List of Survivor seasons with returning contestants

This post is a list of Survivor seasons with returning contestants. Seasons with 100% returning contestants are in bold (6 seasons). There are 15 seasons listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Season 8: All Stars (18 returning)
• Season 11: Guatemala (2 returning)
• Season 16: Micronesia (10 returning)
• Season 20: Heroes vs. Villains (20 returning)
• Season 22: Redemption Island (2 returning)
• Season 23: South Pacific (2 returning)
• Season 25: Philippines (3 returning)
• Season 26: Caramoan (10 returning)
• Season 27: Blood vs. Water (10 returning)
• Season 31: Cambodia (20 returning)
• Season 34: Game Changers (20 returning)
• Season 38: Edge of Extinction (4 returning)
• Season 40: Winners at War (20 returning)
• Season 45: (untitled) (1 returning)
• Season 50: In the Hands of the Fans (24 returning)

Collection of facts about Czechoslovakia

This post is a collection of facts about Czechoslovakia (1918-1992). There are 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Gained independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918
• Lost the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in 1938
• During World War II: Slovakia declared independence, Carpathian Ruthenia annexed by Hungary, Czech lands annexed by German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 
• Third Czechoslovak Republic formed in 1945
• Part of the Eastern Bloc from 1948 to 1989
• Joined Comecon in 1949
• Signed Warsaw Pact in 1955
• Prague Spring liberalization in 1968 followed by Soviet Union invasion
• Velvet Revolution overthrew communist government in 1989
• Split into two countries (Czech Republic and Slovakia) in 1992

Collection of facts about the British Raj

This post is a collection of facts about the British Raj (1858-1947). There are 14 facts list below. Source: Wikipedia

• United Kingdom rule of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
• Preceded by the East India Company (EIC)
• Indian Rebellion of 1857 resulted in transfer from EIC to British Crown
• Indian National Congress founded in 1885
• Partition of Bengal (1905) divided Bengal into two provinces
• All-India Muslim League founded in 1906
• Lucknow Pact (1916) between Indian National Congress and Muslim League
• Rowlatt Act (1919) allowed arrests without a trial
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919
• Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919) expanded Indian representation
• Non-cooperation movement (1920-1922)
• Government of India Act 1935 allowed independent legislative assemblies
• Quit India Movement (1942-1945)
• Succeeded by the partition of India (creation of India and Pakistan) in 1947

Collection of facts about the Spanish flu

This post is a collection of facts about the Spanish flu (1918-1920). There are 16 facts listed below.

• H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus
• Indeterminate origin (newspapers misattributed epicenter to Spain)
• Began during the end of World War I
• Possibly began at an army camp in Étaples, France in 1916
• First recorded case in Haskell County, Kansas (January 1918)
• Conventionally began March 4th, 1918 at Camp Funston in Kansas
• Reached European ports in April 1918
• Reported in China in June 1918
• Second wave began in August 1918
• United States had 292,000 deaths between Sept - Dec 1918
• India had estimated 12 million deaths in 1918
• Third wave began in early 1919
• Fourth wave occurred late 1919 - early 1920
• Considered over by mid-1920
• Cases: 500 million (1/3 of the world population)
• Deaths: 17 - 100 million

Collection of facts about the July Revolution

This post is a collection of facts about the July Revolution (1830). There are 9 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Occurred July 26th - July 29th, 1830 (three days of riots)
• Preceded by July Ordinances ending the Chamber of Deputies, liberty of the press and excluding commercial middle class from elections
• Newspapers collectively agreed to not shut down
• Followed by three days of riots
• Tuileries Palace, the Louvre and Hôtel de Ville sacked on July 29th
• Charles X (Bourbon dynasty) was overthrown
• Louis Philippe I (Orléans dynasty) became King
• Hereditary right replaced with popular sovereignty
• Louis Philippe I later overthrown in 1848

Collection of facts about the Great Purge

This post is a collection of facts about the Great Purge (1936-1938). There are 10 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Political purge in the Soviet Union lead by Joseph Stalin
• Conducted by the NKVD (secret police of the USSR)
• NKVD lead by Genrikh Yagoda and Nikolai Yezhov
• Assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934 led to show trials
• Removal of the 'Old Bolsheviks' within party leadership
• Removal of Red Army commanders
• Removal of the 'intelligentsia' (educated people) and wealthy peasants
• Dissenters sent to Gulag labor camps or killed
• Leon Trotsky later assassinated in 1940
• Total deaths: 700,000 to 1.2 million

Collection of facts about the Great Leap Forward

This post is a collection of facts about the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962). There are 8 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Goal to industrialize China and establish state-operated communes
• Private farming banned
• 25,000 communes averaging 5,000 households each in 1958
• Enforced grain quotas and widespread misreporting
• China was a net exporter of grain during 1958-1960
• Infrastructure projects included bridges, railroads, canals, reservoirs
• Caused the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961)
• Total deaths: 15 - 55 million