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Marcus was born in AD 121, in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. At first he was Marcus Annius Verus, but his well-born father died young and he was adopted by his grandfather, who had him educated by number of excellent tutors.

When he was sixteen, he was adopted by his unc...

1872 was strange because one of the primary candidates never saw the final Electoral College vote.

• Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union armies that defeated the Confederacy, had not been so convincing in the Oval Office.
• Some Republicans defected, becoming Liberal Republicans...

• Pablo Picasso was a great artist who created 50,000 works of art in his life. He devoted his life to art and every idea he had, had to be captured on canvas;
• Thomas Edison, over the course of his lifetime, had acquired more than a thousand patents. He was not only an inventor but a...