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Frederick I of Prussia (July 11, 1657 – February 25, 1713) of the ... when he adopted the title “king in Prussia” was the most powerful ...

Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...

in 1618, allowed the creation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, the state ... In 1788 the title was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia. ...

* The Kingdom of Prussia (1701 - 1918): formed the elevation of Brandenburg ... (1829 - 1878): a province of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from the merger ...

The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Frederick William III ...

and philanthropist often considered as one of the fathers Reform Judaism. Germany, Jacobson married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz ...

29, 1780) was (reigning) Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary ... Continued conflict with the Kingdom of Prussia led to the Seven Years ...

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William and his inheritance of the Kingdom of Prussia. ==Kingship== ... unite the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Prussia. Giles MacDonogh, Frederick ...

The grey girders are the original structure of the works.]] or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain retail ...

order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era. ... decoration and insignia by the Kingdom of Prussia and Germany as the ...

The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... had been based on France and the United Kingdom simply halting the German ...

| birth_place = Strzelno, Kingdom of Prussia | death_date = 1931|5 ... remembered for his work on the measurement of the speed of light, particularly ...

poet. He was the first German realist writer of significance. Realism eschewed ... Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of ...

The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...

was made capital of the new Kingdom of Prussia, and while politically ... *Ruins of the greatest stronghold of the former Kingdom of Prussia. ...

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian ... pharaonic times, was closed on the orders of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 ...

As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...

closely with Karl Marx in the foundation of modern Communism. The son of ... in Barmen, Rhine Province of the kingdom of Prussia (now a part of Wuppertal ...

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was the site of the American Continental ... appointed General Nathanael Greene head of the meager and poorly managed ...

of Preussen 1701-1918.jpg|20px]] Kingdom of Prussia [[Image:Flag of Russia ... The Napoleonic Wars comprised a series of global conflicts fought ...

Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...

Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...

place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic ... on reforms that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, urged the ...

award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...

scientific circles, serving as the a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences ... from 1873-1912. He traced the influence of Hellenistic philosophy on early ...

Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...

The largest portion lies within the borders of Poland; the rest is within ... Austrian Succession (1740-1748), the Kingdom of Prussia had conquered almost ...

the Swedish Parliament in 1634) was founder of the Swedish Empire (or Stormaktstiden ... own time, widely regarded as the archetype of what a king should be and one ...

Gdańsk is situated in northern Poland on the southern edge of Gdańsk ... Danzig was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1793, only to be broken ...

and mechanics. He introduced some of the familiar notation still ... Euler was born in Basel to Paul Euler, a pastor of the Reformed Church ...

June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...

theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...

region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... often defined according to the conventions of different disciplines or according ...

– March 13, 1881) was the tsar (emperor) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until ... Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and ...

colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...

The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... waged war but favored peace. The making of war and peace was discussed ...

Berlin was successively the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia (1701 ... Berlin became the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1740, the philosophically ...

Ensign of Prussia (1816).svg|border|30px]] Kingdom of Prussia ... 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the ...

The French invasion of Russia (also known as the Russian Campaign ... ) which refers to Hitler's, rather than Napoleon's, invasion ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran ... Reconstruction commenced in January 1993, under the direction of church ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The First Battle of Tannenberg (or Battle of Grunwald) took place ... The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively ...

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 ...

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 ...

– 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 ...

Spruce is the common name for any of the various coniferous evergreen ... Spruce trees provide a number of important values for human beings ...

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 ...

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 ...

[[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...

The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon Bonaparte ... armies to oppose him. The principal armies of Napoleon's opponents were ...

movement that unified different states of the Italian peninsula into ... Ideas of the new kingdom as the modern-day successor of the Roman ...

The Treaty of Georgievsk ( Георгиевский трактат ... the Russian Empire and the east Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti on July ...

The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... were largely atheists, products of the Enlightenment. One of the ...

November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...

The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World ... The Battle of Verdun resulted in more than a quarter of a million ...

military leader and a leading member of the Nazi Party. Among many ... Goering was one of the central figures in the Nazi regime that was ...

in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...

were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, ... 1849 were brutally crushed by the Kingdom of Prussia, where a constitutional ...

since the 1701 creation of the Kingdom of Prussia, would come to a head ... William became Prince Regent of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1858. Meanwhile ...

European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...

and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...

and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the eighteenth-century French ... reason, despised democracy as the rule of the mob, and believed that ...

the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern part of New ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...

1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...

August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation, though ...

Edward VII (November 9, 1841 – May 6, 1910) was King of the United ... Before his accession to the throne, Edward held the title of Prince ...

| s1=Kingdom of Prussia | flag_s1=Flag_of_Prussia_1892-1918.png ... by the neighboring Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Monarchy ...

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau (March 9, 1749 - April ... A successful orator, he was the leader of the moderate position among ...

Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943 ... under Soviet control after the collapse of Nazi Germany. The political ...

quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...

The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... from the city center. These sites attract millions of pilgrims annually. ...

or "garland of roses" [http://books.google.com/books?id=eqkFAAAAQAAJ ... practice, which denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional ...

he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...

[[Image:queenvictoria.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Queen Victoria at the ... May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great ...

Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...

(b. about 1362 – d. June 1, 1434), was a Grand Duke of Lithuania ... .Endre Bojtár, Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic ...

The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... and was marked by the military leadership of notable generals such as the ...

) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until ... They are divided in two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–97 ...

The Society of the Friends of the Constitution ( Société des amis ... ), renamed the Society of the Jacobins, Friends of Freedom and Equality ( ...

Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...

bishop, a religious refugee, and one of the earliest champions of universal ... who had many practical ideas in the field of education. His numerous publications ...

especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...

plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature, human attributes while ... that they were handed down as an oral form of storytelling, sometimes recorded ...

