Category - History
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Collector donates 1,100 fossils to Rio museum destroyed by fire
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When did Britain acquire Gibraltar?
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ON THIS DATE: MAY 8
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ARCHAEOLOGY DNA reveals that ancient American lineage goes back 18,000 years
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What can shipwrecks tell us? Pretty much everything
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Cancellation of college graduations nothing new
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NETANYAHU SENDS DELEGATES TO EGYPT AS TRUCE TALKS GO ON
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TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY is Thursday, May 9, the 130th day of 2024. There are 236 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
1386 — The Treaty of Windsor is signed between Portugal and England, at Windsor, and sealed by the marriage of Kin
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Gaza’s destruction in numbers; 34,000 die
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Airfield to host D-Day 80th anniversary commemoration
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An air of homely distinction
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New records released of Britain’s youngest POW
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Reminder of selfless sacrifice
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70th anniversary of Điện Biên Phủ Victory honours sacrifices and triumphs
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ON THIS DATE: MAY 8
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Veteran Peter Goodwin Chance survived Battle of Atlantic sinking, D-Day landings
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Crying out for change: A short history of student protests in Europe
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Storyteller: Photography by Tim Hetherington
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Castle, horses forge unlikely teamwork
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Who took home prizes at this year’s European Museum of the Year Awards?
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This Day In History
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Lily set to bloom at Amberley rail gala
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Binondo’s rich legacy explored at Chinatown Museum
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Blow to museum after thieves steal Bronze Age jewels
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The siege that lit the flames of civil war
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What ‘Shipwrecks’ can tell us about the world
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Why weren’t Nazi war criminals tried in Britain for unspeakable Alderney brutality, asks expert
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‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’
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European City of Culture 2031
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‘Public history’ of the Troubles has value despite imperfectness
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Human fossil discovery upends history of Palaeolithic Europe
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Soul-sister cities divided by Baltic Sea
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Looted gold, royal treasures go on show back home in Ghana
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‘This is not the summer of love’
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Rheidol museum shuffle brings new exhibits into public eye for first time
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ON THIS DATE: MAY 5
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Hopetown Darlington heading for July opening
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Museum honors U.S. Sen. Inouye in father’s Fukuoka hometown
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Busy time honouring our international heroes
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The root cause of ‘Treegate’