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he criticized some guy named hooper
Mark Twain
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left bugs/ashes that got caught in his paint
Jackson Pollock
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Admitted California to the US
Millard Filmore
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coined the term "identity crisis"
Erik Erikson
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led 148 settlers
Brighum Young
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a series of three defeats at the battles of Stormberg, Magersfonstein and Colenso.
Black Week
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Black week
Second Boer war
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Got Paraguay into the war of the Triple Alliance, during which he died at the battle of Cerro Corra.
Fransisco Solano Lopez
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tried to declare himself a saint and, upon failing, ordered the 23 bishops who opposed him executed.
Fransisco Solano Lopez
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Poor Folk is this mans first novel
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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was exiled to New Orleans for opposing Santa Anna
Benito Juarez
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resisted the French and took power after overthrowing Maximillian I
Benito Juarez
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distinguished career in the Austrian Navy
Maximilian I
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the world's largest religious building that was originally a hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and later became a Buddhist temple.
Ankor Wat
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designed to look like Mount Meru
Ankor Wat
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the american Taliban.
John Walker
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though remaning neutral himself, allowed spainards to join the German army on the condition they would only fight the Russians on the eastern front thus creating the "Blue Division"
Fransisco Franco
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dictator of spain around the time of WW2
Fransisco Franco
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banned by Metternich
William Tell
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had scarlet fever at the age of 19 months
Helen Keller
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was offered a union command during the American Civil war by William H. Seward which he would have accepted if Lincoln agreed to declare the Abolition of slavery the main goal of the war
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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called Lincoln "the great emancipator."
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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it originates in the Great Slave Lake
Mackenzie River
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Deepest lake in North America. 9th largest by area. 10th or 12th by volume.
Great Slave Lake
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5th man on the moon. Commanded Apollo 14
Alan Shepard
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namesake acids and bases are electron pair acceptors or donors
Gilbert Lewis
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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May be the prince in his own work War and Peace
Tolstoy
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Ham and Eggs fire
San Fransisco fire
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Napoleon III served his most honored guests on plates made of this
Aluminum
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577 People swore:
Tennis Court Oath
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This man governed Quebec but was unable to recieve the title because of his non-noble status
Samuel de Champlain
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fought in the Uruguayan civil war earning him the title "Hero of the Two Worlds"
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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witnessed the coronation of Napoleon
Simon Bolivar
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led the Amirable campaign
Simon Bolivar
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7 of 8 executed, one found dead
haymarket square riot
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the only temple dedicated to him is in Pushkar
Brahma
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meeting with H. M. Stanley made a famous quote
David Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?")
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this man died from malaria and internal bleeding caused by dysentery in Cheif Chitambo's village. The tribe, which had refused to give the british his body, eventually relented but cut out and buried his heart under a Mvula tree. The rest of his body was carried over 1,000 miles by Chuma and Susi to britain where he is buried in Westminster Abbey
David Livingstone.
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heard the voice of god and saw solar eclipes as a black man's hand blotting out the sun. This convinced him to rebel
Nat Turner
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great swamp fight
King Phillp's war
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Commanded U.S. forces in the Gulf War
Norman Schwarzkopf
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couldn't scale the mud walls of the Rodriguez canal
Battle of New Orleans
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infatuated with Napoleon III, had exact copies of his uniforms for his armies and an exact copy of his crown
Fransisco Solano Lopez
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Eliza Lynch was his mistress
Fransisco Solano Lopez
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