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4 days ago · As a travel destination, Melk is best-known with Stift Melk - an 11th-century Benedictine monastery/abbey housed in a castle given by Leopold II/Leopold the Fair (1050-1095), Margrave of Austria (1075-1095) from the House of Babenberg.
3 days ago · The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [a] Of this new state of Great Britain ...
1 day ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a ...
17 hours ago · Lloyd Austin answers questions on Swedish and Finnish accession to NATO. Recorded February 15, 2023. Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army four-star general who has served as the 28th and current United States secretary of defense since January 22, 2021. Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin ...
1 day ago · Grand Master Armengarde of Aspe to Leopold V, Duke of Austria, in November 1188, on the ravages of Saladinto the kingdom. Various letters from Grand Masters Geoffroy de Donjon (1201), Nicolas Lorgne (1282), and Jean de Villiers (1289 and 1291) to brothers of the Hospital on the status of the kingdom.
2 days ago · Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), as King John in 'King John' by William Shakespeare, Charles A. Buchel (1900). The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Henry III of England.
2 days ago · Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO ...
