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As the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, Cambridge hosts the county government. The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
European theatre of the Russian Civil War in 1918–19. The Soviet Union benefited from Germany's loss, as one of the first terms of the armistice was the abrogation of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. At the time of the armistice Russia was in the grips of a civil war which left more than seven million people dead and large areas of the country ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Over 40% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. The British and French drew the modern borders of the Middle East, the borders of Africa, and in Asia after the independence of the British Raj and French Indochina and the borders of Europe after World War I as victors, as a result of the Paris ...
In Russia, the conflict resulted in revolution and civil war between 1917 and 1923, and the rise to power of the Communist Bolshevik government. [23] The German Empire had seen revolution break out at the end of the war, with vicious street fighting in the major cities, including Berlin ; some Germans felt that this experience was too quickly ...
The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Harvard UP, 2009). Bowman, Isaiah. The New World: Problems in Political Geography (4th ed. 1928) sophisticated global coverage; 215 maps; online; Brendon, Piers. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) a comprehensive global political history; 816pp excerpt
Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. The 2020 United States Census, listed its population at 49,284. [1] Its county seat is Cambridge. [2] Henry County is included in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3]
European diplomatic alignments shortly before the war. The Ottomans joined the Central Powers shortly after the war started, with Bulgaria joining the following year. Italy remained neutral in 1914 and joined the Allies in 1915. Map of the world with the participants in World War I c. 1917. Allied Powers in blue, Central Powers in orange, and ...