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  • | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...
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  • Copper (symbol Cu, atomic number 29) is one of the oldest known metals ... used in hospitals to prevent the transfer of germs, and copper (II) sulfate ...
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  • Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...
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  • Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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  • operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...
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  • Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...
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  • John (December 24, 1166 – October 18, 1216) reigned as King of England ... his unpopularity with the popularity of his brother, Richard I, for ...
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  • The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...
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  • The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...
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  • The Bailiwick of Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri) is a British Crown dependency ... The defense of all these islands is the responsibility of the United ...
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  • support came from Communist China. Most of the fighting took place in ... and professional troops (European of the French Foreign Legion) ...
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  • Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the ... Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied ...
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  • 14, 1799) was the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the ... Washington first gained prominence leading Virginia troops in support ...
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  • 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...
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  • is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the ... Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...
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  • in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...
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