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1. He was joined at another conference by Alexander I and Karl von Hardenberg

2. An organization of these people led by Oliver Hudson Kelley influenced a Supreme Court decision later overturned by the Wabash case

3. In its 'Colonial War,' this country lost its colonies of Goa and Angola'

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

5. In 1938, the publication of over three hundred pages of letters written by Dorothea Lieven to this man confirmed suspicions that he had used Lieven to spy on his Russian and British counterparts

6. The State Committee for the State of Emergency led an August coup against this man, which was ended by a man who stood atop a tank

7. One memoir recounting this period was written by the author of 'The Red Carnation,' poet and schoolteacher Louise Michel'

8. This man' s book, The Army of the Future, stressed the utility of armored divisions and combined arms in future warfare

9. The Emperor of Russia was also known as the Grand Prince of this location following theDiet of Porvoo, which annexed this territory from Sweden

10. This government operated internment camps in Gurs and Drancy for Jews living under it

11. One anecdote about this man holds that his troops' distinctive uniforms were an intercepted shipment of butcher uniforms from Buenos Aires

12. This city was abandoned following the battle of Borodino, after which it was burned to the ground while occupied by Napoleon' s troops

13. The term 'guerrilla warfare' was coined to describe the resistance to one of this man' s invasions'

14. During the Reformation, this country experienced the Count' s Feud

15. The first king of this nation was not recognized by the pope until fifty years after his victory in the Battle of Ourique and his subsequent coronation, and the death of another of its monarchs in the Battle of Three Kings led to foreign occupation

16. 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

17. 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

18. It was home to several caliphs named Abd al-Rahman, as well as the Kingdom of León

19. Ruler of Russia during the first World War, he was succeeded by Karensky

20. One major event in this city supposedly caused King Wenceslaus IV to die from shock, while another saw two Catholic Regents survive a fall from a window through either divine intervention or landing on a pile of manure

21. Woodrow Wilson sent the Polar Bear Expedition to fight in this country, which many White Emigres left following a revolution

22. This country' s colonies included Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Angola

23. (*) Irene Sendler smuggled 2,500 children out of one of these places

24. Its mediators included Fabio Chigi, sent by Innocent X, and it divided a region containing Stettin and Bremen known as Pomerania

25. His finance minister Calonne' s attempts at abolishing the corvéewere opposed by the parlements, and another of his finance ministers published the Compte rendu, areport showing a large surplus for the kingdom