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  • [[Image:1904 Russian Tsar-Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews-LOC hh0145s.jpg|thumb|300px|The Wandering Jew as a symbol of Jewish persecution ...
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  • Tower (1799–1801), but was released because of Russian interests. *Lord George Gordon, instigator of the Gordon Riots in 1780, spent six months ...
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  • of Asia Minor such as the ancient Persian Empire, were more often than not ... Dragons of Slavic mythology, known as zmeys (Russian), smok (Belarussian ...
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  • the growing dominance of the German Empire and its ally, Austria-Hungary. ... He became the first British monarch to visit the Russian Empire in ...
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  • Weapons Convention, and according to the Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence ... Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1917, the Ottoman government ...
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  • of French Radicalism, his hostility to the Russian alliance so increased his ... knowledge of the Austrian–Hungarian empire, he supported the causes ...
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  • named the Gilbert Islands in 1820 by a Russian admiral, Adam Johann von ... *Macdonald, Barrie. Cinderellas of the Empire. University of the South ...
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  • Egypt, ancient Greek society, the Roman Empire, in the Middle East, Europe ... than from regions within the Ottoman Empire. To meet this demand for ...
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  • C.E. as the official script of the Persian Empire, appears to be the ancestor ... across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire. Even after the fall of the ...
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  • 5%, Belgian 2.3%, Swiss 2%, German 1.9%, Russian 1.8%, American 1.1%, Dutch ... until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, from which point ...
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  • |birth_place =Brest, Russian Empire |death_date =March 9, 1992 ... Brisk was still a part of the Russian empire. In between the two world ...
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  • navies today, especially the American, Russian and British navies. Civilian ... the sea floor for a few hours to the Russian Typhoon class, which can ...
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  • the Dominion of Canada—within the Empire was viewed from within the ... {{cquote|At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made ...
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  • of the republic and by means of the Roman Empire (27 B.C.E.-476 C.E.), theater ... From the beginning of the empire, however, interest in full-length ...
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  • of the United Kingdom.svg|25px]] British Empire * [[Image:Flag of the ... terrible as the battle was for the British Empire troops who suffered there ...
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  • prompted the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and the subsequent ... The Holy Roman Empire, which had included more than 500 independent ...
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  • in any sense, Balzac, as well as the great Russian realistic novelists of the ... the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, and the complacency of the ...
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  • Bar Kokhba's revolt against the Roman Empire in 32 C.E. resulted in a ... The land was conquered from the Byzantine Empire in 638 C.E. during the initial ...
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  • The President of the Russian Federation is granted the right of pardon by Article 89 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The Pardon ...
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  • constitute the period of the rise of Russian lyric poetry, exemplified by Alexander Pushkin. Roman Jakobson, Selected Writings (Walter de Gruyter ...
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  • Secretary, he became known as the "Empire Builder." As Mayor of ... would lead to the eventual break up of the Empire. Instead of Home Rule, Chamberlain ...
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  • extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the ... Ferdowsi, poet at the court of the Samanid Empire, who came to a violent end ...
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  • United States. Approximately 50,000 United Empire Loyalists fled the United ... 1812 between the United States and British Empire. Its defense contributed ...
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  • slowly gained strength. In the end, the empire fell because the dominant ... Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998, the Russian default in 1998, and the ...
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  • at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the Russian Empire, where the famous poet ... in Severnaya Zemlya was named after him. Russian battleship Petropavlovsk ( ...
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  • practice under the rule of the Holy Roman Empire, the academic field was wholly ... development of political societies. The Russian Revolution of 1917 (and ...
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  • numbers of Chinese lived in the Majapahit Empire on Java, especially in Surabaya ... become the dominant ethnic group in the Russian Far East region 20 to 30 ...
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  • Swedish-speaking family in Hämeenlinna in the Russian Empire Grand Duchy of Finland. Although known as Janne to his family, during his student years ...
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  • marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. The Victorian was at the ... War in 1854, on the side of the Ottoman Empire and against Russia. Immediately ...
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  • was the same as elsewhere in the Roman Empire. They enjoyed some civil ... rulers who succeeded to the Burgundian empire, were devoid of fanaticism ...
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  • of Syria, Palestine, and Libya. The Czech and Russian presidents were also in attendance. Two weeks before Hussein's death he had changed ...
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  • In 1905, Japan incorporated the Korean Empire as a protectorate, effectively ... into the territory in response to growing Russian encroachment. The area around ...
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  • # Sergei Mrachkovsky, a hero of the Russian Civil War in Siberia and ... cadre members from the time of the Russian Revolution or earlier, who ...
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  • The Roman Empire conquered territory west of the Danube between 35 ... I of Russia. The huge army of the Russian Empire and the remnants of the ...
