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used specific rather than ad valorem duties, replaced fordney mccumber tariff
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hawley smoot
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from Vermont, had a land grant bill and an 1861 tariff
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morrill
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ambassador to Mongolia before replacing litinov in germany
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molokov
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tried to overthrow carlos perez, does “missions” in economy
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chavez
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lost at homs and ayn jalut under hulegu, history written by Rashid al din
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ilkhanate
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power by fujiwara clan, did tendai Buddhism and its first emperor was kemmu, had rise of the insei system
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heian period
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sultan bayezid won here against lazar, occurred on st. vitus’ day
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battle of kosovo
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dane that invated England because of st. brices day massacre
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sven forkbeard
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defeated at battle of lutter and forced to sign treaty of lubeck in the 30 years war
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denmark
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“the bloody tenet of persecution” founder of the baptist church in america, bought land from canonicus
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williams
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four of them fought, the third featured the battle of pydna and the downfall of king perseus as well as the creation of four puppet kingdoms. In the last one, Corinth was destroyed
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macedonian wars
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beginning of the an lushan rebellion, capitol of Liao and jurchen empires
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beijing
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ship golden hind formerly named pelican, also sailed on benedict, marigold, and calcifugo. Discovered new albion
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drake
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Leader souleyman met ibn battuta
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mali
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arranged his marriage to maria therese of spain in the peace of the Pyrenees, negotiated treaties of osnabruck and munster. Put down rebellion of ardeche, a Huguenot city; minister to louis XIV
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mazarin
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founded by Chandra, fell to the white huns, fended off invasion of the pushyamitras. Defeated rudrasimha III
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gupta
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the man napoleon installed as leader of Sweden, who later fought napoleon at the battle of the nations
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bernadotte
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1820 plot to kill cabinet, lord castleraegh, and lord sidmouth, Thistlewood and Ings were two of its leaders/conspirators
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cato street conspiracy
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vice president under polk, cast tie breaking vote for rate cuts in the walker tariff
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dallas
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included all the ivans, descended from a Viking explorer
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rurik dynasty
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is the great for renouncing mongol suzerainty
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ivan III
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party of fascists in spain, started by de rivera against alfonso XIII
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falange
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led expeditions against champa, goryeo and the kamakura, conquered southern kingdom of dali, put down ambitions of brother Arik boke
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kublai
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the merina tribe ruled them for a while, but had one ethnically Slovakian leader in 1776 who introduced the latin alphabet, benovsky
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madagascar
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attempt by the british to take over Transvaal, they lost to a small force at Krugersdrop, organized by Raleigh grey at pitsami, it led to the chimurenga, or uprising of the Ndebele people
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jameson raid
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at treaty of san Stefano the Russians tried to make a “bigger” version; rulers from saxe-coburg-gotha, krum was once a ruler of them
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bulgaria
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a movement in spain that wants a different line of bourbons on the throne, it includes the burgundian line
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carlism
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court at Kyoto, the kemmu restoration went against the hojo clan and placed GoDaigo on the throne. Descended into the warring states period 1336-1573
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ashikaga
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1192-1333, started by minamoto, repulsed mongols
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kamakura
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short lived colony that was forced back into part of north carolina, though it eventually was put in Tennessee
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franklin
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killed by wife agripina with poisioned mushrooms
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claudius
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elector of Saxony and king of Poland during the great northern war, lost at pultusk and in the treaty of altranstadt was forced to give up his rule in poland
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augustus II the strong
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lost battle of strathfillan and fled to Rathlin Island, but won battles of Glen Trool, Louden hill, and Inverurie before issuing the declaration of arbroath,
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robert bruce
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killed rival john comyn in a church and for it his barons took the oath of swans against him and had him excommunicated and beat him at the battle of methven.
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robert bruce
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Philip II and the Hapsburgs conquer Portugal
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battle of alcantra
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ruled Portugal until Sebastian lost at alcacer quibir battle in morocco.
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aziz
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the house that came after aziz, they ruled until Salazar’s estado novo
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braganza
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1999 war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir
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kargil war
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first gained fame for an unsuccessful advance on Siechien glacier in bilafond la pass. Made all judges swear not to hurt his junta.
