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Jacobite rising of 1745
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The Jacobite rising of 1745, often referred to as "The 'Forty-Five," was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. Read more
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Great Disappointment
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The Great Disappointment was a major event in the history of the Millerite movement, a 19th-century American Christian sect that formed out of the Second Great Awakening. Read more
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Mill Rock
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On 10 October 1885 in New York City, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers detonated 300,000 pounds of explosives on Flood Rock, annihilating the island, in order to clear the Hell Gate for the benefit of East River shipping traffic. The explosion sent a geyser of water 250 feet in the air; the blast was felt...
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D-colour flawless type IIA diamond
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A white diamond the size and shape of a small egg has sold for a record $30.8m (£19.1m) at auction in Hong Kong. Dubbed the "magnificent oval diamond", the stone was bought by a phone bidder at the Sotheby's sale. Read more
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The Battle of Largs
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The Battle of Largs was an engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland on 2 October 1263. It was the most important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. Read more
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Ksar Akil beads
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An international team of researchers led by Oxford University has new dating evidence indicating when the earliest fully modern humans arrived in the Near East, the region known as the Middle East today. They have obtained the radiocarbon dates of marine shell beads found at Ksar Akil, a key archae...
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Battle of Vienna
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The Battle of Vienna took place on 11 and 12 September 1683. After the battle of Vienna, the newly identified constellation Scutum (Latin for shield) was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, in honor of Jan III Sobieski. While there are some few stars named aft...
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Fancy vivid blue diamond
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World's Biggest Round Blue Diamond May Fetch $19 Million The world's biggest round "fancy vivid" blue diamond is estimated to sell for more than $19 million at an auction in Hong Kong in October. The brilliant-cut internally flawless stone, weighing 7.59 carats, will be auctioned by So...
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Ipplepen
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Ipplepen Iron Age settlement 'one of most significant' finds An Iron Age settlement unearthed in Devon has been described as one of the most important finds of its kind. It was prompted by the chance discovery of Roman coins in fields at Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot about four years ago.
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Ashdod-Yam
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TAU Archaeologists Find Massive Fortifications from the Iron Age Researchers from Tel Aviv University have unearthed the remains of massive ancient fortifications built around an Iron-Age Assyrian harbor in present-day Israel.
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Faroe Islands
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The Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Scotland and Iceland, could have been inhabited 500 years earlier than was previously thought, according to a startling archaeological discovery. The islands were thought to have been colonized by the Vikings in the 9th century AD. However, datin...
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Area 51
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BBC film crew arrested sneaking into Nevada's Area 51 'UFO base' Military personnel arrested a BBC film crew at the secret Area 51 military base in Nevada where UFO conspiracy theorists claim US authorities are keeping bodies of aliens and debris of an ET "flying disc" that crashed in Ros...
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The Unending Sky
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The Unending Sky I could not sleep for thinking of the sky, The unending sky, with all its million suns Which turn their planets everlastingly In nothing, where the fire-haired comet runs. If I could sail that nothing, I should cross Silence and emptiness with dark stars passing, Then, in the darkne...
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USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
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USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class cruiser of the United States Navy. She holds a place in history due to the circumstances of her sinking, which led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. On 30 July 1945, shortly after delivering critical parts for the fi...
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Indian film
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Moving images were first seen in India on 7 July 1896 in Bombay (now Mumbai), and local filmmaking began in the following year. 1913 saw the release of the first Indian feature-length film, Raja Harishchandra/King Harishchandra, a story from the Mahabharata by D.G. ('Dadasaheb') Phalke, a pionee...
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