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The first non-Italian pope in more than four centuries was was beatified earlier this month.
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This Russian gymnast charmed the world on her way to three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
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This climate interval, which lasted from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century, is best known for its effects in Europe, where cold winters and cool, wet summers led to crop failures, and in the North Atlantic, wheres declines in ocean temperatures caused reductions in cod fisheries.
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The Hungarian epidemiologist and director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control worked to develop a surveillance network that could collect health data from, and coordinate disease prevention among, the 25 countries of the European Union.
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