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(1688–1713) and the first king in Prussia (1701–1713). A lavish patron of the arts, he did much to enrich Prussia's physical infrastructure ...

1, 1868 – May 28, 1940), was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor William ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...

Prussia (son, also Duke of Prussia and King in Prussia) ... II/IV/I (also Elector of Brandenburg and King in Prussia) ...

of his time and earned a prominent place in the Baroque School of Opera ... Graun was born in Wahrenbrück, in Brandenburg. He sang in the chorus ...

led to the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740. After Emperor Charles ... Continued conflict with the Kingdom of Prussia led to the Seven Years& ...

The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598, by King Henry IV ... the Edict: prior to assuming the throne in 1589, he had espoused Protestantism ...

Prussia Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most ... only allowed to title himself "King in Prussia," not "King ...

known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to the ... on the orders of President Anwar Sadat in 1981. It was reopened, with ...

) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... After he had been deposed in 1595 from the Swedish throne by his uncle ...

Frederick ascended the throne as "King in Prussia" in 1740, Prussia ... quot; in 1772; the phrasing "King in Prussia" had been used ...

The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... In 1939 Adolf Hitler added a "marching swastika" in the ...

to store. The walkways may be enclosed. In the British Isles and Australia ... quot; or bazaar with numerous shops located in one area, possibly covered ...

Formed at the end of the twelfth century in Acre, Palestine, the medieval ... I of Masovia made a joint invasion of Prussia in 1230, to Christianize ...

of Brandenburg and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick ... In failing to produce a male heir, Queen Maria Eleonora disappointed ...

Born in Halberstadt in today's Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Jacobson ... cordial relations between Jews and Gentiles in Europe. In 1801 he created ...

leaders who rose to positions of influence in Christian European noble houses ... Some court Jews were also prominent people in the local Jewish community ...

was just Pufendorf until he was ennobled in 1684; he was made a baron a ... 8, 1632, at Dorfchemnitz Stollberg District, in the ore mountains (Erzgebirge ...

War which was fought from 1754 to 1763. Prussia, Hanover, and Great Britain ... The war ended France's position as a major colonial power in ...

descriptions and commentaries on the sites. In several cases, these remain ... Karl Richard Lepsius was born on December 23, 1818 in Naumburg, Saxony ...

against the Teutonic Knights that took place in the thirteenth century during ... defeat suffered by the Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth century. ...

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 ...

Army camp over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary ... The weather began to ease in February and Washington appointed General ...

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 ...

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 ...

particularly the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, in which the city was ... Magdeburg's most significant role in history is as the site of ...

, 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 ...

Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... and remains an important industrial center. In modern times Gdansk was the ...

Elizabeth Beck, the daughter of a tailor in Erlangen, Bavaria. Although ... childhood, bringing them to a high standard in mathematics, physics, chemistry ...

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 ...

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 ...

the peak of Enlightenment rationality in Germany. Wolff was the key ... The son of a tanner, Wolff was born in Breslau, Silesia. Both Protestants ...

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 ...

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 ...

Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the ... Slavs arrived in the area around the sixth century and founded Great ...

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 ...

who applied his expertise to problems in astronomy, optics, mechanical ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...

the "Hero of the Two Worlds," in tribute to his military expeditions ... Nationalism was on the rise in Europe. Towards the end of Garibaldi ...

The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm, in their own words, not Gebrüder ... and for their work in linguistics, relating to how the sounds in words ...

10, November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland ... armies into battle (at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743). ...

Habsburg (in English-speaking countries sometimes spelled Hapsburg ... Loss of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 resulted in the Austria-Hungarian ...

This position had no official recognition in law, but Walpole is nevertheless ... continued to govern until he resigned in 1742, making his administration ...

June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King ... that Great Britain lost many of its colonies in North America in the wake of ...

The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... "dress up" their atheistic views in the garb of religion in order ...

