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Ye olde travel guide: New Orleans 1858 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Grant’s exploding cigar

A monumental misunderstanding

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Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire

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Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands

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The Devil’s Dictionary

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Shakespeare’s Ophelia may have been real

The Pneumatic Despatch Company

DOVER CASTLE, Kent. Secret Wartime Tunnels. Interior view of the Anti Aircraft Operations Room in Hellfire Corner.

Dover War Tunnels

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The bravest of the brave

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Stirling Castle skeletons suffered “brutally violent” deaths

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White Rock Copper Works, Swansea

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The BBC Story

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Satellite survey identifies lost Egyptian pyramids