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On this date in 1609, William Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by publisher…
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On this date in 1618, German astronomer Johannes Keplerdiscovered the third of his three planetary laws, the…
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On this date in 1607, English colonists led by John Smith establish Jamestown at a second landing…
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1780 William Herschel discovers the first binary star system, Xi Ursae Majoris. Xi Ursae Majoris . .…
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On this date in 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna…
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On this date in 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of…
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On this date in history a Flemish woman introduced something that has caused undue hardship…
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On this date in 1140, the Palatine Chapel, commissioned by Roger II and one of Norman Sicily's most…
How Equality Destroys a State
America is built on the concept of equality, but that concept has to be understood…