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The first French swimmer to be crowned Olympic champion was Laure Manaudou. She won gold in the 400-meter freestyle in Athens in 2004.

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The Great Blue Hole is an underwater cenote located off the coast of Belize, Central America. It is part of the Lighthouse Reef and is protected within the Belizean reef.

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Chichén Itzá is located on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. This UNESCO-listed Mayan site is home to the Kukulcán pyramid, an architectural masterpiece.

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The Black Sea owes its name to a Turco-Mongolian tradition associating black with the north. Located to the north of Turkey, it was named the Black Sea.

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The capital of Indonesia is Jakarta. Located on the island of Java, Jakarta is the country's political, economic and cultural center.

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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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The Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt desert, is located in the south-western Bolivian department of Potosí, at an altitude of 3,656 metres.

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Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is a Russian national. Two-time Olympic champion, she holds several pole-vault world records.

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Cypress is a conifer that can cause pollinosis, particularly in spring, due to its allergenic pollen.

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The Black Death, a devastating pandemic, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1352, causing millions of deaths and profoundly altering medieval society.

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