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Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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The day a Mexican farmer had a vision of the Virgin Mary

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Anglo-Saxon brooch discovered in Norfolk

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Nelson mortally wounded at Trafalgar in 1805

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Traquair House, Peeblesshire

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Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Ranger Centre, County Antrim

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

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