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The eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia on 27 August 1883, where the explosion was heard as far as Rodrigues Island, 500 kilometres east of Mauritius.

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Allyson Felix was voted IAAF Female Athlete of the Year in 2012, following her outstanding performance at the London Olympics that same year.

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The main character in Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is Rodion Raskolnikov, a poor student plagued by guilt after committing murder.

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The first successful kidney transplant was performed in 1954 by American surgeon Joseph Murray, who later received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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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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According to Roman myths, Romulus founded the city of Rome on the site of Mount Palatine on the Tiber on April 21, 753 BC.

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Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas appears on the album La Valse à mille temps, released in 1959, and is one of its most emblematic songs.

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Melekeok is the capital of Palau. The city is located in the state of Melekeok, on the east coast of the island of Babeldaob, Palau's largest island in the Pacific Ocean.

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Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi. The city is located in the southwest of the country, west of Lake Malawi near the border between Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

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Albert Camus' novel The Plague, published in 1947, belongs to the cycle of rebellion, alongside major works such as The Rebel.

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