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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Nikola Tesla
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Scientist Nikola Tesla was born in Serbia and immigrated to the United States. He is known for making significant advances in physics, particularly in the area ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is renowned for making absurd assertions and proposals. Musk was born in South Africa and is the founder of the space exploration business SpaceX as ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Alfred The Great
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Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, had a fifth son named Alfred, who was born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849. One of the most well-known Anglo-Saxon rulers, ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts about Henry Hudson
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Henry Hudson was an English explorer who was one of the most influential and renowned figures of the Age of Discovery, a term used to refer to extensive ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Cubism
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Cubism is an avant-garde art style which emerged in the early 20th century, transformed European painting and sculpture and sparked similar developments in ...
Top 11 Interesting Facts About Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Turner, who was raised in a working-class household in London, began to exhibit hints of talent at a young age and later rose to prominence as one of the ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Ferdinand Magellan
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The Maluku Islands in present-day Indonesia were teeming with nutmeg, cloves, and mace when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) set sail in ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts About John Dalton
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John Dalton was a British scientist who is most known for his contribution to the atomic hypothesis, which is the basis of contemporary chemistry. Dalton began ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Sir Isaac Newton
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Sir Isaac Newton, an English physicist, and mathematician who, more than anyone else, drove the world towards the scientific revolution, is regarded as one of ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who traveled to the New World on at least two occasions and was the first to recognize the Americas as separate ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Michael Faraday
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On September 22, 1791, physicist Michael Faraday was born into poverty. Faraday was a self-taught English scientist who excelled in chemistry and physics and ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Johannes Gutenberg
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The moveable type printing technology was invented in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg, a German inventor. In the printing industry, his invention is regarded as ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Biography of Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks was an African-American lady who was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913 and was dubbed "The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." She is ...
Top 7 Facts About The Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization
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Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek term for the region including modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. It means "country between two rivers," referring to the ...
Top 10 Facts About The Disaster At The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear disaster that happened on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat in the Ukrainian ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About The Ancient Maya Civilization
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The Maya people were an indigenous population from Mexico and Central America who formed the Mayan Civilization. They have lived in the territories that make ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts About The Harlem Renaissance
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During the 1920s and 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual renaissance of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts About Lusitania And Its 1915 Sinking
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The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was destroyed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles (20 ...
