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🎙️ Live Event: Historical presentation and QA session

Political ideology in the Weimar Republic — Development and Decline of a Democracy

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#OnThisDay in History, August 14.

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Famous Birthdays in History, August 14.

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Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. (Completed in 1439)

Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of Rayonnant Gothic architecture. #History

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#OTD 14 Aug 1879, Alexander I (Obrenović), the king of Serbia in 1889-1903, was born in Belgrade

He tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution in 1901, introducing for the first time in history of Serbia the system of 2 chambers (skupština & senate)

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@jacksonhinkle Why did Wagner chief Prigozhin abort his rebellion in Russia? What happens next?

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Why did Wagner chief Prigozhin abort his rebellion in Russia? What happens next?

Join the live debate on https://t.co/YKtH3tWm56

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A British soldier hiding from the rain under an overturned Tiger tank. Italy, 1944. #History

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Famous Birthdays in History, June 5.

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#OnThisDay in History, June 5

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#OTD 5 Jun Dennis Gabor 1900, a Hungarian-British electrical engineer & physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, was born in Budapest. He obtained British citizenship in 1934 & spent most of his life in England

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#OTD 5 Jun 1898, Federico García Lorca, a Spanish poet & playwright, was born in Granada. He achieved int'l recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements into Spanish literature.

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At the height of his power and popularity in late 1914 and early 1915, the U.S. considered recognizing Villa as Mexico's legitimate authority.

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#OTD 5 Jun 1878, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, a general in the Mexican Revolution, was born in Durango, Mexico. He was a key figure in the revolutionary movement that forced out President Porfirio Díaz and brought Francisco I. Madero to power in 1911. #historia

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Salic law barred women from the succession, thus ending the personal union between Britain and Hanover that had begun in 1714.

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#OTD 5 Jun Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1837-1851), was born in London. When his older brother William IV, who ruled both kingdoms, died in 1837, his niece Victoria inherited the British throne under British succession law, while Ernest succeeded in Hanover under Salic law.

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Gadolin was ennobled for his achievements and awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir and the Order of Saint Anna. #History #Finland #Suomi

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#OTD 5 Jun 1760, Johan Gadolin a Finnish chemist & mineralogist, was born in Turku. Gadolin discovered a "new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element. He is considered the founder of Finnish chemistry research.

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Churchill's relationship & influence with Princess Anne were widely known & leading public figures turned their attentions to her. When Anne became queen, the Duchess of Marlborough's knowledge of government & intimacy with the Queen made her a powerful friend & dangerous enemy.

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#OTD 5 Jun 1660, Sarah Churchill, an English courtier who rose to be one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain, was born in Hertfordshire, Kingdom of England. #History #UK