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Askø Stone Age settlement
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Stone Age Boat Discovered Off the Coast of Denmark A submerged Stone Age settlement and a boat were discovered off the coast of Denmark's Askø Island. The vessel shows signs of repairs Read more
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Passenger Pigeon
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On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her body was frozen into a block of ice and sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it was skinned and mounted. Currently, Martha (named after Martha Washington) is in the museum's archi...
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Inuit
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Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It is also released as Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, which translates the title. Atanarjuat was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut, the language of Canada's Inuit people. Igloolik is a c...
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Battle of Plataea
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The Battle of Plataea was the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place in 479 BC near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. Read...
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Panama Canal
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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an 82-kilometre ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. The canal was formally opened on Augus...
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Tolkien's tree
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A 215-year-old black pine known as "Tolkien's tree" in Oxford University's Botanic Garden is to be felled after two of its branches came down. The decision has been made by experts at Oxford City Council and the university after the large branches fell from the tree on Saturday. Read more...
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The Battle of Falkirk
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The Battle of Falkirk, (Blàr na h-Eaglaise Brice in Gaelic) which took place on 22 July 1298, was one of the major battles in the First War of Scottish Independence. Led by King Edward I of England, the English army defeated the Scots, led by William Wallace. Shortly after the battle Wallace resigned a...
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The Battle of Fromelles
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The Battle of Fromelles, sometimes known as the Action at Fromelles or the Battle of Fleurbaix, occurred in France between 19 and 20 July 1916, during World War I. The action was intended partly as a diversion from the Battle of the Somme that was taking place about 80 kilometres to the south. Read mor...
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Caer hill fort
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A Welsh archaeology and heritage project has won a top UK award. The CAER heritage project brought 1,000 people together to explore and excavate the ancient Iron Age Caer hill fort in the heart of a Cardiff suburb in 2013. Read more
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Voytek
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A campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II. The bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943, becoming much more than a mascot. The large animal even helped their armed forces...
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1960 U-2 incident
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. Read more
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Ostia Antica
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Ostia Antica is a large archeological site, close to the modern suburb of Ostia (Rome), that was the location of the harbour city of ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 km to the northeast. In 68 BC, the town was sacked by pirates. During the sacking, the port was set on fire, the consular war fleet w...
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Anomalocarids
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Ancient sea creatures filtered food like modern whales Ancient, giant marine animals used bizarre facial appendages to filter food from the ocean, according to new fossils discovered in northern Greenland. The new study, led by the University of Bristol and published today in Nature, describes...
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Operation Teapot, 1955
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Operation Teapot was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in the first half of 1955. During shot "Wasp", ground forces took part in Exercise Desert Rock VI which included an armoured task force "Razor" moving to within 900 meters of gr...
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Cheese
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Evidence of world's 'oldest' cheese-making found Scientists may be one step closer to uncovering the origins of cheese-making, as evidence thousands of years old has been uncovered. What would a Neolithic cheese have tasted like? Truly an ancient art, no-one really knows exactly when humans beg...
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