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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
December 14
Tycho Brahe

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer
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Roald Amundsen

FEATURED EVENT

1911

Roald Amundsen's arrival at the South Pole
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