Sep 7 2016
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On April 10, 1940, British submarine HMS Tarpon and its crew of 50 were sent to Norway to intercept Nazi merchant…
Mar 22 2015
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It's been nearly three years since Richard III's remains were discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England…
Feb 27 2015
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A DNA analysis of wheat found in an ancient peat bog suggests early Britons were more commercially sophisticated…
Dec 22 2014
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Archaeologists working at Stonehenge have found the oldest-known Mesolithic encampment in the United Kingdom. The…
Dec 19 2014
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Researchers at the British Library have inadvertently stumbled upon what appears to be an "eccentric" architectural…
Dec 1 2014
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From 1914 to 1919, the Allied powers restricted the maritime supply of raw materials and foodstuffs to the Central…
Sep 3 2014
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It was on this day in 1939 that Great Britain declared War on Germany, a momentous decision that was reached just…
Nov 26 2013
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A Polish oil worker out on a survey in the Sahara Desert recently stumbled upon this incredibly well-preserved…
Sep 24 2013
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At the dawn of the Second World War, the island nation of Britain faced the grim possibility that it might be…
Aug 1 2013
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During the early 1980s, as the Cold War heated up, British officials drafted a stirring speech for Queen Elizabeth…
Jan 2 2008
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Why didn't the Doctor do anything to fix the oppressive alien society he met in the Doctor Who Christmas special?…