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It is a set of treaties signed by the opposing states in the War of the Spanish Succession between 1713 and 1715 in the Dutch city of Utrecht and in the German city of Rastatt. It put an end to the war, although after their signing, hostilities continued on Spanish territory until July 1715, when the Marquis of Asfeld took the island of Mallorca. In this treaty Europe changed its political map. The second oldest treaty in force on the matter of Gibraltar, military place of the British Crown.
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The Spirit of Laws is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative law, published in 1748 originally published anonymously, partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside France was aided by its rapid translation into other languages.
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The steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force is transformed, by a connecting rod and flywheel, into rotational force for work.
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It is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted by the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and then ratified by the people in conventions in each state in the name of "We the People". The Constitution has a central place in American law and political culture. The United States Constitution is the oldest federal constitution currently in force in the world and an original copy of the document can be found at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
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It took place in Paris and despite the fact that the medieval fortress known as the Bastille only held seven prisoners, its fall into the hands of the Parisian revolutionaries symbolically marked the end of the Old Regime and the starting point of the French Revolution. The surrender of the prison, a symbol of the despotism of the French monarchy, caused a real social earthquake both in France and in the rest of Europe, its echoes reaching far away Russia.
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It was a significant episode in the French Revolution, in which the royal family had a serious decline in its royal authority, trying unsuccessfully to escape abroad disguised as a Russian aristocratic family. The episode increased hostility towards the monarchy as an institution, as well as against the people of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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This event took place at the Place de la Révolution in Paris because he was convicted of conspiracy against public liberty and an attack against national security.
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It was a combat that took place in the vicinity of Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium located about twenty kilometers south of Brussels, between the French army, commanded by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, against British, Dutch and German troops.
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Was a great occasion. Not only was it the first public passenger railway in the world, but it was pulled by one of the first steam locomotives. Most people had never seen anything like it before and 40,000 people turned out to witness it.
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it worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines.
