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4,300 Year-Old
Pyramid
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Egyptian
archaeologists have
discovered a pyramid buried
in the desert and thought to
belong to the mother of a
pharaoh who ruled more than
4,000 years ago, said Zahi
Hawass, Egypt's
antiquities chief.
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Captain Kidd Wreck
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A U.S. underwater archaeology team
says it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship
once captained by the notorious pirate William Kidd off a tiny
Dominican Republic island.
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Defences at Troy
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New
excavations in ancient Troy has revealed that the city was much
bigger and housed approximately 10,000 people.
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BEST OF HISTORY |
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Operation Torch (initially called Operation
Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French
North Africa in World War II during the North
African Campaign, started 8 November 1942.
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Mesopotamia
(from the Greek meaning "The land between the two
rivers") is an area geographically located between
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely
corresponding to modern Iraq, north-eastern Syria,
south-eastern Turkey, and the Khuzestan region of
south-western Iran.
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Troy |
Ancient
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Troy is a
legendary city and centre of the Trojan War, as
described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the
Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to
Homer. Trojan refers to the inhabitants and culture
of Troy.
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Suleiman I was the tenth and
longest-serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire,
reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West
as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the Islamic
world, as the Lawgiver, deriving from his complete
reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system.
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King Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was
King of England and Lord of
Ireland,
later King of Ireland, from 21 April 1509 until his
death. King Henry VIII was the second monarch of the
House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.
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Leonardo da Vinci, April 15, 1452 –
May 2, 1519) was a Tuscan polymath: scientist,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,
painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and
writer. Born at Vinci in the region of Florence, the
illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a
peasant girl, Caterina,
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Queen Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)
was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17
November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The
Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen or Good
Queen Bess, Elizabeth I was the fifth and last monarch
of the Tudor dynasty. Elizabeth I ...
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The Spanish Armada or Great Armada (Old Spanish:
Grande y Felicísima Armada, meaning "Great and Most
Fortunate Navy", also known as the Armada Invencible
("Invincible Navy"), was the Spanish fleet that
sailed against England under the command of the Duke
of Medina Sidonia in 1588.
The Spanish Armada ...
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The Black Death, or The Black Plague,
was one of the most deadly pandemics
in medieval history, widely thought to have been caused by a
bacterium named
Yersinia pestis.
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The Battle of
Kadesh took place between
the forces of Ramesses II's
Ancient
Egypt and the Hittites of
Muwatalli II at the city of
Kadesh, the modern Tell Nebi
Mend, on the Orontes River
of modern Syria
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