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was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. He led Argentina as president during the 1990s and implemented a free market liberalization. He served as President of the Justicialist Party for thirteen years (from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2001 to 2003), and his political approach became known as Federal Peronism.[1]

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Carlos Menem

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was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than seven years of military dictatorship, and is considered the “father of modern democracy in Argentina”.[

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Raul ALFONSIN

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an Argentine military officer and dictator, Commander in Chief of the Army, member of the Military Junta, and de facto President of Argentina from 29 March 1976 to 29 March 1981. His reign, which was during the time of Operation Condor, was among the most infamous in Latin America during the Cold War, due to its high level of human rights abuses and severe economic mismanagement.

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Jorge Rafael VIDELA

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B With alumnae including Arianna Huffington, Baroness Hale, and Sandi Toksvig, which
college founded in 1869 was the first women’s college at the University of Cambridge,
although it is nowadays co-educational?

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GIRTON

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an American physician and a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for his role in Paul Revere’s “midnight ride” to warn the townspeople of Concord, Massachusetts of the impending British army move to capture guns and gunpowder kept there at the beginning of the American Revolution. He was the only participant in the ride to reach Concord.

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Samuel PRESCOTT

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was one of several men[1] who in April 1775 alerted colonial minutemen in Massachusetts of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution.[2] For some years, Paul Revere had the most renown for his ride of warning of this event.

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William DAWES

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Late September 2022 saw a series of explosions, thought to have been caused
by deliberate sabotage, on what gas pipelines built to transport natural gas from
Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea?

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NORD STREAM

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3B The first women’s colleges at the University of Oxford were both founded in 1879:
they were Somerville and which college whose alumnae include Benazir Bhutto,
Mary Warnock and Josie Long? It is nowadays co-educational.

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LADY MARGARET HALL

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November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino Freemason and revolutionary leader. He is often called “The Father of the Philippine Revolution”, and considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines.[3][4][5] He was one of the founders and later the Kataastaasang Pangulo (Supreme President, Presidente Supremo in Spanish, often shortened by contemporaries and historians to just Supremo)[6] of the Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or more commonly known as the “Katipunan”, a

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ANDRES BONIFACIO

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Phillipine independence movement

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KATIPUNAN

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a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.[9][10][11] The son of assassinated politician

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NOYNOY AQUINO

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Second female president of philippines

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Gloria ARROYO

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British surrender at Yorktown in 1781?

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CharlesCORNWALLIS

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an English general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 1651.

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Henry IRETON

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a peace agreement between Milan, Naples and Florence that was signed on 9 April 1454 at REDACTED in Lombardy, on the banks of the Adda. It put an end to the Wars in Lombardy between expansive Milan, under Filippo Maria Visconti, and Venice, in the terraferma.

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Treaty of LODI

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was a member of the Welf dynasty who ruled as the duke of Saxony and Bavaria from 1142 and 1156, respectively, until 1180.

one of the most powerful German princes of his time, until the rival Hohenstaufen dynasty succeeded in isolating him and eventually deprived him of his duchies of Bavaria and Saxony during the reign of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and of Frederick’s son and successor Henry VI.

At the height of his reign, ruled over a vast territory stretching from the coast of the North and Baltic Seas to the Alps, and from Westphalia to Pomerania. achieved this great power in part by his political and military acumen and in part through the legacies of his four grandparents..

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HENRY THE LION

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a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. Although the term was created by white Northern philanthropists, it is primarily associated with W. E. B. Du Bois, who used it as title of an influential essay, published in 1903. It appeared in The Negro Problem, a collection of essays written by leading African Americans and assembled by Booker T. Washington

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Talented tenth

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stemmed from a speech given by Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, to the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895.

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ATLANTA COMPROMISE

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(April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite. FULL NAME PLEASE

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Booker TALIAFERRO Washinton

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Which lady-in-waiting of Queen Victoria died of a liver tumour in 1839? Prior to her death
it had been rumoured she was pregnant which, being unmarried, caused a scandal given
the prevailing morality of the time

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Flora HASTINGS

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Which Bosnian Serb political leader, who served as the President of Republika
Srpska [SURP-ska] during the Bosnian War, was convicted of war crimes, crimes
against humanity and genocide by an international court in 2016, having been at
large from 1996 until 2008?

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Radavan KARADIC