Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in serious difficulties since the Mexican liberals, led by President Benito Juárez, refused to recognize his rule and there was continuous warfare between his French troops and the Mexican republicans. The Emperor and Empress set up their palace at Chapultepec, a hill on the outskirts of Mexico City that had been a retreat for Aztec emperors and more recently a military academy. Maximilian ordered a wide avenue cut through the city from Chapultepec to the city center; originally named Avenue of the Emperor, ...

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List of atheists - Living. Phillip Adams (1939-) - Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, left-wing radical thinker, iconoclast, Australian Humanist of the Year 1987. Woody Allen (1935-) - American filmmaker, actor and writer. Ingmar Bergman (1918-) - Swedish film director and playwright. George Carlin (1937-) - American comedian, actor and author, wrote a number of monologues about the non-existence of God. André Comte-Sponville (1952-) - French materialist philoso ...

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Henry granted the Edict of Nantes April 13, 1598, establishing Catholicism as an official state religion, but otherwise assuring the Huguenots equal rights with the Catholics. This compromise ended the religious wars in France. That same year the Treaty of Vervins ended the war with Spain, adjusted the Spanish-French border, and resulted in a belated recognition by Spain of Henry as king of France. Ably assisted by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille; promoted agriculture, public ...

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In 1844, Brown partnered with Simon Perkins of Akron, managing the magnate's farm and flocks. In 1846, responding to the concerns of wool producers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and western Virginia, Brown and Perkins established a wool commmission operation in Springfield, Springfield, Massachusetts, representing the wool growers' interests against the powerful New England wool manufacturers. Brown moved to Springfield, assuming management of the firm. His family remained in Ohio initially but eventually joined him there. Due mainly to the strateg ...

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Subhash Chandra Bose was born to an affluent Bengali family in Cuttack, Orissa. His father, Janakinath Bose, was a public prosecutor who believed in orthodox nationalism and later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. With eight brothers and six sisters, Bose's family was large, but disciplined. He loved to read and was fascinated with religion, discipline, and self-control. As a youth, he did volunteer work for the community and after reading Vivekananda's writings, "s ...

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Bose advocated the approach that the political instability of war-time Britain should be taken advantage of—rather than simply wait for the British to grant independence after the end of the war (which was the view of Gandhi, Nehru and a section of the Congress leadership) at the time. In this he was influenced by the examples of Italian statesmen Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini. During his stay in Europe from 1933 to 1936, he met several European leaders and thinkers, including Benito Mussolini, Edvard Beneš, Karl Seitz, Eamon De ...

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Piacenza - Ancient history. Before its settlement by the Romans, the area was populated by Celtic and Ligurian tribes. Piacenza was founded in 218 BC (according to the tradition, on May 31), the first of the Roman military colonies, and was formerly called Placentia in both Latin and English. In Placentia and the nearby colony, Cremona, 6,000 Latin colonists were sent, in particular members of the Equestrian class of Rome. In the same year as the city's founding, Hannibal won the Battle of Trebbia i ...

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In 1801, the Irish parliament voted to merge Ireland with England, thus creating the United Kingdom. Ireland remained under total British control until 1922, when the majority of the Irish counties, and the majority of the Irish population, broke away from England, forming the Irish Free State. The northern counties remained loyal to British control, and to this day remain separate from the rest of Ireland as Northern Ireland. On May 17th, 1814 Norway left Swedish control and declared independence. It was forced, however, to continue ...

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There were settlements in the Nice area approximately 400,000 years ago: the site of Terra Amata shows one of the earliest uses of fire and construction of houses. Nice (Nicaea) was founded in the 5th century BC by the Greeks of Marseille and received the name of Νικαία ("Nikaia") in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the goddess of victory). It soon became one of the busiest trading stations on the Ligurian coast; but as a city it had an important rival in the Roman town of Cemenelum, which continued to exist as a separate city till the time of the Lombard invasions, and has left its ruins at Cimiez, ...

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Taranto - Foundation and splendour. Taranto was founded in 708 BC by Spartan immigrants. It is the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders are parthenii, sons of unmarried Spartan women and perioikoi (free men, but not citizens of Sparta); these unions were decided by the Spartans to increase the number of soldiers (only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were nullified, and the sons were forced to leave. Phalanthus, t ...

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The official language of Italy is Standard Italian - a direct descendant of Latin (some 75% of Italian words are of Latin origin). Prior to unification in 1861, Italian spoken throughout the country was incredibly varied - with dialects being virtually mutually incomprehensible in most of the country. Indeed, each historical region of Italy had its own dialect, with variants existing at the township-level. Massimo d'Azeglio, one of Cavour's ministers, is said to have stated, following Italian unification, that having created Italy, al ...

