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Joan of Arc, Beethoven's Ninth & the Birth of Coca-Cola | May 5–10
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From Joan of Arc's siege-breaking victory at Orléans to Nelson Mandela's inauguration, this week in history delivers ten world-changing moments across six centuries. Beethoven premieres his Ninth Symphony deaf, Bannister breaks the four-minute mile, and a pharmacist in Atlanta mixes the world's most famous drink.
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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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