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musharaf
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predecessor to musharaf, he tried to do a Pakistani coup in 1999 when musharaf lost the kargil war and his control of Kashmir
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nawaz sharif
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the battle of eddy stone and isle of portland
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spanish armada
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attempted to annul his marriage to marry his mistress D’Estrees, won against the duke of aumale in the battle of Ivry, his rivals still recognized the duke of guise and charles X for the throne, married marie de medici
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henry IV
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had a campaign against the sassasnids, but was killed by st. mercurius. He was a roman emperor that converted to paganism
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julian the apostate
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during his expedition that led him to brazil (which he named vera cruz), Bartholomew dias was killed by a storm in the cape of good hope
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cabral
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rodrigo borgia, Giovanni borgia, duke of gandia, was his son and caused him much grief when he died
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alexander 6th
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1901, it was incorporated into Cuba’s constitution the following year. It paved the way for the U.S. to build a naval base at Guantanamo Bay and gave the U.S. to intervene in any scenario that could compromise Cuba’s independence.
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platt amendment
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us can go to war with spain, but on condition that we do not annex cuba
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teller amendment
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denmark king during Nazi occupation
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charles X
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co-founded the Nasjonal Samling party , Nazi pres of Norway
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vidkun quisling
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distributed fake passports called Schutz Passes to Hungarian Jews and sent a letter threatening war crimes charges to Nazi general August Schmidthuber
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wallenberg
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guidelines for the transition of territories into states, replaced by the northwest ordinance
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land ordinance 1785
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German focused on the encounter, or dialogue, of man with other beings, as elucidated in his I and Thou.
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buber
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attempted to remove Washington for Gates, organized by Wilkinson
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conway cabal
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Lord Avon, he titled his memoirs Facing the Dictators, resigned after 1957 Suez Crisis
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eden
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“Mr Democrat,” Texan who served as Speaker of the House for 17 years
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rayburn
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seeks to marry the daughter of Oenopius, king of Chion
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orion
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family that ruled kuwaitt
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sabah
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first director was shriver, also led by Coverdell
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peace corps
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sat in Parliament, fought against France and Spain, and wrote his History of the World while in prison
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raleigh
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last was Felix V in the 1440’s, first was Hippolytus, a Trinitarian heretic in the time of Calixtus I.
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antipopes
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economic modernization with the help of foreign investment after he took power in 1977.
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deng
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faction, the Patriots, tried to lessen the Council's influence, finally resorting to open rebellion in 1837; French Canadian leader.
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papineau
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Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Porphyry
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neo-platonists
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Chrysippus, Epictetus, and Zeno of Citium
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stoics
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likened his office to “a pitcher of warm spit”, FDR vp that ran against him in California primary
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garner
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Katabi Ikan; book of bahai
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book of certitude
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Drawn up at a 1947 conference, this treaty, formally known as the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, declared that an armed attack against one signatory was an armed attack against all.
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rio treaty
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daughter Knox married Jefferson Davis
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taylor
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Fay v. Noia and Ex parte Milligan expound upon it
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habeas corpus
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De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), and De Cive
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hobbes
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religious and political party who have become identified with hypocrisy and theological nitpicking
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pharisees
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Woodlark Island, the Louisiade Archipelago, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, and the Trobriand Islands; Buka, Bougainville, and the Bismarck Archipelago
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papua new guinea
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husband of bouddicae
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prasutegas
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the road to serfdom
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hayek
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Man versus the State
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spencer
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Nicholas Breakspear, he was the only British Pope. He served from 1155 to 1159.
