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The Gauls, de Gaulle, the Gall: the story told of Franco-American friendship is a nice story. But it's just a story.(John F. Kerry's views on relations between United States, France)
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IN the first presidential debate, John Kerry repeated an old story. During the Cuban missile crisis, he said, President Kennedy dispatched his secretary of state to France, where his envoy met Charles de Gaulle and offered to show him satellite photos of Soviet missile sites. But the French president wasn't interested in looking at the images. "The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me," said de Gaulle. Then Kerry delivered his punch line: "How many leaders in the world today would respond to us, as a result of what we've done, in that way?
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Church Robbers and Reformers in Germany, 1525-1547: Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Confiscation and Religious Purpose in the Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker. [Studies...years of calculated policy. For the Holy Roman Empire this has always been too...s defeat in 1547 at the hands of Charles V (himself an ardent sequestrator...
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; The future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was born in 1500 in Ghent...dominions in the Americas when Charles was sixteen, and by the...had added the Hapsburg Empire to his possessions. In...commissioned by Charles V to mark his coronation...
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Charles V's Spanish abdiction: January 16th, 1556.(January's Anniversaries)
Magazine article from: History Today
; IN THEORY, CHARLES V was the most powerful...grandfather Maximilian I as Holy Roman Emperor. He was...Spanish America and in Charles's time Cortes took...Roman Catholic, Charles hoped to unite all Europe in a Christian empire. Not only did the...
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"Charles V".(The Reign of Charles V)(Emperor Charles V: Impresario of War. Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Catalonia and Castile in Charles's absence during 1519...because The Reign of Charles V is focused so much on...in this book about the Holy Roman Empire makes it difficult to understand Charles's failure as emperor...
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Researchers Confirm Charles V Had Gout
News Wire article from: AP Online
; NEW YORK - A 450-year-old piece of Charles V's pinkie lends support to the theory that it...time to abdicate, Spanish researchers report. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose empire stretched across Europe and included Spanish America...
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Pinkie test confirms Charles V suffered gout
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK -- A 450-year-old piece of Charles V's pinkie lends support to the theory that it...most powerful rulers of all time to abdicate. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose empire stretched across Europe and included Spanish America...
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The Tirol's last knight. (Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor of the Habsburg empire, 1493-1519)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...last knight', Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519. Officially...result of these enabled his grandson, Charles V, (nephew of Katherine of Aragon...Jerusalem and his wife's father, Charles the Bold of Burgundy (from whom...
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Researchers confirm gout in Holy Roman emperor
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; NEW YORK - A 450-year-old piece of Charles V's pinkie lends support to the theory that it...time to abdicate, Spanish researchers report. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose empire stretched across Europe and included Spanish America...
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The Hapsburgs: Embodying Empire.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...the reign of Charles VI. The sections...1493-1519), Charles V (1519-1556...1705) and Charles VI (1711-1740...away from the Holy Roman Empire culminated...of an Austrian Empire after 1804...and Austrian Empires. JOACHIM WHALEY
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A Hapsburg ruler who failed despite empire and elephant.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...built up a massive empire, uniting the Netherlands...his leadership. Charles' son, Philip...Germany passed to Charles' brother, Ferdinand...son, Maximilian. Charles V and Philip II are...Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, over which...
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