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1. With Miran Shah, Khalil Sultan, and Shah Rukh, this ruler defeated Stefan Lazarevic and Bayezid I the Thunderbolt at the Battle of Ankara

2. 'One holder of this position made the 'December mistake,' and another ordered the massacre of student protesters at the 1968 Summer Olympics'

3. This coiner of the slogan Harambee was among the Kapenguria Six who were falsely accused of leading the Mau Mau Uprising

4. In 1893, this leader was kicked off a railway compartment car at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa due to this leader's ethnicity

5. 'One ruler of these people forbid the consumption of milk for a year after the death of his mother, and has a name meaning 'beetle' due to rumors that his mother had a parasite in her belly'. That ruler conquered the land between the Tugela and Pogola rivers, and preferred the iklwa spear to the assegai

6. One leader of this modern nation started the Positive Action campaign and built the Akosombo Dam

7. As a teenager, this man killed his half-brother Behter in a land dispute

8. A massacre near this country's Ezeiza airport marked the return of a former dictator

9. The Yan Dynasty was established when it was interrupted by An Lushan's Rebellion, and it was followed by the Song Dynasty

10. This nation was liberated with the aid of a force led by Lord Wingate, and suffered greatly during the Wollo Famine

11. In 1975, its king was assassinated by his nephew, and this country has been run by a series of half-brothers since 1953

12. Approximately 10% of this country's population lives abroad, sometimes sending Balikbayan (BAL-ick-BYE-en) boxes back home

13. This dynasty ended a system in which land was doled out based on family size, the equal field system

14. A Greek colony in what would become this nation, Cyrene, lends its name to this nation's eastern region

15. The subject of the Jelali Revolts, this empire used the currency Akce, and its late periods include the Tulip era and Tanzimat

16. This nation and Australia formed an army corps that saw action in the Battleof Gallipoli

17. 'Lin destroyed what he referred to as 'foreign mud''

18. 'This period was sparked by conflict with the Five Man Group, which initiated studies on a play about a historical figure 'Dismissed from Office''

19. This empire captured Fort St Elmo but failed to capture Fort St Angelo despite a four-to-one numerical advantage during its invasion of Malta

20. 'In 2008, the major opposition party in this country suffered a factional split, with members who seek more representation for rural interests forming the 'Hunter' group of that party'

21. One leader of this country was assassinated on video while his killer drank a Budweiser

22. John Macarthur and George Johnston overthrew William Bligh in this nation's Rum Rebellion

23. After an ambassador sent by this man was executed, he invaded the Jin dynasty and won his largest victory at the Battle of Badger Mouth

24. Its Córdoba province is in the pampas region, while to the south of this country is the Drake Passage

25. When talking about this country, Philander C