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Torvosaurus gurneyi
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Ferocious dinosaur was European giant Scientists in Portugal have identified what they think may have been the largest predator ever to roam across the European landmass. Fossil bones from the dinosaur were pulled from a cliff at Praia da Vermelha just north of Lisbon. Known as Torvosaurus gurney...
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Pompeii
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The Italian government has ordered immediate action to try to save the archaeological site at Pompeii from further damage Read more
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Hanö settlement
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"One-of-a-kind" Stone Age artefacts left by Swedish nomads 11,000 years ago have been discovered by divers in the Baltic Sea Archaeology professor at Södertörn University Björn Nilsson's team has been diving in Hanö, a sandy bay off the coast of Skåne County, and has been given the reso...
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Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (1962 - 2006)
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The naturalist and television star Steve Irwin has died in a diving accident in far north Queensland. He was 44. Read more
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The Battle of Lugdunum
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The Battle of Lugdunum, also called the Battle of Lyon, was fought on 19 February 197 at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), between the armies of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus. Severus' victory finally established him as the sole emperor of the Roman Empi...
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Stone Age harpoon
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Stone Age harpoon found on Pacific island A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone found on Timor, an island between Java and Papua New Guinea, indicates that complex hunting weapons were manufactured much earlier than previously thought in Australasia. A team led by archaeologist Sue O'Connor of...
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Broxmouth fort
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Broxmouth fort secrets finally published Archaeologists have published the full analysis of a rescue dig carried out at an East Lothian hill fort in the 1970s. Broxmouth, east of Edinburgh, was excavated shortly before the site was destroyed by a cement works. The community lasted for almost 1,00...
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Turin Shroud
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Shroud of Turin 'a man-made fake'[url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/shroud-...
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HMS Dreadnought
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HMS Dreadnought was a battleship of the Royal Navy that revolutionised naval power. Her entry into service in 1906 represented such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the clas...
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Welcome Stranger gold nugget
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The "Welcome Stranger" is the name given to the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, which had a calculated refined weight of 2,283 oz 6 dwts 9 gr. It measured 61 cm by 31 cm, and was discovered by Cornish prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul, Victoria...
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The Battle of May Island
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The Battle of May Island is the name given to the series of accidents amongst Royal Navy ships on their way from Rosyth in Scotland to fleet exercises in the North Sea in 1918. On the misty night of 31 January to 1 February 1918, five collisions occurred, involving eight different vessels. Although it...
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Cullinan diamond
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The Cullinan diamond was found by Thomas Evan Powell, a miner who brought it to the surface and gave it to Frederick Wells, surface manager of the Premier Diamond Mining Company in Cullinan, on January 26, 1905. The stone was named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the diamond mine. Read more[...
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The Battle of Isandlwana
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The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Read more An annular solar eclipse occurred on January 22, 1879. Read more
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Hartley Colliery Disaster
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The Hartley Colliery Disaster was a major Mining accident or disaster in Northumberland, England in 1862. The accident happened on 16 January 1862 when the huge beam used to de-water the mine suddenly broke, and one end plunged into the shaft of the pit. When the broken half of the beam fell, it demoli...
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AngloZulu War
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The AngloZulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Lord Chelmsford, the Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the war, moved his troops from Pietermaritzburg to a forward camp at Helpmekaar, past Greytown. On 9 January 1879 they moved to Rorke's Drift, and...
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