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adrian IV
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Roman name is Victoria
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nike
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roman name is Juventas
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hebe
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first postcolonial president Leon Mba was succeeded in 1967 by bongo
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gabon
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In 1913 this theologian and biographer of Bach established a hospital at Lambaréné on the Ogooué River. This became the focus of his life’s work, which led to his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
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schweitzer
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commander of his nations first military college, used the state-run “vertical syndicate” when he ruled, ceded enclave of ifni to morocco, sent the ‘blue division’ to fight
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franco
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treaty of shiminoseki, Japanese were not able to take liadong peninsula because of the ‘triple intervention’, siege of lushunkou was a key objective, and the battle of Jiuliangcheng was a success because china’s beiyang fleet was destroyed
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first sino-jap war
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defeated the schmalkaldic league at the battle of mulberg
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charles V
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native people of chile
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mapuche
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“Chicago boys” and the “caravan of death”
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pinochet
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governor of new york that lost pres because of his association with isolationism and the do nothing congress
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dewey
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led the faction known as amalgamators, co-wrote the ostend manifesto, his war secretary floyd moved arsenals to the south
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buchanan
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ports at Sokhta Koh and Lothal
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indus valley
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found the ‘pumpkin papers’
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nixon
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king alboin converted them to arianism, they defeated longings the exarch to make their iron crown kingdom in northern italy
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lombards
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joseph Bonaparte loses to Wellington
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battle of vittoria
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1957-1963 british prime minister who resigned due to a scandal involving his Secretary of War, John Profumo (who had sex with Christine Keeler)
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macmillan
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james barron was american commander
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chesapeake leopard
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king of spain 1808-1813, forced to retreat to France after losing the Battle of Vitoria
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joseph bonaparte
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set of repressive laws passed by Metternich
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carlsbad decrees
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Edmund Ross cast the deciding vote, resulted from an attempt to install Lorenzo Thomas in place of Edwin Stanton
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johnson's impeachment
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Discoveries near the Dictaean Cave are n it, original discoverer was Minos Kalokairinos
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knossos
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1908 Prince Ferdinand would proclaim its independence, Forced to cede territory in the Treaty of Neuilly, last king was Simeon II
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bulgaria
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Part of Rupert’s Land, its first permanent European settlement was Fort Chipewyan, founded in 1788; cap is Edmonton
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alberta
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southern border wasn’t settled until the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, cap is Fredericton
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new brunswick
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The Question of German Guilt, Reason and Experience
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jaspers
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“The Spread of the Business Cycle” second Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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hammerskjold
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Graciosa, Pico, Faial, Flores, Corvo, Santa Maria, Terceira, São Jorge, and São Miguel; home to the NATO airbase at Lajes Air Field
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azores
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tried to bring Anglicans closer to catholics, Led by Froude, John Henry Newman, and Isaac Williams; Tracts for the times
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oxford movement
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John Langdon was the first; Richard Henry Lee the second. William Frye held this post for the longest consecutive period
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pres pro temp
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Adopted by King Janaka and his wife Sunayana, held on island kingdom of lanka
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sita
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1926 nobel prize, diplomat, 1923 leader of Weimar
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stresemann
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covert representative to the Cuban Provisional Government-in-Exile (led to Bay of Pigs). organized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building
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hunt
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Anglican privileges in Ireland made even less sense, and in 1831 attempts to collect taxes in support of the church erupted into this conflict at Newtonforbes, Carrickshook, and Castlepollard
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tithe war
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1780 episode of urban violent response to the Catholic Relief Act, which repealed the test act for the military, it saw about three hundred people killed in London
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gordon releif act
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dabrowski led the polish contingent, and they lost marshal poniatowski. destroying sole retreat bridge. The assault of mockern
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battle leipzig
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with an Alachua band under chief alaya he attacked the Spanish in the war of jenkin’s ear; battle of gully hole creek and bloody marsh, represented haslemere in parliament
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oglethorpe
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third and final battle against the Persians, darius III loses queen sisygambis
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gaugamela
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operation bluehearts was an early aborted version of it, preceded by a special forces attack codenamed trudy Jackson, wolmido island, red cliff. flying fish channel
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inchon
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battle of uhud where he was the standard bearer. Collection of quotes known as the “peak of Eloquence” moved capital to kafa, fought in siffin, won the battle of the camel, but his sons were beaten at kabala by the rival Umayyad
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ali
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won at tacamboro and puebla against maxmilien, voluntarily went into exile in new Orleans once lombardini lost power
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juarez
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the nien, hui, and panthay rebellions occurred alongside it, battle of Jintian was first major victory, massacred people of Quanzhou, renamed Nanking Tianjing. General Tso, Charles Ward, and Chinese Gordon
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tai ping
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charles XII was shot shortly before tha battle, and his alliance plan with the turks didn’t work out, general leuwnhaupt and Reinskjold had to take over and they was incompetent, and roos’ force got surrounded in a redoubt of the city the Swedes had been besieging
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poltava
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battles of gangut, gad Busch, and storkyro
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great northern war
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first gained fame for an unsuccessful advance on Siechien glacier in bilafond la pass. Made all judges swear not to hurt his junta.
