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1. Her throne was guaranteed by Charles VI' s Pragmatic Sanction, but she had to rely on the War of the Austrian Succession to secure her rule

2. This survivor of the Fronde employed finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert

3. This man' s book The Cardinal' s Mistress allegedly inspired Dorothy Parker to quip that bad books should not be cast aside lightly, but instead 'thrown with great force'

4. It was originally led by a Bavarian Prince, but a more important monarch, from the House of Glucksburg, was George I

5. This leader gained experience fighting in the Rif War before winning acivil war in the 1930s as leader of the Falange

6. This man was unable tojoin the military due to a condition that may have developed from a chest of drawers falling on himat age four

7. This man was unexpectedly crowned while kneeling to pray in St Peter' s Basilica on Christmas by Pope Leo III, becoming by that action 'Emperor of the Romans' in the year 800'

8. One monarch married Catherine after the Treaty of Troyes was signed during this conflict

9. This leader tried to modernize his economy by ordering massive production increases over five year periods and by collectivizing farms starting in 1928

10. Of her four children, one allegedly died in The Temple, the prison which was her home until just before her 38th birthday in 1793

11. While it was under military occupation, Operation Anthropoid occurred here

12. After the wartime death of his predecessor, he withdrew his nation from the Crimean War

13. This ruler founded the Muscovy company and created a standing army known as the Streltsy

14. This body was attacked by the newspaper The Old Cordelier, which criticized it and another body governing 'general security'

15. The September Laws were passed after Giuseppe Fieschi killed 18 people around this man with a twenty-barreled monster weapon called the 'infernal machine'

16. After the Treaty of Berlin, this nation, under King George I, received Thessaly

17. This ruler fought the Potato War to prevent Hapsburg control of Bavaria and he used an oblique order to win the Battle ofHohenfriedberg

18. This group participated in the Round Table Talks along with Internal Affairs minister Czesaw Kiszczak in 1989

19. This man ordered the beheading of 4500 pagans during a thirty-year campaign to convert theSaxons to Christianity in what is now known as the Massacre of Verden

20. When this leader was killed at the Battle of Lutzen fighting against Wallenstein, he was succeeded by his daughter Christina

21. This city was once known as Gamla stan

22. The Earl of Northampton commanded the rear division in this battle, the first time one side' s commander captured the Oriflamme

23. This man' s suspicion that the ArchbishopPimen was a traitor led to the massacre ofNovgorod by his secret police, the Oprichniki

24. After thedeath of his first wife, the daughter of England' s Edward the Elder, he married a captive of Berengarof Ivrea named Adelaide

25. One member of this family was killed by his cousin, Lorenzaccio, and that member of this family had earlier been forced to flee when the Piagnoni came to power

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