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  • 41Landed gentry — Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748 49) is a painting by British artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting members of the landed gentry. National Gallery, London. Landed gentry is a traditional British social class, consisting of land owners who could live… …

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  • 42VOLHYNIA — (Rus. Volyn; Pol. Wolyá), historic region in N.W. Ukraine. Under czarist rule most of it was incorporated into the province of Volhynia. Today, the greatest part of it is divided up into the oblasts of zhitomir , rovno , and Volyn in the… …

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  • 43Upper nobility (Kingdom of Hungary) — NOTOC The upper nobility ( hu. főnemesség, la. barones) was the highest stratum of the temporal society in the Kingdom of Hungary until the 20th century. In the course of the 11 15th centuries, only people who held specific high offices in the… …

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  • 44Prussian Settlement Commission — The Prussian Settlement Commission ( de. Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen, which translates Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the provinces of West Prussia and Posen) was a Prussian… …

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  • 45Hudson River Historic District — Infobox nrhp | name = Hudson River Historic District nrhp type = nhld caption = A 2007 view of the Catskills across the Hudson, one of the district s defining features location= Staatsburg, Rhinecliff, Tivoli, Annandale, Barrytown area = 34.6… …

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  • 461733 slave insurrection on St. John — The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in the Danish West Indies, (now the St. John, United States Virgin Islands) started on November 23, 1733 when African slaves from Akwamu revolted against the owners and managers of the island s plantations …

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  • 47Coffee production in Colombia — A Colombian coffee plantation in Quimbaya, Quindío, Colombia …

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  • 48Landless Workers' Movement — MST supporters in Brazil. Landless Workers Movement (Portuguese: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra, or simply MST) is a social movement in Brazil; it is the second (or, according to others, the first[1]) larg …

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  • 49Germany — • History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Germany     Germany     † …

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  • 50Peregrinus (Roman) — Peregrinus was the term used during the early Roman empire, from 30 BC to 212 AD, to denote a free provincial subject of the empire who was not a Roman citizen. Peregrini constituted the vast majority of the empire s inhabitants in the 1st and… …

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