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Discovery of the North Pole
When Peary and Matthew Henson, America's greatest Negro explorer, went to Greenland in 1891, the quest for the North Pole was just taking form in Peary's mind. It grew in... |
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Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious outlaws, robbers and criminals who travelled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were know... |
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Marinus van der Lubbe, Reichstag Fire
On 27th February 1933 the Reichstag caught fire. When they police arrived they found Lubbe on the premises. After being tortured by the Gestapo he confessed to starting t... |
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James Agee, Writer
James Agee (1909)
Agee was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic who worked for Fortune, Time, and The Nation. His first major book, Let... |
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Ian Fleming, Creator of James Bond
Fleming is the creator of the fictional superspy James Bond. Bond is a suave, lady-killing British agent who travels the globe, battles super-villains bent on world domin... |
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Julius Sumner Miller, Professor
For over two decades, the enigmatic and slightly mad Professor Julius Sumner Miller captivated and amazed audiences on Australian TV with demonstrations of physical scien... |
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Edwin Land, Inventor Polaroid
Edwin Herbert Land was a American scientist, inventor, and industrialist. While studying physics at Harvard in the 1920s he became interested in the polarization of light... |
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Francis Bacon, Painter
Irish-British painter. He lived in Berlin and Paris before settling in London (1929) to begin a career as an interior decorator. With no formal art training, he started p... |
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Chinese Revolution, 1911
Series of great political upheavals in China between 1911 and 1949 which eventually led to Communist Party rule and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. I... |
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Robert Scott, Journey to the South Pole
Sir Robert Falson Scott's last journey to Antarctica, and his race for the South Pole.
On November 1st 1911, twelve men, each with a pony and sledge, left Cape Evans i... |
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Ronald Reagan, 40th US President
Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voter... |
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IAAF : Int. Amateur Athletic Federation
The International Amateur Athletic Federation was founded in 1912 by 17 national athletic federations who saw the need for a governing authority, for an athletic programm... |
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RMS Titanic Sinks
RMS Titanic was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business. Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolf... |
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Alan Turing, Father of Modern Computing
Alan Turing was a mathematician who in 1937 suggested a theoretical machine, since called a Turing Machine, that became the basis of modern computing. In 1950 he suggeste... |
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Wernher Von Braun, Inventor of the Rocket
Wernher Von Braun was one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers and a leading authority on space travel. His will to expand man's knowledge through the explo... |
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