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At the time of greatest prosperity of the Roman Empire, its dominion extended over a vast area - their total area was about 2, 51 million square kilometers. However, in the list of the largest empires in the history of Roman takes a nineteenth place.

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Sketch of modern stars and stripes flag of the United States has developed an American high school student Robert Heft - as part of a school assignment, for which, by the way, he was a very modest estimate of B- (it's like we have four and a minus). When his drawing was chosen as the symbol of the nation, patriotic teacher changed to a higher estimate of A.



Attempts to calculate the duration of the peaceful development of mankind led to the sad result: of the last three thousand years, only two hundred and forty were not marred by any war.



Of the ten most bloody wars in the history of eight occurred in China.



Each of the two largest Chinese war has claimed more lives than World War.



The Constitution of the United States of America is full of spelling and grammatical errors.

[Although I met Old, not "full of", and a few have. And some of them are considered to be errors in terms of American English, and while he has not formed properly.
But what is written is written.]



At the moment of greatest prosperity, in 480 BC, under the authority of the first Persian Empire was 44 percent of the world's population.



Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna arranged a grand funeral ceremony on the occasion of his own leg amputation.



Prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century for the manufacture of dentures used teeth of soldiers killed in battle.



During the Ice Age inhabitants of the British Isles used human skulls as drinking cups.



In ancient Egypt, servants, especially smear honey to those distracting flies and other insects from the sacred person of the pharaoh.



During the rebellion of An Shi, (it is also a revolt An Lyusha) in China in the mid-eighth century killed around forty million people. At that time it was one-sixth of the world population.