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Twenty-eight gilt bronze panels, the Life of Christ above the Evangelists and the Doctors of the Church. They took twenty-one years, and Ghiberti’s workshop was where the young Donatello and Paolo Uccello learned to cast.

The feud between the houses of Orléans and Burgundy split France into two parties, each of which bid for English help. The Armagnacs took their name from Count Bernard VII of Armagnac, father-in-law of the murdered duke’s son. Henry V invaded into the middle of it; it ended only when Burgundy made…

The king’s brother was cut down at night in the rue Vieille-du-Temple by men in the pay of his cousin John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, who admitted it openly and had a theologian argue in public that it was lawful tyrannicide.

Grant broke the siege of the starving Union army in the city. On the last day his men stormed Missionary Ridge without orders and routed Bragg’s army. 12,485 casualties (NPS).

Louis Glass fitted an Edison phonograph with a coin slot and four listening tubes in the Palais Royal Saloon: a nickel bought one play. Machines like it soon filled arcades and railway stations. The record business began as a public entertainment, and the jukebox is its descendant.

The first Games outside Europe, again tied to a World’s Fair. The journey kept most Europeans away, and most of the athletes were American. Gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded for the first time.

Launched on 19 November against the Romanian armies on the Sixth Army’s flanks, the two Soviet pincers met near Kalach four days later. Some 250,000 to 300,000 Axis soldiers were trapped. Göring promised to supply them by air and never came close.

The first close above 381.17, 25 years after the top.

Blizzard’s online world peaked at 12 million subscribers in 2010. In 2005 a disease meant for one dungeon, “Corrupted Blood”, escaped into the cities and killed low-level characters by the thousand; epidemiologists later studied how the players behaved.

A Sunday-night deal added 20 billion dollars of TARP money and a government guarantee against most losses on a pool of about 306 billion dollars of Citi’s assets.

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Landed near Mons Rümker on 1 December 2020, scooped and drilled 1,731 grams of soil, launched it to lunar orbit, and sent it home to Inner Mongolia: the first Moon samples in 44 years.