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Five Interesting Facts About the History of Soccer

It is without a doubt that Soccer (or football outside North America) is the world’s most popular sport. Enjoyed by middle-class students to poor children in Brazilian favelas, soccer can be played by anyone with a ball. International tournaments such as the World and Euro cups draw billions of viewers the world over. Here are some interesting facts about the history of the “beautiful game”… A soccer-like game has been around since antiquity When observing a sport as popular as soccer, it’s hard to imagine that its origins are ultimately hard to trace. Throughout human history, whenever men from various

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Five Interesting Facts about the Attack on Pearl Harbor

On December the seventh 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy unleashed a surprise attack on the United States Naval base stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Described by President Roosevelt as an act “that will live in infamy,” the Japanese killed 2,403, injured 1,178, sank and damaged four battleships, devastated three destroyers, and downed or wrecked close to 350 aircraft. The attack sent emotional shockwaves through the American public and awoke a technological and industrial giant. The United States ended its policy of neutrality and set its sights on defeating Japan (and its axis allies Germany and Italy) to avenge Pearl Harbor. The

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5 Facts About Adolf Hitler

Which other name in world history is more synonymous with tyranny, genocide, destruction, and being a political insult? It may not come to anyone’s surprise that such an award belongs to Adolf Hitler, leader of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. Despite starting the Second World War in 1939, and causing the Holocaust, here are a few things that you may not have known about the most infamous man in human history. Hitler planned to raze and rebuild Berlin Adolf Hitler never admired Germany’s capital city. The metropolis was previously a place of sexual vice and leftist politics and

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