Battle of Taranto

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Between French and American efforts it took 33 years to complete the Panama Canal. There were 500 deaths per mile of manmade waterway.

The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, where the painting hung in relative obscurity in a backwater wing of the museum. Picasso was accused, Napoleon was accused, but Vincenzo Perugia was caught for stealing the mona lisa.

The liberation of Paris after the D-Day invasion at Normandy took place on August 25th, 1944. Vive Paris. Vive de Gaulle. Vive La France.

The Oakland Firestorm of 1991 burned down 2,843 single-family homes and 437 apartment and condominium units.

Plagues as early as the 14th century prompted merchants in Italy to install wine windows to protect buyers and sellers. COVID-19 brought the windows back in service.

The American Gilded Age, a time when industrialist robber barons controlled the money, while the majority of Americans worked long hours for little pay.

The construction of the Nazi’s Atlantic Wall was a network of fortifications that spanned 2,000 miles of Atlantic coastline in Western Europe.