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 * But do not capitalize such general, paraphrastic, or incomplete designations as&mdash;
 * But do not capitalize such general, paraphrastic, or incomplete designations as&mdash;

the national assembly, the legislature of the state, the upper house of Congress, the German federal parliament, the Dutch diet; the council, the department, the board.
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 * Ordinals used to designate Egyptian dynasties, sessions of Congress, names of regiments, and in similar connections (see 100):
 * Ordinals used to designate Egyptian dynasties, sessions of Congress, names of regiments, and in similar connections (see 100):

the Eighteenth Dynasty, the Fifty- third Congress, the Second Illinois Regiment Band.
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 * Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata, the word "age" itself being capitalized only where a failure to do so would result in ambiguous meaning:
 * Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata, the word "age" itself being capitalized only where a failure to do so would result in ambiguous meaning:

Stone age (but: Middle Ages), Crusades, Renaissance, Reformation, Inquisition, Commonwealth (Cromwell's), Commune (Paris); Old English (OE&mdash;see 123), Middle High German (MHG), the Age of Elizabeth; Pleistocene, Silurian, Lower Carboniferous.
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 * Names for important events:
 * Names for important events:

Thirty Years' War, Peasants' War (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Gettysburg; Peace of Utrecht, Louisiana Purchase.
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 * Political alliances, and such terms from secular or ecclesiastical history as have, through their associa-
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