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Dan Jones. (Photograph by Steve Sayers)

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Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

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Engraving depicting a scene from the battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years' War. Dated 14th Century. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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King George VI and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth

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Queen In New Zealand, 1970

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Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

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