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  • most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish ... to religious anarchism. In the Sasanian Empire, Mazdak called for an egalitarian ...
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  • during his travels in the outposts of the Empire. He left behind a long string ... *[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/maugham.htm The British ...
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  • those who receive it. Occasionally, an empire that ruled over people of ... in Pretoria, South Africa, and by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s ...
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  • in 200 B.C.E. As the western Roman Empire collapsed, the Berbers became ... Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad Din and his ...
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  • A Russian translation of the Mongolian Geser texts, which had been ... Dynasty, who established the Tibetan Empire (seventh-ninth centuries C.E.). ...
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  • Other prominent examples include the Empire State Building and the New ... in part by movements such as Cubism, Russian Constructivism and Italian ...
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  • volcanic activity on Venus. During the Russian Venera program, the Venera ... European Space Agency and launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency on ...
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  • been adopted by the Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire) founded by Abaoji, that ... beaches, resorts, zoos, seafood, shopping, Russian- and Japanese-era architecture ...
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  • depicted. But unlike the great French and Russian realists, Dickens' ... poor and disadvantaged at the heart of empire. Through his journalism he ...
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  • "Third Realm" or "Third Empire," alluded to the Nazis ... experiments were conducted on captured Russian troops; the Nazis wondered ...
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  • Shahkhatunian and published in French and Russian translations in St. Petersburg ... within the city boundaries), signed by the Russian Empress Catherine II, and ...
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  • Perry was offered a commission in the Russian navy, which he declined. ... The galleys, reminiscent of ancient Roman Empire ships, were propelled by ...
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  • the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London.]] ... Slavs, of Slavic origin; akin to Old Russian Slovene, an East Slavic ...
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  • emphasized the historical goals of the Russian state, specifically hegemony ... which ended abruptly when the Russian Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. ...
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  • and in the past a province of the Roman Empire. It was bounded on the north ... Noricum was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 16 B.C.E. The Romans built ...
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  • Rebels were armed with a wide range of weapons, including Russian ... With the decline of the Portuguese empire from 1974 to 1976, Ian Smith ...
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  • for life, which led to the creation of the Roman Empire. ... establishment of Soviet Russia during the Russian Revolution in 1917. The ...
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  • century from Grodno Governorate of the former Russian Empire, now part of Belarus. Wayne's father, Walter, taught him and his brothers to play hockey ...
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  • Women in Russia have had the legal right to serve in the Russian Armed ... defeats led to the loss of millions of Russian soldiers. To psychologically ...
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  • Bar Confederation rebellion, when the Russian Empire established three camps ... service) that managed them. (In the Russian language, the term is used ...
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  • The only child-saint in the Russian Orthodox Church is the six year old boy Gavriil Belostoksky from the village Zverki. According to the legend ...
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  • appeared in the Soviet Union following the Russian revolution of 1917. The ... exist in the central districts of large Russian cities. ...
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  • formally recognized Christianity in the Roman Empire in the Edict of Milan in 313 C.E. According to Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church: ...
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  • friends with other poets, including the Russian expatriate Joseph Brodsky ... * 1972: Officer of the Order of the British Empire * 1981: MacArthur ...
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  • A joint mission of the ICRC and the League in the Russian Civil War ... During the Russo-Turkish War from 1876 to 1878, the Ottoman Empire ...
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  • for international law go back to the Roman Empire, and Hugo Grotius, who integrated ... postwar united nations, acquiesced in the Russian installation of satellite ...
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  • Around the first century, Ladakh formed a part of the Kushana empire ... himself after the break-up of the Tibetan empire, and founded a separate Ladakh ...
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  • #039;. Napoleon abolished the Holy Roman Empire and reduced the 396 principalities ... in their countries. Some officers of the Russian Army that occupied Paris ...
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  • of Saxony, which was a part of the German Empire from 1871. During the 19th ... (Church of the Holy Cross), and a Russian Orthodox Church. ...
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  • a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He also received the ... 13, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2018. and the Russian Special Fundamental Physics ...
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  • territory in Asia, notably Manchuria. The Empire of Japan first invaded Manchuria ... Republic of China (1912–1949) and the Empire of Japan. The beginning of ...
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  • kilograms (441 pouns), while Romanian and Russian boars can reach weights ... In Persia, during the Sassanid Empire, boars were respected as fierce ...
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  • southern Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The Russian census of 2002 enumerated a total of 800 Dungans. In Thailand Chinese Muslims are referred ...
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  • of republic, monarchy, and empire—culminating in the establishment ... between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution of 1917, more ...
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  • * The whip--varieties include the Russian knout and South African sjambok, in addition to the scourge and martinet * The cat o' nine tails ...
