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Top 10 Interesting Facts About The Battle of Thermopylae
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The Battle of Thermopylae was regarded as part of the second Persian invasion of Greece between alliances of Greek city-states commanded by King Leonidas and ...
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 ...
Top 10 Facts About The First Roman Emperor - Augustus
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Augustus Caesar was born Gaius Octavius and was also known as Octavian. He is best remembered for changing the Roman Republic, which had been plagued by civil ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About The American Revolution
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Between 1765 to 1791, the American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution in British America. In the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), ...
Top 10 Facts About The Black Death
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The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that swept through Afro-Eurasia. It was the deadliest pandemic in human history, killing 75–200 million people in ...
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 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 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 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 8 Interesting Facts about Osama Bin Laden
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The name Osama Bin Laden became synonymous with terror and death. Every American can still remember what they did on the fateful day of September 11, 2001. He ...
Top 6 Interesting Facts about David Ben-Gurion
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David Ben-Gurion is one of the most important figures in Israeli history and also a very important figure in recent political history. His role as an active ...
Top 13 Interesting Facts About Mark Twain
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The author is renowned for having a sharp mind, a great sense of humor, and a lifelong fascination with self-improvement. He is a fascinating individual in and ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Booker T. Washington
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Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) developed into one of the major African American thinkers of the 19th century, founded the National Negro ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts About Queen Elizabeth I of England
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Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) was one of the most prominent & significant monarchs of her era. Elizabeth, the last of the five Tudor rulers, was occasionally ...
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 9 Interesting Facts About Karl Marx
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Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA, a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary, lived from 5 May ...
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 ...
