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  • are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans who historically ... the plains where they adopted the lifestyle of Plains Indians, hunting bison ...
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  • The Young Turk Revolution of July 1908 reversed the suspension of ... by the Sultan in 1878. However, the process of replacing existing institutions ...
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  • Katyn Forest Massacre, was a mass execution of Polish citizens by the order ... The massacre is of note for a number of reasons, but primarily due ...
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  • activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977-1979. He was ... India's opposition to the occupation of Afghanistan. He improved relations ...
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  • chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...
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  • ironic novels and essays, including world classics such as Gulliver ... the other great pamphleteer and essayist of his time, Joseph Addison. Moreover ...
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  • A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society ... While the distinction between a "civil war" and a "revolution ...
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  • was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army ... The Uprising started at a crucial point in the war, as the Soviet ...
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  • – March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet ... ego, sensuous pleasure, and glorification of self, exalt a certain type ...
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  • between the Thrace and Anatolian sections of Turkey. The world's narrowest ... and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in ...
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  • Yaroslav I the Wise (c. 978 - February 20, 1054) (East Slavic: Ярослав ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • The Seven Years War (1756-1763) involved all the major European powers ... 1756 to 1763, incorporating the Pomeranian War and the French and Indian ...
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  • The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Second ... A combination of deception and brilliant administration—designed ...
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  • Zinov'ev according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch ... was an Old Bolshevik and a close associate of Vladimir Lenin. During the ...
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  • Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...
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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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  • Harold Harefoot (c. 1015–March 17, 1040) was King of England from ... He was the son of Canute the Great, King of England, Denmark, Norway ...
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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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  • The Battle of Mohács ( mohácsi csata or mohácsi vész/Bane of Mohács; Schlacht bei Mohács ...
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  • also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria ... unable to cope with the mounting incursions of Ottoman forces, Hungarian invasions ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... Ajax (originally viewed as a triumph of covert action), is now regarded ...
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  • Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...
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  • The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes ... total radio silence. Even Ultra (the allies reading of secret German ...
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  • Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg dynasties of the Austrian Empire, Habsburg ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Peace of Westphalia ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... arrived in the area. The first establishment of Salzburg was the Benedictine ...
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  • historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...
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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...
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  • and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... the new polity. Had Austria done so, instead of being excluded, history may ...
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  • The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... history will view the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms ...
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  • | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...
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  • existed from 1346 to 1371, and was one of the larger states in Europe ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...
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  • The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the ... Some see the subsequent decline and fall of the Ottomans in terms ...
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  • statesman who is popularly credited as one of the finest military commanders ... During his invasion of Italy he defeated the Romans in a series of ...
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  • ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... The Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) sought allies against the Mongols ...
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  • information on troop movements during World War II (National Archives)]] Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ...
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  • from c. 1500 B.C.E. At the height of its power, during the fourteenth ... Indic and Middle Eastern worlds, regardless of geographical origin. Trade ...
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  • The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...
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  • The Onondaga (Onöñda'gega' or the People of the Hills ... Contemporary Onondaga are found in the Six Nations of the Grand River ...
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  • The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ... had been captured from the Japanese by the Allies in landings on Guadalcanal ...
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  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine ... The "Battle" of Leyte Gulf was actually a campaign consisting ...
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  • World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...
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  • [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...
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  • leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...
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  • politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and ... The Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic ...
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  • ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... States made her an able spokeswoman. During World War II she traveled widely ...
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  • The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally ... During the war, Germany's population was reduced by 30 percent ...
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  • high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...
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  • At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... in part to bolster its efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger ...
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  • Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...
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  • Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...
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