The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most iconic landmarks in the World. Originally called Liberty Enlightening the World, ...
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The German Occupation of Vichy France
On 14th June 1940, Paris fell to Germany. The Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud and his deputy, Henri-Phillipe Petain, disagreed over ...
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 ...
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 ...
USSR Established
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union) was established on 30th December 1922 by the ...