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Featured Article: James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March 27, 1912 – March 26, 2005), was the fourth British Labour Prime Minister. He is the only person to have filled all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, and Foreign Secretary. He did not actually win an election, becoming Prime Minister when Harold Wilson retired. In 1979, Callaghan became the first Prime Minister to lose an election to a woman, Margaret Thatcher, whose Conservative party would govern Britain for the next eighteen years.
Popular Article: Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu (Quechua language: Old Mountain; sometimes called the "Lost City of the Incas") is one of the most well known sites of the Inca Empire. The ruin, located high in the Andes Mountains, forgotten for centuries by the outside world, was brought to international attention by Yale University archaeologist Hiram Bingham, who rediscovered it in 1911. It is one of the most important archaeological centers in South America, and as a consequence, the most visited tourist attraction in Peru. Since 1983, the site has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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A coin was often placed in the mouth of a dead person as payment to Charon for passage across the river Styx to the world of the dead. (source: Coin)
