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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
December 11
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian author
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duke and duchess of Windsor

FEATURED EVENT

1936

Abdication of King Edward VIII
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