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This African Lake has shrunk dramatically as the Sahara Desert has grown.

The Compromise drew a ling at 36 30 and admitted Maine as a Free State.

This Roman Emperor followed Trajan and built a namesake law across Britain

This sister of Laertes is said to have "too much of water" after her heavy clothes cause her to drown.

He wrote Paul Revere's Ride

This was invaded by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 and devastated by a potato famine in the 1840s

Nicknamed "Jack the Dripper", this abstract expressionist painted

Someone threw a bomb during a labor demonstration in Chicago in 1886 at

He proposed the General Theory of Relativity

In 1781, William Herschel discovered this planet