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Carolingian Empire 
 Carolingian Empire (800–888) is a historiographical term for the realm of the Franks under the Carolingian dynasty in the Early Middle Ages.
Carolingian Empire 
 Its beginning date is based on the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ends with the death of his descendant Charles the Fat.
Carolingian Empire 
 This Empire can be seen as the later history of the Frankish Realm or the early history of France and of the Holy Roman Empire.
Middle Francia 
 Between the realms of East and West Francia, Middle Francia was the Frankish territory between the rivers Rhine and Scheldt.
Middle Francia 
 Middle Francia was the part of the Frankish Empire that fell to Lothair I.  He was the eldest son and successor of Emperor Louis the Pious.
Middle Francia 
 Because of Lothair's Imperial title, Middle Francia had the imperial cities of Aachen, the residence of Charlemagne, as well as Rome.
Middle Francia 
 He gave the Kingdom of Italy with Rome to his eldest son, Louis II the Younger, crowned emperor since 850.
West Francia 
 West Francia, also known as the West Frankish Kingdom or Francia Occidentalis, was a short-lived kingdom.
West Francia 
 They came under the control of Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, as a result of the Treaty of Verdun of 843.
West Francia 
 The Frankish Empire was the great realm united by Charlemagne that was a large part of Western Europe.
West Francia 
 The Carolingian Empire of the Franks founded by their grandfather lasted only one generation through their father Louis the Pious.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 When Louis II, Count of Flanders, died without a male heir, these cities (Bruges, Ypres and Ghent) arranged a marriage between his daughter and the Duke of Burgundy.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 By doing this, they set in motion events that led to the Burgundian and, in 1478, the Habsburg Netherlands.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1384, Philip the Bold got the county of Flanders, Artois, and the Free County by marrying Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, a marriage supported by the Flemish cities.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1429, Philip the Good (the grandson of Philip the Bold) buys the County of Namur from John III, Marquis of Namur.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1430, Philip of Brabant died childless, leaving his nephew Philip the Good as his heir in Brabant, Lothier, and Limburg.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1456, he also had his nephew Louis of Bourbon become Prince-Bishop of Liège, leading to the Liège Wars.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1478, Mary married Maximilian I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, beginning the period of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1524, Charles conquered Friesland, whih was renamed Lordship of Frisia, during the Guelderian Wars.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1528, Charles freed the Bishopric of Utrecht and its lands in Overijssel, and added them as Lordship of Utrecht and Lordship of Overijssel, during the Guelderian Wars.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1536 Charles conquered the Lordship of Groningen and County of Drenthe, during the Guelderian Wars.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 In 1543, Charles reclaimed and conquered the Duchy of Guelders and the County of Zutphen (in personal union), during the Guelderian Wars.
Timeline of Burgundian and Habsburg acquisitions in the Low Countries 
 There was the rise of Protestantism, the policies of the Habsburg Empire, and other factors resulted in the Dutch Revolt and the Eighty Years' War.
Burgundian Netherlands 
 In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands  means a number of Imperial and French fiefs.
Burgundian Netherlands 
 These were ruled in personal union by the House of Valois-Burgundy and their Habsburg heirs in the period from 1384 to 1482.
Burgundian Netherlands 
 The area was large parts of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Luxembourg and parts of northern France.
Dutch Republic 
 The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces — was a republic in Europe.
Dutch Republic 
 It came before the Batavian Republic, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the modern Netherlands (now a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Southern Netherlands 
 This area was most of modern Belgium, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon and Luxembourg, and in addition some parts of the Netherlands, as well as, until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.
Southern Netherlands 
 The northern seven provinces, led by Holland and Zeeland, started their independence as the United Provinces after 1581.
Southern Netherlands 
 The Southern Netherlands passed to the Austrian Habsburgs after the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century.
Habsburg Spain 
 Under Habsburg rule (mostly under Charles I and Philip II), Spain reached the height of its influence and power.
Habsburg Spain 
 The Hapsburgs had land including the Americas; the East Indies in Asia; the Low Countries, territories now in France and Germany in Europe.
Habsburg Spain 
 From 1580 to 1640 they had the Portuguese Empire; and various other lands such as small enclaves like Ceuta and Oran in North Africa.
Habsburg Spain 
 With the Habsburgs, Spain was one of the greatest political and military powers in Europe and the world for much of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Habsburg Spain 
 During the Habsburg's period, Spain ushered in the Spanish Golden Age of arts and literature producing some of the world's most outstanding writers and painters and influential intellectuals, including Teresa of Ávila, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Miguel de Cervantes, Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Domingo de Soto, Francisco Suárez and Francisco de Vitoria.
