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Hace 6 horas · It is hardly surprising that Bismarck understood his own time better than the historians of posterity. The famous opening line of L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between (1953) reads: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. Bismarck was a native of that country. Historians are foreigners.
Hace 6 horas · The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia. Related conflicts include the 1754 to 1763 ...
Hace 6 horas · This chapter zooms in on the opponents of a Scandinavian union (e.g. a union that included not only Sweden and Norway but also Denmark). To contemporaries and historians alike, this heterogeneous group is known as anti-Scandinavianists.
Hace 1 día · Robertsganj – Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts. Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district – Ajit Singh (Sikhism) Sant Kabir Nagar district – Sant Kabir, poet. Santhome – locality in Mylapore, named after the Apostle, Saint Thomas. Secunderabad - Named after Sikandar Jah, the third Nizam of the Asaf Jahi dynasty.
Hace 1 día · France was a traditional ally of the Ottoman Sultan, and Austria was eager to maintain peace in the east while conducting its own wars in the west. Peter, furthermore, had chosen an inopportune moment: the Europeans at the time were more concerned about the War of the Spanish Succession over who would succeed the childless King Charles II of Spain than about fighting the Ottoman Sultan. [14]
Hace 1 día · George III. George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector ...
Hace 1 día · In the decorative arts, Neoclassicism is exemplified in Empire furniture made in Paris, London, New York, Berlin; in Biedermeier furniture made in Austria; in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's museums in Berlin, Sir John Soane's Bank of England in London and the newly built "United States Capitol" in Washington, D.C.; and in Josiah Wedgwood's bas reliefs and "black basaltes" vases.
