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Alexandra David-Néel was a brave explorer. She also wrote 25 books and became completely fluent in multiple languages.
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As he was still a minor, he was not executed, but was sentenced to twenty years in prison. He died on 20 January 1916 of tuberculosis in a Terezín prison.
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Medieval monks were the bored data entry workers of their day, spending hours copying manuscripts in uncomfortable chairs and cold rooms. To keep themselves entertained, they often made little doodles or silly comments in the margins of manuscripts they were copying.
Here are some:
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HMS Porcupine was a P-class destroyer built by Vickers Armstrong on the River Tyne.
She was torpedoed in 1942 but salvaged and not finally broken up until 1947.
Once the two pieces were back in Portsmouth, the fore part of the ship was know as HMS Pork, and the rear part as HMS Pine.
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The Europeans used what is known as the “Mediterranean draw” to pull their bowstrings back. This uses the first three fingers of the hand. However, the Mongols used their thumbs to pull the string back,
and curled their index and middle fingers over the thumb to support it.
This, they reckoned, was stronger and allowed for a cleaner release.
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Nobuo Fujita, was invited back to to serve as the Grand Marshal for the local Azalea Festival. At the festival, Fujita presented his family’s 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret. Fujita made a number of additional visits serving as an “informal ambassador of peace and friendship”
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During the Golden Age, the major capital cities of Baghdad, Cairo, and Córdoba became the main intellectual centers for science, philosophy, medicine, and education. The government heavily patronized scholars and the best scholars and notable translators had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today.
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