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  • of the Committee of Public Safety. Danton's role in the onset of the Revolution ... Danton was born at Arcis-sur-Aube in northeastern France, to a respectable ...
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  • of human rights in general, and of women's and Blacks' rights in particular ... fondly of Turgot and advocated Turgot's economic theories. Condorcet ...
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  • Robespierre was born in Arras, France on May 6, 1758. His family, according ... Estates-General would not represent the people of France. ...
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  • In Ruse, Canetti's father and grandfather were successful merchants ... Canetti spent his childhood years, from 1905 to 1911, in Ruse until ...
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  • monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first ruler who was Protestant ... church and Rome, it was during Edward's reign that a form of Protestantism ...
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  • Parliament imposing restraints on Edward's profligate spending and imposition ... law. Thomas, who had taken part in Edward's coronation ceremony, wanted ...
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  • was one of the founders of Romanticism in France. In art and literature Romanticism ... Born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris, France, she was the daughter ...
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  • futurism, especially Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism ... Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism celebrated the “beauty of speed” ...
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  • Retrieved December 16, 2022. Mary's uncle was King Charles II; her ... Retrieved December 16, 2022. Mary's mother died in 1671; her father ...
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  • Signac's comment that Seurat's works of pointillism were, ... During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) he was sent to northern France ...
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  • a virgin. However, Bart D. Ehrman's Lost Christianities suggest ... He arrived in Rome circa 140, soon after Bar Kokhba's revolt. In ...
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  • Feuillants, who tried and failed to turn France into a constitutional monarchy ... Haute-Loire, in the Auvergne region of France. He belonged to the cadet ...
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  • Trent, et al. (eds.) The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: ... Hakluyt and Henry Morley (ed.) Voyager's Tales, from the Collections ...
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  • Alexander III's regime emphasized central, imperial authority. ... Alexander III's autocratic policies set an example that later Soviet ...
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  • Boyne in the summer of 1690, he returned to France, living out the rest of his ... James, the second surviving son of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of ...
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  • Xàtiva, València, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llançol; ... had declined, and most of Alexander's efforts aimed to restore this ...
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  • as one of the finest military commanders in history. He lived in a period of ... military commanders and tacticians in history. Military historian Theodore ...
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  • Years' War that was fought between France and Great Britain, (known ... to travel abroad. He spent some time in France and Italy, but the disease ...
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  • activity, became a desolate "no man's land." tourist destination. Beirut holds Lebanon's seat of government and plays ...
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  • Roman Catholics to be the Catholic Church's greatest theologian. Consequently ... Thomas Aquinas was born around 1225 at his father Count Landulf's ...
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