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  • who may have been the model for Moll in Moll Flanders (1722). In the same year, Defoe produced A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), which summoned ...
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  • his journey to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, France, Spain. Having reached the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, he gave information about the ...
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  • privately calling her a "Flanders Mare." She was painted totally without any signs of her pox marked face. Nevertheless, he married ...
    40 KB (6,352 words) - 23:16, 8 February 2022
  • from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders. By the end of the century, Venice was famous for the splendor of its music, as exemplified ...
    34 KB (5,043 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
  • "a real disgrace" says minister] Flanders News, March 1, 2019. Retrieved June 29, 2022. In Portugal, some Praxe rituals have been accused ...
    40 KB (5,725 words) - 16:55, 30 June 2022
  • powers against Philip, including Baldwin IX of Flanders, Renaud, Count of Boulogne, and his father-in-law King Sancho of Navarre, who raided Philp& ...
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  • Matilda of Scotland (1100-1118) · Matilda of Flanders (1066-1083) |category = }} 125550820 [[Category:English royal titles templates|Consorts]] ...
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  • involved in mischievous conflicts. The crusade in Flanders aroused the Reformer's biting scorn, while his sermons became fuller-voiced and dealt ...
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  • from the industrial region of Lille in French Flanders. The "de" in "de Gaulle" is not a nobiliary particle, although the ...
    41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
  • the term's etymology include connections with Flanders (flamenco also means Flemish in Spanish), believed by Spanish people to be the origin of the ...
    47 KB (7,370 words) - 23:16, 21 April 2024
  • fiefs: Aquitaine, Brittany, Burgundy, Catalonia, Flanders, Gascony, Gothia, the Île-de-France, and Toulouse. After 987, the kingdom came to be known ...
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  • impacting life in places like Flanders and Burgundy as much as the Black Death was later to impact all of Europe. A typhoid epidemic was to be ...
    48 KB (7,671 words) - 23:50, 11 January 2023
  • of his sons, the Queen mother, Baldwin, count of Flanders and emperor of Constantinople, the duke of Burgundy, and six lords, visited the abbey, the ...
    53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
  • Godfred the opportunity to harass Frisia and Flanders with pirate raids. He also subdued the Frank-allied Wiltzes and fought the Abotrites. He invaded ...
    56 KB (8,914 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
  • In central and northern Italy and in Flanders the rise of towns that were self-governing to some degree within their territories stimulated ...
    60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
  • From Gdańsk, ships, mostly from the Netherlands and Flanders, carried the grain to ports including Antwerp and Amsterdam. Gdańsk ships accounted ...
    62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
  • who may have been the model for Moll in Moll Flanders (1722). In the same year, Defoe produced A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), which summoned ...
    61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
  • 10 April 1918, part of the German offensive in Flanders. Photographed by 2nd Lt. T.L. Aitken.]] Throughout 1915-1917 the British Empire and France ...
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  • . It was named after the river in Flanders. Protecting the Flemish coast seemed the least one could do; on the other hand it created an enormous ...
    78 KB (12,110 words) - 11:42, 20 September 2023
  • Northern Ireland ( Tuaisceart Éireann ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, and consists of six ...
    84 KB (12,511 words) - 06:37, 16 November 2022
  • The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland ...
    93 KB (13,994 words) - 13:49, 15 April 2024

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