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Norwegian first to reach the South Pole

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Roald Amundsen

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killed Franz Ferdinand

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Gavrilo Princip

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“Magician of Iron”

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Gustav Eiffel

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“The Knight of the Cloak”

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Walter Raleigh

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wrote History of the World

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Walter Raleigh

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executed at Tower of London 1618

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Walter Raleigh

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Virgin Queen

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Elizabeth I

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Last battle of Wars of the Roses

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1485 Bosworth Field

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6th century Byzantine emperor built the Hagia Sophia, wife Theodora

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Justinian

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12th century Saracen Muslim leader in the Crusades

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Saladin

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French military group fights abroad, founded 1831

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French Foreign Legion

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led the Greeks against Troy

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Agamemnon

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Agamemnon’s daughter

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Electra

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city where the Nazis’ advance into Russia was stopped

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Stalingrad

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battle where Octavian beat Antony

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Battle of Actium

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building for 1851 London’s Great Exhibition

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Crystal Palace

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royal residence in Scotland

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Balmoral

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Roman orator

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Cicero

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French presidential palace

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Elysee Palace

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Scottish outlaw 1700s

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Rob Roy

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Iceland legislative assembly

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Althing

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first king of Hungary

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St. Stephen

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French Enlightenment philosopher wrote in English, exiled to England

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Voltaire

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Swiss-French philosopher

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Rousseau

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King Constantine country
Greece
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last king of Greece
Constantine II
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1415 France loses to England
Agincourt
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king of England during Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
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Nine Days Queen 1550s as a teen
Lady Jane Grey
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queen executed by Bloody Mary
Lady Jane Grey
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Danish philosopher 1800s
Kierkegaard
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Father of Existentialism
Kierkegaaard
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British prime minister during WWI
David Lloyd George
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precursor to the EU
European Economic Community
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British Parliament meets here
Palace of Westminster
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medieval Spanish warrior
El Cid
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Battle of Towton war
Wars of the Roses
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1455-1485 war
Wars of the Roses
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St. Alban’s battle war
Wars of the Roses
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Bosworth Field war
Wars of the Roses
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female Nazi propaganda filmmaker
Riefenstahl
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military group disbanded/killed early 1300s
Knights Templar
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founder of Methodism
John Wesley
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J'Accuse letter subject
Dreyfus
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explorers looking for the source of the Nile
Burton and Speke
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Scottish coronation stone
Stone of Scone
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Mungo Park river
Niger
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"The Little Corporal"
Napoleon
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Lost the Battle of Hastings
Harold II
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Henry II fought with this priest
Thomas Becket
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Thomas Becket king nemesis
Henry II
52
Scottish flag cross
St Andrews
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1700s Italian "History of my Life" adventurer
Casanova
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Milosevic country
Yugoslavia/Serbia
55
Napoleon's foreign minister, helped overthrow him
Talleyrand
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Louis XIV explorer discovered Lousiana
Sieur de la Salle
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German patented first automobile
Karl Benz
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Edward Teach nickname
Blackbeard
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Queen Anne's Revenge captain
Blackbeard
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emperor of Austria-Hungary 1848-1916
Franz Joseph
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European religious war started 1618
Thirty Years' War
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Scandinavian reindeer herders
Sami
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Chancellor executed by Henry VIII
Thomas More
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Sweden's oldest university
Uppsala
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1461 Battle of Towton war
Wars of the Roses
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Velvet Revolution country
Czechoslovakia
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10th century Danish king Harald nickname
Bluetooth
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Swedish prime minister unsolved murder
Olof Palme
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last Tudor monarch
Elizabeth I
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last Stuart monarch
Anne
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treaty ended 30 Years War
Peace of Westphalia
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French president 1995-2007
Jacques Chirac
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British dandy, trousers, gentleman's dressing table
Beau Brummell
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patron saint of France
Saint Denis
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King Victor Emmanuel country
Italy
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first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned on Christmas 800 AD
Charlemagne
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USSR policymaking body
Politburo
78
ex-KGB Litvinenko poison
polonium
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last Russian monarchs
Nicholas II and Alexandra
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Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier's kids (3)
Stephanie, Caroline, Albert
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first woman to swim the English channel
Gertrude Ederle
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emperor home in Aachen, Germany
Charlemagne
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West Germany chancellor and first chancellor of unified Germany
Helmut Kohl
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Archbishop Makarios first president of this country
Cyprus
85
Italian mother of 3 French kings
Catherine de Medici
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2004 Orange Revolution country
Ukraine
87
1860s redshirt Italian unifier
Garibaldi
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1300s Scottish king defeated England
Robert the Bruce

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