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Diego Maradona has been a cocaine user and an alcoholic. He has had more than one fight on the football field, even once in front of the King of Spain when the monarch was watching a match. Then again, he has suffered many injuries and illnesses, including weight issues which affected his play. Once, he fired a gun at TV and newspaper reporters who, he said, were invading his privacy.
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In October 1347, a few merchant ships from the Far East arrived in the port of Messina on the island of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea just south of Italy. Four years later, up to 30 million people in Europe had died or about a tenth of the population of the entire world, a figure which would rise to 100 or even, some say, 200 million throughout the Middle Ages
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Maria SkƗodowska was born in Warsaw, now capital of Poland, in 1867. Her family’s property and wealth had been seized by the Russian government as a punishment for their support of Polish independence and, so, Maria had to struggle to get an education. She made a deal with her elder sister, BronisƗawa, that she would work to help pay for her sister’s education in Paris, if BronisƗawa would later help pay for Maria’s.
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The War of Liberation in Bangladesh in 1971 took the world by surprise and has affected the politics of the country ever since. But how did it come about?
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In 1757, Lord Clive, a British general, won the Battle of Plassey, and brought India under the sway of the East India Company, a de facto arm of the British government. Yet, even as the celebrations were taking place in London, there was a rumour that, in a hundred years, there would be a major and successful revolt against foreign rule. A century later, almost to the day, and the Indian Revolt, the Great Rebellion, the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny or the First War of Independence – it is known by many names, depending on one’s political stance – broke out.
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During British rule of India, Bengal experienced several of the worst famines in the history of mankind. The first hit Bengal in 1769 after the British took control of India in 1757, following the Battle of Plassey. This lasted from 1769 to 1773. More than 10 million people died.
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The story of India’s struggle for independence from Britain after nearly two hundred years is very well-known. India had long been known as ‘the Jewel in the Crown’ of the Empire. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria became an empress on the strength of British rule in the subcontinent. Tales of the mystical East were as much part of the English schoolchild’s education as the novels of Charles Dickens. The British economy had boomed because of the export of textiles to India from the factories of northern England.
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In this speedy jaunt through the history of football, there will be little time for us to study the tactics of the great Pele or Maradona. You can read about them on the GED site. But, for now, we will look at the early history of the game – which was criminalized in England – and onto its professionalization, before taking a glance at its commercialization into a multi-billion dollar global business.
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At the age of sixty-seven, Edison watched his life’s work, his huge experimental laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey, burn down. The damage was estimated at seven million dollars in 1914, the year that the fire devastated the laboratories, only two million of which was insured. While watching the flames consume building after building, Edison said to other onlookers that it offered him an opportunity to build more suitable and innovative labs with the most up-to-date equipment.
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