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe comprising the western ... Roman Empire after accepting Christianity in the ninth century. Charles ...

unique interpretation of Christian theology. In addition to championing the ... meaning "a Confederate," perhaps in combination with a reference ...

und Mausekönig ("Nutcracker and Mouse King," 1816), was the basis ... psychological novel which became prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth ...

Order. It was the decisive engagement in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic ... smaller villages, and different names in various languages are attributed ...

suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the restoration of the Bourbon ... longer held the role of the dominant power in Europe, as it had since the ...

of Grand Duke, but more correctly High King, according to the contemporary ... such as the statue and tower both located in Vilnius Lithuania and a reconstructed ...

of George III, was dominated by major events in Europe, including the French ... Hester Pitt, 1st Baroness Chatham, was born in Hayes, Kent. Pitt the Younger ...

the Young Hegelians, who interpreted Hegel in a revolutionary sense and attempted ... Bauer was also a pioneering figure in the development of biblical ...

of its reigning Bagrationi dynasty in return for prerogatives in ... the mother land and the Muslim empire in the South. Some subsequent ...

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in ... 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the ...

Revolution. A noble, he had been involved in numerous scandals before the ... though support for his moderate position was in decline. Later it was discovered ...

[[Image:531px-Voltaire.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Voltaire in 1718. Portrait ... irrational, although as a deist, he believed in a supreme being. Voltaire emphasized ...

appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known ... Myths and speculations about Saint Germain began to be widespread ...

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... C.E. when the missionary St. Rupert arrived in the area. The first establishment ...

was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden ... after his death at the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years’ War. During ...

southernmost Nordic country. It is located in Scandinavia, a region of northern ... home of the Vikings who invaded and settled in many parts of Europe and Russia ...

) was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace early ... broke early and suffered heavy casualties in their retreat. ...

such as Goethe and the role he played in the development of the larger ... of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder was an ...

he became Agent-General of th2 e Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before ... another under French hegemony. He succeeded in obtaining peace with Austria ...

1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania ... Press, 2000, ISBN 9639116424). His reign in Poland lasted a further forty ...

of the Dutch Republic from June 28, 1672, King of England and King of Ireland ... during which his uncle and father-in-law, James II, was deposed ...

of the Federal Republic of Germany. Located in northeastern Germany, it is ... Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ...

and military officer who participated in both the American and French ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...

that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in 1080, to provide ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...

of God, providence and immortality. In 1763, Mendelssohn won the prize ... proof, but he did not lose confidence in their truth. He was an important ...

Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... His role in World War I is debated by scholars. On the one hand, he ...

, son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of ... Boris died in 1943 during World War II and the Communists were able ...

known as the Hundred Days, which began in March 1815 after Napoleon& ... Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... apparent to the throne longer than anyone in English or British history ...

as the Dual (that of Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary) Monarchy, was ... unification altered the balance of power in continental Europe. These campaigns ...

foundation of the classical style, composing in the Rococo and Classical periods ... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar, Germany, to Maria Barbara ...

spent nearly eleven years of his life in prison stemming from convictions ... Serving in World War II, Berrigan was deeply affected by his wartime ...

was a major European conflict that arose in 1701 after the death of the ... (1714). As a result, Philip V remained King of Spain but was removed from ...

August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... George was a stubborn monarch, often interfering in politics, especially ...

of the largest and most populous countries in seventeen century Europe. Its ... .Rett R. Ludwikowski, Constitution-Making in the Region of Former Soviet ...

royalist enso, conte di Cavour. Piedomont king, Victor Emmanuel II became ... to Africa and gained its first foothold in Eritrea in 1885. Between 1936 ...

However, when Louis-Napoleon became emperor in 1852, he legitimized his cousin’s ... toppled an unjust, totalitarian system in the name of brotherhood, equality ...

Initially founded in 1789 by anti-royalist deputies from Brittany ... In July 1794 the National Convention pushed the administration of ...

officially occurred on January 18, 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the ... Elector of Brandenburg made himself King in Prussia at the beginning of ...

George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... In contrast to George I, who ruled as a constitutional monarch, the ...

which had seized control of the country in a coup d'etat against ... wife, and three daughters was only revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei ...

