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  • Ferenc (Francis) II Rákóczi (March 27, 1676 - April 8, 1735) was ... He was also Prince of Transylvania, an Imperial Prince, and a member ...
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  • Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ...
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  • Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement ... quot; was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert ...
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  • ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...
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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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  • The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...
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  • The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... The Allied battle plan prior to the War had been based on France and ...
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  • The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...
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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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  • Subaru (スバル) is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese ... the horizontally-opposed boxer engines used in most of their vehicles. In ...
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  • 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...
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  • Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920 – April ... Communism, and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to ...
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  • dedicated to Saint Stephen, located in Bourges, France. It is the ... It is based on the Notre-Dame in Paris but with significant differences ...
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  • Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...
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  • Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...
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  • Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
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  • The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... empires, Korea's history has been one of constantly fluctuating borders ...
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  • Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies ... Mitsubishi was the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial ...
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  • was the first important tenor saxophonist in jazz. Sometimes called the ... Joining Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in 1924, Hawkins matured ...
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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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