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1. Led in part by Prime Minister Laval, this government adopted the slogan 'Work, Family, Fatherland' , a play on the country' s previous logo of' Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood'

2. Handwriting analysis of agreements signed with the codename 'Bolek” were published in 2017 indicating a leader of this group was a paid informant for the secret police

3. People of this ethnicity formed the KLAduring a 1998-1999 war that provoked a NATO response, and declared independence in 2008 from Serbia

4. During this leader' s reign, the treaties of Jassy and Kuchuk Kainarji were signed with the Ottomans, allowing this ruler to acquire Crimea

5. Hans Biebow was derisively given the epithet King while administering one of these places, and a speech given in one of them pleaded to 'Give me your children'

6. Coke of Holkham promoted his own supposed innovations in this field of endeavor

7. a drug addict was acquitted of that 1986 murder of this country' s Prime Minister

8. This king' sadvisors included Cardinal Mazarin and finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and he is also known forsaying 'l' etat, c' est moi'

9. A member of the Grey Wolves named Mehmet Ali Ağca shot this man in the abdomen, and he was the first non-Italian to hold his position in 400 years

10. Lester Pearson was angered when this leader exclaimed 'Vive le Quebec libre!' at the Montreal World' s Fair'

11. In 2013 in this city, a performance artist drove a nail through his scrotum into the cobblestones in a historic square once home to the GUM [goom] department store

12. His reign saw undue influence by the monk Rasputin

13. His invasion of Egypt included the Battle of the Pyramids and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone

14. Both Guizot and Adolphe Thiers led governments for this Duke of Orleans

15. Although he was retired, Lucius Clay was responsible for ordering tanks to this location, which is also the site of a monument for Chris Gueffroy created by Karl Biedermann

16. This king appointed the (*)Duke of Alba as Governor of the Netherlands, and he built the Escorial

17. This city' s growth was facilitated by the Peace of Nystad (NEE-stat)

18. One of these people stuck a poster on the king' s door in the Affair of the Placards

19. Name this conflict in which General Francisco Franco rose to power, fought on the Iberian Peninsula

20. This treaty granted Saarland a referendum over its status, and Article 10, a guarantee against future aggression, caused Henry Cabot Lodge to oppose it

21. This man called Turkey an 'accomplice of terrorists” after two fighter jets from his country were shot down over Turkey' s southern border

22. This rulersupported a revolt instigated by Count Orlov which aimed at achieving Greek independence, andsigned the favorable Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji with the Ottoman Empire

23. This agreement partitioned Pomeraniabetween Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden and officially recognized the independence of the Dutch Republic fromSpain

24. One known as the Righteous ruled over Krakow and tried to gain the guardianship of Wenceslaus, while another was 'The Impotent' King of Spain who passed the throne to Isabella'

25. In the aftermath, Godfrey of Bouillon became a ruler of a new kingdom