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Why Adele Hates her Dad!

It would take years of resentment and anger, fuming up inside her, to push Adele to go up on stage while accepting her Grammy award and tell the world, “I don’t love my dad.” The man she so publically admitted to not having any love for was Mark Evans, her biological father who abandoned her and her mother when the ...

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Costa Rica, a Country Without an Army

An army is defined as an organized military force equipped for fighting on land. Every country has its army or military force to defend its sovereignty and territory, but here we´ll tell you 5 important reasons why Costa Rica has no army? Costa Rica is a particular country that doesn’t have an army, that is something that not so many ...

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Strange Rules That The Queen Elizabeth II Is Exempt From

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born at 02:40 (GMT) on 21 April 1926, during the reign of her paternal grandfather, King George V. Her father, the Duke of York (later King George VI), was the second son of the King. Her mother, the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat the ...

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Iranian Banknotes During Pahlavi Dynasty

The rial was first introduced in 1798 as a coin worth 1,250 dinars or one-eighth of a toman. In 1825, the rial ceased to be issued, with the qiran subdivided into 20 shahi or 1,000 dinar and was worth one tenth of a toman, being issued as part of a decimal system. The rial replaced the qiran at par in ...

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The Shah’s Diplomatic Relations And Travels With European Countries

  In 1961, the Francophile Mohammad Reza visited Paris to meet his favourite leader, General Charles de Gaulle of France. Mohammad Reza saw height as the measure of a man and a woman (the Shah had a marked preference for tall women) and the 6’5″ de Gaulle was his most admired leader. Mohammad Reza loved to be compared to his ...

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