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  3. Wikipedia:Historical portraits and pictures - Wikipedia

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    Medieval miniature of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.Useful as a historical document, even if it tells us nothing about what he really looked like. While most historical cultures didn't produce actual portraits, many did produce other kinds of depictions of individual persons, such as depictions of rulers on ancient coins, miniatures in medieval bookpainting etc.

  4. 1890s - Wikipedia

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    The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899.. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful).

  5. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  6. Joseph Stalin's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    His ability to assume absolute power has remained a subject of historical debate. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] Some historians have attributed his success primarily to his personal qualities. [ 74 ] Contrarily, certain political theorists such as Trotsky have emphasised the role of external conditions in facilitating the growth of a Soviet bureaucracy which ...

  7. Founding Fathers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Founding, Reconstruction (often called "the second founding"), and the New Deal are typically heralded as the most significant turning points in the country's history, with many observers seeing each of these as political triumphs through which the United States has come to more closely realize its liberal ideals of liberty and equality.

  8. 30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than ...

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    Image credits: HippoSame8477 #4. The atrocities carried out by the Imperial Army before and during WW2. Truly horrific, inhumane s**t. Yes, Americans, the Russians, and the British did some ...

  9. 30 Strange Inventions That People Actually Used Once Upon A ...

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    We’ve come a long way since humans started walking upright around 7 million years ago. You have the invention of stone tools in Ethiopia about 2.6 million years ago. The discovery of fire some ...