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The Three Musketeers, Dumas
The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’s historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chron... |
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The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the greatest novels of all time and in fact stands at the fountainhead of the entire stream of popular adventure-fiction. Dumas himsel... |
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Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was a miller's daughter from the town of Lourdes in southern France. From February 11, to July 16, 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a... |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche sharply criticized the Greek tradition's over-emphasis on reason in his Die Götzendämmerung (Twilight of the Idols) (1889). Reliance on abstract concepts in a q... |
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Korsakov, Composer
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. Mainly... |
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Karl Benz, Automobile Engineer
Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Other German contemporari... |
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Fernet Branca
Known and appreciated world wide for its inimitable quality since 1845, Fernet Branca's ingredients and the process of extraction of their principal benefits remain a tig... |
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Ludwig II of Bavaria
Ludwig II was king of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes referred to as the Swan King in English and der Märchenkönig (the Fairy tale King)... |
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Alexander III, Emperor of Russia
Alexander III was the Emperor of Russia from 1881 until his death in 1894. Alexander was the second son of Alexander II and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. In natural dispos... |
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Röntgen, Discovers X-rays, 1895
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength ra... |
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Revolutions of 1848
The Revolutions of 1848 were a series of political and economic revolts that took place in Europe because of a recession and abuse of political power. The participants in... |
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Joseph Pulitzer, Publisher
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating y... |
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Bram Stoker
Bram (Abraham) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. Stoker was a sick... |
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Bell, Inventor of the Telephone -1876
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish scientist and inventor who emigrated to Canada. Today, Bell is widely considered as one of the foremost developers of the telephone,... |
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Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park... |
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