History
Historical events, civilizations, and significant moments
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History
The oldest surviving valentine was a poem written from a prison cell
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Ancient Romans celebrated a wild festival called Lupercalia instead of Valentine's Day
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How the first boxes of Valentine's Day chocolates were actually designed
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The tradition of sending valentines was popularized by a 19th-century businesswoman
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Atatürk was the first world leader to grant full voting rights to women
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Atatürk adopted a surname that literally means father of the Turks
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An old Ottoman military school now houses Atatürk's personal library
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The Republic of Turkey replaced its entire alphabet in just three months
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A humble farmhouse in Thessaloniki was the birthplace of a modern nation
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Atatürk wrote a geometry textbook that introduced modern Turkish math terms
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Atatürk became the first leader to give children an official national holiday
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Atatürk turned a Byzantine church and Ottoman mosque into a neutral museum
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The founder of modern Turkey carried thousands of books to his frontlines
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London's first secular university celebrates two centuries of opening doors to everyone
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The humble log cabin where a legendary president was born 217 years ago today
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