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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Erwin Rommel
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Erwin Rommel was one of Germany's most famous generals, who played an important role in World War I and World War II. Rommel's tactical skills, experience and ...
Top 5 Interesting Facts about Phillis Wheatley
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Not only was Phillis Wheatley the first published African American woman, but was also one of the first published American women poets. She was lucky to find ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About The Greek God - Hephaestus
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Hephaestus was identified as the son of the supreme god Zeus and his queen, Hera. Hephaestus was born on the Greek island of Lemnos and learned his craft from ...
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 8 Interesting Facts about Peter the Great
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Exactly 320 years ago, in August 1697, a young tsar Peter I embarked on a two-year journey around Europe. Not being a fan of Russian traditionalism, upon ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about John Nash
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John Nash is a well-known figure to many of us as the brilliant mathematician whose biography served as the basis for the film A Beautiful Mind. He made ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Britney Spears
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Some of us associate Britney Spears with her memorable first single, "...Baby One More Time." The song propelled the 16-year-old pop singer to the top of the ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts On The Mummification Process
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Mummification is the process of preserving a dead person or animal for a long time by preventing decomposition. It might happen naturally, or it can be done on ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Hestia
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One of the most renowned and revered Greek goddesses was Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, home, and domestic life. She had a significant impact on people's ...
Top 9 Interesting Facts about Lewis and Clark Expedition
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In Ivy, Virginia, Captain Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774. He would travel on one of the most well-known expeditions in American history in 1804, ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Hebe
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One of the Greek Deities that lived on Mount Olympus was Hebe. She was viewed as being in her youth and peak. Hebe, like many other ancient deities, was the ...
Top 10 Surprising Facts About the French Empire
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French society underwent significant political and social transformations throughout the course of this lengthy period, developments that reverberated ...
Top 4 Interesting Facts about Jonathan Swift
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The author of Guillver’s Travels was a leading writer and satirist, celebrated for his ironic writings and considered the foremost prose satirist in the ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker, was born in Boston in 1803. Emerson, known as the “Sage of Concord” wrote ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts About Brigham Young
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Brigham Young was an American colonizer, religious leader, and politician. After Joseph Smith's passing in 1844, he became the president of the Mormon Church ...
Top 10 Facts about Alan Turing
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English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June ...
Top 7 Interesting Facts about Gustave Eiffel
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, Gustave Eiffel was one of the most significant French figures. He not only created the Eiffel Tower, but he also made ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Jules Verne
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Considered as the father of science fiction, Jules Verne’s popularity remains very high one century after his death. He is the second most translated author in ...
