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Bachelors Grove Cemetery Ghost

Famous Ghosts in History

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Whereas science denies the existence of Ghosts, they are acknowledged as souls of departed people or animals. They are said to exist in an invisible, transparent form or in a translucent, even opaque and lifelike…

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S.S.Maheno

Famous Ship Wrecks

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Ships have been built and wrecked since pre-recorded history. Available data on the number of wrecks to date is unreliable. Survivors of the Titanic were rescued by the ship Carpathia which followed the same doomed…

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The Cat in the Hat

Famous Cats in Literature

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The cat is the sixth earliest animal domesticated in 7500 B.C. in Cyprus and the Near East. Scientifically, the cat is a big family comprised of many species. Domestic cats are known as Felis Catus…

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Will Kane

Famous Cowboys in Movies

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The American West in the 21st century was generally considered to comprise of the states which included the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin. In addition to being a geographical division, the West is symbolic…

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Billy the Kid

Famous Cowboys in History

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Traditionally, a cowboy is a cattle herder taking care of large herds usually on horseback. The word ‘cowboy’ seems to be a direct translation of the Spanish ‘vaquero’ meaning ‘a horse-riding livestock herder.’ An American…

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Oliver & Company

Famous Movie Cats

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Cats are one of the earliest domesticated animals ” not only domestic cats, but also the big cats that have been tamed and exhibited in zoos, or even used for hunting. Cats have also played…

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Chanakya

Famous Indians in History

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The term ‘Indian’ may relate to a member of the native, indigenous or aboriginal  Americans commonly referred to ‘Red Indians’ and also to the ‘West Indians’ or the ‘Indian Indians.’ An assumption is that on…

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Alicia Silverstone

Famous Jews in Hollywood

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Hollywood is an historical center of movie studios and film stars. Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, and it is world famous on account of its cultural identity. The motion picture camera was invented…

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Marie Curie

Famous Inventions by Women

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Compared with men, fewer numbers of women have emerged as great inventors in the past male-dominated societies, but the trend and the proportion is changing fast and may even reverse in a couple of centuries…

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John Venn

Famous Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

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Many remarkable things were invented from 1800-1900, and this included the steam engine which was first developed in the U.K. and used to pump underground water to deepen the coal mines and to consequently increase…

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William “Jack” Harrison Dempsey

Famous Boxers of the 1920s

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The roots of boxing are traceable to the Hellenic Era (323-146 B.C.), but its modern form originated from England and popularized to its heights in America. Boxing is the only game in which the victory…

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Pierre Balmain

Famous Designers of the 1940s

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In the 1940s, the Maison Haute Couture; a fashion house of Charles Fredrick Worth, continued to influence fashion designing. Following its norms, less than four meters of cloth was permissible for a coat. A blouse…

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Steven Allan Spielberg

Famous Directors of All Times

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What a lubricant is to an engine, a director is to a film. A film director directs the actors and the film crew throughout the process of the filmmaking. The director determines the camera angles,…

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Drew Barrymore

Famous Directors Who Didn’t Go to College

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Formal education is a verifiable performance of certain rituals of learning but is by no means a conclusive evidence of learning itself which is distinguished from formal education in being definitely ‘meaningful.’ Formal education is…

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