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The Great Pyramid of Cheops was built between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. It took 100,000 men twenty years to construct using 2,300,000 huge, stone blocks which weighed an average of two tonnes each. Forty...
In Sweden over 570 daily newspapers are sold for every 1,000 of the population, making them the biggest newspaper-readers on earth. Rwanda in Africa has a population of ten million people but the t...
Although America is named after the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who made several voyages to the New World and drew up many important charts, it was another Italian, Christopher Columbus, b...
When the Hapsburg Emperor, Rudolf II, went mad, he allowed lions, tigers and other exotic animals and birds to run free in the empty galleries and corridors. Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of Fra...
I found many conflicted statements about this topic. I would really appreciate it if someone could verify this. thank you.
