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General George S. Patton, USA WW2
One of the most complicated military men of all time, General George Smith Patton, Jr. was born November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. He was known for carrying pi... |
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Niels Bohr, Quantum Theory of Matter
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel... |
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Coca-Cola
The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup f... |
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Statue of Liberty, New York
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if people in France gave the United States a great monument as a lasting memorial to independence and thereby showed that the French government... |
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Alfonso XIII of Spain
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, was proclaimed King at his birth. He reigned from 1886-1931. His mother, Queen Maria Christina, was a... |
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Robert Schuman, Declaration 9th May 1950
World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it. The contribution which an organised and living Eu... |
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Mies van der Rohe, Architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German-born architect and educator who helped define modernist architecture. Mies is widely acknowledged as one of the 20th century's greates... |
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David Ben-Gurion
Having led the struggle to establish the State of Israel in May 1948, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister and Defense Minister. As Premier,... |
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The Automobile Timeline
Man had not yet realized his dream of the automobile. Just as today man may strive to achieve time travel, our ancestors of this period longed to develop a method of land... |
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Willem Drees, Dutch Prime Minister
Willem Drees was a Dutch politician, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1958, as a member of the social-democratic Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). Born in Amste... |
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The Kiss, Rodin
The Kiss is a marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Like many of Rodin's best-known individual sculptures, including The Thinker, the embracing couple de... |
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Charles I, Last Emperor of Austria
Charles I, Last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Bohemia as Charles III, Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia, and the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. He reigned as Cha... |
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Le Corbusier, Architect
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he... |
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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp, the painter and mixed media artist, was associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, though he avoided any alliances. Duchamp’s work is characterized b... |
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Padre Pio
Francesco Forgione, later known as Padre Pio, canonized as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Roman Catholic Capuchin priest who is now venerated as a saint in the... |
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