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  • This position had no official recognition in law, but Walpole is nevertheless ... continued to govern until he resigned in 1742, making his administration ...
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  • June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King ... that Great Britain lost many of its colonies in North America in the wake of ...
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  • The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... "dress up" their atheistic views in the garb of religion in order ...
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  • Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Roman Empire after accepting Christianity in the ninth century. Charles ...
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  • unique interpretation of Christian theology. In addition to championing the ... meaning "a Confederate," perhaps in combination with a reference ...
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  • und Mausekönig ("Nutcracker and Mouse King," 1816), was the basis ... psychological novel which became prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth ...
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  • Order. It was the decisive engagement in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic ... smaller villages, and different names in various languages are attributed ...
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  • suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon ... longer held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the ...
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  • of Grand Duke, but more correctly High King, according to the contemporary ... such as the statue and tower both located in Vilnius Lithuania and a reconstructed ...
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  • of George III, was dominated by major events in Europe, including the French ... Hester Pitt, 1st Baroness Chatham, was born in Hayes, Kent. Pitt the Younger ...
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  • of its reigning Bagrationi dynasty in return for prerogatives in ... the mother land and the Muslim empire in the South. Some subsequent ...
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  • the Young Hegelians, who interpreted Hegel in a revolutionary sense and attempted ... Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ...
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  • The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the ...
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  • Revolution. A noble, he had been involved in numerous scandals before the ... though support for his moderate position was in decline. Later it was discovered ...
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  • [[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait ... irrational, although as a deist, he believed in a supreme being. Voltaire emphasized ...
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  • appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known ... Myths and speculations about Saint Germain began to be widespread ...
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  • was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden ... after his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years’ War. During ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... C.E. when the missionary St. Rupert arrived in the area. The first establishment ...
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  • southernmost Nordic country. It is located in Scandinavia, a region of northern ... home of the Vikings who invaded and settled in many parts of Europe and Russia ...
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  • ) was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace early ... broke early and suffered heavy casualties in their retreat. ...
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