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413 – Roman Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces of Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths, an early Germanic people. 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine. As did many medicines at…
Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, is a magnificent 200,000 sq ft estate which has 187 rooms, dwarfing Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. A gift from Queen Anne to John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, in 1704, it was a reward for his victory over the army of Louis XIV of France in the Spanish…
