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- 16, 1793), the Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, was later titled, ... executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason. In recent years some ...41 KB (6,571 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ... The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo, convicted ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- The sphinx has had a long history of secrecy and intrigue, being viewed ... and ability to penetrate the mysteries of the universe, while warning ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- A Passion play is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of ... elaborate and sometimes featured hundreds of actors, were highly popular ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound. H.D.'s early ... her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and ... The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- a British analytic philosopher. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she became ... read "Mods & Greats" (a course of study in classics, ancient ...23 KB (3,440 words) - 07:26, 15 April 2024
- Transylvania is a Central European region located in the eastern half ... the region is known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and ...47 KB (6,836 words) - 02:15, 2 May 2023
- ) 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 ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- educator, and social thinker. The founder of "anthroposophy," ... into Burgenland, Austria, in the foothills of the eastern Alps. ...49 KB (7,066 words) - 17:42, 22 December 2022
- to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid ... arm apparatus to determine drag and did some of the first experiments in aviation ...21 KB (3,348 words) - 10:57, 15 May 2023
- :This article is concerned with the methodology of iconography, principally ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved ... These myths were originally orally transmitted in the form of odes ...21 KB (3,478 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
