Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Date of Information: 10/30/2022[source] Pres. Bongbong Marcos Vice Pres. Sara Duterte Executive Sec.…
(Encyclopedia) PullyPullypülēˈ [key], town, Vaud canton, W Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva. It is a residential suburb of Lausanne. The town has a 15th-century church and a museum honoring Charles…
(Encyclopedia) Klesl or Khlesl, MelchiorKlesl or Khlesl, Melchiorboth: mĕlˈkhyôr klāˈsəl [key], 1552–1630, Austrian politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. The son of a Protestant baker,…
(Encyclopedia) Uladislaus IIUladislaus II&oomacr;ˌläˈdĭslous [key], Hung. Ulászló II, c.1456–1516, king of Hungary (1490–1516) and, as Ladislaus II, king of Bohemia (1471–1516); son of Casimir IV…
(Encyclopedia) Northern Mariana IslandsNorthern Mariana Islandsmärēäˈnä [key], officially Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a self-governing entity in association with the United States (…
(Encyclopedia) GuamGuamgwäm [key], Chamorro Guåhan, officially Territory of Guam, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (see also Northern Mariana Islands), an…
(Encyclopedia) Christian of Anhalt, 1568–1630, prince of Anhalt (1603–30). He was a firm Calvinist and a skilled diplomat. As adviser to Frederick IV, elector palatine, he sought to build a strong…
(Encyclopedia) Troppau, Congress ofTroppau, Congress oftrôpˈou [key], 1820, international conference convened at the behest of Czar Alexander I of Russia under the provisions of the Quadruple…
(Encyclopedia) Rudolf, 1858–89, Austrian archduke, crown prince of Austria and Hungary; only son of Emperor Francis Joseph and Empress Elizabeth. Upon his mysterious death at Mayerling near Vienna (…
(Encyclopedia) SimancasSimancassēmängˈkäs [key], village, Valladolid prov., NW Spain, in Castile and León. The castle, an old fort rebuilt in the 15th cent., contains the Spanish national archives.…
