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  • atop it. Paracelsus, a sixteenth century Swiss alchemist identified gnomes ... In the sixteenth century, the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus popularized ...
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  • graves, the usual procedure there. Many guards of Andersonville also died ... The guards, disease, starvation, and exposure were not all that prisoners ...
    11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
  • in Paris, which was defended by the Swiss Guards. Hundreds of Swiss guardsmen ... ordered to disengage. The main body of Swiss Guards fell back through the ...
    38 KB (5,991 words) - 14:42, 31 August 2022
  • to release some grenadiers of the French guards, reportedly imprisoned for ... for patriots! This very night all the Swiss and German battalions will ...
    35 KB (5,341 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
  • 14, 1941 by firing squad formed from the Scots Guards. ===Torture=== ... Tower known as Jewel House, where armed guards defended them. ...
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  • [[Image:Swiss Army marching Fcb981.JPG|thumb|250 px|An exercise near ... One of the most famous and ancient militias is the Swiss Armed Forces ...
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  • that political prisoners and the many Swiss Guards imprisoned in Parisian ... and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ...
    32 KB (4,786 words) - 22:20, 25 June 2022
  • and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ... household, as well as survivors of the Swiss Guards from the royal palace ...
    69 KB (9,949 words) - 09:52, 26 January 2023
  • horses; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; Pontifical Swiss Guards; quartermasters; reformed alcoholics; riders; soldiers; tailors; vintners ...
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  • and maintenance for the Temple, serving as guards, and assisting the Kohanim ... * Loewy, Löwi, Löwy, and Loewe German or Swiss variations (although ...
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  • follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger ... English troops on their March of the Guards to Finchley. ...
    25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
  • Financed by his mother, he stayed in a Swiss health spa before traveling ... of Russian Marxists was held in the Swiss town of Corsier to discuss ...
    47 KB (6,948 words) - 22:40, 30 May 2022
  • broke into the palace. The queen's guards were massacred. She and her ... was invaded in their absence, and the Swiss Guard were massacred. The ...
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  • Hundred of Swiss guards, who were guarding the King, and revolutionaries ... and especially the officers of the Swiss guards and their accomplices ...
    49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
  • the peace: the French intervened in the Swiss civil strife (Stecklikrieg ... and several hundred thousand national guards that Napoleon could draft ...
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  • In addition 80,000 National Guards had been conscripted for full military ... *9,000 Swiss (German sources Meyers Konversationslexikon, 3rd ed.(Germany: ...
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  • over a thousand in all, on fears that the Swiss guards imprisoned there would be let out to join counter-revolutionary forces, even though the vast ...
    26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
  • Bulgarian, Yugoslav, British, French and Swiss Communist Groups; the Dutch ... parties (but also playing a role as border guards for the Russian state). ...
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  • Louis Cypress Ayer, was a French-speaking Swiss Calvinist from Neufchatel ... British Labour party. He joined the Welsh Guards when WWII broke out and worked ...
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  • position at St. Privat to prevent the Guards attack from failing too. ... #039;s army into the mountains near the Swiss border. Facing annihilation ...
    61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022

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