Irena Stanislawa Sendler was a Polish social worker and humanitarian who served in World War…
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The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is also known as the Nine Emperor Gods Festival. It is…
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Jean-Pierre Cherid was born in 1940 in Algiers and grew up to be a far-right…
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Napoleon is one of the great individuals of history. From a lowly Corsican artillery captain…
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There are many legacies of the Roman Empire. People tend to think first of what…
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Carl von Clausewitz, or Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz to give him his full name,…
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The Greenbrier is a decadent luxury resort found in the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia.…
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Britain in the Second World War faced possibly her greatest domestic challenges by air. Much…
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Aztlan is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec people. Astekah is the word for…
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For many years the Bermuda triangle has been surrounded by myths and fables of missing…
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Approximately 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Wroclaw in Poland, the Owl Mountains dominate the…
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Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, where…
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Mount Edgecumbe is an Alaskan volcano located on Kruzof Island, one of the most southerly…
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Holding onto the crown in 16th century England was no small task. When Elizabeth I…
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Samuel Pepys (1633 – 1703) was an important man, but that is not what he…