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It is the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America, following several earlier failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. It was founded by the London Company (later to become the Virginia Company), headquartered in England.
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The path of the planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with the center of the sun being located at one focus. (The Law of Ellipses). An imaginary line drawn from the center of the sun to the center of the planet will sweep out equal areas in equal intervals of time. (The Law of Equal Areas). The ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun. (The Law of Harmonies)
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The war was fought largely as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over the internal politics and balance of power within the Empire played a significant part. Gradually, the war developed into a more general conflict involving most of the European powers.. In this general phase, the war became more a continuation of the Bourbon–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence
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In 1622 he was made a cardinal and from there rose to become head of the Royal Council and prime minister of France. King Louis XIII was a weak ruler and Richelieu filled the void, more or less running the empire via his advice to the king.
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a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists.
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Cromwell was a Roundhead military leader in a long series of civil war battles, which ended with Charles I imprisoned and finally beheaded in 1649
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He eventually gained the king-like title of Lord Protector of the Realm, and presided over a troubled era of internal unrest and costly foreign wars.
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His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days, and is the longest documented reign of any European monarch
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Began in the bakeshop of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II, at one o'clock in the morning. At this time, most London houses were of wood and pitch construction, dangerously flammable, and it did not take long for the fire to expand.
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