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The World ‘s Largest Empire

  Cyrus II of Persia (c.โ€‰600โ€“530 BC; Old Persian: ๐Žค๐Žข๐Žฝ๐Žข๐, romanized: Kลซruลก), commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly, and eventually conquered ...

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America’s Most Popular Thief

  Charles Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 โ€“ October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was seen positively by the public because it was believed that during robberies he burned mortgage documents, freeing many people ...

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