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    Abulkhair Khan

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    Abul Khair Khan Battles Against Jungars Prepared by Smagulov Alim Biography Khan of the Little Zhuz Muhammad Abulkhair Ghazi Bahadur Khan‚ was born in 1693. He grew up in an environment where Kazakh Khanate were attacked by the Jungaria and Kalmyks. XVIII century In the history of the Kazakh nation was particularly tragic‚ the constant attacks from the Jungar invaders did not allow people to develop steadily. Abulkhair showed special courage and intelligence to protect the cities of Tashkent

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    “Marie Antoinette” In Vienna‚ on November 2‚ 1755 the thirty-eight-year-old sovereign‚ ruler of an empire‚ Marie Theresa‚ was to give birth for the fifteenth time in her life to‚ Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna. Since all the archduchesses were given the first name Maria‚ they were usually addressed by their second name. Maria Theresa would refer to her youngest daughter as Antonia. It was the French who would call her Marie Antoinette. In the meantime Antonia blossomed she grew and developed

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    Agrippina’s marriages were an integral part of her ascension to prominence and power‚ providing her with the means with which to carry out her ambitions and machinations. Tacitus stated that Agrippina’s “passion to acquire wealth was unbounded”. This is indeed indicative of the general consensus of ancient sources toward her‚ with greed‚ manipulation and ambition forming the central tenets of her character. Her marriages played a central role in fulfilling her idealistic goals‚ in the process

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    Total Equality

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    Dominique English 102 Professor Gallo March 7 2013 Daft 1 Total Equality In the short story “Harrison Bergeron “ the author Vonnegut’s lets the readers get a good look on American society in 2081. The government wants the world to be equal to everybody in every aspects of their life. The author also shows us the danger of trying to achieve total equality‚ which affects the country‚ and their citizens. He shows us theme of forced equality by altering beauty

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    Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837‚ and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876‚ until her death. Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and 7 months‚ longer than that of any other British monarch before or since‚ and her reign is the longest of any female monarch in history. The time of her reign is known as the Victorian era‚ a period of industrial‚

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    Angela Merkel

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    Reddy‚ V. (n.d.). German Legend Angela Merkel ’s Success story - Posdcorb. Posdcorb. Retrieved March 12‚ 2013‚ from http://www.vamsinathmba.com/2012/08/german-lezand-angela-merkels-success.html Smitha‚ F. E. (n.d.). Catherine the Great‚ Russian Empress. MacroHistory : World History. Retrieved March 12‚ 2013‚ from http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h31-gr6c.htm

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    Pooping spans back to the beginning of time and as long as man eats‚ man will poop. Everything in this world has history and we have set out to discover the history of poop. Through hours and hours of endless research with the brightest scholars in the world‚ we have narrowed down many questions about the history of poop. And it is our honour to share this history of poop with all the people in the world. Below you will find the most educated answer crap can buy to some of the most baffling questions

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    Haile Selassie

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    never gained favor with Ethiopia’s majority Christian population. As a result Tafari became the face of the opposition‚ and in 1916 he took power from Lij Yasu and imprisoned him for life. The following year Menelik II’s daughter‚ Zauditu‚ became empress‚ and Tafari was named regent and heir apparent to the throne. For a country trying to gain its foothold in the young century and curry favor with the West‚ the progressive Tafari came to symbolize the hopes and dreams of Ethiopia’s younger population

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    Kofun:is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. It follows the Yayoi period. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of burial mounds dating from this era. Nara:of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.[1] Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara). Except for a five-year period (740–745)‚ when the capital was briefly moved again‚ it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor Kammu established a new capital‚ Nagaoka-kyō

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    The Latin term bellum civile was first used of the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BC. The term civilis here had the very specific meaning of "Roman citizen". The English term civil war was first used in 1651 to refer to the English Civil War. Since the 17th century‚ the term has also been applied retroactively to other historical conflicts where at least one side claims to represent the country’s civil society . The terms internecine war and domestic war are often used interchangeably with

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