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The Mayflower Compact was so named because it was written in the town of Mayflower, Massachusetts.
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D-Day took place on the shores of Milan.
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The site where America's Declaration of Independence was signed is now called Independence Hall.
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The Good Friday Accords that ended The Troubles were signed in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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The Bastille in France is an important revolutionary site because rebels broke into it and executed the imprisoned King Louis XVI.
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Speaking of revolutions, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 murdered their monarch by storming his Winter Palace.
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The Wonder of the Ancient World known as the Temple of Artemis was located on the island of Ephesus.
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The Falklands is the island chain where Charles Darwin conceptualized evolution by studying the variations in animal species there.
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On July 3rd, 1863, the American Civil War experienced its turning point at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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The highest human rights court in the world is the Reichstag located in The Netherlands.
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Jesus was born in the village of Nazareth according to Biblical tradition and historic census documents.
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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina is the town often cited as the place where the Wright Brothers first had a successful flight of their airplane.
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Angkor Wat in India is a holy site because it is said that the bones of ancient Hindu gods reside there.
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The Statue of Liberty's book has written on its pages the phrase, "We the people."
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The Third Crusade ended with the crusaders settling for sacking Paris before heading home with their spoils.
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The Library of Alexandria is said to have burned down as a result of a cow knocking over a lamp.
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Spencer Perceval, the only Prime Minister of the U.K. to be assassinated, was killed inside America's White House.
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At the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson defeated the naval forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Reims, France is the city where French monarchs were crowned because Clovis I had his coronation in the cathedral there.
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San Salvador was the Mexican city where the Mexican Revolution's end was officially negotiated.
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Jullius Caesar was murdered on the steps of the Senate in Athens, Greece.
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Vatican City's central church is named St. Peter's Basilica.
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Stonehenge is the historic site where the Irish king Cu Chulainn is said to have made his final stand.
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Prague Spring was a historical event that happened in Poland after the nation's socialist government elected a more moderate reform candidate in opposition to the U.S.S.R.'s wishes.
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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, the man who discovered bacteria, did so in his native Holland.
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Hitler wrote Mein Kampf while in Landsberg Prison following his unsuccessful Munich Beer Hall Putsch.
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The historic city of Xanadu was located on an unknown Indonesian island.
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Most historians believe the first humans to enter North America crossed a land-bridge that had formed in the Balkan Sea.
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Political power in the post-WWI world was decided by a treaty signed in the city of Versailles back in 1919.
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Tokyo became the new capital of China following the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
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