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1. The Amber Room was gifted to the ruling family here and housed at the nearby Catherine Palace

2. Born to Junker parents, he was responsible for the Schnaebele incident and doctored an exchange with Count Benedetti that lead to war with France, the Ems telegram

3. The Berkeley-educated commander of one force in this conflict was killed in 'The Retreats' and was named Robert Merriman'

4. This organization called for profit-sharing in heavy industry as part of its 25-point programme

5. After defeating the Lombards, this son of Pippin the Short received an honorary title from the Pope Leo III on Christmas Day

6. This man also set up a system of local assemblies called zemstvos and issued a ukase in 1861 that emancipated all the serfs in his country

7. Another advisor to this man pushed deregulation of the grain market, causing his country' s peasants to revolt in the Flour War

8. The end of this period was marked by the signing of theAlhambra Decree

9. This one time leader of the Salo Republic caused King Zog I to utter the words 'Oh God, it was so short' upon that man' s fleeing Albanian soil'

10. Rumors persist that his daughter Anastasia survived him, but he was assassinated in 1917

11. The Round Table talks occurred between this group and the Jaruzelski (yuh-roo-ZEL-ski) regime

12. This ruler' s country became allied to France during the Diplomatic Revolution through the work of Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz

13. Its factions included the Proudhonists, and Jacobins, and it resulted in the burning of the Hotel de Ville and the Tuileries

14. This organization was created after authorities ignored twenty-one proposed postulates based on KOR' s Charter of Workers' Rights

15. This event was urged by Hosius of Cordoba, and its attendees discussed the legitimacy of bishops ordained by Meletius of Lycopolis

16. The Treaty of Pressburg signed following this battle allowed for the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, and effectively signaled the end of the Holy Roman Empire

17. This man established the Twenty-Five Point Plan for his party at the Bamberg Conference

18. One politician from this nation accused President Kuchma of suppressing criticism by ordering the kidnapping of dissident journalists, thus triggering the Cassette Scandal

19. One political cartoon depicts this ruler smoking hookah with Sultan Abdul Hamid II

20. Feudalism was introduced to this region during the reign of its ruler Richard the Fearless

21. Greater transparency and less censorship were allowed due to this man' s policy of 'openness,' or glasnost'

22. One king of this name and number married Joan of Navarre and fended off the 'Epiphany Uprising'

23. He was supported financially by his mistress Harriet Howard after disguising himself as a mason and escaping life imprisonment in the fortress of Ham

24. This country gained power over one territory by overthrowing the Jaffna Kingdom

25. This war' s decisive battle was stalled until the arrival of Lewenhaupt' s troops, and it was ended by the Treaty of Nystad

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