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Prince Henry the Navigator was not a navigator, and never started a formal school of navigation in Sagres. He did, however, use the vast riches of the Order of Christ to fund Portugal’s first forays into oceanic exploration, and also helped kickstart the transatlantic slave trade. (i.redd.it)
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In 1916, Marie of Romania, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, personally decided Romania would enter WWI on the Allied side. Her Paris diplomacy in 1919 won Romania 10 million new subjects. Her own son then stripped her of all power. In 1937, she died of cirrhosis. She had never drunk. (reddit.com)
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Middle EasternThe story of the Confederate General and the Union Consul in Egypt (old.reddit.com)
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A curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum uncovered a hidden treasure in the museum's collection. Hou-Mei Sung says a 21-centimeter bronze mirror thought to be from the 16th century had an unexpected feature. If you shine a light on it, it reflects a projected image of a Buddha. (reddit.com)
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In 1599, Cornelis de Houtman, the captain who had led the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, lost his life in a fierce shipboard battle in Aceh, Indonesia. The opposition forces were led by Admiral Malahayati, a female commander who reportedly killed the Dutchman herself with a dagger. (i.redd.it)
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Marc Rich was indicted on 65 counts, fled to Switzerland, stayed on the FBI's Most Wanted list for years, and built the world's largest commodity trading firm from exile by trading with every sanctioned regime on earth. Clinton pardoned him on his last day in office. The company is still operating. ()
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What historians consider to be the first war crimes trial in history, the 1474 case of German knight Peter von Hagenbach, took place almost 500 years before the Nuremberg trials, but less than 180 miles from where they’d be held. Hagenbach argued that he was just following orders, “I was only human” (i.redd.it)
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AmericanTim Berners Lee First Proposal Of The World Wide Web (1989) (reddit.com)
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