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Troy was captured by soldiers in a wooden horse.
In Greek mythology, the Trojan war was waged on the city of Troy after Paris took Helen from the King of Sparta. Odysseus devised a plan that the Trojan horse was a gift, and entered the spartan walls and destroyed the city as it was filled with 100 soldiers.
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Achilles was a famous warrior.
In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan war. His character wasn't based on fact, though.
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Genghis Khan founded the Mongol empire.
Ghengis Khan existed and was the founder of the Mongal empire, which became the largest contiguous empire after his death.
King Arthur ruled over all of England.
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval history, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders.
Ulysses was the great king of Ithaca.
Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
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Count Dracula was a a real vampire.
Count Dracula is a fictional character in the Dracula novel who was inspired by one of the best-known figures of Romanian history, Vlad Dracula.
Emperor Caligula promoted his favorite horse to general.
According to the ancient historian Suetonius, the Roman emperor known as Caligula loved one of his horses, Incitatus, so much that he made him general and gave him an ivory manger, a jeweled collar and even a house.
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Vlad the Impaler protected the Bulgarians and Romanians from the Danube.
Vlad III is revered as a folk hero in Romania and Bulgaria for his protection of the Romanians and Bulgarians, both north and south of the Danube.
King Cnut dramatically ordered the waves to part.
Cnut's name is popularly invoked in the context of the legendary story of King Canute and the waves, but usually misrepresenting Cnut (Canute) as a deluded monarch believing he had supernatural powers, when the original story in fact relates the opposite and portrays a wise king.
Medusa was a monster with venemous snakes in her hair.
The 2nd-century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya, where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth, as part of their religion.
There is historical evidence that Egypt's 10 Biblical plagues actually took place.
The plagues in the Bible have been marked as ordinary events described in typical Egyptian literary metaphors.
Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were raised by a wolf.
Romulus and Remus were the main characters of Rome's founding myth.
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