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musharaff
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1999 Indian initiative that repulsed the Pakistanis from Kashmir, it was also a 1961 operation that took Portuguese colonial possessions out of the country
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op vijay
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treaties of stolbovo and deulino ended it, battles of dirbau and Klushino were during it. Minin, Lyapunov, Zolkiewski, patriarch hermOgenes were all big guys in it, though patriarch filaret is the one who finally installed his son micheal on the throne.
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time of troubles
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ottoman’s defeat the christian alliance led by venice and gain control of the eastern Mediterranean. Was fought during Suleiman’s reign.
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preveza
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defeated shah tahmasp of the safavids and took control of Baghdad. Employed the architect sinan, ‘the kanuni’
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suleiman the magni
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- forts Edward augustus, Sandusky, Quiatenon, and st joseph. The devil’s hole massacre was in it, battle of bushy run. Massacre at enoch brown’s schoolhouse. General Amherst put it down with smallpox and the treaty of Ontario ended it
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pontiac's rebellion
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the onestoga massacre in potiac’s rebellion. Western Pennsylvanians that fought back against the indians
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paxton boys
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Suleiman the magnificent won and killed Hungarian king Louis II, afterwards, Suleiman supported john zapolya
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mohacs
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bohemians under christian of anhalt and thurn lose to buquoy of the catholic league. Resulted in the intervention of the danes under kristian IV, also resulted in the end of the bohemion phase of the war as Frederick the winter king of the palatine was killed
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battle white mountain
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Hapsburg that caused and fought the 30 years war
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ferdinand II
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Gaozu and Taizong were two early emperors, they faced difficulty in the an lushan rebellion and they lost the battle of talas river
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tang dynasty
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751 battle between the tang and the Abbasids, the Chinese lost because their mercenary allies defected
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battle talas river
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served ayyubid dynasty but siezed power for themselves in Egypt from 1250-1517
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mamluks
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1882 murder of two british officials in a namesake irish field by the “irish national invincibles”
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pheonix park murders
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English prime minister in late 19th century
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lord salisbury robert cecil
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late heian period, ended with the battle of Dan-no-Ura, where the minamoto killed all the taira
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taira war
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married Giovanni sforza, alfonso of aragon, and alfonso d’este, and had an affair with peretto
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lucrezia
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pope calixtus III, and st. francis borgia, of Spanish origin
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borgia family
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made possible by the overthrow of shishlaki, fear over the rise of khalid bakdash led to it, and it outlawed all partied other than the socialist union party, led by Nasser
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united arab republic
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biggest winner was California governor hiram Johnson, they were founded by Lafollette, TR, and Wallace
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progressive parties
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fought battles of orenburg and kur river and Ankara against bayezid, sacked capitol of the tughlaqs, leader of barlas tribe
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tamerlane
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unified the blue and white hordes to make the golden horde after batu and orda had their own ones
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tokhtamysh
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babur beat ibrahim of the lodhi dynasty
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first panipat
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akbar the great fights adil shah suri and hemu
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2nd panipat
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the ones that ruled the dehli sultanate last, they included ibrahim who eventually lost to babur at panipat
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lodhi sultanate
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occupied in operation anton, conducted vel’d’hiv raids against jews and sent them to the salt works at doubs. Had camp Dracy for jews/gypsies, and the “malice” were its state police, and laval was its prime minister
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vichi
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the hundred days reform displeased, killed Tongzi and guangzu (other emperors) to stay in power
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cixi
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losheim gap and elshemborn ridge were the first two targets, Malmedy massacre of Americans occurred during it, operation stosser, and greif were three major operations of it
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battle bulge
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at bulge his 101st airborne encircled at bastogne refused to surrender
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mccauliffe
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at the bulge he impersonated american soldiers, previously he resuced Mussolini and later he captured an important Hungarian in operations panzerFaust and greif. Was part of the post-war guerilla movement called “werewolf”
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skorzeny
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1825 revolt of idealistic military leaders put down by Nicholas I, troubetskoy was declared dictator. Sparked by the abdication of Constantine I
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decembrist revolt
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meade destroyed gregg’s regiment, but the main body of forces in the town couldn’t get passed the sunken road or marye’s heights.
