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Mao Zedong was in his 70s when the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was initiated in 1966. By contrast, Deng Xiaoping was a decade younger than Mao.

The United States has a president as both head of state and head of government.

Israel has a president as head of state and a prime minister as the head of government.

Many Russian Jews had to flee Russian for the US because of the anti-Semitic policies of Czar Alexander III.

In 1890, the Tsarist government approved the establishment of "The Society for the Support of Jewish Farmers and Artisans in Syria and Palestine" (aka the "Odessa Committee") dedicated to practical aspects in establishing agricultural Jewish settlements in Palestine.

Penkalski (2026) has described a new species of Pinacosaurus, P. hilwitnorum, while assigning P. mephistocephalus to a new genus, Eopinacosaurus.

Here's a link to a article with more information on it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2633178

I've gone to a number of bakeries and seen cakes that are flourless, including flourless chocolate cakes.

Although the Taiping Rebellion was put down by the Qing Dynasty in August 1864, it duly exposed the political weaknesses of the Qing state, leading to limited decentralization of the Qing government.

The Taiping example of insurgent organization and its mix of Christianity and radical social equality influenced Sun Yat-sen and other future Chinese revolutionaries.

Steam engines became the dominant form of motive power for most of the 19th century.

The first internal combustion engine was devised in 1791 when John Barber invented the gas turbine engine. In 1794, Robert Street patented an internal combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel, and built an engine around that time. Four years later, in 1798, John Stevens built the first-ever American internal combustion engine.

What would flight and rail travel have been like if internal combustion engines had become commonplace in the early 19th century?

Julius Caesar invaded Britain twice during the Gallic Wars, but achieved little beyond setting up a foothold in Kent. Some southern British chiefdoms did, however, become allies of the Romans.

Emperor Claudius invaded Britain in 43 CE, and thus invasion was largely completed in the southern half of Britain by 87 CE.

The Lockheed YF-12 was an interceptor derivative of the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft.

On its first flight, the YF-12 was test flown at Groom Lake rather than Edwards AFB, and it would not be until 1964 that the YF-12s were transferred to Edwards.

The Chinese created the world's first rockets, and Russian mathematician Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903 published a paper arguing that multistage rockets were necessary for people to gain access to outer space.

The United States that built the Saturn V, Juno, Atlas, Titan, and Space Shuttle was founded by Englishmen who opposed "taxation without representation".

If the French rather than the British had colonized all of eastern North America, would France have seized the opportunity in the early 20th century to build a launch facility in eastern North America?

The Flensburg Government led by Karl Dönitz wanted to negotiate successive partial surrenders with the Western Allies, while maintaining the war against Soviet forces in the east.

Following the German surrender on May 8, British prime minster Winston Churchill was instrumental in urging that the Flensburg Government should not immediately be closed down, saying that he could see "great advantages in letting things slide for a while", even though it had been agreed amongst the Allies that the Flensburg government should be accorded no official recognition. The Soviet state-run media dismissed the Flensburg Government as no different from Hitler's dictatorship.

Joan of Arc is the most famous person besides Anne Frank to die young, being 19 years old when she was burned at the stake.

She was accused of having blasphemed by wearing men's clothes, of acting upon visions that were demonic, and of refusing to submit her words and deeds to the church because she claimed she would be judged by God alone.