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First Battle of Ypres
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Battle of Zama
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The Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal. Soon after this defeat on their home ground, the Carthaginia...
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Beyers and Holtermann nugget
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The world's largest single mass of gold is correctly not a nugget it is a specimen also known as a matrix. However, gold is gold whatever the name tag and an estimated 3,000 ounces of gold makes "THE BEYERS AND HOLTERMANN SPECIMEN" the world's largest single mass of gold. The specimen was d...
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Battle of Chamdo
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After months of failed negotiations, attempts by Tibet to secure foreign support and assistance, and PRC and Tibetan troop buildups, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Jinsha River on 6 or 7 October, 1950. Two PLA units quickly surrounded the outnumbered Tibetan forces and captured t...
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St Albans Roman gold coins
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Roman gold coins found in St Albans field A "nationally significant" stash of Roman gold coins has been found by a man with a metal detector in Hertfordshire. Read more
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British Broadcasting Company Ltd
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The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a British commercial company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom (and anxious to build sales of their products by ensuring that there were radio broadcasts to which their radio-buyin...
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English
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Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English There is little that irks British defenders of the English language more than Americanisms, which they see creeping insidiously into newspaper columns and everyday conversation. But bit by bit British English is invading America too. [ur...
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The Game of the Century
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The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in Chess Review. Kmoch wro...
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Flying ant day
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Flying ant day 'a summer myth' The notion of an annual flying ant day, when swarms of ants emerge and take to the air in mass mating flights, is a "myth", scientists say. UK summer data gathered by the Society of Biology shows two peaks in flying ant appearances over one fortnight. [url=http...
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Calder Hall nuclear power station
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Calder Hall was the world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial quantities (although the 5 MW "semi-experimental" reactor at Obninsk in the Soviet Union was connected to the public supply in 1954). First connection to the grid was on 27 August 1956, and the...
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Cold War missile sites
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Cold War missile sites get listed status The remains of two Cold War nuclear missile sites have been given listed status in recognition of their historical importance. The former RAF sites - in North Luffenham, Rutland, and Harrington, Northamptonshire - were readied for use during the Cuban miss...
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Partition of Bengal (1905)
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The decision to effect the Partition of Bengal was announced in July 1905 by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon. The partition took effect on the 16th October, 1905 and separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas. Read more
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The Cardiff Giant
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The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 3.0 m tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Read more
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596 nuclear test
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596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. Read more[video=http://www.y...
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ThrustSSC
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ThrustSSC, (or Thrust SSC, Thrust supersonic car), is a British jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers and Jeremy Bliss. ThrustSSC holds the World Land Speed Record, set on 15 October 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h and became the first car to officiall...
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