Archive │ October 2015

31 October 2015

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29 October 2015

Early modern European history

◾ Early modern European history quiz

◾ Q: In which year was the Battle of Lepanto?

◾ Q: Who comes next in this sequence of emperors and empresses of Russia: Peter I, Catherine I, Peter II, [who]?

◾ Q: In which year was the Great Fire of London?

◾ Q: In which year did Britain adopt the Gregorian calendar?

◾ Q: Which edict in 1685 revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598)?

◾ Q: Union of Lublin (1569) created a real union between the Kingdom of Poland and which political entity?

◾ Q: Who comes next in this sequence of kings of Denmark-Norway: Christian III, Frederick II, Christian IV, [who]?

◾ Q: In which year did Maria Theresa (Habsburg dominions) and Frederick II (Prussia) accede to their thrones?

◾ Q: What were the initials of the Dutch East India Company in Dutch?

◾ Q: In which year did Henry VIII become King of England?

◾ Q: In which year did Jean Calvin and Michelangelo Buonarroti die and were Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare born?

◾ Q: In which year did Hernán Cortés conquer and destroy Tenochtitlán?

◾ Q: In which year was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

◾ Q: In Swedish history what is the name given to the period between 1719 and 1772?

◾ Q: In which year were George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach born?

◾ Q: Born in 1609, daughter of an assassinated king, wife of a beheaded king, and mother of a deposed king, who was she?

16 October 2015

Photographs

13 October 2015

Articles

◾ Strategy for Syria: Russian clarity, Western confusion

7 October 2015

Photographs

7 October 2015

Photographs

 

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