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National Spirit and the 1900 Olympics

This year’s Paris Olympics are the third to be held in the city – where the decision was made in 1894 to revive this ancient

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The True Story of King Arthur: Legend or Historical Reality?(Video)

King Arthur’s legend, a cornerstone of Western literature, traces its origins back approximately 1,200 years. The first recorded mention appears in the “Historia Brittonum,” a

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BREAKING: Fire Engulfs Iconic Rouen Cathedral Spire in France

In the historic city of Rouen, France, a fire has engulfed the spire of the renowned Gothic cathedral, Our Lady of the Assumption. Firefighters are

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The Mystery of Thomas More’s Birthplace

Walking through London’s Cheapside is a journey through history. From the Old English ceapan, meaning ‘to buy’ (and nothing to do with the Victorian associations

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Secrets of the European Genome Revealed At 4,500-year-old Burial

High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of Troyes, has revealed a surprising

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Archaeologists discover Roman settlement on the Palomba-Catenanuova route

Archaeologists working with the civil engineering company, Italferr, have unearthed a Roman settlement and necropolis in Sicily during the construction of the new Palermo-Catania-Messina railway

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A Brief History of English Numeracy

The English medical practitioner John Bulwer wrote a treatise in 1644 that argued humans were natural ‘Arithmeticians’, capable of both performing arithmetic and divining the