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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

David Cameron. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom talk during the G8 Summit at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013

What’s the Difference Between a President and a Prime Minister?

Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar

Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Why Does the New Year Start on January 1?

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Born	c.390 BCE
Died	c.324 BCE

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Peisistratus

tyrant of Athens

Hyperides

Greek politician

Aeschines

Greek orator

Demades

Athenian statesman

Andocides

Greek orator and politician

Demetrius Of Phaleron

Greek statesman and philosopher

Pericles

Athenian statesman

Solon

Greek statesman and poet

Cleisthenes of Athens

Greek statesman

Themistocles

Athenian politician and naval strategist

Alcibiades

Athenian politician and general

Cimon

Greek statesman and general

Miltiades the Younger

Athenian general

Theramenes

Greek politician and general

Antiphon

Greek writer and statesman

Aristides The Just

Greek statesman

Megacles

Athenian statesman [flourished mid-6th century BCE]

Herodes Atticus

Greek orator and author

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