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    Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies...
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  • Carcathiocerta (Armenian: Կարկաթիոկերտ, Karkatiokert or Արկաթիակերտ, Arkatiakert; Ancient Greek: Καρκαθιόκερτα, Karkathiokerta) was a city in Armenian...
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  • In Greek mythology, Asia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσία) was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. In some accounts...
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  • The Thracian Goths, also known as Moesogoths or Moesian Goths, refers to the branches of Goths who settled in Thrace and Moesia, Roman provinces in the...
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  • The Persian Gulf Command was a United States Army service command established in December 1943 to facilitate the supply of US lend-lease war material to...
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  • The Aeneid has been analyzed by scholars of several different generations and schools of thought to try to determine the political commentary that Virgil...
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  • This list covers English language national capital city names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies...
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    In the French Wars of Religion, the Day of the Barricades (in French: Journée des barricades), 12 May 1588, was an outwardly spontaneous public uprising...
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  • HMS Triad was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in May 1939. Triad had a relatively short...
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  • Russian Guatemalans are Guatemalan citizens who have full or partial Russian ancestry. The first Russian immigrants arrived in Guatemala in the late 1890s...
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    The Royal Military Order of Saint George for the Defense of the Faith and the Immaculate Conception (German: Königlicher Militärorden des Heiligen Georg...
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  • Totila was a German cargo ship which was sunk during World War II on 10 May 1944 near Khersones during the Axis evacuation of the Crimea, killing up to...
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  • The 1935 Cambridge University by-election was held on 23 February 1935. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP...
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  • Alioune Sarr (September 1, 1908 – July 12, 2001 [citation needed]) was a Senegalese historian, author and politician whose family gained prominence in...
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  • Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo (born 2 March 1940), also known as Sizakele MaKhumalo Zuma, was the First Lady of South Africa, and is the first wife in a polygamous...
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  • Joan Mahoney (born 1943) is a legal scholar and former dean of two law schools.[citation needed] She served as Dean at Wayne State University Law School...
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    Schweipolt Fiol (also Sebald Vehl or Veyl; c. 1460 – 1525 or 1526) was a German-born 15th century pioneer of Cyrillic printing. Fiol spent a considerable...
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  • María del Carmen González-Valerio y Sáenz de Heredia (March 14, 1930 – July 17, 1939) was a Spanish girl. Due to her heroic virtue, when she sacrificed...
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    The Mark an der Sann (German for "March on the Savinja"; other designations and variations of the name include Sannmark, Sann-Grafschaft (or Markgrafschaft)...
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  • The Tannenbergbund (German: [ˈtanm̩bɛɐ̯kˌbʊnt], Tannenberg Union, TB) was a nationalist German political society formed in September 1925 at the instigation...
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