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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,'1-');">Daniel 2</a></h2>
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<h4>Nebuchadnezzar's Dream</h4>
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<p class="cmn">[Chapter 1 through 2:3: in Hebrew...]</p>
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<p class="cmn">Nebuchadnezzar's perspective: young successful victor; conquered the known world! Old staff inherited. Does he trust them? Calibration test emerges; most famous in history. Job description: "Chaldeans" = title, Advisory leadership.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,3);">3</a>] Chapter 2:4 through Chapter 7 is in Aramaic, the Gentile language, not Hebrew.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,4);">4</a>] Dissembling v. (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,9);">9</a>):Professional development program explained more clearly... Negotiations concluded.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,5);">5</a>] Dissembling: note v. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,9);">9</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,10);">10</a>] Indeed! <a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,'21-23');">Isa 41:21-23</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,18);">18</a>](No committees, task force, or research projects.) The God of Heaven, vs "gods of heaven";Prayer: <a onclick="return mV('Jer',33,3);">Jer 33:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,5);">Psa 37:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Phl',4,'6-7');">Phil 4:6-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',13,15);">Heb 13:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',1,5);">Jas 1:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',5,7);">1Pe 5:7</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,20);">20</a>] Praise. <a onclick="return mV('Job',12,'13-22');">Job 12:13-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',31,15);">Psa 31:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',41,13);">41:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',75,6);">75:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',103,1, 2);">103:1-2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',113,1,2);">113:1-2</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,22);">22</a>] <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',2,'9-11');">1Cr 2:9-11</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,23);">23</a>] <a onclick="return mV('Mat',11,25);">Mat 11:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',7,6);">7:6</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,25);">25</a>] Typical bureaucratic "humility."</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,28);">28</a>] Cf. Joseph:<a onclick="return mV('Gen',40,8);">Gen 40:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gen',41,16);">41:16</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><b>"Latter Days"</b> 14X<br>In OT:<br>Messianic Age:<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,5);">Hos 3:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,2);">Isa 2:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',4,1);">Mic 4:1</a>.<br>Israel: <a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,1);">Gen 49:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Num',24,14);">Num 24:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',4,30);">Deu 4:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',31,29);">31:29</a>;<br>2nd Coming: <a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,47);">Jer 48:47</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',49,39);">49:39</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,20);">23:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',30,24);">30:24</a>;<br>Magog: <a onclick="return mV('Eze',38,16);">Eze 38:16</a>.<br><br>In NT: <a onclick="return mV('Act',2,'17-21');">Act 2:17-21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,'28-32');">Joe 2:28-32</a>;<br/><br/><b>"Last Days:"</b><br><a onclick="return mV('Jhn',6,39,40,44, 54);">Jhn 6:39-40,44,54</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',7,37);">7:37</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',11,24);">11:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',12,48);">12:48</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ti',3,1);">2 Tim 3:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',1,2);">Heb 1:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',5,3);">Jas 5:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Pe',3,3);">2 Pet 3:3</a>;<br><br><b>"Last Time:"</b><br><a onclick="return mV('1Pe',1,5,20);">1Pe 1:5, 20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Jo',2,18);">1Jo 2:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jud',1,18);">Jude 18</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,29);">29</a>] Prophetic significance identified.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,31);">31</a>] "Times of the Gentiles"; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',21,24);">Luk 21:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,4, 5);">Hos 3:4-5</a><br>[vs. "Fullness of Gentiles": <a onclick="return mV('Luk',19,42);">Luk 19:42</a>; until <a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,25);">Rom 11:25</a>;<br>James' summary:<a onclick="return mV('Act',15,'13-17');">Act 15:13-17</a> (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',9,'11-12');">Amo 9:11-12</a>).]</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2">Four Metals: </td><td colspan="2"> Specific Gravity: </td></tr>
