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1 day ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
2 hours ago · Early life Lee was born on 27 May 1922 in Belgravia, London, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee (1879–1941) of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps, and his wife, Countess Estelle Marie (née Carandini di Sarzano ; 1889–1981). Lee's father fought in the Boer War and First World War, and his mother was an Edwardian beauty who was painted by Sir John Lavery, Oswald Birley, and ...
1 day ago · An opera based on satirical novels by Svatopluk Čech from 1888, in one of which a heavy-drinking bourgeois 19th-century Prague landlord finds himself transported to 1420 in the middle of the Hussite Wars. 1928 / 1929 Armageddon 2419 A.D. Philip Francis Nowlan: Novella - A strange cave gas transports Anthony Rogers to 2419 AD.
2 hours ago · Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839–1914), Prince (1867–1881) and King (1881–1914) of Romania. Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia. Charles IV (1316–1378), King of Germany 1346, Holy Roman Emperor 1355–78. Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain 1516, King of Germany 1519, Holy Roman Emperor 1530–56.
