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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 August third, fourteen ninety-two, in the small port of Palos de la Frontera in southern Spain, Christopher Columbus led three ships out of harbor and pointed them west into the unknown Atlantic. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried a crew of around ninety men on a voyage with no guaranteed destination and no guaranteed return.
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