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The Turtle is the first military submarine to be used in battle. It was invented in 1775 by David Bushnell in Connecticut. It is the first submarine and also the first known marine vehicle to be propelled by a propeller.

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The Dutch East India Company is a trading company established by the United Provinces in 1602. For almost two centuries it was one of the pillars of the power of Dutch capitalism and imperialism. Dissolved in 1799, the company is known to have been one of the most powerful capitalist enterprises that ever existed, contributing greatly to the history of stock exchanges.

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Charlie Mingus is an American double bassist, composer and jazz pianist. In 1959 Mingus composed the music for the film Shadows by John Cassavetes.

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James Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Georgia before joining and becoming the figurehead of a vocal R&B group called The Famous Flames.

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The construction of Euclid is based on five axioms.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's famous play Faust, written in 1808, is a two-part work exploring the pact between Faust and Mephistopheles.

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He reigned over Austrasia from 622 to 632 and was king of the Franks from 629 to 639.

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In 1842, the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius called Todtenbuch (Book of the Dead) a papyrus kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin and of which he made a first translation.

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A Love Supreme is a concept album by John Coltrane recorded in 1964. It is considered to be a major jazz album, one of his greatest masterpieces, one of the best known and most accessible.

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The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre took place on the night of August 23-24, 1572, marking a tragic turning point in France's Wars of Religion.

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