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History of Reek Sunday
The process of the Conclave: before, during and after
Mother Teresa
The Papal Inauguration
Origin of St. Valentine's Day
St Nicholas, the First Santa Claus
Questions about the Virgin Mary
Lent and Easter Questions
St Paul Miki and the 26 Martyrs
Lí Ban, Ireland's Mermaid Saint
The Last Supper and what happened to the 12 Disciples
Pope Francis
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Jewish Mourning Stones
Geography Fact cards
Mount St Helens eruption 1980
Indian Ocean Tsunami (Boxing Day 2004)
Why does Australia get bush fires?
Haiti Earthquake 2010
2015 Nepalese Earthquake and Avalanche
Karst Landscape
Skopije Earthquake 1963
Oakland Fire 1991/ Why does California gets Wild fires?
Lake Skadar
Vajont Dam Rockslide
Animal fact cards
The Bear Cat
Emirate Falcon Hospital
Origin of Siamese Cats
Foxes of Gormanston
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Origin of Golden Retrievers
Harambe
Laika the Soviet space dog
Dalmatians in Croatia
Hachiko
History Fact cards
Ancient history fact cards
Cleopatra the Last Pharaoh
Japanese Foundation Day
Cats in Ancient Egypt
Roman Conquest of Gaul and Battle of Alesia
The hilarious death of Pythagoras
Qin Shi Huang, China's First Emperor
Origins of Halloween
Battle of Thermopylae
Origins of Leap Year
Origins of Chinese/ Lunar New Year
The Ides of March
Middle Ages Fact cards
Bal Des Ardents
Richard The Third
How did 850+ years of British control in Ireland begin?
The Forbidden City
Origin of Mother's Day
Athelstan, the first king of all England
Harald Fairhair
Leif Erikson
Harald Bluetooth
Rennaissance fact cards
William Shakespeare
Sts Thomas More and John Fisher
Michaelangelo's the Pieta
Queen Mary I of England
Enlightenment and Colonialism
What was the Benin Kingdom?
Colonising of Colorado
Indigenous Canadians and the birth of Canada
Magellan's circumnavigation of the Earth (1519-21)
Colonising of Florida
Enlightenment and Colonialism page 2 (1553-1652)
How the Romanov Dynasty began
Why does the UK celebrate the Fifth of November?
Birth of Northern Ireland
The Siege of Malta
Impact of colonialism on Native Americans
Belvedere Palace, Haburg's Czech Taj Mahal
Enlightenment and Colonialism page 3 (1653-1752)
From Coronation Anthem to Football Anthem (Zadock the Priest)
Origin of 10 Downing Street
Tsar Peter 3 vs. a Rat
Oliver Cromwell
History of Montana
Birth of Liechtenstein
Groundhog Day Origins
Enlightenment and Colonialism page 4 (1753-1852)
The Fall of the Bastille
American Independence
The Great Irish Famine
Founding Father George Washington
Peruvian Indpendence
Australian Penal Colonies
The Bastille Prison before during and after the fall
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Mexican Independence
Simón Bolívar
Brazilian Independence
The Execution of King Louis 16th/ XVI
Alexander Hamilton
Australian Aborigines and the Birth of Australia
Battle of San Jacinto
Swiss Neutrality
Ancestry of Walt Disney
Captain James Cook vs. Hawaii
Battle of Waterloo
Treaty of Waitangi
Belgian Independence
Robert Burns
Central American Independence
Gregor McGregor's Poyais scam
Queen Victoria
Californian Gold Rush
Enlightenment and Colonialism page 5 (1853-1899/1900)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Seacole
Italian Unification
Romania, Russia and Moldova
History of Cinco de Mayo
The Dalton Gang
The Birth of Germany
History of Memorial Day
How the US stole Hawaii
The Burning of Atlanta
Juneteenth
Assassination of James A. Garfield
History of West Virginia
Early 20th Century fact cards
The Origin of Teddy Bears
Origin of Father's Day
The Sinking of The Titanic
World War One fact cards
How World War 1 began
Battle of Osowiec Fortress/ Attack of the Dead Men
February Revolution (1917)
Armistice Day (11 Nov 1918)
History of Veterans Day
The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
HMHS Britannic Sinking (21 Nov 1916)
ANZAC Day
Battle of Somme
Finnish Independence
Christmas Truce 1914
Easter Rising 1916
Countess Constance Markievicz
Patrick/ Pádraig Pearse
Interwar (1918-39)
Bloody Sunday 1920
The Bolshevik Revolution and the Birth of the USSR
Lateran Treaty
Emu War (1932)
Hungarian Independence
Herbert Hoover
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Irish Leader Michael Collins
Tulsa Race Massacre
Mahatma Gandhi
Maurice Tillet
Stan Laurel
Irish Independence
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
War of the Worlds 1938 Broadcast
Francisco Franco
Benito Mussolini
A. A. Milne
Holodomor
History of Gummy Bears
Nadezhda Allilluyeva
Hindenberg disaster
Tex Avery
Agatha Christie
World War 2 fact cards
Adolf Hitler
Disney Animators Strike
The Winter War
Icelandic Independence
Vidkrun Quisling (Norwegian Nazi)
Two Romanian Dictators
Miklós Horthy (Hungarian Nazi)
Ante Pavelić
History of Autism
Philippe Pétain (French Nazi)
The Holocaust
D-Day Invasion in Normandy (6 June 1944)
Pearl Harbour Attacks (7 Dec 1941)
The Sinking of the HMS Hood and the Bismarck
Operation Barbarossa
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cold War fact cards
Eva Perón
What happened to Prussia?