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<tr><td rowspan="5"> </td><td>Gold</td><td rowspan="5"> </td><td>19.5</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Silver</td><td>10.5</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Bronze</td><td>8.0</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Iron</td><td>5.0</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Iron + Clay</td><td>1.9</td></tr>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,38);">38</a>] Extent of rule! by God of Heaven.</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px">Babylon = "City of Gold."<a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,4);">Isa 14:4</a></p>
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<p class="hangIndent" style='text-align:left'>[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,39);">39</a>] Fall to Persians.<a onclick="return mV('Dan',5,28, 31);">Dan 5:28, 31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',6,28);">6:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,20);">8:20</a>;</p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px">70 years fulfilled: <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',36,20,21);">2Ch 36:20-21</a>.<br>Succeeded by Greece: <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,21);">Dan 8:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,2);">11:2</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,40);">40</a>] 4th Kingdom (Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,7);">Dan 7:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,26);">9:26</a>.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,41);">41</a>]Divided into pieces. <i>Divided elements recombine:</i> <a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,'42-44');">Dan 2:42-44</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,42);">42</a>] Re-collected, but mixed with <i>hasap,</i> clay (brittle pottery fragments) Clay = people: <a onclick="return mV('Job',10,9);">Job 10:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',13,12);">13:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',33,6);">33:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,16);">Isa 29:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,9);">45:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',64,8);">64:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,'4-6');">Jer 18:4-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',9,21);">Rom 9:21</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,45);">45</a>] <i>Stone cut without Hands:</i> (supernatural) <a onclick="return mV('Exd',17,'3-6');">Exd 17:3-6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',33,22);">33:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',118,22);">Psa 118:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',8,14);">Isa 8:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,16);">28:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',3,9);">Zec 3:9</a> (Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Rev',5,6);">Rev 5:6</a>); <a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,43, 44);">Mat 21:43-44</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',4,11);">Act 4:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',9,33);">Rom 9:33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',10,4);">1Cr 10:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Pe',2,'4-8');">1Pe 2:4-8</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><i>Broke in pieces:</i> <a onclick="return mV('Psa',2,9);">Psa 2:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',110,5);">110:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',2,'6-9');">Rev 2:6-9</a>.<br>All 3: Iraq, Iran, Greece recent...</p>
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<p class="cmn"><i>Mountain:</i> <a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,2);">Isa 2:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,6);">9:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',1,32, 33);">Luk 1:32-33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',17,'9-11');">Rev 17:9-11</a>.</p>
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<div align="center"><img src="./gifs/comm/missler/dan2_1.gif"></div>
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<h4>Preview: Daniel Chapter 7<br>Four (only) Beasts</h4>
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<p class="cmn" align=center style='text-align:center'>(Detailed in notes for Chapter 7.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,4);">Dan 7:4</a>]<i>Lion with eagle's wings;</i> a new heart given to Nebuchadnezzar (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'1-');">Dan 4</a>).</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,5);">Dan 7:5</a>]<i>Bear, with three ribs:</i>Babylon, Egypt, Lydia: unsuccessful defensive alliance against Medes & Persians.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,6);">Dan 7:6</a>] <i>Leopard with four wings, four heads:</i></p>
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<i>Lysimachus:</i> North: Thrace, Bithynia (Turkey); Ruled from Pergamos;<br>
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<i>Cassandra:</i> West: Greece, Macedonia; ruled from Pella;<br>
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<i>Seleucus:</i> East: Syria, Persia, Babylonia, India; Ruled from Antioch;<br>
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<i>Ptolomey:</i> South: Egypt, Palestine, Arabia; ruled from Alexandria.<br>
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(Expanded in <a onclick="return mV('Dan',8,'1-');">Dan 8</a>, <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,'1-');">Dan 11</a>)<br>
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<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,7);">Dan 7:7</a>]
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<i>Iron</i> teeth? Ten horns identified in v. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,24);">Dan 7:24</a>.
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"little horn"; title of the Coming World Leader.
