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  1. 3 days ago · Sigismund was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland. Elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, he sought to unify Poland and Sweden under one Catholic kingdom, and when he succeeded his deceased father in 1592 the Polish–Swedish union was created.

  2. 5 days ago · Elizabeth Báthory, the most famous female serial killer of all time, is a real person who has been the subject of many books and films. The protagonist of blood-curdling murders, Elizabeth has...

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  3. 4 days ago · The sack of Wenden was a huge symbolic victory for Ivan.Among his opponents in the Livonian War,John III of Sweden only controlled Reval (Tallinn), Stephen Báthory of Poland-Lithuania only held Riga,Frederick II of Denmark was limited to the island of Øsel (Ösel, Saaremaa), Magnus of Livonia, though released by Ivan, abdicated in 1578 and ...

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  4. 3 days ago · 🎬 Elizabeth Báthory: The Dark Truth of a Noblewoman 🎬Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most chilling figures in history. Born into nobility, Báthory experien...

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  5. Weird Literature: For news, reviews, book discussion, and anything else pertaining to weird fiction. We cover everything from contemporary writers of the Weird, such as China Miéville, Kelly Link, M. John Harrison, K.J. Bishop, Eric Basso, and Jeff Vandermeer to foundational authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Kubin, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Chambers, and Jean Ray, to everyone in between.

  6. 4 days ago · 2011: The construction of the new building of the Faculty of Engineering was completed. The University of Szeged traces its origins back to 1581 with the foundation of the Academia in Cluj (Kolozsvár). István Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, King of Poland (1571-1586), Grand Duke of Lithuania took measures to estabilish a Catholic university ...

  7. 2 days ago · The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, [c] or simply Poland–Lithuania, was a bi- confederal [11] state, sometimes called a federation, [12] of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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