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  • Hamburg and Munich. A key inland port of Europe, it lies on the west ... Vienna, Cologne was made part of the Kingdom of Prussia, beginning a new era ...
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  • January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early ... tenure, which came during the reign of George III, was dominated by ...
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  • The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...
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  • as a British general in the American War of Independence. As a member of ... administrative systems. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic ...
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  • E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist ... His work combined the strong emotion of Romanticism with the elements ...
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  • 2, 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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  • comprising the western and central thirds of the Czech Republic. It has ... whose helm it also became an autonomous part of the Holy Roman Empire after ...
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  • The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...
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  • Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18 ... held the de facto office due to the extent of his influence in the Cabinet ...
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  • 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...
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  • – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...
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  • Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen ... Spruce trees provide a number of important values for human beings ...
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  • The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Originally used as a term of derision, the origin of the name Huguenot ...
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  • both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from June 15, 1888 ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...
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  • [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...
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  • He served as ambassador to the United Kingdom for five years, during which ... He attended college at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ...
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  • The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... The newly created Austro-Hungarian Empire was a good example of a ...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...
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  • as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes ... system which eventually made it the target of a zealous, impoverished French ...
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  • 1909 – March 20, 2004) was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... evolved as a major participant in the work of global peace-keeping and as ...
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