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The Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943

The Sobibor death camp uprising of 1943
A photograph of a crown

The sisters who would be Queen

Denver Airport

Denver airport's weird conspiracy theory
Destroyed graves in an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland, near the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

The horrors of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
Eddie Hall

The strongest knight? Eddie Hall tries out Knight fighting
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The Strongest Man in History: myths and legends Edition
Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army
A photograph of a 'Danger Deep Water' sign in the UK

The UK’s most dangerous rivers
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The Vikings: the original feminists?
The Flag of Wales

The treachery of the Blue Books
Legendary swordsmen were powerful and brave, they were history’s ultimate warriors and the weapons they would wield have become icons of valour.

The World's Most Famous Swords
Is the Zodiac Killer about to be unmasked after all these decades?

The Zodiac Killer Code Cracked
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The Underachievers: Remembering the Great Scottish Team of the 70s and 80s
A John F. Kennedy badge pictured over the Flag of the United States

Timeline of the Kennedys
Meet comedian Tony Law, pictured above hugging his favourite WW2 aircraft.

Tony Law on the de Havilland Mosquito
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The Russian Revolution, a Century On

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera "El chapo", a Mexican drug trafficker, is presented to the media in a hangar at the airport in Mexico City on the 22nd February 2014

The rise of El Chapo

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The Man Awarded Two Victoria Crosses

The Military Orders of the Crusades

The Military Orders of the Crusades
Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK

The most picturesque places in…England
The first and last President of the Confederate lost the war along with his loot

The Lost Confederate Gold of Jefferson Davis, the Outlaw President
A photograph of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland

The Most Picturesque Places in…Scotland
Neville Chamberlain waving his Munich agreement at Heston Aerodrome on his return to England in 1938

The Munich agreement: 'Peace for our time'?
Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr: The Hollywood starlet who helped invent WiFi
An NHS building sign at Springfields Medical Centre in Warrington, Cheshire, UK

The NHS: a 70-year-old Mistake?
Portrait of Puyi

The Last Emperor: The final ruler of China's Qing dynasty
Unidentified: episodes

Unidentified: episodes
A Tudor cottage in Warwickshire, England

The people of Tudor England
The Knights of St Lazarus

The Knights of St Lazarus
Tributes to Dan Blankenship

Tributes to Dan Blankenship
Blackbeard

The rise and fall of Blackbeard
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland

The Incredible Story of Love and Survival at Auschwitz
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, 1540 the vessels depicted in the painting are decorated with wooden panels similar to those of the Mary Rose

The Mary Rose: Tudor battleship
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The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to destroy a city
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia

The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19
The Vatican City, a city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy

The day the Vatican was bombed