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  2. Reichstag Fire Decree - Wikipedia

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    Das Andere Deutschland's final issue, announcing its own prohibition (Verbot) by the police authorities on the basis of the Reichstag fire decree. The Reichstag Fire Decree (German: Reichstagsbrandverordnung) is the common name of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State (German: Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat) issued by German ...

  3. Nero Decree - Wikipedia

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    It was officially titled Decree Concerning Demolitions in the Reich Territory (Befehl betreffend Zerstörungsmaßnahmen im Reichsgebiet) and has subsequently become known as the Nero Decree, after the Roman Emperor Nero, who, according to an apocryphal story, [1] engineered the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD. The decree was deliberately disobeyed ...

  4. Malabrigo Point Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    The lighthouse in 1903 One of the two NHCP historical markers installed in 2007 designating the lighthouse as a National Historical Landmark. The Malabrigo Point Lighthouse was among the lighthouses constructed by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines from 1846 to 1896 as part of the Plan General de Alumbrado de Maritimo de las Costas del Archipelago de Filipino (Masterplan for ...

  5. Reichstag fire - Wikipedia

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    Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a ...

  6. Pasig River Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    Images of the new lighthouse from Backpacking Philippines and Asia. Spanish Lighthouses of the Philippines, which includes the picture of the present the Pasig River Light not the correct Spanish Lighthouse, Maritime Safety Services Command of the Philippine Coast Guard Web Site Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine; Maritime Safety ...

  7. Government of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...

  8. Germans in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    German settlement in the Philippines began during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines when the German Empire attempted to acquire the Philippines. This article also refers to the choice of Filipino citizenship and/or settlement in the Philippines by persons of either pure or mixed German descent who continued to reside in the country for a significant number of years or decades.

  9. History of the Philippines (1898–1946) - Wikipedia

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    Wolff, Leon (2006), Little brown brother: how the United States purchased and pacified the Philippine Islands at the century's turn, History Book Club (published 2005), ISBN 978-1-58288-209-3 (Introduction, Decolonizing the History of the Philippine–American War, by Paul A. Kramer dated December 8, 2005) Worcester, Dean Conant (1914), "II.