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The Wimbledon Championships
The Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon have developed from the garden party atmosphere of the first meeting in 1877, witnessed by a few hundred spectators, to a hig... |
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Charles Rolls, Co-founder Rolls Royce
The Honourable Charles Stewart Rolls was, together with Frederick Henry Royce, a co-founder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. Rolls started one of Britain's firs... |
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G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
Godfrey Harold Hardy was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. Non-mathematicians usually know him for... |
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Jack Johnson, American Boxer
John Arthur Johnson, better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. He was t... |
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Carl Sandburg
American poet, historian, and novelist Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, the second of seven children. Before discovering his true calling, Sandburg worked a... |
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The History of the Development of AIDS
The true history of the origin of AIDS can be traced throughout the 20th Century and back to 1878. On April 29 of that year the United States passed a “FEDERAL QUARANTINE... |
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Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grape - Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, one of the creators of modern art, was called the "solidifier of Impressionism''. And indeed he does not draw his picture before painting it: instead, he cr... |
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Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
Became a revolutionary in 1896. Later worked with Lenin on Iskra in 1902. He broke with Lenin the next year over the nature of the revolutionary party and aligned himself... |
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Paul Klee, Master of Modern Art
Paul Klee, Swiss painter, watercolorist, and etcher, who was one of the most original masters of modern art. He joint Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an expressionist... |
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953. Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 192... |
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Albert Einstein, Relativity Theory - 1905
Einstein's contributions to physics began in 1905 with three major results: the explanation of Brownian motion in terms of molecules; the explanation of the photoelectric... |
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The Mask of Agamemnon, Mycenae
When Schliemann, excavated a Mycenaean grave shaft, he discovered this mask and thought he had "gazed upon the face of Agamemnon," the great king from The Iliad. Although... |
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Boer War 1 and 2, South Africa
There were two Boer wars, one in 1880-81 and the second from October 11, 1899-1902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch origin (called Boere, Afrikaners or... |
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Alfred Wegener, Discovery Plate Tectonics
German climatologist and geophysicist who, in 1915, published as expanded version of his 1912 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans. This work was one of the first to... |
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The Complete Verse, Kipling
Kipling was once the literary lion of the English-speaking world; within a generation his fame, as a poet at least, was all but extinguished. In a tendentious foreword to... |
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