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65 matches to Berlin Wall
Shih Huang-ti. c259-210BC. Emperor 246-. Unified China. Great Wall. Burning of Books 213.
Siegfried Line. 1937-40 German fortifications on western frontier = West Wall. Also, part of Hindenburg Line.
Simpson, Wallis. 1896-1986. American divorcée for whom Edward VIII abdicated.
Sistine Chapel. 1473. Vatican. Walls by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio; ceiling by Michelangelo 1508-12. Last Judgement 1534-41.
Thiers, Adolphe. 1797-1877. French. Led July Revolution. Paris wall 1841. Crushed Paris Commune 1871. First president of Third Republic 1871-3.
Wailing Wall, Battle. 1929. Jews battle Moslems.
Wallace, Alfred. 1823-1913. British naturalist. Theory of natural selection, 1838, independent of Darwin.
Wallace, George. 1919-98. Alabama segregationist governor, presidential candidate. Shot 1972.
Wallace, Lewis. 1827-1905. US soldier, author. Ben Hur 1880.
Wallenberg, Raoul. 1912-47?. Swedish diplomat. Saved thousands of Jews in WWII Budapest. Jailed by Soviets. Holocaust.
Wallenstein, Albrecht von. 1583-1634. Bohemian HRE general in Thirty Years War.
Wallis, Barnes. 1887-1979. British armament inventor.
Wallis, John. 1616-1703. English mathematician. Calculus, cryptography. Infinitesimals 1655.
Walloon. French dialect of south Belgium. Flemings.
West Wall. 1934-9. German illegal fortification of Rhine frontier.