Grace Darling

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

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Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Five Years Later

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Is the Number of Hurricanes Increasing?

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The Great Molasses Flood and 6 Other Strange Disasters

Discover

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Causes of the Great Depression

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Timeline of the Titanic’s Final Hours

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What is Holy Week?

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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Born	November 24, 1815 • Bamburgh • England
Died	October 20, 1842 (aged 26) • Bamburgh • England

Joseph Campbell

American author

Nancy Ward

Native American leader

Nancy Hart

American Revolution heroine

Hannah Emerson Duston

American colonial heroine

Betty Zane

American frontier heroine

Lydia Barrington Darragh

American war heroine

Sybil Ludington

American Revolutionary War heroine

Margaret Corbin

American heroine

Anna Warner Bailey

American patriot

Gaius Mucius Scaevola

Roman hero

William Hunter Kendal

British actor and manager

Ernest Renshaw

English tennis player

Alexander MacMillan

Scottish publisher

Hans Eysenck

German-born British psychologist

George de Benneville

American religious leader

John Spencer Curwen

British music publisher

Melanie Janine Brown

British entertainer

George Douglas Howard Cole

British economist

James Christie, the Elder

British auctioneer

Joseph C. Farman

British atmospheric scientist

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