Shakespeare’s birthplace has been targeted by scrap metal thieves, with some even taking lead pipes from the Grade I-listed former home of the playwright’s eldest child.

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A letter from a pair of Wigan children asking Lord Kitchener to not take their horse to World War I goes on display.

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Top tip for anyone standing next to a cannon. If someone looks like they might be about to fire it, stand waaay back.

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How the spirit of Gandhi lives on in Bangladesh

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Today and #39;s edition of Black Voices Black History Quest is based in Charleston, S.C. Charleston, S.C. is an amazing city to visit in general, but if you and #39;re looking for a southern city that and #39;s chock full-o-black history, then this is the city for you.

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WASHINGTON — The theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated is preparing to open a new museum and education center in downtown Washington to explore the 16th president and #39;s life and lasting legacy.

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A man parts with his family on a solemn Greek grave relief from the fourth century BC.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to US institutions, and those scholars and #39; differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research.

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Florence Green, the world’s last surviving first world war veteran died at the weekend, closing the book on the war to end all wars almost 100 years after it began.

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Florence Green (pictured), who joined the war effort in September 1918, when she was aged just 17, passed away in her sleep at a Norfolk care home just two weeks before her 111th birthday.

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When the find was revealed to be a and #39;cheap fraud and #39;, several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for all In a few weeks, a group of British researchers will enter the labyrinthine store of London and #39;s Natural History Museum and remove several dark-coloured pieces of primate skull and jawbone from a small metal …

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In Elton John and #39;s alternate medieval universe, Pepsi is the ultimate currency and music stars rule the world

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A hoard of more than 300 medieval silver coins unearthed in a Maryport garden has been declared as treasure.

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A marine archaeologist told today how his sea exploration company discovered two World War freighters ontaining silver bullion worth £162million.

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There and #39;s new evidence that Dickens lived much closer to some of the characters in his novels than previously thought.

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A man is jailed for 18 months for stealing a World War I memorial plaque from a south-east London church.

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Newt Gingrich and #39;s Tennessee campaign co-chair is none other than Tennessee GOP state Sen. Stacey Campfield, which seems only fitting since Campfield, too, appears to fancy…

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WASHINGTON — The National Archives is preparing to unveil its 715-year-old copy of the Magna Carta after a conservation effort removed old patches and repaired weak spots in the paper that holds the English declaration of human rights.

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Neil Cunningham-Dobson, 55, was at the controls as the World War II cargo ship SS Gairsoppa and the World War I steamer SS Mantola were discovered in the North Atlantic last year.

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Art historians have hailed the discovery made during conservation work at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, as one of the most remarkable in recent times.

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All Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wants is for his hometown and #39;s World War I memorial to have the status of a national monument.

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Hassan Melhem, 49, has been indicted on charges that he regularly beat his daughter Baraa, (pictured) now 20, after being egged on by her as yet unnamed step-mother.

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The era when shepherd bowled at aristocrat

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Just as we need to rally to combat the crimes of sex traffickers to free women and girls, we need to ramp up our efforts to help the next generation of men make sense of the world that they see on the screen and the one they encounter in the streets.

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Hackney’s London Assembly Member, Jennette Arnold has called on London Mayor … A protest to highlight the serious problem of fuel poverty took place on the …

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An important ancient artefact smuggled from Afghanistan during the civil war has been returned to a museum in Kabul.

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Leonardo da Vinci and #39;s drawing of a male figure perfectly inscribed in a circle and square, known as the and #34;Vitruvian Man, and #34; illustrates what he believed to be a divine connection between the human form and the universe. Beloved for its beauty and symbolic power, it is one of the most famous images in the world. However, new research suggests that the work, which dates to 1490, may be a copy of an …

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Unless countries get control of their ballooning debts, Ferguson has argued, we will be headed for crisis after crisis. And Ferguson remains convinced that Europe is on the edge of disaster.

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A study at the University of Colorado analysed sediment cores and ice, and revealed that four massive tropical volcanic eruptions which occurred between 1275 and 1300AD triggered the period of cooling.

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On Jan. 30, 1948, the Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was murdered by the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who fired three shots at close range as the 78-year-old Gandhi entered a prayer meeting.

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On Jan. 30, 1948, the Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was murdered by the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who fired three shots at close range as the 78-year-old Gandhi entered a prayer meeting.

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Grade I-listed Harmondsworth Barn, west London, joins the likes of Stonehenge, Osborne House and parts of Hadrian and #39;s Wall in the national collection of historic sites and monuments under the guardianship of English Heritage.

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I was driving when I heard the latest Republican front-runner intoning that “the centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky.” He went on from there, but I was already grinning from ear to ear. Newt Gingrich had me at Alinsky.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy announces the introduction of a tax on financial transactions, as the presidential election looms.

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Holocaust Memorial Day was marked in King’s Lynn today with a civic service at the town’s Tower Gardens.

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It’s all a far cry from your traditional History classroom, dusty textbooks and dull documentaries, these horrible characters actually come to life! Running from February 20-24 the much loved Horrible Histories stage show will bring both The Terrible Tudors and The Vile Victorians to the Norwich Theatre Royal.

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It’s all a far cry from your traditional History classroom, dusty textbooks and dull documentaries, these horrible characters actually come to life! Running from February 20-24 the much loved Horrible Histories stage show will bring both The Terrible Tudors and The Vile Victorians to the Norwich Theatre Royal.

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Thousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned for Friday Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country and #39;s signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU and #39;s highly controversial online-piracy legislation.…

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The Norwegian prime minister apologises for the role his country played in deporting Jews as Europe marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Two upcoming and #34;Wonders of Science and #34; presentations will teach you all about 18th century uses of Unicorn Root, Dragon and #39;s Blood — used as a varnish and as toothpaste — and so much more.

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THE boss of the company behind plans for a £65 million housing boom in Allerdale does not believe the Romans will stand in his way.

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TRIBUTES have been paid to a York achaeologist and historian who has died, aged 82.

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Expansive shows at Sperone Westwater feature portraits from as far back as the 16th century and marble sculptures from 350 B.C. to the present.

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JERUSALEM — It and #39;s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffering through the worst genocide in history’

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The resurgence of the GIF is a throwback to the early Internet of the 90s. But is the GIF itself an evolved version of a 19th century form’

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A HISTORIAN who has been digging up the trenches of the First World War for years secured a role in the new Steven Spielberg film War Horse.

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SHOPPERS in York city centre will find themselves in the middle of a flashmob with a difference this weekend, as performing arts students stage impromptu medieval dance mobs.

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…and other old medical remedies revealed by Swansea historian

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The success of today and #39;s celebrity scientists may pave the way for a new generation of academics and, indeed, new public expectations of them After a year of science that has seen Brian Cox present a BBC primetime Night with the Stars, David Starkey being denounced as a historian for exchanging the library for the TV studio and celebrity academics launching the private New College of the …

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A dazzling tiara belonging to Queen Victoria turned up in a private Highgate home last week, Heathman was surprised to learn.

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