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  • Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... Rome was annexed he was a "Prisoner in the Vatican." ...
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  • Cardinal József Mindszenty (March 29, 1892 - May 6, 1975) was the ... An opponent of both Fascism and Communism, he was elevated to the ...
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  • Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic ... Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven ...
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  • best known for his invention of the barometer. In addition he ... Torricelli was born in Faenza Papal States, near Ravenna, Italy. The ...
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  • Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne after ... Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ...
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  • 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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  • Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... Used with the definite article ("the original sin"), the ...
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  • Rodrigo Borgia), Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the ... He was renowned for his mistresses but also for his patronage of the ...
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  • ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...
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  • yet substantially accepted, claim to be the lawful Pope, and is elected ... There have been several antipopes throughout the history of the Roman ...
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  • Perón and his wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of ... Perón was born to a lower-middle class family in a town near Lobos ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... Salzburg was established around 696 C.E. when the missionary St. Rupert ...
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  • The Second Italo–Ethiopian War (also referred to as the Second Italo ... Ethiopia had been the only African state to avoid colonization in ...
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  • Matthias Corvinus (Matthias the Just) (February 23, 1443 – April ... born at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in the house currently known as ...
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  • (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...
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  • , styled His Imperial Majesty and holding the imperial titles of Shahanshah ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...
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  • activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...
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  • as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey ... he is popularly depicted as a pirate in European literature, Europeans ...
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  • Italian Unification (Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence ... domain. Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican, although he was ...
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