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Today Mazara is widely considered to be one of the most important fishing centres of Italy; its recent history is full of chronicles about fishing boat issues, especially with the North-African countries, relatively to crossings of sea boundaries which often led to boat sequestrations. But nowadays the fishing business in the city seems to slowly fall down, mainly because of the increasing lack of people willing to work on boats. The city was known as Mazzara del Vallo until the World War II period; successively, it changed its ...

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According to De Castries, excessively large cities pose a clear danger to the people living in and near them by allowing mass quantities of certain substances (city-stuff) to accumulate, which in turn draw the attention of paramental forces. Through the manipulation of the paramental forces, a megapolisomancer could predict and alter the future. "The electro-mephitic city-stuff whereof I speak has potencies for achieving vast effects at distant times and localities, even in the far future and on other orbs, but of the manipulations required for the production and ...

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The ensign of the Marina Militare is the Italian tricolour with Marina Militare emblem on the white third. The emblem is composed by a shield, whose four parts are reference to Mediaeval Italian Thalassocracies (Italian: Repubbliche Marinare): 1st quarter: on red, a golden winged lion wielding a sword (Republic of Venice); 2nd quarter: on white field, red cross (Republic of Genoa); 3rd quarter: on blue field, white cross (Republic of Amalfi); 4th quarter: on red field, white cross (Republic of Pisa). The shield has a golden crown, that d ...

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see also: List of Italian painters Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), architect Fra Angelico (1387-1445), (Giovanni da Fiesole) Baccio D'Agnolo (c. 1460-1543), sculptor, wood-carver, and architect Sisto Badalocchio (1581- c. 1647), painter and engraver Alessio Baldovinetti (1427-1499) Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), painter Donato Bramante (1444-1514), architect Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), painter,sculptor, architect, and poet Leonetto Cappiel ...

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List of asteroids named after people - Mathematicians. 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky) 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya) 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi (Zu Chongzhi) 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams) 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier) 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev) 4354 Euclides (Euclid) 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace) 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa) 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras) 12493 Minkowski (He ...

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See List of eponyms (L-Z) An asterisk designates people who became eponyms despite their stated wishes not to. ...

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Pescara's origins precede the Roman conquest. The ancient city's name was Aternum, as well as the river: it was connected to Rome through the Via Claudia Valeria and the Via Tiburtina. The main edifice was the temple of Jovis Aternium. The city was an important port for the trades towards the Eastern provinces of the Empire. In the Middle Ages it was destroyed by the Lombards (597). On that occasion the city's bishop, Cetteus (Pescara's current patron saint), was charged with friendship with the Greek Christians (the Lombards being Arians) and thrown down by the marble brid ...

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Regia Marina - Before World War I. July 20, 1866: Sea battle against the Austrian fleet in the Battle of Lissa, near the island of Vis in the Adriatic sea - the last major sea battle that involved ramming. Regia Marina - World War I. Italy built and maintained six Dreadnought battleships (Dante Alighieri as a prototype, Giulio Cesare, Conte di Cavour and Leonardo da Vinci of Cavour class, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio of Doria Class), but they did not participate in major naval ...

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Teddington - Nearest places. Twickenham Ham Petersham Hampton Norbiton Surbiton Feltham Strawberry Hill Teddington - Nearest railway stations. Teddington railway station Hampton Wick railway station Fulwell railway station St. Margarets railway station Teddington - Churches in Teddington. See also:

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Apparently the uprising began due to the secondary role that the Rio Grande do Sul state was playing in Brazilian regencial politics, because, unlike the other provinces, the state economy was focused in supplying the internal market rather than exporting of commodities. The state's main product, the charque (bovine dried and salted meat), was suffering the hard competition of the charque from Uruguay and Argentina, which had free access to Brazilian market while the ga ...

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War of Tatters, War of Tatters - The War, War of Tatters - Peace

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Taganrog does not resemble other seaside towns by the very fact that its location is not in a quiet harbor, but on a hill. The town is open to every wind - both from steppe or sea. In the wide, beam-like streets running down from the former fortress straight to the steppe distances, and in green shadowy boulevard alleys accompanying them, in the architectural image of the houses which unite the classical strictness with the baroque magnificence, in all this something new, wayward, southern and peculiar can be witnessed. In spite of the fact ...

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