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- similar moral failures as a great many men in power. On the other hand, she ... Sweden, Sophie (nicknamed Figchen) was born in Stettin to Johanna Elisabeth ...19 KB (2,933 words) - 16:15, 3 December 2023
- Army camp over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary ... The weather began to ease in February and Washington appointed General ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Hirofumi, Hakubun Shunsuke, and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji ... and expel the barbarians”) movement. In 1863, he was chosen to be one ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- 6, 1632) (Gustav II Adolphus, widely known in English by the Latinized name ... widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one of the few ...20 KB (3,242 words) - 02:41, 27 July 2023
- particularly the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, in which the city was ... Magdeburg's most significant role in history is as the site of ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- , called Protocletos, or the First-called in the Orthodox tradition, was ... It is also held that Andrew founded the See of Byzantium in 38 C.E ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... and remains an important industrial center. In modern times Gdansk was the ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- Elizabeth Beck, the daughter of a tailor in Erlangen, Bavaria. Although ... childhood, bringing them to a high standard in mathematics, physics, chemistry ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The making of war and peace was discussed in the Diet. Unlike the EU, though ... of the North German town of Lübeck in 1159 by Duke Henry the Lion ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- of Swiss origin and finance minister of King Louis XVI. Jacques Necker ... as any of the notes issued as paper currency in France (1789-1796) by the revolutionary ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany. Wolff was the key ... The son of a tanner, Wolff was born in Breslau, Silesia. Both Protestants ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. In linguistic terms, Scandinavia ... The creation of a Finnish identity is unique in the region in that it was forged ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- she is primarily remembered for her role in the Second World War, in which ... proving that a woman was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...32 KB (4,656 words) - 22:03, 29 January 2023
- military commander and colonial governor. In the United States, he is best ... In India, where he served two terms as Governor-General, he is remembered ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- who applied his expertise to problems in astronomy, optics, mechanical ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...33 KB (4,972 words) - 15:54, 5 July 2023
- the "Hero of the Two Worlds," in tribute to his military expeditions ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder ... and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- 10, November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland ... armies into battle (at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743). ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg ... Loss of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 resulted in the Austria-Hungarian ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
