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Learned about the pagan god Gurzil and the Massylian tribe.

Learned about kieselguhr.

Learned about Lucy Brocadelli.

Learned that a flu pandemic was in England in 1951.

Learned that the Gaelic League began in 1893, that Oxford was Charles I military headquarters in1643 and philomastix means whip lover in Greek.

Learned that Takeo Miki means Three Woods in Chinese,

Learned about Sazan Island.

Learned about Jade Spring Hill in China.

Learned that 42 British sailors were killed by Chinese Communists.

Learned about the Whampoa Military Academy.

Learned about American newspaper man Edgar Snow.

Learned that Seaman First Class Samuel Elkin was the first U.S. serviceman to die fighting Chinese Communists.

Learned about the Elwha River.

Learned about the Pamunkey River.

Learned about the Penta hotel.

Learned that the population of Elmira, New York peaked at 45,000.

Learned about the holiday Vidovdan.

Learned about how an unemployed German civilian put on a military uniform and impersonated an officer took some soldiers and stole some money from a town.

Learned that the population of Berlin, Germany was 1.9 million people in 1890.

Learned about the Emathian Plain.

Learned about Juan de la Cosa.

Learned that the first alternative history was written in 1836.