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  • :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...
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  • Easter. It commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the ... used to designate the day. The difficulty of procuring palms for that day ...
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  • Many Jews converted to Christianity after the reconquest of Spain ... The conversion of these Jews to Christianity soon became suspect, ...
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  • Snail is the common name applied to most members of the mollusk class ... Gastropoda, the largest and most diverse class of the phylum Mollusca ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...
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  • The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its ... Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ...
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  • The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of Malta, the Order of St. Gregory ...
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  • that the term refers to a particular kind of sacrifice carried out by the ... While no particular form of Moloch is known due to the ambiguity of ...
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  • Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...
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  • Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316, Savaria, Pannonia – November 8, 397 ... with a freezing beggar and received a vision of Christ which moved him to renounce ...
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  • center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...
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  • The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions ... The etymology of the word Allāh has been discussed extensively by ...
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  • The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...
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  • who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...
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  • In his acting, he gave a new life to some of the greatest classics in the ... English gentlemen, a true knight of the stage. On the other hand ...
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  • in the British Army, writer, and founder of the World Scouting Movement. the surrounding city during the long Siege of Mafeking. ...
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  • 15, 1891 – October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished field ... chivalry towards his adversaries. He was one of the few German commanders who ...
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  • community, and to build on his conception of the basic unity of mankind ... and between the Americas and the islands of the Pacific is historically ...
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  • first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...
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  • North Africa—located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the ... Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew into ...
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