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Tariq's Landing to the Jet Age: History's Greatest April–May Week
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From the Islamic conquest of Hispania in 711 to the world's first commercial jet flight in 1952, this week in history spans continents, centuries, and civilisations. Eight extraordinary events — one remarkable calendar week.
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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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