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  • of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg Spain, and in certain times, the Holy Roman ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...
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  • prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation to make the treatment ... Elizabeth Gurney Fry was born on May 21, 1790, in Norwich, Norfolk ...
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  • geometry by expressing the laws of motion in a form that could be manipulated ... Lodovico Lagrangia five days after his birth in Turin (Sarton 1944). He was ...
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  • He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Romanticism ... a full heart, an empty world," he wrote in Génie du Christianisme. He ...
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  • to be the founder of the English nation. As king of the southern Anglo-Saxon ... Alfred was born sometime between 847 and 849 at Wantage in the present ...
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  • pitted France against Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...
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  • against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 ... history, some people of faith have engaged in armed struggle. However, the ...
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  • The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...
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  • A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary ... Fables, fairy tales, and parables all have in common the fact that ...
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  • Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...
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  • India from January 1, 1877, until her death in 1901. Her reign lasted more ... social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. In that ...
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  • [[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study ... Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ...
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  • Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013, after a reign of exactly ... during her childhood so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable ...
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  • the river Daugava. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states. UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world. ...
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  • His rise to prominence began as a lowly page in the royal court of Stuart England ... Marlborough found international fame in the War of the Spanish Succession ...
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  • codes of rabbinical law and is much quoted in other Jewish literature. ... In European history, the Talmud was sometimes suppressed by the Catholic ...
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  • i-Aqdas and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. He died in Bahjí in present-day Israel ... In 1844, a 25-year-old man from Shiraz, Siyyid Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad ...
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  • , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ... Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, King of Poland, Tsar of Siberia ...
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  • the park one of the most important sites in the world for these species ... by decree on June 24, 1976 and established in 1978. The wetlands area was ...
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  • objects. Most of the world's amber is in the range of 30–90 million ... Amber was much valued as an ornamental material in very early times ...
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