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The abolition of slavery in the United States was officially proclaimed in 1865 with the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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The Mamas and the Papas' single California Dreamin' appears on their 1966 debut album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.

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The capital of El Salvador is San Salvador. Located in the heart of the country, it is the political, economic and cultural center of Central America's smallest state.

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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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Annapurna is a Himalayan massif in north-central Nepal, comprising several peaks, including Annapurna I at 8,091 meters.

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In 1095, Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade in the town square of Clermont, calling on Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims.

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Anthony Burgess's novel, adapted for the screen by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, is Clockwork Orange, a landmark work of dystopian literature.

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Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso, located in the center of the country. It is the political, cultural and economic center of the country.

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This is the album Animals, released in 1977 by Pink Floyd, whose cover depicts Battersea Power Station with an inflatable pig floating in the air.

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Banana plants are not trees. They are giant herbaceous plants belonging to the Musa genus. Their trunk is in fact a pseudo-trunk formed by rolled-up leaves.

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