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On May 17, 1997, the African country of Zaire became known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1971 the country and even the huge Congo River were renamed Zaire by former President Sese Seko Mobutu.

The battle of Thermopylae was the first between the Persians and Greeks during the Persian invasion of 480-479 BC. The Greek force was very small but was determined to make a stand against the huge Persian army.

Ratification by Senate of any action taken by President ensures that interest of a person must not override the interest of nation thus, it indicates the theory of checks and balances.

Louis I (778-840), or Louis the Pious, was king of the Franks and emperor of the West from 814 to 840. The son and successor of Charlemagne, he was the last ruler to maintain the unity of the Carolingian Empire. Born in Aquitaine, Louis I was the third son of Charlemagne and his second wife, Hildegard.

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America.

On March 24, 1603, Tokugawa Leyasu received the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei. As shōgun, he used his remaining years to create and solidify the Tokugawa shogunate, which ushered in the Edo period, and was the third shogunal government (after the Kamakura (Minamoto) and the Ashikaga).

In January 1324, the Pope officially recognizes Robert the Bruce as King of Scots. He invaded Scotland in the years following King Robert's death in an attempt to take the crown.

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis) was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. He is best known for his chronicle The History of the Kings of Britain which was widely popular in its day, being translated into other languages from its original Latin. It was given historical credence well into the 16th century, but is now considered historically unreliable.

Ata-Malek Juvayni wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i-Jahan-gusha. “The History of the World-Conquerer” was the English translation republished in 1997 by John Andrew Boyle.

Before the end of the sixteenth century, families of Basque sailors began to cultivate potatoes along the Biscay coast of northern Spain. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced potatoes to Ireland in 1589 on the 40,000 acres of land near Cork. It took nearly four decades for the potato to spread to the rest of Europe.