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The film Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, was released in 1962 and has become a classic of epic cinema, recounting the life of T. E. Lawrence.

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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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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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In 1686, German scientist Otto von Guericke invented the air pump, a revolutionary device for studying vacuum and atmospheric pressure.

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The Diptych of Melun is a votive painting painted around 1452-1458, by Jean Fouquet, on behalf of Etienne Chevalier, treasurer of the King of France Charles VII, formerly kept in the collegiate church of Notre-Dame de Melun and now dispersed.

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After a provocative operation known as the Gleiwitz incident, German troops invaded Poland on all fronts at 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939.

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Funafuti is an atoll in Tuvalu, an archipelagic state in Oceania. It is the capital of this country and is home to its largest city, Vaiaku, where the government and institutions are located.

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The Kepler space telescope was launched by NASA on March 7, 2009. Its main mission is to discover exoplanets outside our solar system.

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Ashgabat is the main city and capital of Turkmenistan in Central Asia. It is located in an oasis in the Karakum Desert, at the foot of the Kopet-Dag mountain range, near the Iranian border.

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Lesotho's capital is Maseru, located in the west of the country, close to the border with South Africa. Maseru is the political and economic center of Lesotho.

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