7 Facts About History That Will Blow Your Mind

Mammoths were alive when Egyptians built the great pyramid!? Seriously?

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Star Wars / Universal History Archive
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Detail From the milky way
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Antique Portrait of William Shakespeare
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Pocahontas
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Charles Darwin
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Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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T-rex
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Portrait of hip young man on white background
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Stegosaurus
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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President Washington George portrait (clipping path)
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Photorealistic 3D rendering of a Mammoth. On white background.
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Great Pyramid located at Giza
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Guillotine
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Cleopatra
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White modern mobile smart phone with blank screen
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Egypt
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SOURCES
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeares-life
http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html
http://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-and-legend.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lincoln-and-darwin-shaped-the-modern-world-45447280/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/on-dinosaur-time-65556840/
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/clas/beethoven.html
http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/bio.asp?id=7
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/georgewashington
10 fascinating facts about woolly mammoths
http://news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/woolly-mammoth-extinction.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/the-egyptian-pyramids
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/khufu.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars–a-new-hope/review/
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-guillotine
http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/cleopatra
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/khufu.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/5477324/Apples-iPhone-a-history-in-pictures.html

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