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3 of India's Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi in one family photo, 1949

  Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889, He was an Indian independence activist and, subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India, as well as a central figure in Indian politics both before and after independence. He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement, serving India as Prime Minister from its establishment in 1947 as an independent nation, until his death in 1964. He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community, while Indian children knew him better as Chacha Nehru. Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi  born on  19 November 1917 was an Indian politician and a central figure of the  Indian National Congress .   She was the first and, to date, only female  Prime Minister of India . Indira Gandhi was the daughter of  Jawaharlal Nehru , the first prime minister of India. She served as prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until  her assa...
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The discovery of an ancient Maya statue deep within the jungles of Honduras, 1885.

  This statue was believed to be discovered from Honduras around 1885. Honduras , officially the  Republic of Honduras , is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya, before the Spanish Colonization in the sixteenth century. The Spanish introduced Roman Catholicism and the now predominant Spanish language, along with numerous customs that have blended with the indigenous culture. Honduras became independent in 1821 and has since been a republic, although it has consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of the poorest countries i...