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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;includeonly&gt; {{#switch: {{{1|}}} | Abraham Lincoln = U.S. president; lawyer and statesman; emblem of democratic leadership | Aphrodite = Greek goddess of love and beauty; central figure in classical myth | Ambroise Vollard = French art dealer; champion of Cézanne; pioneered modern exhibition tactics | American Apparel = American clothing company; Los Angeles based; known for controversial marketing | American Museum = Barnum’s New York museum; popular 19th-centu...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;includeonly&gt;<br /> {{#switch: {{{1|}}}<br /> | Abraham Lincoln = U.S. president; lawyer and statesman; emblem of democratic leadership<br /> | Aphrodite = Greek goddess of love and beauty; central figure in classical myth<br /> | Ambroise Vollard = French art dealer; champion of Cézanne; pioneered modern exhibition tactics<br /> | American Apparel = American clothing company; Los Angeles based; known for controversial marketing<br /> | American Museum = Barnum’s New York museum; popular 19th-century entertainment venue<br /> | Andrew Mellon = American financier and art collector; U.S. Treasury Secretary and philanthropist<br /> | Araxes River = River of the South Caucasus; ancient border in Persian campaigns<br /> | Athens = Capital of Greece; birthplace of democracy; classical city-state<br /> | Auteuil = Neighborhood of Paris; site of Talleyrand’s prank hunt<br /> | Bank of California = American bank; financed Western ventures during the 19th century<br /> | Baron Rothschild = Noble title in the Rothschild banking dynasty; European finance<br /> | Bardas = Byzantine statesman; uncle and regent to Emperor Michael III<br /> | Basilius = Byzantine courtier; later emperor; rose from Macedonian peasant<br /> | Bois de Boulogne = Large Paris park; fashionable site for social amusements<br /> | Bobby Fischer = American chess grandmaster; 1972 world champion<br /> | Boris Spassky = Soviet chess grandmaster; 1972 world championship opponent<br /> | Bragadino = Italian alchemist-impostor; staged fraudulent gold-making demonstrations<br /> | Brandenburg = German historical region and state; Hohenzollern heartland<br /> | Buckingham Palace = London royal residence; official home of the British monarch<br /> | Byzantium = Ancient city later Constantinople; capital of the Byzantine Empire<br /> | Casanova = Venetian adventurer and writer; famed for escapes and memoirs<br /> | Castlereagh = British foreign secretary Robert Stewart; key Congress of Vienna figure<br /> | Catherine de’ Medici = Queen mother of France; influential Valois power broker<br /> | Catherine of Aragon = Spanish princess; first wife of Henry VIII of England<br /> | Cézannes = Paintings by Paul Cézanne; Post-Impressionist masterpieces<br /> | Cesare Borgia = Italian noble and commander; model Renaissance power player<br /> | Cesena = City in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; Borgia staged public tableau<br /> | Charles Batchelor = Engineer and manager; Edison associate in New York<br /> | Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord = French diplomat and bishop; master courtier and strategist<br /> | Chicago = Largest city in Illinois; major U.S. commercial center<br /> | Ch’in Shih Huang Ti = First emperor of China; founder of the Qin dynasty<br /> | Christopher Columbus = Genoese navigator; led 1492 voyages under Spanish crown<br /> | Clausewitz = Prussian military theorist; author of On War<br /> | Cleopatra = Queen of Egypt; Ptolemaic ruler famed for political theater<br /> | Cologne = German city on the Rhine; also title of a Turner painting<br /> | Columbus, New Mexico = Border town in New Mexico; raided by Pancho Villa<br /> | Congress of Vienna = 1814–1815 diplomatic congress; redrew post-Napoleonic Europe<br /> | Continental Edison Company = European arm of Edison’s enterprises; employed Tesla<br /> | Corcyra = Ancient Greek island polity; rival of Corinth<br /> | Corinth = Ancient Greek city-state; rival of Corcyra<br /> | Cosimo de’ Medici = Florentine statesman and banker; de facto republican leader<br /> | Cyrus = Achaemenid founder; Persian king known as Cyrus the Great<br /> | Darién = Early Spanish settlement on the Isthmus of Panama<br /> | Decembrist Uprising = 1825 Russian revolt by army officers against autocracy<br /> | Deioces = Legendary Median ruler; reputed founder of centralized monarchy<br /> | Denmark = Nordic country; adversary