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Women actively participated in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the two revolutions of 1917, which deposed the tsar and established a Bolshevik government...

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The Château d'Amboise, located in the Loire Valley, in central France, was built over several centuries and was the centre of royal power during the Renaissance...

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Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War (1861-1865), who commanded the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia...

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The Russian Provisional Government of 1917, really a series of unelected coalitions, briefly held power from March to November, that is between the abdication...

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Caesar, the Flawed Genius - World History Encyclopedia

Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) often appears as a flawed genius. A genius, he dominated his generation. Flawed, he was murdered for the way in which he did so. Caesar...

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The Mensheviks ('Minoritarians') and Bolsheviks ('Majoritarians') were two rival factions within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), also known...

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Stonewall Jackson: General Lee's Lieutenant - World History Encyclopedia

Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863), better known as Stonewall Jackson, was one of the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran...

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The Role of Workers' Soviets in the Russian Revolutions - World History Encyclopedia

Soviets, often called Soviets of Workers' Deputies, were worker councils first formed during the Russian Revolution of 1905 when a general strike was called against...

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The Hindenburg Disaster: End of the Transatlantic Airships - World History Encyclopedia

The Hindenburg disaster occurred on 6 May 1937 when the German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg attempted to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, but burst into flames...

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Robert E. Lee: General-in-Chief of the Southern Confederacy - World History Encyclopedia

Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) was the most prominent Confederate general of the American Civil War (1861-1865), who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia for much...

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Benito Mussolini: Founder of Fascism - World History Encyclopedia

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) was the founder of fascism and dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. He led the country into a highly authoritarian regime and then...

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Martin Van Buren: Father of American Partisanship - World History Encyclopedia

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States. An ambitious and cunning man whose...

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The Fortress Kingdom: The Wars of Aethelflaed and Edward the Elder, 899–927 - World History Encyclopedia

When Alfred the Great – often presented as England’s founding father – died in 899, much of England was still under Viking rule. His kingdom was restricted to...

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Why Poland-Lithuania Disappeared - World History Encyclopedia

The Polish-Lithuanian Republic (1569-1795) was one of the largest and most populous states in Early Modern Europe, yet in 1795, its last remnants were partitioned...

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The Transatlantic Zeppelins: A Golden Age of Air Travel - World History Encyclopedia

Transatlantic Zeppelins carried passengers in relative luxury between Germany and New York or Rio de Janeiro during the 1920s and 1930s. The airships Graf Zeppelin...

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John C. Calhoun: Champion of the Antebellum South - World History Encyclopedia

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was an American lawyer and statesman, one of the key political figures of the Antebellum Era. Initially a nationalist, Calhoun spent...

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Aethelred the Unready: The Failed King - World History Encyclopedia

In the year 1014, Archbishop Wulfstan of York stood before his parishioners and delivered a damming lecture: “Nothing has prospered now for a long time either...

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Joan I of Navarre: Queen Consort of France - World History Encyclopedia

Joan I of Navarre (1273-1305) served as queen of Navarre and countess of Champagne and Brie between 1274 and 1305. In 1285, she also became queen consort of France...

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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States - World History Encyclopedia

Democracy and security have never gotten along in American society; even as nearly everyone agrees that some information should be kept from the public, just...

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Herod the Great's Building Program - World History Encyclopedia

Herod the Great was the king of Judea from 37-4 BCE. As a client king of Rome, Herod's moniker as "Great" was due more to his grand building program throughout...

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Emma of Normandy - World History Encyclopedia

Emma of Normandy (died 1052), the wife of King Aethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016 and then the wife of King Cnut from 1017 to 1035, was a dominant player...

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The Zeppelin Bombing Raids of WWI - World History Encyclopedia

Zeppelin airships were used by Germany to attack its enemies on all fronts during the First World War (1914-18). Bombing raids, usually conducted at night, targeted...

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William Shakespeare - World History Encyclopedia

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor who flourished during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. Known as the 'Bard...

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James K. Polk - World History Encyclopedia

James K. Polk (1795-1849) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the eleventh president of the United States. A protégé of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845...

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Mexican-American War - World History Encyclopedia

The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, sparked by the US annexation of Texas in 1845. Hoping to seize even...

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John Tyler: The Pariah President of the US - World History Encyclopedia

John Tyler (1790-1862) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the tenth president of the United States. His presidency was a tumultuous one – initially...

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John Brown: The Flame that Ignited Civil War - World History Encyclopedia

John Brown (1800-1859) was a militant abolitionist best known for the part he played in the violence of Bleeding Kansas (1854-1859) and his raid on Harpers Ferry...

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William Henry Harrison: The One-Month US President - World History Encyclopedia

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was an American statesman and military general who served as the ninth president of the United States. A member of the distinguished...

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Aethelstan - World History Encyclopedia

Aethelstan was the first King of England, ruling from 927 to 939. The son of Edward the Elder (reign 899-924) and grandson of Alfred the Great (reign 871-899...

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Tsar Nicholas II: Last of the Romanovs - World History Encyclopedia

Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917) was the last of the Romanov emperors, murdered along with his family during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917...

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Italo-Ethiopian Wars - World History Encyclopedia

Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years, from 1935 to 1941, following a mass-scale invasion launched by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945). However...

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Cleopatra of Macedon - World History Encyclopedia

Cleopatra of Macedon (355/4-308 BCE), daughter of Philip II of Macedon (reign 359-336 BCE) and his Molossian queen, Olympias of Epirus (c. 375-316 BCE), was the...

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - World History Encyclopedia

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed on 3 March 1918, outlined the harsh conditions under which the crumbling Russian Empire withdrew from the First World War...

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Battle of New Orleans: The American Agincourt - World History Encyclopedia

The Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815) was the final major battle of the War of 1812, in which a ragtag American army under Major General Andrew Jackson (1767-1845...

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Bleeding Kansas: Dress Rehearsal for the American Civil War - World History Encyclopedia

'Bleeding Kansas' was a term coined by the New York Tribune in 1856, referring to the escalating hostilities in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery activists...

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Interview: Her Lotus Year. Wallis Simpson in China - World History Encyclopedia

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Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser - World History Encyclopedia

Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American lawyer and statesman, one of the defining political figures of his age. Over the course of his several decades on the stage...

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The brutal murder of the entire Romanov family was the culmination of deep discontent across the Russian Empire with the persistently autocratic rule of Tsar...

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