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The first French sailor to win the Route du Rhum was Florence Arthaud, who won this transatlantic race in 1990.

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The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, generally referred to as the "Declaration of Independence of the United States of America", is a political document by which the thirteen British North American colonies seceded from Great Britain on 4 July 1776 to form the "United States of America".

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The poet Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille on November 10, 1891, at the age of 37, as a result of bone cancer that led to the amputation of his leg.

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The Toronto Raptors are the only NBA team outside the USA to represent Canada in this prestigious basketball league.

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Sanaa is the capital of Yemen. Located in the northern mountains, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Arab world.

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The film Bagdad Cafe, directed by Percy Adlon, was released in 1987. This masterpiece explores friendship and transformation in a unique desert setting.

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Valletta is the capital of Malta. Founded in 1566, this historic city is renowned for its Baroque architecture and impressive fortifications.

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It was in the United States that she met Stan Getz, with whom she recorded The Girl from Ipanema in 1963, which is now a bossa nova standard.

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The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. It symbolized the division between East and West during the Cold War. It fell in 1989, marking the end of that period.

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Eugène Viollet-le-Duc went into exile in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1871, after the Paris Commune, where he continued his work as an architect.

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