What Were the Friendship Games?
In an act of boycott against the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics , the Soviet Union held their own international multi-sport event called the Friendship Games.
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The Strasbourg Dancing Plague of 1518: When People Danced To Their Death
In an unusual incidence, a case of dancing mania occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, when 400 people took to dancing for days without rest, some even dying from stress.
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US States By Number Of Billionaires
With 124 billionaires as of February 2016, California ranks number one in the list of US states ranked by the number of billionaires.
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Who Was Charlotte Amalie?
Charlotte Amalie is the name of the capital city of the U.S. Virgin Islands, named after Charlotte Amalie of Hasse-Kassel.
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Tracing The Origins Of The Scout Movement
Scout movement started by itself although its development and organization is credited to Biden Powell.
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List of the World's Micronations
A micronation refers to a self-imposed jurisdiction or a model nation which claims to be self-governing.
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The Goiânia Radioactivity Accident Of 1987
The Goiânia Accident has been dubbed as one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
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The Great Lakes Refugee Crisis
Over two million Rwandans fled from their home-country to the neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide.
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The Three Mile Island Accident
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania caused mass panic when it experienced a partial meltdown.
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The History of Concorde Airplanes
The concorde turbojet was one of only two examples of supersonic transports to ever be operated commerically, and was operated from 1969 until 2003.
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What Were the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO)?
GANEFO were games established in the 1960s by Indonesia as an alternative multinational competitive sporting event to the Olympic games.
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Expo '67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition ran in Montreal from April 27 to October 29 1967.
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The Tragic Race To The South Pole: Who Won And Who Lost?
Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat his British rival Robert Falcon Scott in the race to the South Pole, a race that claimed the life of the latter and his team-mates.
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The Longest Ships Ever Built
With a length of 1,504.1 feet, the Oil tanker Seawise Giant is the longest ship ever built.
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Expo '86
In 1986, Vancouver hosted the World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply just Expo '86.
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The History And Evolution Of The Walt Disney Company
Founded on October 16, 1923, the Walt Disney Company is the world's second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, after Comcast.
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What Is the Monegasque dialect?
The Monégasque dialect is a dialect of Ligurian spoken in Monaco.
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The Story of the Embarcadero Freeway
In 1989, a massive earthquake partially destroyed the Embarcadero Freeway in central San Francisco, leading to its demolition.
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The Most Popular Newspapers In India
Started in Bhopal in 1958, the Dainik Bhaskar, an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper is the most circulated newspaper in India.
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AIR Studios of Montserrat
AIR, or Associated Independent Recording, was founded in London in 2965 by Sir George Martin.
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