutionary Wars ( Guerres de la Révolution française ) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 ...
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  • 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) ...
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  • The Battle of Borodino ( Бородинская битва Borodinskaja bitva, Bataille de la Moskowa ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[Image:Christies South Kensington.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Christie's auction house ...
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  • Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (/ˌtælɪrænd ˈpɛrɪɡɔːr/, French: [ʃaʁl mɔʁis də tal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃ peʁiɡɔʁ, – moʁ-]; ...
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  • Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September ...
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  • Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern (April ...
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  • Carl Philipp Gottfried von Note regarding personal names: von is a title prefix denoting some sort of (former) nobility, translated as of. It ...
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  • The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on October 21, 1805, was part of the War of the Third ...
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  • Category:Economists List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List (August 6, 1789 – November 30, 1846) ...
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  • Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων ) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs, hymns, and personable poems celebrating ...
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  • Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813) was an Italian who made major contributions to mathematics and physics. One of the ...
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  • Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), was a French writer, best known for the numerous ...
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  • France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1960s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...
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  • Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 – August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer whose formulation of the laws on ...
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  • François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 – July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Public Hugo, Victor [[Image:Victor Hugo.jpg|thumb|225px|Victor Hugo]] Victor-Marie Hugo, novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a nineteenth century French writer and novelist ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...
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  • Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority by territorial conquest or by establishing economic and political domination ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Linguistics [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military ...
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  • Category:Economists Say, Jean-Baptiste [[Image:Jean-baptiste Say.jpg|thumb|Jean-Baptiste Say]] Jean-Baptiste Say (January 5, 1767 – November ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often ...
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  • Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and ...
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  • Electricity (from Greek ήλεκτρον (electron) "amber") is a general term for the variety of phenomena resulting from the presence ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829) was an esteemed British chemist and physicist, who vastly expanded chemical ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 – May 23,1857) was a French mathematician who initiated the movement to introduce rigor into the theorems ...
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  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [ freɪ'nel ] or fray-NELL in American English, [ fʁɛ'nɛl ] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14 ...
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  • The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean ...
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  • Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter whose portrayals of peasants and scenes of everyday ...
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  • Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749 – March 5, 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer who conclusively demonstrated the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Prussia Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for centuries ...
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  • William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first ...
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German polymath—a painter, novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist ...
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  • Category: Politics and social sciences Category: Sociology Category: Submitted [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square ...
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  • Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Komora gazowa.jpg|thumb|250 px|Gas chamber at Stutthof concentration camp.]] ...
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  • Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...
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  • Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette) (September 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) was a French aristocrat and military ...
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  • Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827)(Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770. Children of that era were ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology The term charisma originates from the Greek word χάρισμα meaning "gift" ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti ...
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  • Category:Public Hölderlin, Friedrich [[Image:Friedrich hoelderlin.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Friedrich Hölderlin]] Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin ...
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  • Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (August 20, 1778 - October 24, 1842), South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together ...
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  • Marie d'Agoult, born Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 – March 5, 1876), was a French author ...
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  • Theobald Wolfe Tone, commonly known as Wolfe Tone (June 20, 1763 – November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ...
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  • Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, about 130 miles (200 km) southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island ...
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  • Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth century until its declaration of independence in 1821. After capturing Constantinople ...
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  • Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a French portraitist, who is best remembered ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Category:Military Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ...
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  • Gérard de Nerval ( ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval|lang ; May 22, 1808 – January 26, 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator ...
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