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Is this Lucrezia Borgia?
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:00 +0300
Lucrezia Borgia is the most infamous member of one of the Renaissance’s best known families, the Borgias, thanks to a popular, but probably entirely false, reputation as a poisoner. Until...
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Polish Leader to be Exhumed to (try to) Solve Mystery
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:00 +0300
The body of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland’s government in exile from 1939 until his death in 1943, is to be exhumed for a forensic examination. Sikorski died...
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Photo Study finds more History
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:00 +0300
You might think that, being a heavily populated island, Britain’s historical sites are all well known, but the truth is they’re not. For example, archaeologists have just finished a study...
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New British WW1 Veteran "Found"
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:57:00 +0300
Over the last few years there has been a debate in Britain about whether the last surviving British veteran of WW1, whoever it may be, should be given a state...
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New Mary Rose Sinking Theory
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:56:00 +0300
Conventional wisdom holds that a very tight turn, coupled with open gun ports and a freak gust of wind, conspired to tilt British ship the Mary Rose over to such...
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Public Support Memorial to Bomber Command
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:56:00 +0300
A campaign in Britain to erect a memorial to the pilots and airmen killed during the aerial bombardment of Germany during WW2 has raised £500,000 ($750,000) in just three weeks,...
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Google Returns to Ancient Rome
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:56:00 +0300
Google have added a new "layer" to Google Earth. Now you can take a virtual tour of the entire city as historians believe it may have looked c.320 CE, with...
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Video of Arthur Conan Doyle
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:55:00 +0300
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known today for his stories about (now legendary) detective Sherlock Holmes, films of which have gone a long way to influencing how people view Britain...
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Hadrian’s Wall Repairs
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:54:00 +0300
Hadrian’s Wall was a continuous fortification which stretched across northern Britain, from the east to west coast, to act as a defence for the northern limits of the Roman Empire....
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90th Anniversary of the End of World War 1
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:37:00 +0300
November 11 2008 will be the ninetieth anniversary of the end of World War 1, when an armistice came into effect at 11:00 am. Consequently there has been a lot...
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