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Cappadocia is a historical region of Turkey located in central Anatolia. In 1985, UNESCO inscribed it on the list of protected sites of the heritage of humanity. The valleys of Göreme National Park, carved out of volcanic tufa, offer a rare profusion of hoodoos.

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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Gilderoy Lockhart becomes the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.

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The episode of the Soissons vase takes place in 486, after Clovis' victory over Syagrius, marking a key event in Merovingian history.

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The Thirty Years' War ended in 1648 with the Treaties of Westphalia, signed in Münster and Osnabrück, which redefined political Europe.

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The Descent from the Cross is the central part of a triptych painted by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens between 1612 and 1614. This painting is the second largest masterpiece Rubens created for the Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp in Belgium.

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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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Azerbaijan's capital is Baku, a city on the Caspian Sea renowned for its unique blend of modern and historic architecture.

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Honiara is the capital of the Solomon Islands. Honiara is located on the northeast coast of the island of Guadalcanal, on the shores of Ironbottom Sound.

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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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The Chemin des Dames is located in the Aisne department of the Hauts-de-France region, between Laon, Soissons and Reims, in northeastern France.

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