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King Ottokar's Sceptre (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is the eighth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.^[1]

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Works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième

Abdication

Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally "helper in the military camp") is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Alexandru Ioan Cuza (or Alexandru Ioan I, also anglicised as Alexander John Cuza; 20 March 1820 – 15 May 1873) was the first domnitor (ruler) of the Romanian Principalities through his double election as prince of Moldavia on 5 January 1859 and prince of Wallachia on 24 January 1859, which resulted in the unification of the two states.

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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind.

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Annexation

Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory.

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Anschluss

The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.

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Anthony Hope

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright.

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Anton Mussert

Anton Adriaan Mussert (11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Bande dessinée

Bandes dessinées (singular bande dessinée; literally 'drawn strips'), abbreviated BDs and also referred to as Franco-Belgian comics (BD franco-belge), are comics that are usually originally in French and created for readership in France and Belgium.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).

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Benoît Peeters

Benoît Peeters (born August 28, 1956) is a French comics writer, novelist, and comics scholar.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bianca Castafiore

Bianca Castafiore, nicknamed the "Milanese Nightingale", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Borduria

Borduria is a fictional country in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.

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British Journal of Psychology

The British Journal of Psychology is a quarterly peer-reviewed psychology journal.

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British royal family

The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Brusselian dialect

Brusselian (also known as Brusseleer, Brusselair, Brusseleir, Marols or Marollien) is a Dutch dialect native to Brussels, Belgium.

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Captain Haddock

Captain Archibald Haddock (Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.

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Carol II of Romania

Carol II (4 April 1953) was King of Romania from 8 June 1930, until his forced abdication on 6 September 1940.

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Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe.

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Casterman

Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature.

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Cœurs Vaillants

Cœurs Vaillants (Brave Hearts), known later as J2 Jeunes and Formule 1, was a Catholic French language weekly newspaper for French children.

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Cigars of the Pharaoh

Cigars of the Pharaoh (Les Cigares du Pharaon) is the fourth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and Cigars of the Pharaoh are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books, Tintin books and works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième.

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Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution

Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution (Technique du coup d'état; Tecnica del colpo di stato) is a 1931 book by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.

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Croix-de-Feu

The Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) was a nationalist French league of the Interwar period, led by Colonel François de la Rocque (1885–1946).

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Curzio Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte (9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat.

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Destination Moon (comics)

Destination Moon (Objectif Lune) is the sixteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and Destination Moon (comics) are comics set in Europe, comics set in fictional countries, literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books and Tintin books.

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Diplodocus

Diplodocus was a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs, whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston.

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Eagle (British comics)

Eagle was a British children's comics periodical, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994.

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Edgar P. Jacobs

Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs (30 March 1904 – 20 February 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator (writer and artist), born in Brussels, Belgium.

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Ellipsanime

Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs.

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Elvish languages of Middle-earth

The Elvish languages of Middle-earth, constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, include Quenya and Sindarin.

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Erich von Stroheim

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.

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Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Explorers on the Moon

Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la Lune; literally: We walked on the Moon) is the seventeenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and Explorers on the Moon are comics set in Europe, comics set in fictional countries, literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books and Tintin books.

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F+W

F+W (formerly F+W Publications and F+W Media) was a media and e-commerce company headquartered in New York City.

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Federal State of Austria

The Federal State of Austria (Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the "Ständestaat") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the conservative, nationalist, and corporatist Fatherland Front.

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Flag of Albania

The flag of Albania (Flamuri i Shqipërisë) depicts a silhouetted black double-headed eagle in the center of a red background.

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François de La Rocque

François de La Rocque (6 October 1885 – 28 April 1946) was the leader of the French right-wing league the Croix de Feu from 1930 to 1936 before he formed the more moderate nationalist French Social Party (1936–1940), which has been described by several historians, such as René Rémond and Michel Winock, as a precursor of Gaullism.

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Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár (Lehár Ferenc; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.

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German occupation of Belgium during World War II

The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.

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Gold State Coach

The Gold State Coach is an enclosed, eight-horse-drawn carriage used by the British royal family.

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Greg (cartoonist)

Michel Régnier (5 May 1931 – 29 October 1999), best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for Achille Talon, and later became editor of Tintin magazine.

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Harry Thompson

Harry William Thompson (6 February 1960 – 7 November 2005) was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer.

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Heinkel He 112

The Heinkel He 112 is a German fighter aircraft designed by Walter and Siegfried Günter.

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Hergé

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist.

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Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin, d'après Hergé) is the first animated television series based on Hergé's popular comic book series, The Adventures of Tintin.

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Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones is an American media franchise consisting of five films and a prequel television series, along with games, comics, and tie-in novels, that depicts the adventures of Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. (portrayed in all films by Harrison Ford), a fictional professor of archaeology.

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Iron Guard

The Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) was a Romanian militant revolutionary fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail) or the Legionary Movement (Mișcarea Legionară).

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Italian invasion of Albania

The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign which was launched by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom in 1939.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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Jacques Van Melkebeke

Jacques Van Melkebeke (12 December 1904 – 8 June 1983) was a Belgian painter, journalist, writer, and comic strip writer.

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria

The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident.

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Jean-Marc Lofficier

Jean-Marc Lofficier (born June 22, 1954) is a French author of books about films and television programs, as well as numerous comics and translations of a number of animation screenplays.

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Jean-Marie Apostolidès

Jean-Marie Apostolidès (27 November 1943 – 23 March 2023) was a French novelist, essayist, playwright, theatre director, and university professor.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Klingon language

The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol, pIqaD:  &#xF8D9) is the constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race called the Klingons in the Star Trek universe.

