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Cache of Ice Age fossils found in Los Angeles:
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists
are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits
recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of
the nation's second-largest city.
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Uncovering ancient secrets beneath the surface:
CHICAGO (AP) -- Scholars are reconsidering what ancient
Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes knew of the
concept of infinity, and archaeologists may have found a
fossil brain millions of years old, thanks to new ways of
looking beneath the surface of ancient objects.
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Explorers ID
19th-century schooner in Lake Ontario: ROCHESTER, N.Y.
(AP) -- Two explorers conducting underwater surveys of Lake
Ontario have uncovered an aquatic mystery - a rare
19th-century schooner sitting upright 500 feet under the
waves.
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BEST OF HISTORY |
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Phoenicia
was an ancient civilization centred in the north of
ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal
regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of
Israel, Syria and the Palestinian territories.
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Ever
since their discovery, both the Neanderthals' place
in the human family tree and their relation to
modern Europeans have been hotly debated.
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Operation Torch (initially called Operation
Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French
North Africa in World War II during the North
African Campaign, started 8 November 1942.
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Mesopotamia
(from the Greek meaning "The land between the two
rivers") is an area geographically located between
the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely
corresponding to modern Iraq, north-eastern Syria,
south-eastern Turkey, and the Khuzestan region of
south-western Iran.
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Troy |
Ancient
Civilization |
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Troy is a
legendary city and centre of the Trojan War, as
described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the
Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to
Homer. Trojan refers to the inhabitants and culture
of Troy.
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Suleiman I was the tenth and
longest-serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire,
reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West
as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the Islamic
world, as the Lawgiver, deriving from his complete
reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system.
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King Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was
King of England and Lord of
Ireland,
later King of Ireland, from 21 April 1509 until his
death. King Henry VIII was the second monarch of the
House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.
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Leonardo da Vinci, April 15, 1452 –
May 2, 1519) was a Tuscan polymath: scientist,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,
painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and
writer. Born at Vinci in the region of Florence, the
illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a
peasant girl, Caterina,
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Queen Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)
was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17
November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The
Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen or Good
Queen Bess, Elizabeth I was the fifth and last monarch
of the Tudor dynasty. Elizabeth I ...
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