Ramesses the Second ruled Egypt for about 67 years during which he conducted campaigns against Libya, Nubia, and the famous battle with the Hittites. Ramesses and the Hittites signed the first peace treaty known in history. He erected...

From 1885 to 1902, this was the home of Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature (1930). His novel Main Street (1920) was partly based on his impressions of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

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George Whitefield (December 16, 1714 - September 30, 1770), was a preacher in the Church of England and one of the leaders of the Methodist movement. He first took to preaching in the open air on Hanham Mount, Kingswood, in southeast...