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The first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency began on March 4, 1933, the day Franklin D.

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The word “mesopotamia” is formed from the ancient words “meso,” meaning between or in the middle of, and “potamos,” meaning river. Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region is now home to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria.

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Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH succeeding his brother al-Saffah.

He is known for founding the 'Round City' of Madinat al-Salam, which was to become the core of imperial Baghdad. 

Born: 714 AD, Humayma

Died: October 6, 775 AD, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

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The phrase new world order has been widely used on the political scene since first publicly coined by former president, George Bush.

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These countries included impoverished former European colonies and all the nations of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia.

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An enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, lying in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctica. The iceberg, dubbed A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size – currently making it the largest berg in the world.

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His work provided evidence of the antiquity of Indian civilisation, particularly that of the Indus Valley civilization and the Mauryan age.

In 1920, Marshall initiated at dig at Harappa with Daya Ram Sahni as director. Mohenjodaro was discovered by R. D. Banerji in 1921, and in 1922, work began there.

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