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81Portuguese Empire — Portuguese Empire …
82Military history of France — Napoleon and the Grande Armée receive the surrender of Austrian General Mack after the Battle of Ulm in October 1805. The decisive finale of the Ulm Campaign raised the tally of captured Austrian soldiers to 60,000 …
83Friedrich Hayek — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = 20th century philosophy color = #B0C4DE name = Friedrich August von Hayek birth = birth date|1899|5|8 Vienna, Austria Hungary death = death date and age|1992|3|23|1899|5|8 Freiburg, Germany… …
84History of Germany — Despite the lack of a German nation state prior to 1871, the History of Germany dates back to the era of the Germanic tribes. Following the migration period, the Franks subsequently subdued the West Germanic tribes, who made up for most of East… …
85Self-determination — This article is about self determination in international law. For other uses, see Self determination (disambiguation). Self determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and… …
86Jiawu China-Japan War — The Jiǎwǔ China Japan War (Simplified Chinese: 中日甲午战争; Traditional Chinese: 中日甲午戰爭; pinyin: Zhōngrì Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng; Japanese: 日清戦争 Romaji: Nisshin Sensō) (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was a war fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan …
87Somalia — Somalian, adj., n. /soh mah lee euh, mahl yeuh/, n. an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 9,940,232; 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Cap.: Mogadishu.… …
88Berlin, Conference of — (1884–1885) A congress hosted in the German capital from November 1884 to February 1885 by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to attenuate growing imperial rivalries caused by what historians now term the “new imperialism.” This process, which began …
89British Empire — The British Empire was the archetypical colonial empire, the empire to which other aspiring empires often looked as a model. The British Empire was for both imperialists and anti imperialists the epitome of a modern empire. It was at its… …
90Far East — Usually referred to today as East and Southeast Asia, the Far East encompasses the region of Asia that reaches geographically from the Malay Peninsula in the southwest to Korea and Japan in the northeast. Politically, a large part of the… …
