Compiled by Maria Verbitskaya, Olga Oralova and Tatyana Belyaeva, Moscow State University
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1) 855 years ago
- The monument to...
- The third Rome
- Seven hills
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2) 550 years ago
- 15 April, 1452
- Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile ('La Gioconda')
- Engineering projects and inventions, such as a flying apparatus, a submarine, a tank
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3) 510 years ago
- 12 October, 1492
- Pinta, Niña, Santa Maria
- August 1492
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4) 240 years ago
- 1762, Great Britain
- Playing cards
- John Montague, the 4thEarl of Sandwich
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5) 215 years ago
- 17 September,1787
- The Founding Fathers
- 'We the people of the United States …'
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6) 155 years ago, 125 years ago
- 11 February, 1847
- Early fall of 1877, Menlo Park, New Jersey
- Mary had a little lamb.
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go
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7) 155 years ago, 145 years ago, 40 years ago
- 17 January, 1847
- 17 September, 1857
- On 20 February,1962 the first American astronaut orbited the Earth
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8) 135 years ago
- The largest state in the US
- $7.2 million
- The state holds a festival to celebrate the arrival of approximately 3,000 bald eagles that converge upon the nearby Chilcat River. The river quickly becomes the largest bald eagle gathering spot in the world.
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9) 80 years ago, 40 years ago
- 30 May, 1922, Washington, the building in the style of a Doric temple with a huge statue of the seated president
- 20 February, 1962, New York, Amsterdam Avenue, Metropolitan Opera and Performing Arts Museum and Library
- 'That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.'
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10) 80 years ago
- C.K.Nelson
- The first choco-ice in America
- The people living in the Far North
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11) 60 years ago
- 18 June,1942
- One of the Liverpool Four
- 'Headway' Intermediate, Unit 1: 'One day in the life of Linda …'
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12) 50 years ago
- 10 January, 1946, London
- John D.Rockerfeller
- 1952, New York
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13) 45 years ago
- 4 October, 1957
- One of the few Russian words borrowed by English
- 'Catch a falling star
and put it in a matchbox.
Send it to the USA.'
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14) 20 years ago
- 21 June, 1982
- Welsh-speaking
- At the top of European Eligible Young Men List
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15) 5 years ago
- 30 August, 1997
- Paris
- 'Candle in the Wind' by Elton John
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