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  • Thumbnail for Paddle steamer
    A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle...
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    Events from the year 1745 in Ireland. Monarch: George II 19 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78...
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    MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered passenger ship properly referred to with the prefix MS or MV, built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for HAPAG...
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  • Thumbnail for Action of 25 January 1797
    The action of 25 January 1797 was a minor naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought in the Gulf of Cádiz. The Spanish third-rate ship of the...
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    Laudine is a character in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th-century romance Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion and all of its adaptations, which include the Welsh...
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  • Events from the year 1883 in the arts 20 April – Claude Monet moves to the house in Giverny which will be his main residence for the rest of his life....
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  • The SS-Baubrigaden were a type of subcamp of Nazi concentration camps that were first established in Autumn 1942. These units were usually made up of male...
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  • Thumbnail for Suzy Solidor
    Suzy Solidor (18 December 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a French singer and actress, appearing in films such as La Garçonne. Suzy Solidor was born Suzanne...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Bromley (died 1615)
    Sir Henry Bromley (1560 – 15 May 1615) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1604....
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  • Gymnasiarch (Latin: gymnasiarchus, from Greek: γυμνασίαρχος, gymnasiarchos), which derives from Greek γυμνάσιον (gymnasion, gymnasium) + ἄρχειν, archein...
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  • Thumbnail for Castro of Santa Trega
    Castro of Santa Trega is an archaeological site located on the hillsides of Mount Santa Trega, in the southwestern Galician municipality of A Guarda, Spain...
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    Rosemarie Schuder (married Rosemarie Hirsch; July 24, 1928 – May 5, 2018) was a German writer. Rosemarie Schuder came from a middle-class family in Jena...
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  • The People's Commissariat for the Building of Military and Naval Enterprises (Russian: Народный комиссариат по строительству военных и военно-морских предприятий...
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  • Pauline Elizabeth Scarborough (30 March 1935 – 18 August 2015) was an American historian of Psychology, born in Ruston, Louisiana. Scarborough transformed...
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  • Nahhunte-utu was an Elamite queen and the wife of two of the greatest kings of Elam from Shutrukid dynasty. She had a son named Hutelutush-inshushinak...
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  • Thumbnail for Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba
    Prince Grégoire Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan (12 December 1827 – 15 October 1886) was a Romanian-French prince. Prince Grégoire was born in Craiova on...
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  • Mabel Newcomer (1892–1983) was an economics professor at Vassar College from 1917 to 1957. She also taught courses in finance and corporations. Newcomer...
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  • Thumbnail for Hirsau Church
    The Hirsau Church (German: Hirsauer Kirche or Hirsau Chapel (Hirsauer Kapelle) is an old church near Offenbach-Hundheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate...
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  • The Liburnian Autonomous Movement or the Liburnian Federalist Movement was a political group founded in Rijeka in the summer of 1943, disbanded in the...
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  • The Partisans were an informal group in the Polish United Workers' Party. It was created in the 1960s, its main creators were Mieczysław Moczar and General...
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