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[edit] Incorrect claim
"Many of Europe's imperial monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries were related by blood or marriage. Prior to World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire, Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire and George V of the United Kingdom, were all blood relatives, related through Queen Victoria"
The last part of this is wrong. Tsar Nicholas II had no proximate connection to Queen Victoria at all. He was a cousin to George V due to their mutual Danish grandparents, not Queen Victoria.Eregli bob (talk) 05:07, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- You are absolutely right. Nicholas and George were first cousins through Christian IX of Denmark; Nicholas and Wilhelm were second cousins once removed through Frederick William III of Prussia and third cousins through Paul I of Russia. Since this is way too complicated to fit into an image caption, I'll just remove the last part of the sentence. Favonian (talk) 09:53, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] BC and AD
I think that the notations BC and AD ought to be used. BCE and CE are less accurate, unless they refer to "Before the Christian Era and the Christian Era. If they refer to Common Era and Before the Common Era, they are less accurate, because they don't refer to the actual concept behind the numbering (the birth of Christ). I am going to change the notations back, the CE and BCE notations seem to be simple evidence of a left wing bias that practices atheism and attempts to abolish references to Christianity. The rest of the article seems to have a bit of a left wing bias as well. CaptainNicodemus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.32.206 (talk) 16:19, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
- This should be discussed before making that kind of major changes. BCE and CE reflect a non-Christan/neutral POV. I don't see how they can be "less accurate". They refer the common Western notion of the year. Can you give us an example of "...a bit of a left wing bias..." in the article? Dinkytown talk 16:30, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Mongols!
WTF No mongol :\ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.53.7.110 (talk) 22:03, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Soviet Union
If there is going to be discussion about the USA and the EU in the post-1945 section, then surely there must be a discussion of the multinational but Russian dominated USSR.38.112.81.103 (talk) 14:42, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] image
Why does the intro show images of European rulers and there blood relation (this part is totally irrelevant)?--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 04:02, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
