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We often feel a kinship with celebs, even if we’ve never met them. There are some life experiences that transcend oceans and royal titles. But the royal family is famously tight-lipped about a lot of stuff. So even though we watched Harry grow up, some facts about him are still a my...
In 1845, William Parsons (1800-1867), 3rd Earl of Rosse, built the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a reflecting telescope of 72 in (1.8 m) aperture. It was the largest telescope in the world until 1917. His youngest son, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854-1931) invented the steam turbine and...
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Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 1800s. Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman. The country was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French. Those cute furry bits inside a cat’s ear are call...
In 1833, King Louis Philippe ordered to restore the Palace of Versailles, made the palace into the Museum of the History of France. The buildings on the North and South Wing and the lowest floor of the central palace were changed to museums, storing a wealth of precious portraits, sculptures...
Tierra del Fuego, or “Land of Fire,” is an archipelago off the southern tip of South America. Ferdinand Magellan named the islands in 1520 when he noticed smoke rising from Indian campfires on the shore. Magellan actually first called it “Land of Smoke,” but Spanish King Charles I thou...