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French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps was behind the construction of the Suez Canal. Inaugurated in 1869, the canal links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

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The main character in J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield, a teenager searching for meaning and truth in a world he rejects.

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Scientist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. This discovery revolutionized medicine by introducing antibiotics, capable of treating many bacterial infections.

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The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck published in 1939. The plot unfolds during the Great Depression and the reader follows the adventures of a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joad, who are forced to leave Oklahoma because of the drought.

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The Obninsk nuclear power plant was built in the "Scientific City" of Obninsk in Kaluga oblast. It is the first civil nuclear power station in the world. It was operational from 1951 to 2002, although electricity production for the power grid ceased in 1959.

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Bishkek is the capital and main city of Kyrgyzstan. The name of Bishkek was adopted by a decision of the parliament in 1992, after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the accession of Kyrgyzstan to the rank of a sovereign state.

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The Baltic Sea has an average depth of around 55 meters, with a maximum depth of 459 meters in the Landsort Trough off the Swedish coast.

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The Allegory of the Triumph of Venus is an allegorical painting made around 1545 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino. It is currently housed in the National Gallery in London.

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Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea and its central province. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua. The site was discovered in 1873 by English Captain John Moresby and the city was founded ten years later. It was an important allied base during the Second World War.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in Paris in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin to revive the modern Olympic Games.

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