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  • effort until it was captured by American and Russian forces. In 1945, Allied occupation forces seized the main Nissan plants. They allowed production ...
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  • When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves ... defeated in 1230 by the revived Bulgarian Empire of Ivan Asen II. ...
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  • ru/625/2007/01/tvch.htm|title=HDTV in the Russian Federation: problems and ... the air with WCBS-HD from the top of the Empire State Building, New York ...
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  • and incorporated them into the Roman Empire in 106 C.E., where their ... In 324 C.E., Christianity became the religion of the Byzantine Empire ...
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  • In this respect, Bengali is similar to Russian and Hungarian. ==Vocabulary== [[Image:Bengali Vocabulary2.gif|thumb|225px|Sources of Bengali words ...
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  • The Korean Peninsula was governed as a single nation by the Korean ... time span was the collapse of the Soviet empire ending the Cold War, along ...
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  • in Sagard's Histoire du Canada. A Russian traveller, Peter Kalm, in ... the world, and Meerzoeff built the first Russian refinery in the mature oil ...
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  • nation of Iran, its people, or its ancient empire. The Persians have called ... region was the core of the original Persian Empire. Westerners referred ...
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  • Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan's Imperial ... United States until 1972, while the Soviet Russian re-annexation of the Kurile ...
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  • which also included the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden, Spain and several ... provided for the division of the Spanish Empire: Duke Joseph Ferdinand of ...
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  • [[Image:Triple Entente.jpg|thumb|right|150px|A 1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente. Britannia's association with the oceanic ...
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  • as the location of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Protestant Reformation ... Danube, thus remained outside the Roman Empire. By 100 C.E., the time of ...
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  • monarchy since the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. His White ... Iran, so much so that the British and Russian ambassadors would each present ...
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  • Large sailing junks of the Chinese Empire, described by various travelers ... to its greatest effect when the Russian Navy equipped with these ...
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  • Overseas, while Britain's retreat from Empire had by 1964 already ... #039;, effectively bringing Britain's empire to an end and marking a major ...
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  • During the next decade, the new Ming empire was stabilized, an elaborate ... across Central Asia to Afghanistan and Russian Turkistan. ...
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  • |combatant1=First French Empire |combatant2=Seventh Coalition:United KingdomKingdom of PrussiaUnited NetherlandsHanoverNassauBrunswick ...
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  • claims gave credibility to stories in the Russian media that label American ... *Gwynn, David M. Christianity in the Later Roman Empire: A Sourcebook ...
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  • Emperor, Venice, the pope and the Ottoman Empire rendered any journey to Jerusalem ... in the Polish western provinces of the Russian Empire, the Society was able ...
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  • Asia had been challenged. In addition, the Russian Empire had begun expansion into Asia. Huang advised that Korea should adopt a pro-Chinese policy ...
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  • stockpiles.svg.png|thumb|U.S. and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles ... inadequately guarded facilities in the Russian Federation and several other ...
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  • Semi-nomadic pastoral people from the Russian steppes infiltrated ... Diocletian in 285 C.E. began dividing the empire along a line that ran north ...
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  • and brought an end to the former Roman Empire. But Christianity had established ... German-born Johannes Brahms and the great Russian melodist Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ...
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  • at the University of Berlin; and the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov ... development, and other theorists, such as Russian Lev Vygotsky, have regarded ...
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  • S.C. Rowell, Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-central Europe ... that he intended to marry a Christian. His Russian mother urged him to marry ...
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  • Council: "We pray that this portion of the Empire may be conferred upon our late lord, Tokugawa Kamenosuke; and in that case, we shall repay your ...
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  • #039;s south, gradually eroding the Qing Empire. Internally, both the national ... as well as the English, French, and Russian languages. Groups of young ...
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  • saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the unsettled lands north of Lake Ontario. In 1787, the British negotiated ...
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  • Versailles imposed on the defeated German Empire by the victors in World War ... short of Moscow in December 1941 by the Russian winter and fierce Soviet ...
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  • The collapse of the Roman Empire and third-century Germanic invasions ... The Industrial Revolution, the French Second Empire, and the Belle ...
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  • which he represented as too Oriental, or pro-Russian. He did much to resurrect pride in Croatia's past, especially in the period from the ...
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  • was once the second-largest in the British Empire (after London) and the social ... come to Northeast Philadelphia, joining Russian and Ukrainian immigrants ...
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  • Apocalypse of Ezra) is canonical in the Russian Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox ... *Thompson, Leonard L. The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire ...
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  • original plan to include a lander has been shelved. Russian Soyuz rockets will launch the probes in 2013. As with MESSENGER, the BepiColombo probes will ...
