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When it comes to ancient mythology, arrogance is a big part of the story. Icarus got too close to the sun with his makeshift wings and ended up crashing into Earth and drowning. Phaeton tried to be a chariot driver in place of his father, Helios ended up dying from a flash of Zeus. Niobe lost her children because she bragged about them to a goddess. The gods don't like to challenge or boast at the...

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In 1983 an up and coming guitarist was kicked out of his band for his drug abuse, overly aggressive and alcoholic behaviour in the worst possible way. The band had just signed a recording deal and was about to record their first album. But days before recording could start, the band showed the guitarist the door, without any warning, without any discussion, and even without a dramatic blowout...

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Have no idea who these two are, I imagined Democritus to be such a figure.A few centuries ago; There was a city in Greek: Miletus. It perhaps was the most important city in the Greek world before the golden ages of Athens and Sparta. If you ask me, I would say that this was the first city to have produced or pioneered a different style of thinking, in which the student or in ancient term...

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June 25, 2009, marked the loss of the king of the show business and the world lost one of the most famous figures in history, the king of pop, Michael Jackson.His young children Prince, Paris and Blanket finally saw their father on the stage. At the time, Michael was making a comeback series called "This Is It", which would become a sensation in the show business.The death of Michael Jackson shock...

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“Bigger Than Jesus” | The comment that Bought John Lennon To His KneesOn the precipice of a 1966 U.S tour, The Beatles had a problem. A problem would be an understatement here, Though there were tons of devoted fans who eagerly awaited the fab four there were others who started riots and protest just the cancel the shows and ban The Fab Four entirely.This fallout started after John Lennon and...

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Fidel Castro | The Man Who Survived  More Than 600 Assassination AttemptsFormer Cuban leader Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90 He was also known as The Legendary Survivor. As of the CIA, he was reported dead multiple times, only later to be found alive. But it was perhaps the 638 times that Cuban intelligence officials claimed the CIA tried to kill Castro that would earn him that sur...

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