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    both the House of Habsburg and the French Crown. She first conducted a proxy marriage with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, then still heir to the Empire...
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    the fourth of seven children of the Elector and his wife. A marriage by proxy took place in Munich on 13 June 1747 to Frederick Christian, the heir to...
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    Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (category Patrons of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
    father's marriage, and titular King of Jerusalem and Duke of Calabria (as a proxy for the Kingdom of Naples). The death of Maria Theresa on 29 November 1780...
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    finally accepted the proposal on behalf of Mary, and they were married by proxy on 30 September 1673, her just shy of 15, him being 39. Modena was within...
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    with the participation of both kingdoms. It was followed immediately by a proxy marriage. The marriage was consummated five years later. Carlota Joaquina...
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    de' Fucchinis, a servant in the employ of his sister-in-law Laura Ferro. The future Pope explains in detail the circumstances of the boy's conception...
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    policy change towards Pol Pot's regime. The origin of the international proxy war between the US and the Soviet Union dates back to the origin of the...
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    preparations were not for Fourquevaux to undertake. Pomponne de Bellièvre would attend the proxy marriage at Speyer on 12 October 1570. Fourquevaux did not...
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    New Jersey church". IrishCentral. Retrieved 16 April 2024. "Saint Vincent de Paul Church, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA". Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows...
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    Cristina of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. She and Pedro II were married by proxy in Naples on 30 May 1843. Upon seeing her in person, the Emperor was noticeably...
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    John Kerry (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    noted that the United States would not reflexively support Saudi Arabia's proxy wars against Iran. On December 28, 2016, soon after United Nations Security...
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    central theme of Great Expectations. The convict Magwitch covets it by proxy through Pip; Mrs Pocket dreams of acquiring it; it is also found in Pumblechook's...
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    nationalism. The apartheid government perceived itself as being locked in a proxy struggle with the Warsaw Pact and by implication, armed wings of black nationalist...
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    John Caradja (category Romanian patrons of the arts)
    middle-class Greeks such as Fotino, who had come to despise "Phanariotism" as the proxy of Ottoman despotism. In that context, Manuc advised Russia to mount additional...
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    Peter Sloterdijk (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    venerate God or praise the dead in eulogies, to demonstrate their own skill by proxy. In Sloterdijk's account, Nietzsche broke with this norm by regularly praising...
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  • List of 2010s films based on actual events (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    fictionalised version of the life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet and patron of the arts, and suggests that he...
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    2006 Lebanon War (category Iran–Israel proxy conflict)
    Lebanon, held with the aid of proxy militants in the South Lebanon Army (SLA). The invasion also led to the conception of a new Shi'a militant group,...
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    Manichaeism (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    world, and the soul are seen as the by-product of the battle between God's proxy, Primal Man, and the devil. The human person is seen as a battle-ground...
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    fondness. He had a clever mind, at times even ironic. He possessed a sacral conception of the monarchy and the right to reign. During the years of the French...
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    Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    betrothed herself to Maximilian I in 1490. About a year later, they married by proxy. However, Charles VIII and his sister Anne wanted her inheritance for France...
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    palette a psychological "divestment". The work has been seen as an "emotional proxy" for the artist's own isolation and desperation during his imprisonment...
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  • Rome to become Pope Leo X. Florence was dominated by a series of papal proxies until 1527 when the citizens declared the republic again, only to have...
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    Stevenson's Treasure Island." Hugely influential in shaping the popular conception of pirates, Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates...
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    Noam Chomsky (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    drawn the world's attention to the various misdeeds of the US and its proxies around the world, and for that he deserves credit. Yet, in seeking to avoid...
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    pleasure of the grotesque and its infantilization of blacks. These allowed—by proxy, and without full identification—childish fun and other low pleasures in...
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  • edges into No. 1 spot, but can it stay?". USA Today. Gannett Company. p. D3. DeRosa, Robin (October 19, 1994). "Regular series put ABC back on top". USA Today...
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    façades in Rome. In this way, the Renaissance finally came late to Sicily by proxy. At this stage of its development, Sicilian Baroque still lacked the freedom...
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    Saint Denis and the main altar of the Church of Val de Grâce (done at the request of its patron the Queen Mother), as well as his idea for a fountain...
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    just as Darwin groomed Huxley, so Owen groomed Wilberforce; and both the proxies fought public battles on behalf of their principals as much as themselves...
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    secured from him the governorship of the Zabadani nahiya for his Shihab proxy Qasim ibn Ali. By March, Fakhr al-Din turned against Mustafa Pasha in favor...
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