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Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bon...

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The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, was the continuati...

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi...

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestand...

The 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake occurred on June 21 at 00:30:14 local time in northern Iran. The s...

The unification of Italy was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the con...

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The 1693 Sicily earthquake struck parts of southern Italy near Sicily, Calabria, and Malta on Januar...

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating...

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, popularly known as Kate Middleton, is a member of the British royal...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

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Labor Day (Labor Day in the United States) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of wor...

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Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which mo...

Malcolm X (1925–1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular fi...

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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the s...

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, me...

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Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who develope...

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Karol Józef Wojtyła (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign o...

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose i...

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of Charl...

The Seleucid Empire was a Greek state in Western Asia, during the Hellenistic Period, that existed f...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

The 1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami resulted from the volcanic activities of Mount Unzen (in the S...

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmo...

Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

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Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous youn...

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2...

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Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

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Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic bo...

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