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Land of Black Gold

Land of Black Gold (Tintin au pays de l'or noir) is the fifteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and Land of Black Gold are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books, Tintin books and works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième.

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Le Petit Vingtième

Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth) was the weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle ("The Twentieth Century") from 1928 to 1940.

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Le Vingtième Siècle

Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) was a Belgian newspaper that was published from 1898 to 1940.

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Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951.

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Lewis Fry Richardson

Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS (11 October 1881 – 30 September 1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist, and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them.

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Ligne claire

Ligne claire (French for "clear line",; klare lijn) is a style of drawing created and pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin.

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List of Bohemian monarchs

The Duchy of Bohemia was established in 870 and raised to the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198.

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List of The Adventures of Tintin characters

This is the list of fictional characters in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Locked-room mystery

The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction.

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Marlinspike Hall

Marlinspike Hall (Le château de Moulinsart) is Captain Haddock's country house and family estate in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Messerschmitt Bf 109

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.

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Methuen Publishing

Methuen Publishing Ltd (also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.

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Michael Farr

Michael Farr (born 1953) is a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé.

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Minaret

A minaret (translit, or translit; minare; translit) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques.

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Moldavia

Moldavia (Moldova, or Țara Moldovei, literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: Молдова or Цара Мѡлдовєй) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Mostar

Mostar (Мостар) is a city and the administrative centre of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the historical capital of Herzegovina.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat.

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National Guards Unit of Bulgaria

The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria (translit) is a unique Bulgarian military formation of regimental size, directly subordinated to the Minister of Defence.

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National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands

The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging in Nederland,; NSB) was a Dutch fascist and later Nazi political organisation that eventually became a political party.

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Natural History Museum, Berlin

The Natural History Museum (Museum für Naturkunde) is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nelvana

Nelvana Limited (stylized as "nelvana") is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment production company owned by Corus Entertainment and formerly Shaw Communications since 2000.

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Nestor (comics)

Nestor is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Numa Sadoul

Numa Sadoul (born 7 May 1947, Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Republic of Congo) is a French writer, actor, and director, who has been a resident of France since 1966.

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Olavinlinna

Olavinlinna (also known as St. Olaf's Castle; Olofsborg; Olafsburg) is a 15th-century three-tower castle located in Savonlinna, Finland.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980), was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism.

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Pelican

Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.

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Pierre Assouline

Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Raymond Leblanc

Raymond Leblanc (22 May 1915 – 21 March 2008) was a Belgian comic book publisher, film director and film producer, best known for publishing works such as The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Royal Palace of Brussels

The Royal Palace of Brussels (Palais royal de Bruxelles,; Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel; Königlicher Palast von Brüssel) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital, Brussels.

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Ruritania

Ruritania is a fictional country, originally located in Central Europe as a setting for novels by Anthony Hope, such as The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).

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Savonia (historical province)

Savonia (Savo, Savolax) is a historical province in the east of Finland.

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Sceptre

A sceptre (or scepter in American English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign authority.

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Schloss Charlottenburg

Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, among the largest palaces in the world.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Scouting

Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports.

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Sigillography

Sigillography, also known by its Greek-derived name, sphragistics, is the scholarly discipline that studies the wax, lead, clay, and other seals used to authenticate archival documents.

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Snowy (character)

Snowy (Milou) is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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St. Vitus Cathedral

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert (metropolitní katedrála svatého Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha) is a Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Subsoil

Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Syldavia

Syldavia (Syldavian: Zyldavja) is a fictional country in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

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Syldavian

Syldavian is a fictional West Germanic language created by Hergé as the national language of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan kingdom that serves as a major setting in many of The Adventures of Tintin stories.

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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.

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The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)

The Adventures of Tintin is an animated television series co-produced and animated by French animation studio Ellipse Programme and Canadian studio Nelvana Limited.

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The Black Island

The Black Island (L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Black Island are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books, Tintin books and works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième.

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The Blue Lotus

The Blue Lotus (Le Lotus bleu) is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Blue Lotus are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books, Tintin books and works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième.

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The Broken Ear

The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée, originally published in English as Tintin and the Broken Ear) is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Broken Ear are comics set in fictional countries, literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books, Tintin books and works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième.

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The Crab with the Golden Claws

The Crab with the Golden Claws (Le Crabe aux pinces d'or) is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Crab with the Golden Claws are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books and Tintin books.

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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.

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The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.

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The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony.

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1913 film)

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1913 silent film adaptation of a play by Edward E. Rice, which was in turn based on the 1894 Anthony Hope novel of the same name.

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1915 film)

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1915 British silent adventure film directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Henry Ainley, Jane Gail and Gerald Ames.

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 film)

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by Rex Ingram, one of the many adaptations of Anthony Hope's popular 1894 novel The Prisoner of Zenda and the subsequent 1896 play by Hope and Edward Rose.

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)

The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 American black-and-white adventure film based on Anthony Hope's 1894 novel of the same name and the 1896 play.

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The Secret of the Unicorn

The Secret of the Unicorn (Le Secret de La Licorne) is the eleventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Secret of the Unicorn are literature first published in serial form, Methuen Publishing books and Tintin books.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ottokar's_Sceptre

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See also

1939 graphic novels

1947 graphic novels

Comics set in Europe

Comics set in fictional countries

Tintin books

Works originally published in Le Petit Vingtième

References