On the morning of Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers gathered at Liberty Hall. Though these were separate organisations, James Connolly, […]
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Read More →Dejima, a small artificial island, was created in 1634 by Shogun Iemitsu solely to house foreign traders, sailors and physicians. It also prevented the Portuguese from spreading Christianity, which had […]
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Read More →In 1883 Tom Thumb died of a stroke. He was aged 45. His friend Barnum commissioned a life-sized statue to be placed above his grave in Connecticut. Tom Thumb’s passing […]
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