Cities States and Countries

PLACES

The Vikings built colonies in Greenland in the Middle Ages, but they disappeared in the 1400s, leaving behind a few ruins and a lot of question marks.

THINGS

The Three Gorges Dam stands as the largest hydroelectric dam ever built, and it has even changed the Earth's rotation

PEOPLE

When Margaret Sullavan died, her daughter revealed the secret love affair Sullavan had with Jimmy Stewart, while she was married to Henry Fonda.

PEOPLE

The downfall of Nero in June of AD 68 set off a struggle in Rome that saw four emperors in the span of a year.

PEOPLE

The attempt to dig a canal through Panama was led by French diplomat and builder Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had earlier triumphed with the Suez Canal. Though the project had a promising start soon turned into one of history’s biggest engineering failures.

PLACES

During a food shortage in WWI, an army supply ship docked in Amsterdam and had to fight off men and women looting the supplies.



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