Habsburg Spain 
 Spain or "the Spains", referring to Spanish territories across different continents in this period, initially covered the entire Iberian peninsula, including the kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, León, Navarre and, from 1580, Portugal.
Habsburg Spain 
 The marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1469 resulted in the union of the two main crowns, Castile and Aragon, which eventually led to the de facto unification of Spain, after the culmination of the Reconquista with the conquest of Granada in 1492 and of Navarre in 1512-1529.
Habsburg Spain 
 Isabella and Ferdinand were bestowed the title of "Catholic King and Queen" by Pope Alexander VI in 1494, and the term Monarchia Catholica (Catholic Monarchy, Modern Spanish: Monarquía Católica) remained in use for the monarchy under the Spanish Habsburgs.
Habsburg Spain 
 The Habsburg period is formative of the notion of "Spain" in the sense that was institutionalized in the 18th century.
Habsburg Spain 
 Spain as a unified state came into being de jure after the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707 that succeeded the multiple crowns of its former realms.
Habsburg Spain 
 After the death in 1700 of Spain's last Habsburg king Charles II, the resulting War of the Spanish Succession led to the ascension of Philip V of the Bourbon dynasty and began a new centralizing state formation.
Habsburg Spain 
 Among the most outstanding figures of this period were Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Miguel de Cervantes, Teresa of Ávila, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Francisco de Vitoria, Domingo de Soto and Francisco Suárez.
Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars 
 On the Spanish border, the French under General Dugommier came from their defensive positions at Bayonne and Perpignan, to move the Spanish out of Roussillon.
Campaigns of 1794 in the French Revolutionary Wars 
 At sea, the French Atlantic Fleet was able to hold off a British attempt to stop an important cereal convoy from the United States.
French First Republic 
 The First Republic lasted until the First French Empire in 1804 under Napoleon I. This time is characterized by the fall of the monarchy, the making of the National Convention and the infamous Reign of Terror, the founding of the Directory and the Thermidorian Reaction, and finally, the making of the Consulate and Napoleon’s rise to power.
First French Empire 
 The First French Empire, also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France.
First French Empire 
 He won early military victories in the War of the Third Coalition against Austria, Prussia, Russia, Portugal, and allied nations.
First French Empire 
 The next wars, known as the Napoleonic Wars, grew France over much of Western Europe and into Poland.
First French Empire 
 At its biggest in 1812, the French Empire had 130 départements, ruled over 44 million people, and had a large military in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Duchy of Warsaw.
First French Empire 
 The introduction of the Napoleonic Code through the continent increased legal equality, made jury systems, and legalized divorce.
First French Empire 
 The Empire was briefly brought back during the Hundred Days period in 1815 until Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
Leopold I of Belgium 
 Leopold I (Leopold George Christian Frederick; Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians.
Leopold I of Belgium 
 16 December 1790 – 12 November 1826 His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony
Leopold I of Belgium 
 6 April 1818 – 12 November 1826 (in the UK) His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony
Leopold I of Belgium 
 12 November 1826 – 21 July 1831 His Serene Highness (His Royal Highness in the UK) Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
Railway Station Bananal 
 The Railway Station Bananal building is a historical and tourist city Bananal, state São Paulo, Brazil.
Guy Ritchie 
 Ritchie's movies are: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Swept Away, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Berlin Conference 
 The Berlin Conference (or "Congo Conference") of 1884–85 made rules for European colonization and trade in Africa.
Berlin Conference 
 The conference met during the Scramble for Africa, a time with more colonial activity by European powers.
Berlin Conference 
 It ended most existing forms of African autonomy and self-governance, assuring that the European powers would not have to fight among themselves for dominance.
Berlin Conference 
 The territory of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo was made the property of Leopold II of Belgium.
Berlin Conference 
 The 14 countries who signed had free trade through the Congo Basin and Lake Nyasa and east of this in an area south of 5° N.
Berlin Conference 
 If a country took over any new part of the African coast, they would have to tell the other countries.
Berlin Conference 
 Portugal - Britain The colonies of Angola and Mozambique were brought together by the land in between (land that later became Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi.)
Berlin Conference 
 France - Britain A line running from Say in Niger to Baroua, on the north-east coast of Lake Chad marked what part belonged to whom.
Berlin Conference 
 France would own territory to the north of this line, and the United Kingdom would own territory to the south of it.
Berlin Conference 
 France - Germany The area to the north of a line formed by the intersection of the 14th meridian and Miltou was French, that to the south was German.
Berlin Conference 
 Britain - Germany The separation came in the form of a line passing through Yola, on the Benoué, Dikoa, going up to the extremity of Lake Chad.
