20th Century Other
The Flying Scotsman Locomotive
The London and North East Railway (LNER) 4472 Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 at Doncaster. It was seen as...
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The Origins of the BBC
Wireless telegraphy was first publicly demonstrated by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor in 1894. The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company was...
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Hitler and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and defeat in World War One, the government of the new German Weimar Republic...
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Nicholas II the Last Russian Tsar
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born on 18th May 1868. He was the first child of Alexander, son of Tsar Alexander...
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on 5th December 1955 for refusing to...
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The Quest to Reach the South Pole
Antarctica had first been sighted in 1820 by a Russian team of explorers led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and...
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USSR Established
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union) was established on 30th December 1922 by the...
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