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The Suez Canal, Egypt
The idea of a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea dates back to ancient times. Unlike the modern Canal, earlier ones linked the Red Sea to the Nile, therefore... |
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Heinz History
Revenues have climbed from the thousands in 1869 through the millions, the tens and hundreds of millions, now billions. As Heinz markets have grown from local to national... |
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Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic with an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Rasputin played an important role in the lives of the Ts... |
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Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
The Right Honourable Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-r... |
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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. The Mahatma's political and spiritual ho... |
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Henri Matisse, Fauvist
Henri Matisse's genius rivaled that of Picasso on every level. His natural ability bloomed forth in many media, but like Picasso he was at his best with drawing and with... |
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Alice Hamilton
Physician, reformer, founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. Alice Hamilton was the founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. and the first woman on the faculty o... |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
This is Jules Verne at his best, creating the enigmatic character of Captain Nemo. The setting is the mid-nineteenth century. Deadly and mysterious calamities continue to... |
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Rosa Luxemburg, Political Theorist
Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-born German Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party of the Kin... |
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Lenin, Founder of the Soviet Republics
Lenin was the founder and guiding spirit of the Soviet Republics and the Communist International, the disciple of Marx, the leader of the Bolshevik party and the organize... |
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Maria Montessori, Educator/Physician
In 1894 Maria Montessori became the first woman physician in Italy. Her interest in children and education led her to open a children's school in 1907 in the slums outsid... |
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Alexander Scriabin, Russian Composer
The composer and pianist Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a striking representative of the early modern school of Russian music. The romantic symbolism of his late wor... |
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Marcel Proust
Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la r... |
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Rutherford, Father of Nuclear Physics
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS, widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a chemist (B.Sc. in chemistry and geology 1894, Canterbury College... |
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Gomburza
In February 17, 1872, Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jocinto Zamora (Gomburza), all Filipino priest, was executed by the Spanish colonizers on charges of subversi... |
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