Society
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The Corn Laws are Abolished
The Corn Laws were a series of British laws that regulated the import and export of grain. They were first…
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The History of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is a yearly award that is made available in a number of fields, including literature, peace and…
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The Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot, the attempt by thirteen young men to blow up the Houses of Parliament, is remembered and commemorated…
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Black Tuesday
The end of the Great War, now known as World War I, was the prelude to a decade of wealth and…
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Changing Calendars – The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Two hundred and sixty-two years ago, a very strange thing happened. Everyone in Britain and her North American colonies became…
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony
Frustrations with the way King Charles was ruling in England in the 1600s paired with religious oppression against non-traditional groups…
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The Birth of the People’s Republic of China
The creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 was the culmination of a political battle that had gone…
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The Corn Laws
Profits, government protection, and international trade – who would have thought that all of this would be generated by one…
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