in Bismarck’s Schleswig-Holstein war<br /> | Diego Velázquez = Spanish painter; court artist and creator of Las Meninas<br /> | Dionysus = Greek god of wine; symbol of ecstasy and theatre<br /> | Duke of Anjou = French royal title; Elizabeth I suitor in diplomacy<br /> | Elba = Tuscan island; Napoleon’s first place of exile<br /> | Elizabeth I = Queen of England; ruled as the Virgin Queen<br /> | English Channel = Arm of the Atlantic; separates southern England from France<br /> | Eudoxia Ingerina = Byzantine noblewoman; associated with Michael III and Basil<br /> | Fiji Mermaid = Barnum exhibit; fabricated mermaid assembled from animal parts<br /> | Florence = Italian city; cradle of the Renaissance<br /> | Formosan = Old term for Taiwanese language or people<br /> | Francisco Pizarro = Spanish conquistador; conquered Inca ruler Atahualpa<br /> | Francesco Giuseppe Borri = Italian mystic and charlatan; self-styled prophet<br /> | George Heald = British army officer; lover of Lola Montez<br /> | George Psalmanazar = Eighteenth-century impostor; fabricated Formosan culture<br /> | George Westinghouse = American industrialist; championed alternating current<br /> | Genghis Khan = Mongol conqueror; founder of the Mongol Empire<br /> | General John Pershing = American general; led 1916 Punitive Expedition<br /> | General Tom Thumb = P. T. Barnum performer; dwarf entertainer Charles Stratton<br /> | Grand Admiral of the Oceanic Sea = Honorific sought by Columbus; proposed hereditary naval title<br /> | Hellespont = Ancient strait linking Aegean and Marmara seas<br /> | Henry Kissinger = American diplomat and author; U.S. national security figure<br /> | Henry VIII = King of England; initiated the English Reformation<br /> | Hernán Cortés = Spanish conquistador; captured Moctezuma in Mexico<br /> | Hispaniola = Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic<br /> | Hotta Masayoshi = Edo-period Japanese statesman; advocated pragmatic engagement<br /> | Hsien-yang = Capital of Qin China; now Xianyang in Shaanxi<br /> | Hsiang Yu = Chinese warlord Xiang Yu; rival of Liu Bang<br /> | Inalchik = Khwarezm border governor; seized caravan envoys<br /> | J. M. W. Turner = British painter; master of light and atmosphere<br /> | J. P. Morgan = American financier; influential banking magnate<br /> | Jean-Baptiste Colbert = French statesman; finance minister under Louis XIV<br /> | Joao II of Portugal = King of Portugal; rejected Columbus’s proposal<br /> | Joe Orton = English playwright; author of dark farces<br /> | John Slack = American prospector; co-perpetrator of diamond hoax<br /> | Joseph Duveen = Art dealer; shaped U.S. collector tastes<br /> | Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil = American con artist; famed for elaborate swindles<br /> | Julius Caesar = Roman statesman and general; pivotal in Roman transition<br /> | Kenneth Halliwell = English writer and artist; partner of Joe Orton<br /> | Khwarezm = Central Asian empire centered on Khwarazm<br /> | King Charles I = Stuart king of England; executed after civil war<br /> | King Frederick William IV = King of Prussia; conservative monarch before unification<br /> | King Ludwig of Bavaria = Ludwig I; Bavarian king and patron of arts<br /> | King Menghuo = Southern leader in Three Kingdoms legend<br /> | King Wutugu = Tribal king allied with Menghuo; vine-armor army<br /> | Kirkus Reviews = American book review magazine; noted for brief verdicts<br /> | La Fontaine = French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine; poet and storyteller<br /> | La Rochefoucauld = French moralist François de La Rochefoucauld; aphorist<br /> | Las Meninas = Velázquez painting; complex royal and artist portrait<br /> | Lisbon = Capital of Portugal; Columbus’s early base<br /> | Liu Pang = Liu Bang; founder of the Han dynasty<br /> | Los Angeles Times = Major American newspaper based in Los Angeles<br /> | Lucca = Tuscan city in Italy<br /> | Machiavelli = Italian political thinker; author of The Prince<br /> | Madame de Pompadour = Chief mistress of Louis XV; political patron<br /> | Madame de Sévigné = French aristocrat and letter-writer<br /> | Madame du Barry = Mistress of Louis XV; influential courtesan<br /> | Mao Zedong = Chinese Communist leader; PRC founder<br /> | Marie de Médicis = Queen mother of France; regent for Louis XIII<br /> | Marie-Antoinette = Queen of France; target of revolutionary scorn<br /> | Marquis de Sévigné = French nobleman; subject of Ninon’s coaching<br /> | matcha = Powdered Japanese green tea; whisked in tea ceremony<br /> | Massagetai = Steppe people east of the Caspian<br /> | Medea = Ancient region Media; northwestern Iran<br /> | Medes = Ancient Iranian people; founders of Media<br /> | Metternich = Austrian statesman; architect of conservative order<br /> | Michelangelo = Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter<br /> | Milan Kundera = Czech-born novelist; wrote political parables<br /> | Milton Erickson = American psychiatrist; pioneer of medical hypnosis<br /> | Moctezuma = Aztec emperor seized by Cortés<br /> | Molière = French playwright and actor<br /> | Muhammad II = Khwarazmian shah; adversary of Genghis Khan<br /> | Munich = Capital of Bavaria, Germany<br /> | Napoleon Bonaparte = French emperor and general; central Napoleonic figure<br /> | New York Magazine = American biweekly magazine based in New York<br /> | New York Times = American newspaper; national daily of record<br /> | Nicolas Fouquet = French finance minister; patron of Vaux-le-Vicomte<br /> | Ninon de Lenclos = French courtesan and salonnière<br /> | Oda Nobunaga = Japanese warlord; unifier of late Sengoku Japan<br /> | Otto von Bismarck = Prussian statesman; architect of German unification<br /> | Oxford = English university city<br /> | P. T. Barnum = American showman and museum owner<br /> | Pausanias = Spartan commander; regent known for hubris<br /> | PEN America = U.S. free expression organization<br /> | Penguin Random House = Global book publisher; owner of Viking imprint<br /> | Peale’s Museum = American museum rival to Barnum in New York<br /> | People = American magazine focused on celebrities and culture<br /> | Philip Arnold = American prospector; salted diamond site<br /> | Philip of Macedon = King of Macedon; father of Alexander the Great<br /> | Piero Soderini = Florentine statesman; patron who inspected David<br /> | Prussia = Historical German state led by Hohenzollerns<br /> | Publishers Weekly = American book industry magazine<br /> | Pyrenees = Mountain range between France and Spain<br /> | Queen Isabella = Isabella I of Castile; Spanish queen<br /> | Queen Tomyris = Massagetai queen; defeated Cyrus<br /> | Queen Victoria = British monarch; reigned during the Victorian era<br /> | Reykjavík = Capital of Iceland<br /> | Rubicon = River in northern Italy; symbol of irrevocable step<br /> | Samarkand = Historic Silk Road city in Uzbekistan<br /> | Santa Maria del Fiore = Florence cathedral; site of marble block<br /> | Schleswig-Holstein = Duchies contested by Denmark, Austria, and Prussia<br /> | Sherman’s march through Georgia = Union campaign led by Sherman; destructive Civil War march<br /> | Sir Thomas Lawrence = English portrait painter; Royal Academy president<br /> | Sir Walter Raleigh = English courtier, explorer, and writer<br /> | Silk Route = Ancient overland trade network across Eurasia<br /> | St. Bartholomew’s Day massacres = 1572 French religious massacres; targeted Huguenots<br /> | Sun Pin = Chinese military strategist of the Warring States<br /> | Sun Tzu = Ancient Chinese strategist; author of The Art of War<br /> | The Guardian = British newspaper owned by Guardian Media Group<br /> | The New Yorker = American magazine; long-form reporting and culture<br /> | Thomas Edison = American inventor and business magnate<br /> | Tiffany = American jeweler Charles Tiffany<br /> | Tokugawa Ieyasu = Japanese shogun; founder of Tokugawa shogunate<br /> | Ts’ao Ts’ao = Chinese warlord Cao Cao; Han general and regent<br /> | United States = Country in North America<br /> | Valois princes = French royal house members courting Elizabeth I<br /> | Vaux-le-Vicomte = French château built by Nicolas Fouquet<br /> | Versailles = French royal palace; symbol of absolutism<br /> | Viking = American publishing imprint under Penguin Random House<br /> | Virgin Queen = Epithet of Elizabeth I<br /> | Wang Mang = Chinese emperor; short-lived Xin dynasty founder<br /> | West End = Theatre district in London<br /> | Winter Palace = Imperial palace in Saint Petersburg<br /> | World Chess Championship = Official title match for world chess champion<br /> | Wu Ch’i = Chinese general Wu Qi; strict military reformer<br /> | Xerxes = Persian king Xerxes I; led Greek invasion<br /> | Zhuge Liang = Chinese strategist and chancellor of Shu<br /> | #default = Hi reader, have a great day! 😎<br /> }}<br /> &lt;/includeonly&gt;&lt;noinclude&gt;{{documentation}}&lt;/noinclude&gt;</div>

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