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fredriksburg
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sacked the city of Zara, and Baldwin I was installed as king of the ‘Latin kingdom’ but died a year later at adrianople
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4th crusade
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revolt against james II from an illegitimate half-brother was fought in Scotland and ended with the battle of sedge Moore
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monmouth rebellion
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a bunch of ronin planned to burn down edo in 1651
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keian rebellion
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recognized by the treaty of callias, sent a force to fight in Egypt that was defeated by megazabo, their episcopes collected the phoros (gold) from its client states. Fought battles of oenophyta and coronea
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delian league
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wife of Akhenaton
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nefertiti
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1801 horatio nelson ignores orders of parker and moves ahead and beats the Norwegians and danes of the second coalition, ending the league of armed neutrality
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battle of copenhagen
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Anthony wayne beats blue jacket and forces the treaty of Greenville on them
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fallen timbers
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Alexander the great fights in India against porus
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hydaspes river
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sardinian/French and the Austrians, the carnage of the battle was so great that it inspired dunant to create the international red cross, resulted in the peace of villafranca and the transfer of lombardy to savoy
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solferino
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term for Britain and Russia’s rivalry for central asia
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the great game
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final capital of the Assyrians, destroyed by nablopolasser, the eighty room “palace without rival” was built here
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ninevah
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one was a 1913-1914 president of mexico that lost to the constitutionalistas while the other was a 1920 interegnum leader of mexico
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huerta
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1920-1924 pres of mexico that joined with carranza to oust huerta, afterwards he beat pancho villa at the battle of celaya
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obregon
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he led mexico as a dictator from 1886-1911
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diaz
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Zaragoza beats Lorencez at this battle taking place near the forts of Loreto and Guadeloupe, is what’s celebrated on cinco de mayo
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battle of puebla
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ruled from 1911-1913 after ousting diaz before he himself was ousted by the leader of the military and was executed
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madero
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1914 to 1920 pres of mexico that led the attacks against huerta, ended up being assassinated by a former military officer
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carranza
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the us and mexico had a 1914 misunderstanding that killed 9 soldiers, it led to a 1914 us capturing of Vera Cruz
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tampico incident
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Oaxaca, Tacambaro, Michoacan were all battles that were fought
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maxemilien affair
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issued the “black decree” saying he had the right to execute any Mexicans caught in battle, finally retreated to queretero where he was beat
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maxemillien
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opened with an assault on the bar-lev line
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yom kippur
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only cabinet secretary to ever be impeached. Secretary of war for grant, he took money for appointments
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belknap
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started by the deaths of wamsutta and john sossomon, Swansea and mt hope were destroyed. Massacre at turner’s falls. The biggest battle was ‘great swamp’. Canonchet’s death ended the great coalition
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king phillips war
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Jan zizka helped them win victories at pankrac and nemecky brod by using primitive tanks, these victories led them to force the basel compacts on the HRE
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hussites
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capitol was Baghdad, succeeded the Umayyad, had the leader al Rashid
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abbassids
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came up from very humble origins, great briber, banned peasants from carrying weapons, defeated hojo clan, won battles of Yamasaki, shizugatake, komani-nagakute. Attacked korea but was disappointed by defeats against turtle ships like at nor yang
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hideyoshi
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fought battles of curupedium and Ipsus, they were the enemies of the maccabean revolt
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seleucid
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mount kent and mount tumbledown were two land targets. The hms conqueror beat the ‘general belgrano’
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falklands
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last stand at nefrusy and sharuhen, salitis was last ruler and khamudi was first. Kamose and Ahmose expelled them from Egypt
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hyksos
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Stefan the great was its greatest ruler
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moldavia
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first chief of US forest service, also a governor of Pennsylvania
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pinchot
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sent troops to Nicaragua to support president zelaya, had dollar diplomacy, gave winona speech which defended his signing of the payne-Aldrich tariff. Fired Gifford Pinchot.