Berlin Conference 
 France - Italy Italy was to own what was north of a line from the intersection of the Tropic of Cancer and the 17th meridian to the intersection of the 15th parallel and 21st meridian.
Ruanda-Urundi 
 Belgian troops invaded during World War I. The military occupation lasted from 1916 to 1924 when the territory came under Belgian rule.
Districts of Prussia 
 They were part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, and its successor state, the Free State of Prussia.
Districts of Prussia 
 They were made from 1815 to 1818 to be between the higher provinces and the lower municipal governments.
Eupen-Malmedy 
 29 July 1940 -  Feb 1945 : Eupen, Malmedy and Sankt-Vith are added to Germany, together with the Luxembourg village of Bého (renamed Bocholz) and former Neutral Moresnet.
Eupen-Malmedy 
 Eupen, Sankt Vith and others become German-speaking with special privileges for French speakers, Malmedy and Waimes join Aubel, Welkenraedt, Bleiberg and Baelen as French-speaking with (potential) special privileges for German speakers.
Eupen-Malmedy 
 Federal Government services to answer German questions from a member of the general public in German.
Eupen-Malmedy 
 1993 The Executive of the Rat der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft is recognized as one of the Belgian regional governments in the new federal constitution.
Eupen-Malmedy 
 2005 The authority of the Rat is increased by giving it the right of teaching over religious institutions and over its nine communities.
Battle of Belgium 
 After the French had fully committed the best of the Allied Armies to Belgium between 10 and 12 May, the Germans went towards the English Channel.
Battle of Belgium 
 The battle also included the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael, the first strategic airborne operation using paratroopers.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 Leopold III (born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel; 3 November 1901  25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 Leopold III went to the throne of Belgium on 23 February 1934 following the death of his father, King Albert I.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 On 29 August 1935, the King and Queen were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lucerne.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 Leopold lost control of the car which plunged into the lake, killing Queen Astrid and her unborn fourth child.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 The Nazis held the family in a fort at Hirschstein in Saxony from June 1944 to March 1945, and then at Strobl, Austria.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 Because of the controversy about his conduct during the war, Leopold III and his wife and children were unable to return to Belgium.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 On his return to Belgium in 1950, Leopold was met with one of the most violent strikes in the history of Belgium.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 To avoid tearing the country apart, and to keep the monarchy, Leopold decided on 1 August 1950 to withdraw in favour of his 20-year-old son Baudouin.
Leopold III of Belgium 
 In retirement, he followed his passion as an amateur social anthropologist and entomologist and travelled the world.
Seventeen Provinces 
 The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century.
Seventeen Provinces 
 The lands were about the same as the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France (Artois, French Flanders), and a small part of Western Germany.
Seventeen Provinces 
 the County of Flanders, including the burgraviates of Lille, Douai, Orchies, the Lordship of Tournai and the Tournaisis
Seventeen Provinces 
 the Duchy of Brabant, including the Margraviate of Antwerp, the counties of Leuven and of Brussels, and the advocacy of the Abbey of Nivelles and of Gembloux
Seventeen Provinces 
 the Duchy of Limburg, including the counties of Dalhem and Valkenburg and the Lordship of Herzogenrath
Prince-Bishopric of Liège 
 The Bishopric of Liège or Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries in present Belgium.
Prince-Bishopric of Liège 
 Bishop Notger became Prince-Bishop after he received secular control of the County of Huy from the emperor .
Prince-Bishopric of Liège 
 Its land included most of the present Belgian provinces of Liège and Limburg, and some exclaves in other parts of Belgium and the Netherlands.
Egide Charles Gustave Wappers 
 Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 Antwerp – 6 December 1874 Paris), better known as Gustave Wappers, was a Belgian painter.
Egide Charles Gustave Wappers 
 He showed his masterpiece, "Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830" at the Antwerp Salon in 1834.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 
 Two of them, the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, are in the main building.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 
 The other two, the Constantin Meunier Museum and the Antoine Wiertz Museum, are dedicated to specific Belgian artists.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 
 The Royal Museum has over 20,000 drawings, sculptures, and paintings, which date from the early 15th century to the present.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 
 The museum has a large collection of Flemish painting, among them  paintings by Bruegel and Rogier van der Weyden, Robert Campin, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium 
 The main building, which now houses the Museum of Ancient Art, was built as the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Capuchin monkey 
 The Capuchin group will be protective of its territory, marking a central area of their territory with urine and defending it against intruders.
Capuchin monkey 
 The young cling to their mother's chest until they are larger, when they move to her back a Capuchin Monkey takes 18 - 24 months to grow into an adult.
Capuchin monkey 
 In captivity, individual capuchins have reached an age of 45 years, although life expectancy in nature is only 15 to 25 years.
