Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin was born in The Mount Shrewsbury,United Kingdom on February 12,1809.


He worked as a naturalist. He rode the Beagle to South America and the Galapagos Islands.

He died on April 19,1882 in Down House Downe,United Kingdom
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