Successes and reverses
1ups and downs — (Colloq.) Successes and reverses, prosperity and adversity, good fortune and bad, various fortunes …
2HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
3Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
4French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars — ▪ European history a series of wars between 1792 and 1815 that ranged France against shifting alliances of other European powers and that produced a brief French hegemony over most of Europe. The revolutionary wars, which may for… …
5Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Naval Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau caption= partof=the First World War date=28 July 10 August, 1914 place=Mediterranean Sea result=German victory combatant1=flagicon|UK British Empire flagicon|France France… …
6Claude Auchinleck — Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck Nickname The Auk …
7Julio-Claudian dynasty — The Julio Claudian Dynasty refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus (Octavian), Tiberius, Caligula (Gaius), Claudius, and Nero. They ruled the Roman Empire from 27 BC to AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide. These… …
8University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine — The Fitzgerald Building (foreground) and the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research The Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto is the medical school of the University of Toronto. The faculty is based in the Discovery… …
9François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg — The Duc de Luxembourg Nickname Le Tapissier de Notre Da …
10NAPOLEON I — emperor of the French, born at Ajaccio, Corsica, the second son of Charles Bonaparte and Lætitia Ramolino; trained at the military schools of Brienne and Paris; distinguished first as a captain of artillery at the siege of Toulon in 1793;… …
