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Nicolas Fouquet Nicolas Fouquet was born in Paris on 27 January 1615, the son of a royal administrator and shipowner. His family’s wealth enabled him to purchase several posts in the government of Louis XIV. Fouquet was a supporter of Cardinal Mazarin and gained through him two posts that increased his wealth and power [...] Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat was born on 22 March 1910 in Liverpool, England, the fourth child of Keith and Ada Monsarrat. His birth certificate records his surname as Montserrat as this was his mother’s preferred spelling of the name. Monsarrat referred to his time at school, first at St Christopher’s School for Boys in [...] On 21 March 1960 in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, 69 black men, women and children were shot dead when police officers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators. The shootings shocked the world and were condemned by the United Nations, but none of the police officers involved have ever been convicted of an offence [...] At noon on Easter Sunday, 29 March 1964, a new radio station started broadcasting from an old Danish ferry (renamed the MV Caroline) anchored in international waters three miles from the Suffolk coast. The first song played, Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones, was dedicated to the station’s founder, Ronan O’Rahilly. Several months [...]
Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on 1 September 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the son of George and Mary Burroughs. He was educated at various schools, moving around to avoid outbreaks of disease. In 1891, at the age of fifteen, Burroughs spent six months in Idaho on the cattle ranch owned [...] |
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