History A-Z IV

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Catherine the Great

 

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D-Day invasion of Normandy

 

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Enron scandal

 

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French Revolution

 

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Gettysburg Address

 

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"hanging chads" 2000 Presidential election recount in FL

 

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Indian reservations

 

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Jazz Era.

 

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King George III

 

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Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic in 1927

 

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

 

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Nuremberg Trials

 

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Oregon Trail is a 2,170-miles. laid by fur traders and trappers from about 1811 to 1840

 

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Pacific Ocean was discovered by Vasco Nunez de Balboa in 1513. He was standing on a mountaintop in Panama when he saw the ocean. Balboa walked into the ocean and claimed it in the name of Spain.

 

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Quasi-War (1798-1800)

 

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Russian Revolution

 

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Spanish Inquisition

 

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Trail of Tears

 

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United Nations

 

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Victory at Sea Documentaries

 

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Walter Cronkite

 

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Xianyang (capital of the Qin dynasty of China)

 

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Yeltsin, Boris

 

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Zero, the year
Sometimes you might have to count back and forth between B.C. and A.D. and find a year missing. Here's the deal about the year zero: It didn't exist.

There was the year 3 B.C., followed by the year 2 B.C., followed by the year 1 B.C. followed by the year 1 A.D., followed by the year 2 A.D., followed by the year 3 A.D.

 

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Alexander the Great