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    • Religion fact cards
      • Diwali
      • How Hinduism influenced George Harrison
      • Christianity fact cards
        • Pope John Paul II
        • St Andrew the Apostle
        • St Andrew Avellino the Patron Saint of Strokes
        • St. David, Patron Saint of Wales
        • St Gertrude of Nivelles, the patron saint of cats
        • St George, Patron saint of England
        • 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
      • Holi Festival
      • Foundation of Islam
      • Ramadan
      • Hanukkah
      • Passover
      • 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
      • Dolly the Sheep
      • Seabiscuit
      • Pickles the Collie
      • 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
        • The Birth of the Weimar Republic
        • 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
        • The Kim Dynasty
        • 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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    • European Characters
      • Abelard of Germany
      • Eduard of Russia
      • Bartek of Poland
      • Miloje of Serbia
      • Danilo of Ukraine
      • Stefan Karl of Iceland
      • Andrea of Hungary
      • Astrid of Sweden
      • Elizabeth of England
      • Margote of France
      • Ciprian of Romania
    • Asian Characters
      • Satoru of Japan
    • North American characters
      • Bernita of Cuba
      • Fabienne of Haiti
      • Hilary of the United States of America
        • Lisa Marie of the US State of Tennessee
        • Loukrita of the US State of New York
        • Rose of US State of Massachusetts
        • Naomi of the US State of Maryland
        • Miley of the US State of Montana
        • Gabby of the US State of Georgia
        • Tess of the US State of Ohio
        • Felicia of the US State of Colorado
        • 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?
  • Calendar
  • Russcember
    • Tsarevich Alexei
    • Russian Oligarchs
    • Anastasia Romanov
    • Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's runaway daughter
    • Rasputin
    • How the Soviet Union got its name
    • Raisa Gorbachev
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • Russian Wedding Traditions
    • How Putin came to power
    • Joseph Stalin
    • Tchaikovsky
    • Anna Politkovskaya
    • 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
    • The Moscow Kremlin
    • Korobeiniki
    • Boris Yeltsin
    • 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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Lord Mountbatten Assassination

Bloody Sunday 1972

IRA Attacks

The Start of the Troubles

Warrington Bombings 1993

The Delorean

Hunger Strike 1981

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 1974

The Good Friday Agreement 1998

Omagh Bombing (15 Aug 1998)

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