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taft
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beastly mongol general used by Genghis, batu, and ogadai. He killed a polish and a Hungarian king
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subotai
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Leopold of anhalt-Dessau died after the Russians smashing victory at kesselsdorf, other battles included mollowitz, cape finisterre, and most importantly fontenoy. Also, Frederick II perfected oblique attack
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austrian succession
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battle of leuthen
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seven years war
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destroyed city of mabila, was first to make contact with Atahualpa, fought with tula Indians at caddo gap
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de soto
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usurped the han dynasty because of the young emperor ping, though he was himself taken out by the uprising of the red eyebrows, did china’s first income tax
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wang mang
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brought silver back into production and established the gold standard 1878
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bland allison
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had “blocks of five” of bribed voters for him, he was the first to spend 1 billion dollars
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benjamin harrison
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shokaku and Lexington ships were destroyed, but port Moresby was saved. The first battle where the opposing fleets never saw each other
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coral sea
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1772 thing where a british ship was destroyed by colonists
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gaspee incident
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minority szeckler group who believe they are descended from huns, the vasa dynasty also ruled here
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transylvania
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the ming ban on ocean trade and activities
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hai jin
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siege of kerak, one of his only defeats was montgisard
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saladin
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operation hammer was launched in response, some of its leaders included “general china”, kimathi and mathenge. Evelyn Baring and general erskine fought against it. The KAC, KAU, council of freedom, and kamba central committee were all things associated with the rebels
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mau mau
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james Madison got shot in the arm during it, the assunpink bridge was blocked by Sullivan and Johann Rall the hessian commander was killed. day before Christmas
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trenton
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1839-1842, charles eliot is a brit, in the treaty of nanjing the Chinese cede hong kong
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first opium war
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lord elgin was a notable commander, the summer palace was burnt, the Russians signed a separate peace for Vladivostok at treaty of Aigun, the Taku forts were taken. The peace of Tianjin was also signed at the end with Britain and france.
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2nd opium war
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norman duke of calabria and Apulia that succeeded brother humphrey and took sicily, Corfu, durazzo, and other stuff from the Saracens, Byzantines, and Italians
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guiscard
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thebes caused it by attacking the Spartans at the battle of haliartus, in the battle the Spartan king lysander was killed
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corinthian war
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Spartan killed at battle of haliartus, won against Athenians at aegospotami, which ended the peloponesian war. Fought the battle of notium
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lysander
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sea port was gytheio, the gerousia was its upper legislative chamber and a popular assembly called the apella. Males were divided into groups of 15 called sissytia
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sparta
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Spartan who fought in the first decade of the pelloponesian war
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brasidas
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selected over patel as head of government, invaded goa and all the other Portuguese colonies in 1961, founded the non-aligned movement with tito
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nehru
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1444 battle that devastatingly ended namesake crusade’, wladyslaw III of Poland and Jan Hunyadi lost to Murad II, who came out of retirement to fight in it
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battle of varna
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agreed to go into exile at the treaty of Biak-no-Bato, member of the Katipunan brotherhood (later the socialist party). Chosen leader at the tejeros convention, had rivals Bonifacio and Luna (he killed both). Lost the battle of Tirad pass, was captured by Frederick Funston after losing his best general, Gregorio del pilar
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emilio aguinaldo
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charterite forces attack Woonsocket and Chepachet, led to supreme court case Luther v Borden
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dorr rebellion
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sponsored the targowica confederation of polish and Lithuanians, which led to Russia’s attack of poniatowski and his just election; succeeded by paul I and employed Potemkin
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catharine great
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catherine the great and 15,000 Russians put the smack down on 200,000 turks in the 1768 russo-Turkish war
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battle of cahul/kagul
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king Williams war, the battle of fleurus was also in this war, as was the battle of beachy head, la hougue, and neerwinden. Treaty of Ryswick ended it.
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war of the league of augsburg
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king james II tries to reclaim his throne from William III in Ireland, but fails. Was followed up by the battle of Aughrim, the bloodiest in irish history
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boyne
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the only battle of the glorious revolution, occurred in southern england
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reading
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james IV of Scotland randomly invades England 1513. Henry VII dispatches the earl of surrey who wins
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flodden field
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tried canal from nile to red sea, his admiral datis was defeated at marathon by Miltiades, preceded by Cambyses.
