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When Kimpa Vita was told to sit on the floor by a Portuguese official, she commanded one of her attendants to kneel down and she sat on him instead.

Nicholas’s reaction to his father’s death and his own ascension to the throne was one of despair and a feeling that he was unprepared to rule.

Nicholas’s great uncle suffered gruesome wounds from a bomb, creating in Nicholas a lifelong fear of assassination.  

In 1904, Russia fought a disastrous war with                                                     .

The Romanov Empire comprised roughly 1/6 of the globe.

The Romanov family had ruled Russia for approximately:

The rapier was originally developed as a dueling weapon.

Atahualpa’s reaction to Captain De Soto’s attempt to intimidate him with his horse was one of fear and panic.

Pizarro was aided in his conquest of the Incas by De Soto’s book on his conquest of the Aztecs.

Overall, the normal V/Q ratio is about