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...that '''[[Horatia Nelson|Horatia N. Thompson]]''' ''(pictured)'' was [[Baptism|christened]] with [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Lord Nelson]] and [[Emma Hamilton|Mrs Hamilton]] as [[godparent]]s and was later [[Adoption|adopted]] by them as an [[orphan]], even though they were her [[biological parent]]s?

...that the 1609 '''[[Treaty of Antwerp (1609)|Treaty of Antwerp]]''' was influenced by the writings of [[Hugo Grotius]] in the ''Mare Liberum'', which was published at the insistence of the [[Dutch East India Company]] during the course of the treaty negotiations?

...that [[Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia]] let a soldier tasked with his [[Capital punishment|execution]] take care of a cat?

...that, after driving the [[French First Republic|French Republicans]] from [[Italy]], Russian Field-Marshal [[Alexander Suvorov]] managed to [[Suvorov's Italian and Swiss expedition|conduct a masterful flight]] across the snow-capped Alps?

...that [[George Rogers Clark]] was called the "Conqueror of the [[Northwest Territory |Northwest]]" because of his victorious [[Illinois campaign]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]]?

...that the [[crown-cardinal]]s of [[Austria]], [[France]], and [[Spain]] could exercise the ''[[jus exclusivae]]'' during [[papal conclave]]s from the [[16th century|16th]] to [[20th century|20th centuries]]?

...that some accounts regarding the fighting during the '''[[Battle of Bonchurch]]''' states that some of the female population of the [[Isle of Wight]] participated by firing arrows at the French troops?

...that the '''[[Mongol Empire]],''' also known as the '''Mongolian Empire''' was the [[List of largest empires#Contiguous empires|largest contiguous]] [[empire]] in world [[history]] and for some time was the most feared in [[Eurasia]]?

...that the pioneers traveled to the [[Salt Lake Valley]] in the Great Basin using wagons, [[Mormon handcart pioneers|handcarts]], and, in some cases, personally carrying their belongings. Their trail along the [[Platte River]] and over the [[Sweetwater River (Wyoming)|Sweetwater River]] became known as the [[Mormon Trail]]?

...that when Mawewe, the putative king of [[Gazaland]] (in 19th-century [[Mozambique]]), played rough with the colonial [[Portugal|Portuguese]] by demanding tribute and threatening to exterminate the Europeans if they refused to pay, Paiva de Andrade, then governor of [[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]], responded by sending a single rifle cartridge to Mawewe, saying that this would be the form his tribute would take?

...that the '''[[Muslim conquests]]''' (632–732), ({{lang-ar|فتح}}, '''Fataḥ''', literally ''opening'',) also referred to as the '''Islamic conquests''' or '''Arab conquests''', began after the death of the [[Prophets of Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]]. He established a new unified political policy in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] which under the subsequent [[Rashidun]] (The Rightly Guided Caliphs) and [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]] [[Caliphate]]s saw a century of rapid expansion of [[Muslim]] power?

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