Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen on 2nd November 1755. She was the fifteenth and youngest...
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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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Christopher Columbus and the New World
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. He first went to sea as a young teenager and became...
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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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