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Jazz, Fame and Death. The Life of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Julianna Ossa. She Survived a Crocodile Attack
Ten-year-old Juliana Ossa from Orlando became an example of how an educational trip from two years…
Caroline Herschel and the Stars. A Story of Breakthrough
In 1786, in a small garden in Bath, Caroline Herschel discovered a comet – an event…
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The death of Otto von Bismarck in 1898 sparked one of the earliest photographic scandals in…
Wolf Child. The history of Dina Sanichar
The story of Dina Sanichar represents one of the most extraordinary cases of contact between a…
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Zinaida Portnova is one of the youngest heroines of the Soviet resistance movement during World War…
Femicide in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua state has become since 1993 the scene of serial murders of women…