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  • Zheng He

    Zheng He
    Jan 23 2026
    Zheng He was a Chinese explorer, admiral, diplomat, and eunuch from the early Ming dynasty, who is often regarded as the greatest admiral in Chinese history. Born into a Muslim family as Ma He, he later adopted the surname Zheng conferred onto him by the Yongle Emperor.

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    1 min
  • Indian Independence Act 1947

    Indian Independence Act 1947
    Jan 22 2026
    The Indian Independence Act of 1947 was a law passed by the British Parliament that partitioned British India into two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, effectively ending British colonial rule. It received Royal Assent on July 18, 1947, and came into effect on August 15, 1947, marking a significant moment in the history of India's struggle for independence.

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    2 min
  • Ada Deer

    Ada Deer
    Jan 21 2026
    Ada Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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    2 min
  • The Ford Model T

    The Ford Model T
    Jan 20 2026
    The invention which changed the world.

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    3 min
  • Franz Kafka

    Franz Kafka
    Jan 19 2026
    Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews. His father, Hermann Kafka, was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka,a shochet or kosher butcher in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia.

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    2 min
  • John Muir - legendary Nature Campaigner

    John Muir - legendary Nature Campaigner
    Jan 16 2026
    Muir was noted for being an ecological thinker, political spokesman, and environmental advocate, whose writings became a personal guide into nature for many people, making his name "almost ubiquitous" in the modern environmental consciousness

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    2 min
  • The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

    The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
    Jan 15 2026
    Tragic life of Dutch painter Van Gogh.

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    Once again I apologise for my poor pronounciation of French words.

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    3 min
  • Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of America

    Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of America
    Jan 14 2026
    Until the mid-15th century, Europe enjoyed a safe land passage to China and India—sources of valued goods such as silk, spices, and opiates—under the hegemony of the Mongol Empire (the Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace). With the Fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1453, European countries sought to compete with the Silk Road dominated by the gunpowder empires through expanded use of ocean voyages to scope out and establish new trade routes.

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    2 min