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Louis XIV became king at the age of four. His reign lasted from May 14, 1643, under the regency of his mother Anne of Austria, to September 7, 1651, date of his death in 1715. His 72-year reign was one of the longest in European history and the longest in French history.

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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The American musical romantic comedy film Singin' in the Rain was released in 1952. Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, it illustrates the transition from silent to talking pictures.

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The Sarajevo attack was the assassination on Sunday 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg, by the Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This event is considered to be the trigger for the First World War.

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The existence of the Higgs boson was confirmed in 2012 thanks to the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN, marking a major breakthrough in particle physics.

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The Portrait of a Man with a Red Turban is a painting by the primitive Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, painted in 1436. It has been exhibited at the National Gallery in London since 1851.

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The blue period of Pablo Picasso corresponds to the years 1901-1904: this name comes from the fact that blue is the dominant color of his paintings.

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All the Things She Said is a song performed by the Russian duo t.A.T.u. from their first studio album in English, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002).

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Cleopatra VII, Egypt's last queen, died in Alexandria in August 30 BC, probably from an asp bite or poisoning.

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Asuncion is the capital and most populated city of Paraguay. It is located on the left bank of the Río Paraguay, on a portion of the river that borders Argentina.

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