In India, he enjoyed excellent relations with Jawaharlal Nehru and ... Mountbatten was born in Frogmore House, Windsor, in England, as His ...

to as the "Imperial Cathedral" (in German: Kaiserdom) is a Roman ... of the best-known architectural monuments in the western world as it is ...

She was married to Louis XVI at age 14 in a move to seal a favorable ... her death: she was executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of treason ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (born February 4, 1906 in Breslau, now Wrocław ... and emphasizing that salvation by grace in no way excuses Christians from ...

In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country ... by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the Netherlands and the United ...

quot;Operation Hummingbird," took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 ... although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, ...

Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century ... but also of courage and determination in the face of geographical and ...

Mysteries of the Rosary, which are events in the lives of Jesus Christ and ... mysteries, and the sorrowful mysteries. In 2002, Pope John Paul II announced ...

) is a city in south-central Poland on the Warta River. It was formed ... Lusatian culture excavation site and museum in the city and ruins of a medieval ...

her timely rise to fame and a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West ... card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. ...

and the Treaty of Osnabrück) signed in October and May 1648 which ... their state's religion—thus, in law, Protestantism and Catholicism ...

from her mother's abdication in 1948 to her own abdication ... As Holland readjusted itself to a new status in the world without ...

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose ... common subjects (not from the nobility) in the decision-making forum. ...

of Paris from 1789 until 1795. Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after ... By 1792, the Commune was dominated by those Jacobins who were not ...

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... A part of the Soviet Republics until its collapse in 1991, Lithuania ...

This world-renowned Order is the highest decoration in France and ... The original statutes have been slightly amended over the years, but ...

of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg Spain, and in certain times, the Holy Roman ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...

prison reformer who was the driving force in legislation to make the treatment ... Elizabeth Gurney Fry was born on May 21, 1790, in Norwich, Norfolk ...

geometry by expressing the laws of motion in a form that could be manipulated ... Lodovico Lagrangia five days after his birth in Turin (Sarton 1944). He was ...

He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature. Romanticism ... a full heart, an empty world," he wrote in Génie du Christianisme. He ...

to be the founder of the English nation. As king of the southern Anglo-Saxon ... Alfred was born sometime between 847 and 849 at Wantage in the present ...

India from January 1, 1877, until her death in 1901. Her reign lasted more ... social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. In that ...

pitted France against Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...

against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 ... history, some people of faith have engaged in armed struggle. However, the ...

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...

A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that employs the literary ... Fables, fairy tales, and parables all have in common the fact that ...

[[Image:Napoleon Bonaparte.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Napoleon in His Study ... Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ...

Revolution, when armed revolutionaries in Paris, increasingly in conflict ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...

Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013, after a reign of exactly ... during her childhood so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable ...

the river Daugava. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states. UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world. ...

His rise to prominence began as a lowly page in the royal court of Stuart England ... Marlborough found international fame in the War of the Spanish Succession ...

codes of rabbinical law and is much quoted in other Jewish literature. ... In European history, the Talmud was sometimes suppressed by the Catholic ...

i-Aqdas and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. He died in Bahjí in present-day Israel ... In 1844, a 25-year-old man from Shiraz, Siyyid Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad ...

the park one of the most important sites in the world for these species ... by decree on June 24, 1976 and established in 1978. The wetlands area was ...

, Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ... Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, King of Poland, Tsar of Siberia ...

objects. Most of the world's amber is in the range of 30–90 million ... Amber was much valued as an ornamental material in very early times ...

#039;s Association, Marx became interested in social change during his university ... over a period of four decades beginning in 1843. He formulated his theories ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... of Brandenburg was crowned "King in Prussia." From 1713 to ...

ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France ... uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...

for diminishing his talent as lacking in innovation and depth. to be restrained by forms of virtuosity then in vogue. His performance of Bach ...

de la Platière. She became interested in politics only when the French ... In 1791 the couple settled in Paris, where Madame Roland soon established ...

