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Military history of Europe. The military history of Europe refers to the history of warfare on the European continent. From the beginning of the modern era to the second half of the 20th century, European militaries possessed a significant technological advantage, allowing its states to pursue policies of expansionism and colonization until the ...
Bibliography of World War I. "European Revue. Kill That Eagle" by John Henry Amschewitz, 1914; Germany is the black eagle in the center, surrounded by enemies and bystanders, with only Austria (the clown in white) helping. This list contains a selection of books on World War I, using APA style citations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four(also published as 1984) is a dystopian noveland cautionary taleby English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburgas Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentationof ...
The reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (1776). The Latin phrase novus ordo seclorum, appearing on the reverse side of the Great Seal since 1782 and on the back of the U.S. one-dollar bill since 1935, translates to "New Order of the Ages", [1] and alludes to the beginning of an era where the United States of America is an independent nation-state; conspiracy theorists claim ...
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th ...
412-413 War of Heraclianus. 409–418 Gothic War (409–418) 409–417: Bagaudae Revolt, uprising in the Loire valley and Brittany. 416–418 Gothic War in Spain (416-418) 420 Battle of the Nervasos Mountains. 422 Battle of Tarraco. 424–425 Roman civil war ( Joannes vs Galla Placidia) 425–426: Gothic revolt of Theodoric I.
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
A system of land ownership and duties common to medieval Europe. Under feudalism, all the land in a kingdom belonged to the king. However, the king would give some of the land to the lords or nobles who fought for him. These presents of land were called manors. Then the nobles gave some of their land to vassals.