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25th Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union

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Timeline of the 1990s

Communism - mosaic hammer and sickle with star on the Pavilion of Ukraine at the All Russia Exhibition Centre (also known as VDNKh) in Moscow. Communist symbol of the former Soviet Union. USSR

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Jewish citizens are arrested by the Lithuanian Home Guard, who collaborated with the German occupying forces, after the occupation of Lithuania by the German Wehrmacht in July 1941.

75th Anniversary of the Lithuanian Holocaust

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What’s the Difference Between a President and a Prime Minister?

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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How Did the Sperm Whale Get Its Name?

An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Born	January 22, 1899 • Lithuania
Died	January 26, 1980 (aged 81) • Moscow • Russia

Rolandas Paksas

president of Lithuania

Dalia Grybauskaitė

president of Lithuania

Valdas Adamkus

president of Lithuania

Antanas Smetona

president of Lithuania

Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius

Lithuanian author

Kazys Grinius

Lithuanian statesman

Basanavičius, portrait by A. Varnas; in the Museum of History and Ethnography, Vilnius, Lithuania

Jonas Basanavičius

Lithuanian physician

Simanas Daukantas

Lithuanian historian

Mindaugas

ruler of Lithuania

Vincas Kudirka

Lithuanian patriot

Antanas Merkys

prime minister of Lithuania

Władysław II Jagiełło

king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania

Algirdas

grand duke of Lithuania

Vytautas the Great

Lithuanian leader

Elijah ben Solomon

Lithuanian-Jewish scholar

Senda Berenson

American educator

Kęstutis

duke of Lithuania

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan

American rabbi

Gediminas

grand duke of Lithuania

Svetlana Beriosova

British dancer

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