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern ... 780,000 residents between 1940 and 1954. Of them, an estimated 120,000 ...

by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...

| birth_place = Breslau, Prussian Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia ... | death_place = Berlin, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia ...

Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...

The Battle of Austerlitz (also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors ... 1805, Austria and France signed the Treaty of Pressburg, which took the former ...

ministry. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian ... a divine will that worked through the agency of heroes and leaders. In his ...

a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died ... Nazi regime reacted by ordering the arrest of all Catholics in Holland of ...

a German philosopher and the founding father of the Vienna Circle; he was also ... As the founder and leader of the Vienna Circle—arguably the most ...

sometimes Countess Dohna, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...

Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – ... the absolute, but speculative certainties of the continental rationalism ...

4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. ... and Beethoven, Mendelssohn composed some of his best works as a teenager ...

Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova), ( ... – July 17, 1918), was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II ...

The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named ... who had settled in the German Kingdom of Prussia and then Russia, moved ...

to mathematics and physics. One of the world's greatest mathematicians ... Lagrange was of French and Italian descent, and was baptized Giuseppe ...

official use) was an important ruling house of Europe and is most well known ... Vienna, the elegant, artistic, and intellectually creative capital ...

George I, King of the Hellenes Georgios A' Vasileus ton Ellinon; ... as a constitutional monarch, the reigns of his successors would prove ...

A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... Militias, being composed of civilians rather than professional soldiers ...

The Warsaw Insurrection (otherwise the Warsaw Uprising of 1794; ... Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital. It began ...

or private school. Prior to the introduction of compulsory school attendance ... to provide their children with a quality of education they believe is unattainable ...

de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...

who is best remembered for her portraits of Marie Antoinette, and for her ... Today she is generally regarded as the most famous woman painter of ...

France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...

The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western ... Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European ...

and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature ... passions that would become a commonplace of Romanticism: "One inhabits ...

known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...

Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, King of Italy (August ... Over the course of little more than a decade, the armies of France ...

is the literal translation of empire)—refers to Germany in the years ... The policies pursued by Nazi Germany, based on the concept of Lebensraum ...

William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...

Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...

899) is often considered to be the founder of the English nation. As king ... Danes, after defeating them at the Battle of Edington. Realizing that it ...

(January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...

and is known as the "Father of Railways." The Victorians ... west of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second child of Robert and ...

The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced [rʌˈmanəf] ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled ...

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...

The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

- January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy ... who died in 1927 prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, was not ...

Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... , Nikolay II) was the last tsar of Russia, the King of Poland, and ...

that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...

as a political economist, and an organizer of the International Workingmen ... Province of the Lower Rhine, in the Kingdom of Prussia. His father, Heinrich ...

ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

He is best remembered for his direction of British foreign policy through ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...

Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... In the German kingdom of Prussia, also, the government modified materially ...

The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl ... A Royal Navy fleet of 27 ships of the line destroyed an allied French ...

actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...

to win independence from the United Kingdom by force of arms. It was ... stepping-stone in the eventual creation of the Irish Republic. The Irish ...

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...

) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...

a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia. ...

gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...

), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...

in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...

It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...

Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known ... The phrase Weimar Republic is an invention of historians, and was not used ...

broke out in 1789. She spent the first years of the revolution in Lyon, where ... When her husband unexpectedly became Minister of the Interior in 1792 ...

1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was the military ... and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside and most of ...

all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and against the privileges ...

Dresden, the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony ... royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who furnished the city ...

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...

English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was one of the leading ... Province of Posen, in the German Kingdom of Prussia. He was the second ...

1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...

an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...

The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional ...

At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger overall concern over ...

At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...

. A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (June 6, 1650 – June 27, 1722) ... was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns ...

Philosophy of history or historiosophy is an area of philosophy concerning ... A philosophy of history begins with a few basic assumptions. First ...

بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...

in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and ... Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated ...

The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...

Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of ... It has been equated it with the initiation of "the scientific revolution ...

them). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable ... At the end of 1822, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in the Kreuzschule ...

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ... Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Although ...

The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the transition from ...

The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant ... was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between ...

Southern European country with a population of approximately 60 million. It ... and France. The independent countries of San Marino and the Vatican ...

Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... The history of Belarus is a story of domination by foreign powers ...

Christianity became the official religion of Europe and so suffered from ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...

Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes, a radical ... After the fall of the Girondins, in which Marat played an important ...

The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German radio messages ...

staff and equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital ... In accordance with the original meaning of the word, hospitals were ...

on a person. It can be used as a means of intimidation, as a deterrent ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...

established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...

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 ...

for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...

The Insurrection of August 10, 1792 was a defining event of the French ... Conflict between King Louis XVI of France and the country's new ...

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... as a preliminary step to the conquest of territory in the East, thus ...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...

The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...

1919 – March 1921) was an armed conflict of Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ... Blue (north-west) were taken by Kingdom of Prussia, green (south) by Austria ...

and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... Safety from 1994. As the first female leader of the world's third largest ...

derived liquid mixture consisting mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced ... Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, although some may contain significant ...

(The "Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its ... republic with more than 200 years of democratic traditions, and ...

meaning “to serve”; a samurai is the retainer of a lord. spiritual ethos. Almost all the key leaders of the Meiji Restoration were ...

Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, formerly a part of the Soviet ... From at least the ninth century, the territory of present-day Ukraine ...

Civil War. While not necessarily a supporter of the abolition of slavery, his ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ...

Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...

The September Massacres were a series of killings of prisoners in ... massacres began around 2:30 pm in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Within ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...