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Is Ben Chaplin related to Charlie Chaplin?

Ben Chaplin is best known for his role in the 1996 comedy "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" starring Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo. He has also acted alongside Sandra Bullock in the 2002 thriller "Murder by Numbers" and with Claire Danes in the 2004 movie "Stage Beauty." In 2004, Chaplin was nominated for a best actor Tony Award for his role in the stage play "The Retreat from Moscow."

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What year was the telescope invented?

The Dutch government, reasoning that the device was too easy to reproduce, denied the applications but rewarded Metius and paid Lippershey to produce several copies. Another Dutchman, Zacharias Janssen, also produced a telescope but made his claim years later and never applied for a patent. In 1609, Galileo Galilei, having only heard of the telescope made by Lippershey, built his own and was the first to observe celestial bodies.

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What is the history of the Muscogee Creek Indians?

The Muscogee Nation was a confederacy of several tribes. When European countries began to colonize North America, some tribe members married Europeans and adopted European customs.\nFollowing their removal from the Southeastern United States, the Muscogee settled near the Arkansas and Verdigris Rivers and farmed the land. During the Civil War three battles took place near Muscogee land in Indian Territory, and there were tribe members who fought on both sides in the war.\nIn the late 1800s, the U.S. Congress attempted to dissolve the Muscogee Nation, and in 1907 the Muscogee lost two million a..

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What is the history of Braille?

When Louis Braille attended the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, the few books available were written in a type of raised print that was difficult to read. In 1821, Charles Barbier presented to the students a system of raised symbols he had invented for soldiers to communicate silently with each other without light. The symbols represented phonetic sounds.\nBraille began with Barbier's system, but he simplified it and used the symbols to represent letters instead of sounds. His system was finished when he was only 15 years old and was adopted by his school almost immediately. ..

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When did the World Wide Web start?

In October 1990, Berners-Lee established three core technologies still in use as of 2015: HyperText Markup Language, Uniform Resource Identifier and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. HTML is responsible for the formatting of various Web documents and resources, as well as linking to them. URI allows each Web resource to have a unique identifier, while HTTP governs the ability to retrieve linked information.

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How long did it take to build the Statue of Liberty?

Bartholdi began designing the statue in France in 1870. Construction of the arm and torch began and was finished in 1876. The head and shoulders were completed in 1878. From 1881 to 1884, the rest was finished and assembled in Paris and then shipped to America. The statue arrived on June 17, 1885, but assembly had to wait until the pedestal was finished. That construction was completed in 1886, and the statue was revealed on Oct. 28, 1886 to a crowd of one million people.

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What was Christopher Columbus' childhood like?

While the exact date of his birth is unknown, he was likely born during August or September 1451. As the oldest son of Susanna Fontanarossa and Domenico Colombo, Christopher often helped his father with the family's wool-weaving and tavern business. There are no historical records of his educational path, although it was likely scant due to his time spent working for his father. As a teenager, Columbus began working on the trade ships that passed through his hometown. These ships carried a variety of goods and he started his career in exploration by working for these small trading compani..

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Who united Upper and Lower Egypt?

Exactly who the first king of unified Egypt was is still a point of contention among historians, as Manetho’s work was often disputed. According to the historian Eratosthenes, it is believed that Manetho’s King Manes (also called Meni) was the Pharaoh Narmer who peacefully united Upper and Lower Egypt under one rule. The most powerful piece of data supporting this fact is the Narmer Palette, an ancient artifact depicting a king whose name is given as Nar-Mer in the hieroglyphs.

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What is "The Forge" by Seamus Heaney?

Heaney wrote "The Forge" from the first-person perspective and likely drew on personal experience. The details of the poem are quite specific, which makes the reader believe that Heaney has lived through the experience of which he's writing about.\nOne thing that stands out about the poem is that Heaney uses two unusual analogies for the anvil of the blacksmith, referring to it as both an altar and a unicorn.

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Who was the youngest president?

John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected president. He was 43 years old. Following Kennedy in the list of youngest presidents are: Bill Clinton at 46 years, 5 months; Ulysses S. Grant at 46 years, 10 months; Barack Obama at 47 years, 5 months; and Grover Cleveland at 47 years, 11 months. The oldest man elected president was Ronald Reagan, who was 69 years old.

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