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Louis XIV became King of France at the age of 5, in 1643, on the death of his father, Louis XIII. His mother, Anne of Austria, assumed the regency.

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Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 American film North By Northwest marked a major turning point in the spy thriller genre.

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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 Sphinx of Giza is the therianthropic statue that stands in front of the great pyramids of the Giza plateau in Lower Egypt. The largest monolithic monumental sculpture in the world, it represents a setting sphinx.

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Brothers Ray and Dave Davies, founders of The Kinks, hail from Muswell Hill, north London.

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Giovanni Branca is an Italian engineer, architect and technical writer of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He described steam turbines in 1629.

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Gareth Bale plays for the Wales national team. He is considered one of the best Welsh footballers of all time.

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Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia, located at the confluence of the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers, and the country's political, economic and cultural center.

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Steve McCurry first went to Afghanistan in 1979, just before the Soviet invasion, to capture striking images of the conflict.

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The eruption of the Tambora in 1815 was the most violent volcanic eruption ever known historically, and above all the most deadly.

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