In the early stages of his career, Agassiz made a name for himself ... Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier (now part of Haut-Vully) in the ...

direct students through extending assistance in understanding and applying ... and Elizabeth Haughton. Stokes was raised in an evangelical Protestant home. ...

The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... Italy, facing opposition to its war in Abyssinia from the League of ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... The first Polish state was baptized in 966, an event that coincided ...

a radical voice who published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...

tuber crop, and the fourth largest crop in terms of fresh produce (after ... crop of Ireland when the potato famine hit in the mid-nineteenth century ...

City State from March 2, 1939 until his death in 1958. Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...

language prefigured later developments in European classical music, including ... Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His ...

The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... from the Low Countries to the River Danube in five weeks. After securing ...

originally from the département of Gironde in southwest France. From 1791 ... the National Convention until their fall in the insurrection of 31 May ...

Britain, (known as the French and Indian War in North America), and who was ... (since he was Earl of Chatham) are named in his honor. Chatham, New Jersey ...

typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...

), is a small, predominantly mountainous country located in Central ... After hundreds of years' involvement in innumerable wars, Austria ...

The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County ... few casualties, was the second major fight in Loring's Kanawha Valley ...

It covers about a century and a half in Europe, beginning with the ... of reality. Emboldened by the revolution in physics commenced by Newtonian ...

churches, being the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. Even though ... It was named a World Heritage Site in 1996, being one of the best ...

and alcohol, insanity, crime, violence, and in general any societal sin, often ... of the nineteenth century by Alfred de Vigny in his 1832 drama, Stello, in ...

as such exists bearing that name. In reality, the movement consists ... Red Cross workers were immediately involved in aid, medical and relief work ...

Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... the most assimilated Jewish community in the world, the movement to ...

profession who considered him a charlatan. In Mesmer's time there was ... regard to health. Twentieth century interest in natural healing methods developed ...

image_caption = Friedrich Nietzsche in 1882 | name = Friedrich Wilhelm ... birth = October 15, 1844 (Röcken bei Lützen, Saxony, Prussia) | ...

abolished following the nation's defeat in World War I. translated to "The German Reich" in English-speaking countries ...

statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century ... right and to defend justice had a vital role in international relations. He ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... largest regions are Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, with 58 percent ...

purpose, directive principle, or finality in the processes of human history. ... In the Poetics, Aristotle argued that poetry is superior to history ...

Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily ... of Campione d'Italia, an enclave in the territory of the Italian ...

approach to divorce settlements has emerged in recent years, known as mediation ... unfavorably, if not outright prohibited. In recent times with the secularization ...

jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, central [[Bosnia and ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...

), archaically spelled Luxemburg, is a small landlocked country in ... Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe, and ranked ...

It also brought about radical change in the European and Middle Eastern ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...

Republic of Ireland which became independent in 1922. Apart from this land ... Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state ...

The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...

Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...

The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ... These ships were the first used in experiments with carrying large ...

The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ... Elaborate systems of dikes particularly in the Netherlands have been constructed ...

known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 ... Villaret de Joyeuse. The two forces clashed in the Atlantic Ocean, some ...

whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also ... Christianity took root in France in the second century, and became ...

of the Russian Empire, fabricated the text in the late 1890s or early 1900s ... Since 1903, when the Protocols appeared in print, its earliest publishers ...

In his early years Chamberlain was a radically minded Liberal Party ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...

govern themselves. However, colonization was in reality driven by commercial ... exploration and exploitation had begun in earnest at the end of the eighteenth ...

The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in ... 1:00 pm, Georges Danton delivered a speech in the assembly warning citizens ...

scholarship and apostolic zeal. Founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola ... independence and separate leader in the order (sometimes called ...

career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His ... and private citizen, he was instrumental in the development and protection ...

as a result of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920. The League's ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... the founding Republics of the Soviet Union in 1922. Ukraine and became independent ...

1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history. The date commonly ... the British Empire, France, and others. In May, 1940, Germany invaded ...

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and ...