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Oliver Twist, Dickens
Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Vi... |
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Antonin Dvorak, Composer
Antonin Dvorak was the greatest Bohemian composer and one of the leading masters of symphonic and chamber music of the late 19th century. Dvorak displayed unusual musical... |
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Stanley, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley travelled to Zanzibar and outfit... |
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Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910. He was the first British mona... |
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The History of Everest
1841: Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, records the location of Everest. K2, Krakauer, climbing, 8000 meter peaks, News, mountians, nepal,... |
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William McKinley, 25th US President
William McKinley, Jr. was the twenty-fifth President of the United States (1897-1901), and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Oh... |
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Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental musi... |
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Robert Koch, Found Tuberculosis Bacillus
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the Tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the Vibrio cholera (1... |
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Bertha von Suttner, Pacifist
Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau was an Austrian novelist, radical (organizational) pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nob... |
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The Three Musketeers, Dumas
The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’s historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chron... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the greatest novels of all time and in fact stands at the fountainhead of the entire stream of popular adventure-fiction. Dumas himsel... |
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Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. From February 11, to July 16, 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a... |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche sharply criticized the Greek tradition's over-emphasis on reason in his Die Götzendämmerung (Twilight of the Idols) (1889). Reliance on abstract concepts in a q... |
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Korsakov, Composer
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. Mainly... |
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Karl Benz, Automobile Engineer
Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Other German contemporari... |
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