Operation Plunder

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Maximilien Robespierre was a controversial French statesman and leading figure in the French Revolution, forming a commoner army and was ultimately overthrown in a coup d’état before execution by guillotine.

In spite of WWI leaders’ denial of the Pope’s plea for a Christmas ceasefire, frontline soldiers along both sides of the western front decided on a Christmas Truce and met halfway in no man’s land, exchanging cigarettes, haircuts and even a soccer match.

In March of 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire burned the New York City building, trapping many due to fire prevention misconduct and ultimately taking the lives of 146 mostly young immigrant women.

The Middle Ages or Medieval Period occurred between the fall of Rome in 476 AD and Europe’s Renaissance period beginning around the 14th Century. It was marked by religious fervor and crusades, as well as agricultural advances and population growth.

Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, celebrates Judah’s liberation of Judaism in Israel when there was only enough oil to light the menorah for one day, but it burned for eight.

John Locke was an Enlightenment thinker, writer and educator, whose work and life have had important and lasting impacts on human governance, curriculums and philosophy.

With the outbreak of World War One as a distraction, the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire took horrific efforts to force the Christian Armenian minority from their homeland, seeking an ethnically pure Islamic Turkey and resulting in the Armenian Genocide of 1915.