Biography Early life‚ education and monkhood Vasil Levski was born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev on 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1837 in the town of Karlovo‚ within the Ottoman Empire’s European province Rumelia.[14] He was the namesake of his maternal uncle‚ Archimandrite (superior abbot) Basil (Василий‚ Vasiliy).[15] Levski’s parents‚ Ivan Kunchev and Gina Kuncheva (née Karaivanova)‚ came from a family of clergy and craftsmen and represented the emerging Bulgarian middle class.[16] An eminent but struggling
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that did not last long after the martyrdom of the two said leaders in the battlefield. None of the Islamic relics in Manila were left by the Spanish vandals except for a fort known as "Intramoros." On the 10th of December 1898 AC‚ the "Treaty of Paris" was agreed upon by America and Spain by which the latter had to cede the Philippines to the former. What
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The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947 - 1957) This was a quote by Christian Dior‚ the man who invented The New Look and fore-fronted fashion for the 1950s. The 1950s marked a new era for
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of Calamba‚ Laguna‚ Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and then traveled alone to Madrid‚ Spain where he studied medicine at the Universidad Central de Madrid‚ earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the the University of Heidelberg. Rizal was a polyglot conversant in at least ten languages. He was a prolific poet‚ essayist‚ diarist‚ correspondent‚ and novelist whose most famous works were his two novels‚ Noli me
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leadership of (Points : 2) | Mao Zedong. Kim Il Sung. Syngman Rhee. Chiang Kai-shek. | 5. (TCO 3) What city was divided during the Cold War and became a hotspot for espionage and intrigue? (Points : 2) | Paris. London. Berlin. Rome. | 6. (TCO 4) What was one reason for the rise in Japan’s gross domestic product between 1950 and 1970? (Points : 2) | The removal of protective tariffs. Its low military budget.
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: Homestead lockout U.S. labour strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steelworks in Homestead‚ Pa.‚ in July 1892. When the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers went on strike following a wage cut‚ the company’s manager‚ Henry Clay Frick‚ hired strikebreakers‚ with Pinkerton Agency detectives to protect them. A gun battle resulted in which several people were killed and many injured; the governor sent state militiamen to support the company. The broken strike represented a major setback to the
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1970 The Beatles break up‚ and 448 U.S. colleges and universities are closed or go on strike and killing of students by the National Guard at Kent State and Jackson State universities. First Earth Day celebrated‚ reinvigorating the environmental movement worldwide. Soviet dissident and author Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for literature. U.S. forces in Vietnam reduced to below 400‚000 troops. The Apollo 13 space mission was launched from Cape Kennedy and the Russian unmanned
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been shaped by astounding historical events and the geography in which the country resides. The most common characteristics of France include its landscape‚ lifestyle‚ customs and traditions‚ its values and history. The Capital of France is Paris and the overall population is approximately 66‚259‚012 people (2014). The official language of France is French‚ approximately 88% of the total population speaks French. France is the second largest country in Europe and can be described as a channel
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1976‚ approximately 2500 miles from Israel (Dunstan‚ 2012). Fundamentally‚ what instigated the attack was the hijacking of Air France Flight 139‚ headed to Paris from Tel Aviv. Within minutes after take-off from a layover in Athens‚ the aircraft was seized by a terrorist team comprised of two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and two Germans from the Baader-Meinhof gang. Consequently‚ what
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Sabah Spratly’s Island Calayan Group of Islands I. Historical Background Under a treaty entered into with the sultans of Sulu and Maguindanao in 1640‚ the Spaniards recognized the independence of the two sultanates. Thus‚ the Sulu sultan later became the sovereign ruler of Sabah. The Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 small islands or reefs. They are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and potentially by gas and oil deposits. They are claimed in their entirety by China‚ Taiwan‚ and Vietnam
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