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  • Russian revolutionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries distinguished two different aspects covered by the English term "propaganda ...
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  • The Tibetan Empire came into existence in the seventh century when ... was assassinated in 842. The Tibetan empire collapsed, either as the ...
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  • Theatre of Canada, based in Moncton, has featured Russian and European trained dancers, and has started touring both nationally and internationally. ...
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  • employed by the English and French against their Russian foes. ... on cavalry tactics that was based on Russian cavalry operations. A notable ...
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  • among others). In 1480 the Inca Empire, under the rule of emperor ... in 1776. In 1806 and 1807 the British Empire invaded the Viceroyalty, ...
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  • of 1914, regain the pre-1914 overseas empire, and make Eastern Europe ... #039;s men struggled to fly in the savage Russian winter, Göring had his ...
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  • moved to the city of Riga, then in the Russian Empire, where Wagner became ... left-wing paper Volksblätter, and the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. ...
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  • light cruiser SMS Magdeburg, boarded by Russian naval officers after the ... good enough on which to bet the British Empire. The former First Lord of ...
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  • ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ... and wealthiest city of the Byzantine Empire. It was conquered by the ...
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  • the "Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire" by the Pope Leo III ... divided into France and the Holy Roman Empire. The parts of the County ...
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  • several of its Asian affiliates destroyed by the Empire of Japan. The survivors, in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, were largely cut off from each other ...
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  • protect Dubai against any attacks from the Ottoman Empire. ... Policy Studies (AMCIPS) found that Russian and Ethiopian women are ...
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  • traffic on the North Sea. The Roman Empire and the Vikings both extended ... on the North Sea come from the Roman Empire, which began exploring the ...
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  • Mandate territories of the former Ottoman Empire, Churchill commented that ... Office was the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Churchill was ...
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  • Near Eastern Studies, Romance Studies, and Russian Literature majors. Cornell ... The Empire State Building and Grauman's Chinese Theatre were ...
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  • wealthy families in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father's parents ... as a member of a howitzer regiment to the Russian front, where he won several ...
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  • | birth_place = Freiberg/Příbor, Moravia, Austrian Empire ... (Freiberg in Mähren), Moravia, Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic. His ...
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  • developed after the fall of the Roman Empire, thus succeeding Greco-Roman ... The Kardashev scale, proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev ...
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  • The nation was the center of the British Empire, and the birthplace of the ... no territory was taken for the Roman Empire on either occasion, this ...
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  • which are remnants of the British Empire, which at its height encompassed ... of two world wars and the decline of its empire in the latter half of the ...
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  • erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire, it was completed in 537 ... of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and ...
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  • years or more, and had spread deep into the Persian empire. ... Gall, which was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in its own right, but this ...
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  • the most celebrated Paris dandies in the Empire, the model for the character ... a donkey, a hawk given to her by the Russian Grand Duke Alexis, an Andean ...
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  • extending from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance period ... have influenced Western philosophers. Russian, Jewish, Islamic and recently ...
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  • Ukraine, at that time part of the Russian Empire, and her mother was born ... . While at Cornell, she studied under Russian-American novelist Vladimir ...
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  • From Elizabeth's birth onwards, the British Empire continued ... As Britain's ties to its former empire weakened, the British government ...
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  • other domestic carriers. Amtrak's Empire Builder runs through Minnesota ... R. Weisman Art Museum, and The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA). All are in ...
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  • At one minute past midnight on August 9, Tokyo time, Russian infantry ... * Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire ...
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  • though they controlled half the city. Russian refugees who came to Shanghai ... * Empire of the Sun (1987), directed by Steven Spielberg ...
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  • opened a commemorative room at the Hackney Empire. The theater also established ... 'we' the good. In 1948, the Russian suppression of Eastern Europe ...
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  • 41.Davide Rodogno, Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation During ... course. We could have anticipated the Russian cold by weeks and conquered ...
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  • century later, at a time when the British Empire had all but vanished, its ... to investigate the effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Russell ...
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  • industrial areas of England. The German, Russian, and Belgian governments ... *Hobsbawm, Eric J. Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day ...
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  • 1820s, when the other parts of Spain’s empire in Latin America rebelled ... Most Jewish Cubans are descendants of Polish and Russian Jews who ...
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  • air force in recent decades, purchasing Russian fighter jets such as the ... * Sorman, Guy. Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty ...
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  • by the Sea of Japan; and from the Russian islands of Sakhalin and ... Meiji era reforms transformed the Empire of Japan into an industrialized ...
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  • success of the October Revolution in the Russian Empire, in which Marxists took power, Mao came under the theoretical influence of Karl Marx (left) and ...
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