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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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In the original version, Buzz Lightyear is dubbed by Tim Allen, while in the French version he is dubbed by Richard Darbois.

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The Drakensberg Mountains, which culminate in Njesuthi (3,408 metres above sea level), cross South Africa from south to northeast.

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(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 has become a standard and has been recorded by many artists. Chuck Berry's version, which appeared on his 1961 album New Juke Box Hits, was the closest to his R&B roots, with jazz accents often mixed in with his own songs.

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William Murdoch is a Scottish engineer and inventor. He is an employee of James Watt and has made several of his patented inventions. The ownership of the discovery of lighting gas around 1800 was a matter of debate at the time. It was shared between the Frenchman Philippe Lebon, the Englishman William Murdoch, the German Frédéric-Albert Winsor and the Limbourgois Jan Pieter Minckelers.

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The Soviet Ivan Papanin landed there by plane on May 21, 1937.

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The Narmer palette is a ceremonial object discovered in 1898 in a repository of ritual objects buried near an ancient temple of the falcon god Horus, on the site of Hierakonpolis.

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Muscat is the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, located on the coast of the Gulf of Oman, combining tradition and modernity in a picturesque setting.

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In December 1954, Joseph Murray performed the world's first successful kidney transplant on monozygotic twins, the Herrick twins at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

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The bombing of Fort Sumter on April 12 and 13, 1861 by the Confederate State Army triggers the Civil War (1861-1865) in the United States.

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