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A political upheaval in a government or nation state characterized by great change.

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The removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.

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Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis.

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A rotation: one complete turn of an object during rotation.

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In the case of celestial bodies - the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body.

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A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.

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A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.

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Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.

These estates were confiscated during the Revolution.

Have people since the Revolution become happier?

In 1917 the Russian revolution swept away the old order.

The dotcom revolution is going to lead to even more information anarchy.

The ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age produced Napoleon's power.

The name remained in use until after the revolution of 1688.

Sadly, on this side of the socialist revolution, that's the way things are.

When the March Revolution of 1917 broke out Guchkov was called in to take charge of the Ministry of War.

Then along came the Industrial Revolution, and I am sure it all seemed very foreign.

The semi-centennial of this debate was celebrated in 1908, when the Illini Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, caused a suitably inscribed boulder weighing 23 tons to be set up in Washington Park as a memorial.

This revolution was accompanied by a conflict with Sparta and other powers.

There has been no revolution in economic science, and is not likely to be any.

The revolution of 1897-98 opened the door to wider knowledge, and much exploration has ensued, for which see Crete.

In spite of his absolute lack of talent, he attained the highest of positions - an exceptional fact in the history of the French Revolution.

Its scene is Maryland during the American Revolution.

After the revolution in Russia in the spring of 1917 Mr. Henderson visited that country on behalf of the British Government.

The husbandry of the country was thus steadily improving, when suddenly the whole of Europe became involved in the wars of the French Revolution.

At the outset of the Revolution she foresaw the gravity of events, and refused to leave the king, whom she accompanied in his flight on the 10th of June 1792, and with whom she was arrested at Varennes.

This scene was the beginning of the actual events of the Revolution.

Ten years later a more serious revolution, the only revolution that seriously shook the state, broke out and was also crushed.

In the next year the revolution opened for him, as for so many of his contemporaries, the way to public life, and he was elected as representative for his native district in the second chamber of the reformed Hanoverian parliament.

He was recognized as the leader of the Hanoverians and of all those who opposed the "revolution from above."

It follows that putting n for the mean motion and T for the period of revolution we shall have in degrees nT=3600.

For Godoy the king had an unaffected liking, and the lifelong favour he showed him is almost pathetic. When terrified by the French Revolution he turned to the Inquisition to help him against the party which would have carried the reforming policy of Charles III.

At the same time a piece was cut off the park to prevent the undue contraction of the Place by the necessary bringing forward of the palace, and the pits which played a certain part in the revolution of 1830 when the Dutch defended the park for a few days against the Belgians were filled up. The Palais de la Nation was constructed between 1779 and 1783, also during the Austrian period.

The anomalistic revolution of a planet or other heavenly body is the revolution between two consecutive passages through the pericentre.

He was a prominent opponent of the oligarchical party in the revolution which took place on the approach of Napoleon; and he was one of the envoys sent to seek the protection of the French.

Hers was one of the most touching tragedies of the Revolution; she perished because she was the sister of the king.

It was characteristic of his nature that he should be stirred to such delight by the Revolution in France, and should labour so earnestly to make his countrymen understand with what gravity and sobriety it had been effected..

This may be, in the historical sense, merely a passing phase of human progress, due to the rapid extension of the industrial revolution to all the civilized and many of the uncivilized nations of the world, bringing in its train the consolidation of large areas, a similarity of conditions within them, and amongst peoples and governments a great increase in the strength of economic motives.

At the same time, the revolution in the means of transport and communication has destroyed, or is tending to destroy, local markets, and closely interwoven all the business of the world.

For the constitution of the year 1795 which inaugurated the period of the Directory (1795-1799) see French Revolution.

The success at the bridge of Lodi (loth of May) seems first to have inspired in the young general dreams of a grander career than that of a successful general of the Revolution; while his narrow escape at the bridge of Arcola in November strengthened his conviction that he was destined for a great future.

Through these two men a military revolution was speedily accomplished, and early in 69 Vitellius was proclaimed emperor at Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne), or, more accurately, emperor of the armies of Upper Germany and Lower Germany.

The end of the republic came when the French Revolution burst over Europe.

In 1803, having formally surrendered the part of Hesse on the left bank of the Rhine which had been taken from him in the early days of the Revolution, Louis received in return a much larger district which had formerly belonged to the duchy of Westphalia, the electorate of Mainz and the bishopric of Worms. In 1806, being a member of the confederation of the Rhine, he took the title of Louis I., grandduke of Hesse; he supported Napoleon with troops from 1805 to 1813, but after the battle of Leipzig he joined the allies.

Another element is the time of revolution of the body in its orbit, called its period.

These three deeds or enactments constituted the early constitution of the South Netherlands, which, with one important modification in the time of Charles V., remained intact till the Brabant revolution in the reign of Joseph II.

During the regency of his half-sister Sophia (1682-1689) he occupied the subordinate position of junior tsar, and after the revolution of 1689 Peter was still left pretty much to himself.

The king's acceptance of two bribes - one of $75,000 and another of $80,000 for the assignment of an opium licence - precipitated the revolution of 1887.

On receiving Blount's report to the effect that the revolution had been accomplished by the aid of the United States minister and by the landing of troops from the " Boston," President Cleveland sent Albert Sydney Willis (1843-1897) of Kentucky to Honolulu with secret instructions as United States minister.

On the breaking up of the gardes du corps Biran retired to his patrimonial inheritance of Grateloup, near Bergerac, where his retired life preserved him from the horrors of the Revolution.

The introduction of new plants, which made it possible to dispense with the bare fallow, and still later the application to husbandry of scientific discoveries as to soils, plant constituents and manures, brought about a revolution in farming.

Among the other writers previous to the Revolution mention must be made of John Ray the botanist and of John Evelyn, both men of great talent and research, whose works are still in high estimation.

The revolution in its treatment is a real romance of industry.

He found time, in addition, to write a short book on Die Serbische Revolution (1829), from material supplied to him by Wuk Stephanowich, a Servian who had himself been witness of the scenes he related.

The revolution of the bull-wheels is checked by the use of a powerful hand-brake.

The island suffered from the reactionary policy of Ferdinand VII., but the few sporadic attempts at revolution between 1815 and 1820 were readily suppressed.

The Revolution of 1868 in Spain promised such salutary changes for the Antilles as the introduction of political parties, the restoration of representation in the Spanish Cortes, and the enfranchisement of the slaves; but the imprudent "Insurrection of Lares," and other outbreaks of 1867-68, delayed these anticipated reforms. The reactionaries feared separation from the mother country.

Carrier, who was sent to stamp out resistance in the west, he lay hidden until some time after the revolution of Thermidor (July 1794), but he was readmitted to the Convention on the 8th of March 1795.