Capuchin monkey 
 When they see macaws eating palm nuts, cracking them open with their beaks, capuchins select a  few of the ripest fruits.
Capuchin monkey 
 They nip off the tip of the fruit and drink down the juice, then seemingly discard the rest of the fruit with the nut inside.
Capuchin monkey 
 One experiment suggest they can distinguish between seeing and knowing, but this is not entirely accepted.
Capuchin monkey 
 Some organizations have been training capuchin monkeys to assist quadriplegics as monkey helpers in a manner similar to mobility assistance dogs.
Capuchin monkey 
 After being socialized in a human home as infants, the monkeys undergo extensive training before being placed with a quadriplegic.
Capuchin monkey 
 Around the house, the monkeys help out by doing tasks including microwaving food, washing the quadriplegic's face, and opening drink bottles.
Capuchin monkey 
 Capuchin monkeys are the most common featured monkeys in the movies Outbreak, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (and its sequels), Zookeeper, George of the Jungle, and The Hangover Part II.
Capuchin monkey 
 They are omnivores, eating not only fruits, nuts, seeds, and buds, but also insects, spiders, birds' eggs, and small vertebrates.
Regional lockout 
 Regional lockout is something used to prevent the playing of media for device, sold in another country.
10NES 
 It was designed for North American and European versions of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.
10NES 
 It is used to prevent pirated games and games from other regions to be played, but various companies found ways to bypass the authorization chip.
Wastebasket taxon 
 A wastebasket taxon  is a term used by biologists for a taxon which has organisms that do not fit anywhere else.
Wastebasket taxon 
 Species or groups are put in the wastebsket taxon when they do not fit into one of the regular taxa.
Wastebasket taxon 
 Their name may still be very useful to biologists, because its members may be an important evolutionary grade.
Wastebasket taxon 
 Invertebrates are often called the "everything-else" category, meaning all animals without backbones.
Thomas Brisbane 
 Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane (July 23, 1773 – January 27, 1860) was the sixth Governor of New South Wales.
Thomas Brisbane 
 Brisbane was very interested in astronomy and brought two assistant astronomers to Australia with him.
Thomas Brisbane 
 When he went back to England, he left his books, telescopes and other equipment behind as gift, and these were the beginnings of the Sydney Observatory.
Thomas Brisbane 
 The Brisbane River was named after Sir Thomas, and the capital city of Queensland, takes its name from the river.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 The town is named after the city of Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first battle of the American Revolutionary War happened.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Since then, most local manufacturers have moved their production facilities to Asia and Mexico to reduce costs.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 This caused most textile and furniture factories to close, creating economic difficulties in the area.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 The oldest remaining house in Lexington is The Homestead, built by Dr. William Rainey Holt (1798–1868), a physician born in Alamance County.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Dr. Holt was the President of the North Carolina Agricultural Society and was one of the first to introduce purebred livestock to North Carolina.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Starting in 1984, the city has the Lexington Barbecue Festival each year, one of the largest street festivals in North Carolina.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 In 2012, the US News and World Report ranked Lexington as #4 on its list of the best cities for barbecue.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Lexington-style barbecue is made with pork shoulder cooked slowly over a hardwood fire, usually hickory wood.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Pigs in the City is a public art display managed by Uptown Lexington, Inc., a non-profit organization that has the goal of increasing the usage of the downtown area of Lexington.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Pigs in the City began in 2003 and 40,000 visitors from all over the state came to see the event in the first year.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 There have been a number of national fishing tournaments held at the lake, such as  Bassmaster Tournaments, like the Bassmaster Classic in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 2007.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 The lake has large numbers of fish, including channel, blue, and flathead catfish, plus crappie and several different sunfish such as bluegill, shellcracker and others.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 It opened in 1997, and features original artwork, reproductions, personal memorabilia, as well as home furnishings from the artist Bob Timberlake.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 It is centered at 35°49'0" North, 80°15'31" West (35.816768, -80.258643), in the valley of the Yadkin River.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Lexington is  northeast of High Rock Lake, part of the Yadkin-Pee Dee chain of lakes in central North Carolina.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which,  of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 It is bordered to the north and west by Interstate 85 Business, to the south and east by Interstate 85.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Additionally, 4 U.S. Highway Routes, U.S. Route 29, U.S. Route 64, U.S. Route 52, U.S. Route 70 and state highways NC Highway 8 and NC Highway 47 intersect the city.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Being in central North Carolina, between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mid-Atlantic coast, Lexington has a humid subtropical climate, with moderate temperatures during spring and autumn and warm to hot summers.
Lexington, North Carolina 
 Winters are relatively mild and wet with highs typically in the 40s to 50s and overnight lows averaging just below freezing.