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George Herman Ruth, Jr. "Babe Ruth"
Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Many polls place him as the greatest baseball player in history. Ruth began his carrer as a Boston Red Sox... |
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Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Red Prince
Archduke Wilhelm Franz of Austria-Teschen, later Wilhelm Franz von Habsburg-Lothringen. Austrian archduke, colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and poet. Archduke Wilh... |
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Buster Keaton, Actor and Filmmaker
Joseph Frank Keaton Jr., always known as Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy wi... |
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Nuclear Age Timeline
This historical timeline, prepared in 1993, traces the nuclear age from (1895-1993) the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb th... |
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Paul Otlet, Forgotten Forefather
Who was Paul Otlet? Meet the forgotten forefather of information architecture. A bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur, Otlet had in his heyday been feted as a great... |
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IOC : The Modern Olympic Games
Greece was the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896. The International Olympic Committee was founded on 23... |
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Marshal Georgi Zhukov, USSR WW2
Deputy Supreme Commander in Chief of the Red Army. Zhukov directed the defence of Moscow against the German Army in 1941. Susequently he was instrumental in organizing th... |
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Dracula, Stoker
Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is a well-thought out, complex novel that leaves the reader page-turning into the late hours of the night. The author's use of imagery and detail... |
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Nympheas, Monet
Nymphéas, effet du soir", Claude Monet, 1897, Musée Marmottan, Paris.
"It took me time to understand my waterlilies... I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew... |
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Amelia Earhart
Becomes the first woman (and second person) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in her single engine Lockheed Vega and the first person to cross the Atlantic twice by a... |
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Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany. Goebbels was known for his zealous and energetic oratory and virulent anti-Semitism. Foll... |
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Native American Baseball Players
A chronological list of full-blood native americans who have played in the baseball major leagues from 1897 to the present.... |
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Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a military conflict between Spain and the United States that began in April 1898. Hostilities halted in August of that year, and the Treaty o... |
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J. Slauerhoff, Poet
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers. Slauerhoff attended HBS(secondary school) in Harlin... |
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George Gershwin, American Composer
George Gershwin was an American composer who wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin... |
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