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What Led to France’s Reign of Terror?
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illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
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Timeline of the September 11 Attacks
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Blackboard inscribed with scientific formulas and calculations in physics and mathematics
Beyond Pi: 7 Underrated Single-Letter Variables and Constants
The starting line-up at the first ever Indianapolis 500 motor race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, 1911.
The First Indy 500: A Spectacular Start in 1911
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Born October 31, 1802 • Saint-Étienne • France
Died July 31, 1867 (aged 64) • Paris • France
Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Auguste Lumière
French inventor
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Louis Lumière
French inventor
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
René Laënnec
French physician
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Charles Cros
French inventor and poet
Clément Ader.
Clément Ader
French inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Louis Blériot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
Louis Blériot
French aviator