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Glooscap Tales
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Glooscap Tales

The Glooscap tales are legends of the Eastern Algonquin nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy – the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Wolastoqiyik – featuring the supernatural entity Glooscap, who is depicted sometimes...
South Carolina Declaration of Secession
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South Carolina Declaration of Secession - Why South Carolina Left the Union

On 20 December 1860, 169 delegates met in Institute Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, to consider the motion of secession from the United States of America. They voted unanimously...
Siege of Petersburg
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Siege of Petersburg - Trench Warfare in the US Civil War

The Siege of Petersburg (June 1864 to April 1865), or the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, was among the last military operations of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It was not a siege in the traditional...
The Norse in America: Fact and Fiction
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The Norse in America: Fact and Fiction

The idea that it was the Norse who discovered America first emerged in the late 18th century, long before there was any public awareness of the sagas on which such claims were based. In the course of the 19th...
Ellen and William Craft's Escape Through Canada
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Ellen and William Craft's Escape Through Canada - The Challenges of Racial Prejudice

Among the most daring escapes from slavery in the United States in the 19th century was the flight of Ellen and William Craft from the slave state of Georgia to the free state...
Sanchi Stupa Model
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Sanchi Stupa Model

Sanchi stoopa model | How to make school project model sanchi stupa | साँची स्तूप का मॉडल Hi I am Rajendra verma Welcome to our Youtube Channel Creative Art. About this video - Dosto Is Video Me Maine Incredible India...
Richard I the Lionheart
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Richard I the Lionheart

Face reconstruction of Richard I of England (the Lionheart, r. 1189-1199), based on the funerary effigy in Rouen Cathedral. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers...
Plan of Fort St. George
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Plan of Fort St. George

Illustration from page 120 of 'The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658' by Henry S. Burrage, 1914 CE Cornell University Library
Château de Saumur
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Château de Saumur

The château of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Built in the 14th century for the Dukes of Anjou, it is the only Gothic castle in the Loire Valley.
Château de Brissac
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Château de Brissac

First built in the 10th century, the Château de Brissac became the home of René de Cossé, the first Lord of Brissac in 1502 and it is now the residence of the 14th Duke of Brissac. It is located in the new town of Brissac Loire...
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