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History 101 is a website dedicated to all things history. A fun and fact-driven dive into some of the lesser known aspects of the past!

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Dolly Parton: The life and legacy of country’s biggest star

The life and legacy of country’s biggest star Dolly Parton is a living legend. Dolly Parton was often linked to other celebrities despite being married Dolly Parton is probably used to all the attention she’s received from the media over the years, but there have certainly been some odd rumors that have reared their heads throughout her career. It’s assumed that Dolly and her husband have an open marriage With all the rumors of affairs becoming non-stop, people began to wonder about Dolly Parton and husband, Carl Dean’s marriage. Ian Wilmut admitted that the name Dolly came about because “Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.

Guinness beer started Guinness World Records? Brilliant!

His fellow Guinness men probably gave him a hard time about his performance, and it was then that Sir Beaver insisted that the golden plover was the fastest game bird in Europe, and that’s why he couldn’t hit one. Despite receiving some erroneous information, such as a fly in Africa that could reach 820 miles per hour, the following year the book was ready for Christmas and topped the United Kingdom’s 1955 bestseller list. As for Sir Beaver, he stayed with Guinness until his retirement in 1960 and must’ve been very satisfied with the fact that his misfortune while hunting created a book that has sold over 100-million copies. However, when drunken arguments arise in bars today, such as “the largest gathering of people dressed as Superman,” (867 people on July 27, 2013, in Cumbria, United Kingdom) people just google it.

The great ‘Egg War’ of California

In 1851, a few of these eggers started a company, which would become the Pacific Egg Co., and they claimed to have exclusive rights to the islands. Although the Pacific Egg Company still claimed exclusive rights to the island, groups of rival eggers were granted access to the island by the United States Government. The confrontation spurred the US government to grant the Pacific Egg Company a monopoly over the Farallon islands, although this turned out to be the beginning of the end. The murre egg industry was already suffering, due to the bird populations having been completely decimated, and with the new chicken industry driving egg prices down once more, it was no longer worthwhile to collect murre eggs.

The terrifying progression of the Armenian genocide

Amongst these is the Armenian genocide, during which Armenian people were murdered by the Turks ruling over the Ottoman Empire. When Armenia was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, approximately 2 million Armenian people were forced to transition into the lifestyle of the Ottoman Empire. Besides the religious tension between the Armenians and the Turks, the Ottoman Empire dreaded the successes of the Armenian people. This terrifying genocide of the Armenian people resulted in near-complete destruction of the Armenian people, lowering their population from two million to one million by 1918, and, by the conclusion of the genocide in 1922, only 388,000 had survived.

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