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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 The Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and the United States from around 1760 ...
Top 8 Interesting Facts About Ludwig van Beethoven
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One of the greatest composers who have ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven, was born into a musical family in Bonn, Germany, in December of 1770. Beethoven was a ...
Top 6 Interesting Facts about the Classical Antiquity Period
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Classical antiquity is the period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, comprising the interlocking ...
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 9 Interesting Facts about Ada Lovelace
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Who comes to mind when you think of a computer genius? Gates, Bill Stephen Jobs? The Analytical Engine existed much before Microsoft and Apple did, in fact a ...
