[Ilf] June Highlights and Pirates 3 Background Sources

[Carole Bos]

Several significant world events happened during the month of June:  Port Royal (home base to the characters in "Pirates of the Caribbean 3") was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692; King John signed the Magna Carta (in 1215); Alexander the Great and Muhammad the Prophet died (in 323 B.C.E. and 632 C.E. respectively); Auschwitz opened its gates (in 1940) and took in hundreds of Polish political prisoners; Troy (it is said) was defeated in the Trojan Wars; the Allies invaded Normandy on D-Day (in 1944); Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles (in 1968) and Lizzie Borden was found "not guilty" of killing her parents (in 1893).  Learn the details of those, and other events, in this summary of June Highlights.  http://www.awesomestories.com/Newsletters/June%202007%20Highlights.htm 

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Carole Bos
Dean's Advisory Board
Grand Valley State University
bosc at gvsu.edu