Dmitry Medvedev served as the third President of Russia from 2008 to 2012.

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The Berlin wall symbolized the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Block countries during the Cold War. The Wall existed between 1961 and 1989.

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There were 4 US presidents killed in office - Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901) and John F. Kennedy (1963).

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The European Union has a population of over 500 million inhabitants, which is nearly 8% of the world population.

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Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1961. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

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The Football War also known as the Soccer War or 100 Hour War, was a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. The cause of the war was economic in nature, but it was simultaneous with rioting during the second North American qualifying round of the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

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Australia used to belong to the British Empire. Although there are no particular political links between UK and Australia now, Queen Elizabeth II is also Queen of Australia.

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The main headquarters of NATO is located in Brussels, Belgium.

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Margaret Thatcher was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Due to her uncompromising politics and leadership style she was given the nickname 'Iron Lady'.

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The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign which started as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

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Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. Braun bit into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shot himself.It happened on April 23, 1945, when the Red Army had completely surrounded Berlin.

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Mandela spent over 27 years in prison. He was arrested in 1962, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released in 1990 and four years after that he became the president of South Africa.

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Fat Man was the codename for the type of atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date, the other being Little Boy. It is estimated that 40,000 people were killed instantly by it and thousands more died later.

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Vladimir Putin tried to encourage a group of endangered cranes on their winter migration. The project failed spectacularly, and the birds had been taken back to a wildlife reserve by plane.

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