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darius I
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overthrow of Aguirre by foreign supporters of Flores in Bolivia was the official cause for war.
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war of the triple alliance
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from owari province. Yoshihito was his rival, wiped out takeda, did harquebus tactics. Won battles of ino and nagashino but his best was okehazama. First unifier of japan. Forced to seppuku by mitsuhide’s treachery.
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oda nobunaga
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after oda, succeeded by takeaway
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hideyoshi
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the little son of Henry VIII and the last tudor
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edward VI
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decisive victory for Charles V where francis was captured 1525
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pavia
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wrote a "Tome" against Eutychianism and talked both the Huns and Vandals out of sacking Rome.
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leo I
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He overthrew Horacio Vásquez in 1930, killed mirabal sisters
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trujillo
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who set up the League of Corinth, assassinated by Pausanias
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phillip II
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Alcudia and Pollensa bays, it lies to the northeast of Ibiza and Formentera
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mallorca
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includes Lanzarote, La Gomera, and Tenerife
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canary islands
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commencement speech at Princeton entitled “building castles in the air”, was turned in by Spanish spy Wilkinson, presided over impeachment trial of samuel chase while wanted for murder.
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aaron burr
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started it after ending the year of the five emperors, it included Caracalla, Elagabalus, Alexander
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severan dynasty
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moved capital to Luoyang, established by king wu, used chariots
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zhou
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son of Babur, father of Akbar, leader of moghuls. Conquered lands of his brother shah mirza, defeated successors of Sher Shah suri
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humayun
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need to account for "friction" in planning; student of Gerhard von Scharnhorst
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clausewitz
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attorney general to filmore and WHH, he also was governor of Kentucky
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crittenden
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brother of tostig, and he fought him at battle of fulford before Stamford bridge
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harold II
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with warren hastings he made the EIC empire, led siege of alcot, won Plessey
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clive
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won battle of homs and ayn-jalut, qutuz and sultan baybars were two bigun
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mamluks
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lord raglan fights liprani, had a ‘thin red line’ along the can Roberts hill
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balaklava
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the first was in 1529, featured Suleiman against roggendorf and salm, the other was a 1683 battle where Sobieski beat pasha
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siege of vienna
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last leader of an inca state at vilcabamba after the Spaniards conquered the rest of the empire, the other was an 18th century leader of a rebellion against Spanish rule, and he won at sangarara
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tupac amaru
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right to an attorney during interrogation
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escobedo v illinois
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dogger bank incident occurred during it, many ships including the ‘Alexander III’, the oslyabya, and the Knyaz Suvorov were sunk.
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tsushima strait
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hill was almost destroyed by meade before longstreet arrived with help
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battle of the wilderness
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falling from the sky. advance forces under Benteen and Reno surrounded. Spurred by a violation of the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie
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little bighorn
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Cteatus killed Dameon in war caused by it. Phyleus was exiled after this event for testifying against his father, king of Elis, who promised a tenth of his property to the man who performed it. help of the Peneus and Alpheus
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clean augean stables
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sent Robert de Vere to Radcot Bridge for a losing battle against the Lords Appellant, who then formed the Merciless Parliament to oppose this man's ministers. This only son of Edward the Black Prince created the first poll tax, then had to go to Smithfield and meet Wat Tyler to put down the subsequent Peasants' Revolt; overthrown in 1399 by Henry IV
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richard II
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Political Liberalism; "veil of igorance" in A Theory of Justice.
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rawls
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elucidated the notion of a "court plot" in his The Chains of Slavery; defended the monarchy in the Offering to Our Country
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marat
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Indian welfare economist author of Development as Freedom and On Economic Inequality, Collective Choice and Social Welfare
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sen
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La donna velata, La fornarina
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raphael
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897 event, Pope Stephen VI dug up the bones of the deceased Pope Formosus and put them on trial for such shocking acts as appointing Stephen the bishop of Anagni.
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corpse synod
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Corpse Synod was the harbinger of this period in which Theodora and Marozia of the Theophylact family used a succession of affairs to engineer control of the Papacy
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pornocracy
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white rose, includes Edward IV and Richard III
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york
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