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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/08/2023
Born on 15 February 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, Irena Stanisława Sendler initially grew up in Otwock, a town about 24 km southeast of Warsaw..
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Dibyendu Banerjee
19/06/2023
Salamo Arouch, a Jewish boxer, was forced to step through the ropes of a boxing ring in the Auschwitz concentration camp and fight to win to save his life.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
29/04/2023
Salem Witch Trials were a series of prosecutions of more than 200 people accused of practicing witchcraft in the village of Salem in colonial Massachusetts, ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/03/2023
Geisha, one of the oldest cultures and traditional practices of Japan, are a class of female professional entertainers, trained in a variety of Japanese tra ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
06/01/2023
Lady Edwina Mountbatten strongly felt that Jawaharlal Nehru was not like her other conquests and she did her best to create a good impression on him.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/11/2022
Kate Warne, the first female detective of America, saved the life of President-elect Abraham Lincoln by uncovering the plot of his assassination.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/10/2022
For the people of Poland, the Katyn Massacre was an attack on the Polish nation, aimed to prevent the rebuilding of a sovereign Polish state.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
31/08/2022
Located near the border with Belarus and named after the nearby Pripyat River, the city of Pripyat was founded on 4 November 1970 as a nuclear city in the S ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/07/2022
The great man-made famine in Ukraine or Terror Famine in Ukraine, which killed millions of Ukrainians during 1931-1932, became infamous in history as Holod ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
22/06/2022
Born on 2 February 1938 in Bucha, a small village near Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, Lyubov Panchenko was a revolutionary folk artist who overcame a lifetime ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
18/05/2022
Hedy Lamarr, an Austria born American actress born as Hedwig Eva Kiesler in Vienna, Austria on 9 November 1914, co-invented a radio guidance system.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/04/2022
The journey through the Holocaust was a forced death march of around 2000 Jewish women, without sufficient food, rest and sufficient garments in freezing co ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/01/2022
Born to a peasant family in Pokrovskoye, a small village in Western Siberia in 1869, Gregorian Yefimovich Rasputin, the so-called Mad Monk, revered.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
28/11/2021
The Tuileries Palace or Palais de Tuileries, which once stood on the right bank of the River Seine, displaying an immense façade of 873 feet (266 m).
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/10/2021
It is believed that Tishyaraksha or Tishyarakshita, a beautiful young woman, was initially a favourite maid of Ashoka’s chief queen, Asandhimitra. She was ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
25/08/2021
Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, the last Emperor of Russia, was brutally executed along with his wife and children by Bolshevik secret police on 17 July 1918.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
14/07/2021
Marie Antoinette, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was used as a pawn on the diplomatic chessboard of Europe.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
04/03/2021
Rabindranath Tagore’s play Dak Ghar, or the Post Office was performed by the children of an orphanage run by Janusz Korczak, in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
17/01/2021
Anne Boleyn was born to Lady Elizabeth Howard and Thomas Boleyn, a respected diplomat with a gift for languages and a favourite of Henry VII of England.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
13/12/2020
The sexual life of Adolf Hitler, the man responsible for the deaths of more than 70 million people, has long been a subject of historical research.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
13/10/2020
The Kissing Soldier is a famous photograph that portrayed a US Navy sailor holding and kissing a total stranger, a female dental assistant.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
26/09/2020
The woman they arrested was Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872, about 50 years before women could vote.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
08/08/2020
Ilona Marita Lorenz, born in Bremen, Germany on 18 August 1939, was once known as the sexy mistress of Fidel Castro.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
27/06/2020
The Napalm girl is best known in the world as the nine-year-old girl depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph, crying and running naked on a road i ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
11/06/2020
A little over 450 years ago, Lady Jane Grey, a young girl of sixteen, was proclaimed Queen of England. She became famous not only because her reign was to l ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/05/2020
On the fateful night of 9 November 1938, suddenly Nazis in Germany started to plunder, vandalize and torch the Jewish synagogues, Jewish homes, schools, cem ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
02/10/2019
The actual nature of the relationship between Adolf Hitler and his young half-niece Geli Raubal is shrouded in the mist of mystery. She was an unusual beaut ...
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Dibyendu Banerjee
07/08/2019
Since his early days, Adolf Hitler wanted to become a painter and had the burning desire to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
23/07/2019
This is the story of a steamy portrait of Queen Victoria, the portrait that had been kept behind the closed doors of Windsor Castle for more than a century.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/04/2019
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is famous for abolishing slavery. He is also famous for his iconic beards
