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Theodore Roosevelt (26th president of the USA) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the USA) were second cousins | |
For exactly half of the 100 years between 1901 and 2000 the serving president of the USA was a republican | |
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were born 100 years apart | |
The oldest pyramids of Giza predates the Viking age by more than 3,000 years | |
Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) was the leader of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the world 1519-1522 | |
The current king of Sweden (Carl XVI Gustaf) is the longest reigning monarch in Swedish history | |
The Russian Emperor Nicholas II and the German Emperor Wilhelm II were both first cousins of the contemporary king of the UK, George V | |
There is a year 0 in the 'Anno Domini system' | |
Ho Chi Minh started a mass murder of political opponents in South Vietnam when American troops retreated in 1973 | |
John F. Kennedy was the first American president born in the 20th century | |
The Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara's real name was Enrique | |
Caesar's full name was spelled 'Gaius Julius Caesar' by himself and his contemporaries | |
Alfred Nobel specifically asked for the peace prize to be awarded by a Norwegian committee even though the recipients of the other prizes were to be selected by Swedish committees | |
Britain was named after Bretagne (Brittany), the region in today's northern France | |
Theodore Roosevelt (26th president of the USA) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the USA) were second cousins | |
For exactly half of the 100 years between 1901 and 2000 the serving president of the USA was a republican | |
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were born 100 years apart | |
The oldest pyramids of Giza predates the Viking age by more than 3,000 years | |
Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) was the leader of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the world 1519-1522 | |
The current king of Sweden (Carl XVI Gustaf) is the longest reigning monarch in Swedish history | |
The Russian Emperor Nicholas II and the German Emperor Wilhelm II were both first cousins of the contemporary king of the UK, George V | |
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