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  1. 52 minutes ago

    Born in 1859: French painter Georges Seurat, who invented a technique known as Pointillism, as seen in his masterpiece A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884. 🎨

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  2. 3 hours ago

    75 years ago today a team led by Enrico Fermi conducted the world's first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    in 1804 Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in the presence of Pope Pius VII.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    The world's first law supporting the freedom of the press and freedom of information was passed in Sweden in 1766.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    The smallest-known fish usually reaches only about 10 mm (0.4 inch). At that size, it doesn't even have room for a whole skull.

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  6. 22 hours ago

    This is just to say: Plums are related to peaches and cherries and are cultivated throughout the world.

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  7. 24 hours ago

    The first mention of in Britannica was in the "Health and Disease" section of our 1983 Book of the Year.

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  8. Dec 1

    On this day in 1913 the Motor Company began operation of the world’s first moving assembly line for cars.

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  9. Dec 1

    HIV and AIDS are related, but they're not the same thing. Do you know the difference between the two?

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  10. Dec 1

    in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger.

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  11. Dec 1

    Today is . The annual observance was established by in 1988 to raise awareness of AIDS and the spread of HIV.

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  12. Dec 1

    Marie Tussaud, founder of museum of wax figures, was born in 1761.

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  13. Nov 30

    Why are onions such jerks sometimes? 

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  14. Nov 30

    These are some of the most dangerous fish in the world. 🐡

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  15. Nov 30

    Born in 1924: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress and to run for a major party's presidential nomination.

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  16. Nov 30

    From the : "Butterflies of North America" illustration in the LEPIDOPTERA entry of our 14th edition (1929).

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  17. Nov 30

    in 1996 the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken to England as war booty.

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    In 1899 Mark Twain was the source of a literary disagreement between our U.S. and U.K. editors. The former, Franklin Hooper, recounted the dispute in a memoir.

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    Mark Twain's birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The exact origins of his pseudonym remain a subject of debate.

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  20. Nov 30

    Mark Twain, one of America’s best and most beloved writers, was born in 1835.

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