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Organon

Publication/origination:
vvvvConstantinople, ca. 1200.

Immigrant's home, Argentina (detail)
LoC

This date in medieval history
June 7
1099:Siege of Jerusalem begins
In this climax of the First Crusade, the Christian army encamped before the city and began the siege that was to result in the capture of the city more than a month later.
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1494:Treaty of Tordesillas signed
The Treaty determined the longitudinal dividing line between all future territories acquired by the explorers of Spain and Portugal
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WHO DIED
1329:Robert the Bruce

Superman a la turca
via otomano

borderlandia

Is violence ever acceptable?
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pushed again

dropping knowledge G8 videos

18 year-old Esmee Denters hails from Oosterbeek, Holland, where she has had 21 million views on her YouTube site since she posted her first performance less than 9 months ago.
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via NNDB

it still sits today in a cabinet in one of the main College buildings

"We saw a beautiful statue of a gorilla, a big silver back gorilla, and Robert walked up to it and said, 'Daddy,'"

It's perfectly possible that the Big Bang was just a violent event in a pre-existing universe.

In the last 10 years alone, more than 800 polar bears have been killed to decorate U.S. homes.