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<p style="margin-left:40px">[vv. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,'9-14');">Dan 9-14</a>: The Second Coming of Christ]</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,17);">Dan 7:17</a>]Only 4 kingdoms. We're seeing the 4th.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,21);">Dan 7:21</a>] He prevailed against them! Cf. <a onclick="return mV('Mat',16,18);">Mat 16:18</a>. Church "gap" between vv. <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,23);">Dan 7:23</a> & <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,24);">Dan 7:24</a>?</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,25);">Dan 7:25</a>] Time, times (2) and 1/2= 3 1/2 years; 42 months; 1260 days.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><b>Other References:</b> <a onclick="return mV('Dan',9,'24-27');">Dan 9:24-27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,'1-');">Rev 13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',14,'9-11');">Rev 14:9-11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',17,'1-');">Rev 17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,'1-');">Rev 18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',5,'5-11');">Zec 5:5-11</a>.<br><br>See also <i>The Mystery of Babylon, MidEast Update, The Seventy Weeks of Daniel, An Empire Reborn,</i> and <i>The Sword of Allah,</i> by Chuck Missler, Koinonia House.</p>
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<h4>Chronology:</h4>
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<tr><td> </td><td><b><i>Gold:</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">606 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Battle of Carchemesh; Nebuchadnezzar establishes Babylonian Empire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">587 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">3rd Siege; Destruction of Jerusalem.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td><b><i>Silver:</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">537 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Ugbaru conquers Babylon for Cyrus, establishing Persian Empire. Completes 70 years "Servitude of Nation."</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">518 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">End of the "Desolations of Jerusalem."</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">445 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Decree of Artaxerxes to authorizes the wall to be rebuilt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td><b><i>Bronze:</i></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">332 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Battles of Marathon, Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="font-weight:bold;font-style:oblique;">Iron, Phase One:</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">68 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Rome emerges as the largest and most ruthless empire with Julius Caesar as Emperor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">44 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Julius Caesar assassinated.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">31 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span></td><td valign="top">Battle of Actium establishes Octavius as Caesar Augustus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">64 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>AD</span></td><td valign="top">Nero begins his persecutions.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">284</td><td valign="top">Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianius divides empire into two. (Two legs, east and west?)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top"> </td><td valign="top">The disintegration begins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">312</td><td valign="top">Constantine established as Emperor; Christianity declared state religion; transfers capital to Byzantium in the east; dies in 337.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">455</td><td valign="top">Germanic tribes sack Rome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">476</td><td valign="top">Empire breaks into pieces...</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top"> </td><td valign="top">[Interval of the Church]</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="font-weight:bold;font-style:oblique;">Iron, Phase Two: "mixed with clay"</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1951</td><td valign="top">Treaty of Paris: European Coal and Steel Community established as a multinational entity.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1957</td><td valign="top">March 25: Treaty of Rome: European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community established.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1958</td><td valign="top">March 19: European Parliament established.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1959</td><td valign="top">Belgium, Luxemberg, & Netherlands form a single BeNeLux group.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1967</td><td valign="top">July: Commissions of EEC, ECSC, and Euratom, merge into "European Community."</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1973</td><td valign="top">Denmark, Ireland, and United Kingdom join. Greece, Spain, and Portugal also join subsequently.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1991</td><td valign="top">Six European Free Trade Association nations agree to combine with the E.C. in 1993.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top">1993</td><td valign="top">Maastricht Treaty signed: single foreign policy; single military; single currency.</td></tr>
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<h4>European Union</h4>
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<tr><td style="font-style:oblique;">Original 6:</td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td rowspan="4"> </td><td> </td><td>(Benelux Countries):</td></tr>
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<tr><td>France</td><td>Netherlands</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Germany </td><td>Belgium</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Italy</td><td>Luxembourg</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-style:oblique;" valign="top">1973:</td>
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<td colspan="2">Britain<br>Ireland<br>Denmark</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-style:oblique;" valign="top">1981:</td><td colspan="2">Greece</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-style:oblique;" valign="top">1986:</td><td colspan="2">Spain<br>Portugal</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td style="font-style:oblique;" valign="top">1991:</td><td colspan="2">(German Reunification)</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-style:oblique;" valign="top">1995:</td><td colspan="2">Austria<br>Finland<br>Sweden</td></tr>
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<p><b>National Anthem</b></p>
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<p class="cmn">Beethoven's Ninth ("Choral") Symphony, in D minor, Op. 125. Choral stanzas adapted by Beethoven from Shiller's <i>Ode to Joy:</i></p>
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<p class="in15">Freude, Tochter aus Elysium</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;">Deine Zauber binden wieder,</p>
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<p class="in15">Was die Mode streng getheilt;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-style:oblique;">Alle Menschen werden Brueder,</p>
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<p class="in15">Wo dein sanfter Fluegel weilt...</p>
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<p class="cmn">In English (Translation by Louis Untermeyer):</p>
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<p class="in15">Joy, O daughter of Elysium,</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;">Thy pure magic frees all others</p>
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<p class="in15">Held in Custom's rigid rings;</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;font-style:oblique;">Men throughout the world are brothers</p>
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<p class="in15">In the haven of thy wings...</p>
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<p class="cmn">For a more complete update on Europe, see <i>An Empire Reborn?</i></p>
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