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| Soviet Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, director of the Paris Opera Ballet (1938-1993) | |
| German philosopher (1844-1900), stated that God is dead in ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’ | |
| Kingdom granted to Joseph Bonaparte by his younger brother in 1806 | |
| Codename of the seaborne landing operations during D-day (1944) | |
| Anglo-Saxon manuscript that contains the oldest known copy of the epic poem Beowulf (~1000 AD) | |
| Serbia’s 2nd city, founded in 1748, heavily bombed by NATO during the Kosovo War | |
| 19th-century Romanesque Revival hilltop palace commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria | |
| French apothecary and seer, known for 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events | |
| Nazi concentration camp near Hamburg, provided labour for brick production | |
| English city and castle, contested by Richard I and John in 1194, features in the Robin Hood legend | |
| Early Catholic leader, sometimes considered to be the first Antipope of Rome around 200 AD | |
| Russian-American novelist, translator and entomologist, best known for ‘Lolita’ (1955) | |
| Former Basque kingdom straddling the western Pyrenees (824-1841) | |
| Name of the Earl of Warwick, known as ‘The Kingmaker’ during the Wars of the Roses | |
| French city from Roman times famed for its Amphitheatre and the Pont-du-Gard aqueduct | |
| River and delta, conquered by Russia in 1700, became the site of the Capital city in 1712 | |
| Name of Nazi policy started Dec 1941 to make political opponents disappear without a trace | |
| Battle between British Navy under Nelson and French Navy led by Brueys d'Aigalliers (1798) | |
| Serb military commander in Hungarian service who opportunistically founded his own state (1492 – 1527) | |
| Edict by Henry IV of France, granting the Calvinist Huguenots substantial rights (1598) | |
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