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Constantinople, Deep Blue & the First Vaccine | May 11–14
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Eight landmark historical events from May 11–14 span the founding of Constantinople, Deep Blue's chess victory, the world's first vaccination, and Robert Smalls' daring Civil War escape. From Jamestown to the birth of Israel, this week in history reshaped civilization across every century.
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On June twenty-second, sixteen thirty-three, in Rome, Italy, one of the greatest scientific minds of his age was brought to his knees — literally. Galileo Galilei, then sixty-nine years old and nearly blind, stood before the Holy Office and was compelled to formally recant his support for the heliocentric model — the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around.
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