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Rebellion
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Jacobite Rebellion 1745-1746
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Bar Kochba Rebellion 132-135
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Karl Friedrich Lessing
Lessing, Karl Friedrich (b Breslau [now Wrocław, Poland], 15 Feb. 1808; d Karlsruhe, 5 June 1880). German painter, the great-nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. In 1826 he settled in Düsseldorf and he became one of the leading figures in the tradition of history painting associated... Read more |
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Numbers
Numbers book of the Bible, fourth of the five books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. Numbers begins at Sinai and ends in Moab on the eve of the Hebrews' entry into Palestine. It continues Exodus' narrative of the journey of the Jews from Egypt to the Promised... Read more |
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Dorrs Rebellion
DORR'S REBELLION DORR'S REBELLION. Dorr's Rebellion of 1842 was an extra legal attempt to achieve suffrage reform and create a new state constitution for Rhode Island. It was suppressed by force, but a new state constitution corrected the problems of disfranchisement and malapportionment that had... Read more |
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Soweto
Soweto [acronym for south-west townships], city (1991 pop. 596,632), located 10 mi (16 km) SW of Johannesburg , South Africa. Soweto grew as black workers came to the industrialized area after World War I; the name for the city was collective term for what was originally a group of segregated... Read more |
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Posse Comitatus Act
Posse Comitatus Act 1878, U.S. federal law that makes it a crime to use the military as a domestic police force in the United States under most circumstances. The law was designed to end the use of federal troops to supervise elections in the post-Civil War South. The posse comitatus (from which... Read more |
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China Relief Expedition
China Relief Expedition (1900).In summer 1900, a multinational expeditionary force including U.S. troops under overall British command arrived in northern China to suppress the Nationalist, antiforeign Boxer Rebellion and break the siege of the foreign Legation Quarter, Peking (now Beijing).In May... Read more |
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