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• The Protestant Reformation and the European • Emmeline Pankhurst and her Struggle for Wars of Religion Suffrage in Great Britain

• William Shakespeare: Triumph Through • Catherine de’ Medici and the Huguenots His Tragedies • Neville Chamberlain: The Tragedy of • Treaty of Versailles: Triumph or Tragedy? Appeasement

• Martin Luther, Pope Leo X, and the • Battle of Waterloo: New Beginnings from Reformation: The Triumph of Propaganda the End

• The Marshall Plan: Economic Reconstruction • Marco Polo: Economy of the Silk Road of Europe • Vincent Van Gogh: The Triumph and Tragedy • Isabella, Ferdinand, and the Spanish Reconquista of Genius

• Galileo: The Tragic Consequences of Triumph • Thomas Cromwell: Suppression of Monasteries in the Skies • Christopher Columbus: Triumph or Tragedy? • The German U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic

• The Great Fire of London: Rebuilding Act of 1667

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• Athens, Sparta, and the Battle of Marathon • Philippine-American War

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