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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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1 |
It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave their eyebrows off, and so the Mona Lisa has none! |
History > European |
05/18/09 |
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2 |
Nikita Khrushchev believed that peaceful co-existence between communist and capitalist states was possible. |
History > European |
04/23/09 |
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3 |
Heinrich Himmler was the head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS. |
History > European |
04/21/09 |
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4 |
Dachau was the first Nazi German concentration camp that opened in Germany in 1933. |
History > European |
04/05/09 |
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5 |
Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and leader, was born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870. |
History > European |
04/05/09 |
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6 |
Ukraine was blockaded after the country refused to cooperate with Stalin's collectivization of farms, resulting in a famine killing over six million people. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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7 |
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed in March 1918, marking Russia's exit from World War I. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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8 |
When Lenin died in 1924, Trotsky was expected to take over; however, Stalin took over instead. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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9 |
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact agreeing to remain neutral if either of the two countries were to enter a war. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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10 |
Trotsky was assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico by Ramon Mercader. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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11 |
Nazi Party leader Hitler and other heads unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic on November 9, 1923 in the Beer Hall Putsch. |
History > European |
04/01/09 |
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12 |
Alexander Kerensky was the second leader of the Russian Provisional Government until Lenin came to power. |
History > European |
03/31/09 |
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13 |
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union, mostly used during Stalin's reign. |
History > European |
03/31/09 |
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14 |
George V reigned as King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936. |
History > European |
03/08/09 |
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15 |
Giuseppe Mazzini was considered the "soul" of the Italian unification, because, even though he wasn't an active participant in it, he helped inspire it. |
History > European |
03/08/09 |
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