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Hace 2 días · In English, the term refugee derives from the root word refuge, from Old French refuge, meaning "hiding place". It refers to "shelter or protection from danger or distress", from Latin fugere, "to flee", and refugium, "a taking [of] refuge, place to flee back to". In Western history, the term was first applied to French Protestant Huguenots ...
Hace 2 días · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
Hace 2 días · Sultan Jamalul Kiram II with William Howard Taft of the Philippine Commission in Jolo, Sulu (27 March 1901) The Sulu sultanate later came under the control of Spain in Manila. In 1885, Great Britain, Germany, and Spain signed the Madrid Protocol to cement Spanish influence over the islands of the Philippines.
Hace 2 días · Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban [a] PC ( / ˈbeɪkən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the ...
Hace 1 día · Clockwise from top-left: Ancient warfare: Stele of the Vultures, c. 2500 BCE Medieval warfare: Battle of Hastings, 1066 Early modern warfare: Retreat from Moscow, 1812 Industrial age warfare: Battle of the Somme, 1916 Modern warfare: Normandy landings, 1944 Nuclear warfare: Nuclear weapon test, 1954 Part of a series on War History Prehistoric Ancient Post-classical Early modern Pike and shot ...
Hace 2 días · This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...
Hace 2 días · v. t. e. An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". [1] The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. [2]
