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On the morning of May 24, 1819 at the Kensington Palace, Princess Victoria (full name Alexandrina Victoria) was born to Prince Edward,...
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On February 11, 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. At a young age he had acquired a hearing problem after ...
In May of 1972, seven burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee’s office in the Watergate building located in Washington, D.C. The burglars wiretapp...
New York City, the largest city in the United States, originally began when the Dutch West India company sent about thirty families to live on “Nutten Island”, ...
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Death penalty laws go way back to the eighteenth century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. During the tenth century A.D., h...
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The Palace of Westminster was burned down on the night of October 16th, 1834. Only a few pieces survived the fire, and were inte...
Skiing dates back centuries. One of the first known ski competitions was a cross-country race held in Norway in 1843. In California during the 1860s, there were...
Ballet first originated in the 15th century in the Italian Renaissance Courts. Catherine de Medici, an Italian Noblewoman and the wife of King Henry II in of Fr...
Though best known for his beloved fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen was Danish playwright, poet, novelist, and writer of travelogues. Some of his best known ...
Born in Virginia on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was a prominent Founding Father of the United States. Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of I...
