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|[[Third Battle of Ypres]]
 
|[[Third Battle of Ypres]]
 
|The British hid 19 huge land mines under the German lines in southeast Ypres, Belgium over a 18 month period. The British detonated the mines and charged the lines in July 1917. The British plan worked for the beginning stages but soon failed because they did not pursue the Germans quick enough. Soon it rained the wettest fall season in years and the allies were literally stuck in the mud.
 
|The British hid 19 huge land mines under the German lines in southeast Ypres, Belgium over a 18 month period. The British detonated the mines and charged the lines in July 1917. The British plan worked for the beginning stages but soon failed because they did not pursue the Germans quick enough. Soon it rained the wettest fall season in years and the allies were literally stuck in the mud.
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|The newspaper that Karl Marx wrote for when he lived in Cologne.
   
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|[[Communist League]]
 
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|Peter the Great
 
|Peter the Great
 
|a Romanov who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1696 and instituted sweeping reforms in Russian government and society; he built St. Petersburg and tried to make European traditions a part of Russia.  
 
|a Romanov who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1696 and instituted sweeping reforms in Russian government and society; he built St. Petersburg and tried to make European traditions a part of Russia.  
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|El Greco
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|(1541-1614) a painter, architect and sculptor best known for his paintings of saints and martyrs, and his painting of a storm over a Spanish town (“A View of Toledo”)
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|Diego Velázquez
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|(1599-1660) a Spanish painter of portraits of the royal family and scenes from daily life at court
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|Miguel de Cervantes
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|(1605) wrote the novel ''Don Quixote'', probably the most influential piece of Spanish literature in history
 
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