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Confucius: The Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations

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Ancient China

Confucius: The Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations

How a wandering philosopher shaped East Asian civilization with his ideas on ethics and good governance.

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Bharat

2007
Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.
1999
About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.

World

2013
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
2012
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
1998
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
1991
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of Gaspra.
1986
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
1960
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.

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