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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 01, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Oct 27, 2023
	Anniversary information added.		Oct 18, 2023
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Ferdinand I.	Swati Chopra	Jan 02, 2012
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998