Operation Plunder

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The Victorian Era, aligning with Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 until 1901, was a period of innovation in technology, healthcare, philosophy, literature and more.

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore in 1908, rejected by the University of Maryland School of law due to his race, the basis for a discrimination lawsuit he would eventually win, and went on to become a Supreme Court Justice.

Built by Pope Sixtus IV between 1473 and 1481, the Sistine Chapel is a sacred place within the papal state, featuring the papal conclave for pope selection. Michelangelo spent 4 years painting the ceiling’s frescoes.

Organized and led by abolitionists and women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 brought 300 people together to pen their manifesto and inspire change.

The Ritchie Boys of World War Two were more than 15,000 servicemen who fled Nazi Germany and Austria, becoming instrumental in the allied war effort with their fluency in both the language and cultural psychology.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents and is governed as an absolute monarchy in support of the Pope.

After Robert E. Lee ordered his Confederate Army to attack the North’s Union Army, the Battle of Gettysburg was a multiple day conflict and a turning point in the civil war.