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    Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and...
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    George Oliver Walsh, Count of Wallis (German: Georg Olivier Graf von Wallis, Freiherr von Carrighmain; 1671, in Vienna – 19 December 1743, in Vienna)...
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  • Olivier, Count von Wallis, son of Richard, also served in the Habsburg military during the Thirty Years War under Wallenstein. Wallis and his older brother...
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    George Augustus Wallis (Merton, Surrey, 1761 - Florence, 1847) was an English painter, active in Italy. Wallis began his career as a protégé of George...
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    Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany (23 October 1705 – 26 June 1757) was an Austrian military officer, one of the highest-ranking...
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  • Wallis (1731–1798) 1789 – Joseph, Count Colloredo-Waldsee († 1818) 1790 – Jakob Marchese Botta d’Adorno († 1803) 1790 – Blasius Columban, Baron von Bender...
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    the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Wallis had slept with the German ambassador in London, Joachim von Ribbentrop, in 1936; had remained in constant...
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    crisis in the British Empire arose when King Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent...
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    film studio U.F.A. GmbH's 25th anniversary in 1943, Joseph Goebbels hired the filmmaker Josef von Báky to direct Münchhausen, a big-budget color film...
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    (1746–1795), later Countess Wallis von Carrighmain and Marie Caroline (1752–1832), later Princess of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg. Wenzel Joseph had nine other siblings...
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    Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (German: [joˈʔaxɪm fɔn ˈʁɪbəntʁɔp]; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat...
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  • Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis, assistant chief designer, Aviation Section, Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Ursula Jeans as Mrs Molly Wallis Basil Sydney as Air Chief...
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    Retrieved 2 August 2011. A War in Words, p. 69, Svetlana Palmer & Sarah Wallis, Simon & Schuster 2003 [ISBN missing] Watson, Alexander (2020-07-22). "World...
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    Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre...
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    World War I, to Countess Sophie Chotek von Wognin was morganatic at the insistence of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. Danish astronomer and nobleman Tycho...
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    to join Wallis, though half his soldiers became casualties. It went otherwise with Ternyey, who surrendered the Chartreuse to Dommartin. Wallis brought...
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    name Baphomet appeared in the essay by the Viennese Orientalist Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Mysterium Baphometis revelatum, seu Fratres Militiæ...
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    "Wallis Myers' Rankings". The Age. 24 September 1936. p. 6 – via Google News Archive. "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics". Merrihew, Stephen Wallis...
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    Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume IV (1672-April 1675). OUP Oxford. pp. 316–. ISBN 978-0-19-103069-7. "GUERICKE, Otto von". SOPHIA RARE BOOKS...
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  • H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Barnes Wallis, British inventor – Barnes Wallis Moth Machine (not invented by him, but named after him...
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    ISBN 0-521-55069-6 Hawkesworth, John; Byron, John; Wallis, Samuel; Carteret, Philip; Cook, James; Banks, Joseph (1773). An account of the voyages undertaken...
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  • Engineers in 1976; Gordon Crighton, engineering director of TML, David Wallis, project manager of UK Tunnels of TML; the French end of the tunnel was...
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  • Retrieved August 1, 2023. Smart, Jack. "Jennifer Hudson and Quvenzhané Wallis Fend Off Disaster in Post-Apocalyptic Breathe Trailer (Exclusive)". People...
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  • Stocker; T. Komatsu; G. Tanaka; M. Williams; D.J. Siveter; C.E. Bennett; S. Wallis; T. Oji; T. Maekawa; M. Okura; T.R.A. Vandenbroucke (2018). "Carboniferous...
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  • Göran Wahlenberg Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein George Arnott Walker-Arnott Nathaniel Wallich Gustav Wallis Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth E. F....
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  • Francis Paul Anthony Wallis Charles III 1734–1755 Count János Haller Charles III Maria Theresa 1755–1758 Count Frances Wenceslaus Wallis Maria Theresa [verification...
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    summit (4479 m) 9 Weisshorn 4,505 Wallis Alps Switzerland 11.1 Dom 1,234 Furggjoch 19 August 1861 John Tyndall, Johann Joseph Brennen, Ulrich Wenger East ridge...
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  • Emperor and King (1835–1848) Franz Joseph I, Emperor and King (1848–1916) Heads of government (complete list) – Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Minister-President...
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    Lacy 1766–1774 Count Andreas Hadik von Futak 1774–1790 Count Michael Joseph Wallis 1791–1796 Friedrich Moritz, Count Nostitz-Rieneck 1796 Count Ferdinand...
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