Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague and this other major disaster.
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On June 16, 1963, she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched into space two days earlier.
This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans.
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He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature partly for his six-volume history of World War II.
This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.
In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years.
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The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938.
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Prospering under Tatar rule and expanding as it intersected trade routes, this city became a capital in the 15th century.
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In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region.
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In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.
The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence.
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During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London.
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In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president.
The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country.
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In 1950, two years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea.
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