Indonesian Independence Day
When the Queen Mother partied her way into debt
Indian Independence
Chairman Mao
How China became communist
Josip Broz Tito
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Atomic tests in Kazakhstan
Rosa Parks
Enver Hoxha
Tove Jansson
Dr Seuss
Malayan Emergency
Windrush
Why is Korea divided?
Algerian Indpendence
Grace Kelly
Alfredo Stroessner
Destalinisation
Cold War page 2 (1957-66)
Miracle of Lenegede
Ghanaian Independence
Che Guevara
The Time Frank Sinatra tore up JFK's helipad
JFK Assassination/ Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Manuel Noriega
The Life of JFK, before the Assasination
Fidel Castro
Centralia
Martin Luther King Jr.
Park Chung Hee
Eritrean Independence
The Duvaliers
Mobutu Sese Seko
Roald Dahl
Sinking of the SS Cedarville
Aberfan Disaster
Cold War page 3 (1967-76)
Phil Lynott
John Lennon
Idi Amin
Pol Pot
Munich Massacre (5 Sept 1972)
Whale explosion on Oregon beach (1970)
Roger Hargreaves
Bangladeshi Independence
Francisco Nguema
Juan Maria Bordaberry
Ferdinand Marcos
Kwanzaa
Anti Vietnam War Protests
Watergate
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
Moon Landing 1969/ Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Freddie Mercury
The Fall of Saigon
Gerald Ford's stair tumble
Cold War page 4 (1977-86)
Iranian Revolution (1978-79) (Islamic)
Ayatollah Khomenhi
The Break in at Buckingham Palace (1982)
Don Bluth in Ireland/ How Don Bluth influenced the Irish animation industry
John Hurt Banned from South Africa over name confusion
The Alta Dam Controversy
Diana, Princess of Wales (Lady Diana)
Jonestown Massacre (The People's Temple)
Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia
Leopoldo Galtieri
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Mr. Rogers and the Death of John Lennon
When Ronald Reagan messed with Bruce Springsteen (1984)
Assassination of Olof Palme
Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
Robert Mugabe
Stardust fire
Challenger disaster
Hotel New World collapse
Chernobyl/ Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster
Cold War page 5 (1987-91)
Romanian Revolution
Lockerbie Air Disaster
History of Pi Day
The Baltic Way
Stephen Hawking
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification
The Hillsborough disaster
Day of the Freedom Defenders
1991 August Coup
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Cold War poster
Modern (1992-present)
The Good Friday Agreement 1998
Why is Hong Kong angry with China?
Death of Nodar Kumaritashvili
Handover of Macau
Pentium FDIV Bug
Oklahoma City Bombing
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Epilepsy and Photosensitivity
What's going on in Belarus?
SQL Slammer Worm
Saparmurat Niyazov
November 2015 Paris Attacks
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia
Croatian War of Independence
Montenegrin Independence
Destruction of Sarajevo Library
Dunblane Massacre (13 March 1996)
Omagh Bombing (15 Aug 1998)
Peruvian Clown Day
The Sinking of the MS Estonia
Selena Quintanilla
Veronica Guerin
BBC Television Centre Bombing 2001
Trapped Chilean Miners
Satoru Iwata
7/7 London Bombings
Manchester Arena attacks 2017
Waco Siege
Death of Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Ghanaian Dancing Pallbearers
Rob Ford, more reckless than Donald Trump
Arab Spring
Rwandan War and Genocide
Costa Concordia Disaster
September 11 Attacks
What caused the Twin Towers to collapse?
Killing of Osama bin Laden (2nd May 2011)
Steve Irwin
World Refugee Day
Brussels and Westminster attacks
The Troubles (1968-98)
Lord Mountbatten Assassination
Bloody Sunday 1972
IRA Attacks
The Start of the Troubles
The Delorean
Hunger Strike 1981
Warrington Bombings 1993
LGBTQ+ history
Lynn Conway
Alan L Hart
Kevin Conroy
Magnus Hirshfeld
Gilbert Baker
Howard Ashman
History of the Stonewall Inn
La Coccinelle
Aleshia Brevard
Lili Elbe
Roberta Cowell
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Marsha P Johnson
History of Pride (Stonewall riots)
Sappho
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Asian Characters
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North American characters
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Tess of the US State of Ohio
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Clementine of the US State of California
Valerie of the US State of Virginia
Jovie of the US State of West Virginia
Florinda of the US State of Florida
South American Characters
Marcia of Brazil
African Characters
Mostafa of Egypt
Burning questions about life and the world
How the Calendar works
Origins of Climate Change
How did Russia get so big
Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting?
Why are poppies World War 1 symbols?
Why is Black History Month in February?
Why are there two Sudans?
How did Syria get war torn?
Why is the Middle East unstable?
How did New Zealand get its name?
Why is Yemen war torn?
Why is the symbol for the EU a circle of stars?
Why are Israel and Palestine fighting?
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How the Soviet Union got its name
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Vladimir Lenin
Russian Wedding Traditions
How Putin came to power
Joseph Stalin
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Katyusha
Eduard Khil
Russian Nestling Dolls
Cosmonauts
Stanislav Petrov
Why was Stalin so evil?
Luboks
Russian Blue Cats Origin
How Russia got its name
Why did Russia annex Crimea?
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev's Coffin Trouble
History of Russian Animation
Women in the Soviet Union
The Young Pioneers (Soviet Union)
Stalin Show Trials
History of Russia's Anthem
Nikita Khrushchev
Glasnost and Perestroika
Vasily Arkhipov
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Korobeiniki
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Assassination of Tsar Alexander II
Russian Alaska
A Day in the life of Stalin
How we identified the Romanovs
History of the Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Ruble
Ulitsa Sezam, The Russian Sesame Street
Stalin's Five Year Plans
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Marcia of Brazil was utterly devastated when Pelé died.
