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Genghis Khan did not allow any images of himself to be made. When he died in 1227, he was buried secretly as was the custom, and horsemen stamped [...]
June 2, 2016
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Christopher Columbus is often wrongly credited with ‘discovering’ America. America was inhabited many centuries before Columbus arrived there [...]
June 2, 2016
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 to 1821) crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 after a successful military coup in post-revolutionary France. First [...]
June 2, 2016
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Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) is one of the most influential figures in 20th-century art. He was not only an artist but also a sculptor and a [...]
June 2, 2016