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America
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George Washington was the first, and only nonpartisan, President of the United States…
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence…
Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian naval officer and explorer. Sailing with Norwegian explorer Roald…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist…
John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his…
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels A Common Story…
Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with…
Asia + Oceania
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Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to…
Bahadur Shah II, also known as Zafar (his name as an Urdu poet), last Mughal emperor of India…
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It…