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  • 1Psmith in the City — infobox Book | name = Psmith in the City orig title = translator = image caption = author = P. G. Wodehouse cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English genre = Comic novel publisher = A C Black, London release date = September 23… …

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  • 2Sack of Brescia — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= Sack of Brescia partof= the War of the League of Cambrai caption= date= February 18, 1512 place= Brescia, present day Italy result= French victory combatant1= France combatant2= Republic of Venice commander1=… …

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  • 3Sack of Rome — The city of Rome has been sacked on several occasions. Among the most famous:*Sack of Rome (387 BC) Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia *Sack of Rome (410) Rome is sacked by Alaric, King of the Visigoths *Sack of Rome (455)… …

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  • 4Sack of Rome (410) — The Sack of Rome occurred on August 24, 410. The city was attacked by the Visigoths, led by Alaric I. The Roman capital had been moved to the Italian city of Ravenna by the young emperor Honorius, after the Visigoths entered Italy.This was the… …

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  • 5Sack of Rome (455) — The second of three barbarian sacks of Rome, the sack of 455 was at the hands of the Vandals, then at war with the usurping Western Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus. In 455, the Vandal king Geiseric sailed his powerful fleet from the capital in… …

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  • 6Sack of Palermo — The Sack of Palermo or scempio in Italian is the popular term for the construction boom from the 1950s through the mid 1980s that led to the destruction of the city s green belt and villas that gave it architectural grace, to make way for… …

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  • 7Sack of Magdeburg — The Sack of Magdeburg ( de. Magdeburgs Opfergang or de. Magdeburger Hochzeit) refers to the siege and subsequent plundering of Magdeburg by Roman Catholic troops during the Thirty Years War. The siege lasted from November 1630 until 20 May… …

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  • 8City of Wollongong — New South Wales Location in NSW Population: 203,487(2010 …

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  • 9Sack of Rome (1084) — The Sack of Rome of May 1084 was a Norman sack, the result of the pope s call for aid from the duke of Apulia, Robert Guiscard. Pope Gregory VII was besieged in the Castel Sant Angelo by the Emperor Henry IV in June 1083. He held out and called… …

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  • 10The Vatican —     The Vatican     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Vatican     This subject will be treated under the following heads:     I. Introduction; II. Architectural History of the Vatican Palace; III. Description of the Palace; IV. Description of the… …

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