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Winston Churchill was a war criminal, claims top-selling German tabloid.
The campaign by Bild, which claims that the British government set out at the start of WWII to kill as many German citizens as possible, "breaks six decades of virtual silence on the subject," reckons The Telegraph, "and is being seen as the latest manifestation of a belief among Germans that they too were victims of the war - albeit a war started by their country"
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Revelations of romantic imbroglio at court.
A secret letter from a loyal servant telling of his employer’s passion for marriage into Britain’s Royal Family is revealed in The Times. But the billet doux is not about Paul Burrell, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Queen, but about a royal affair from half a millennium ago
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Chemist Prof Robin Clark says $24 million "Vinland" map is a fake.
A document thought to be proof of Norse explorers charting North America before Columbus has been denounced as an elaborate 20th century forgery, says The Telegraph
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Study: History Still a Mystery to Many US Students.
Six in 10 Seniors Lack Basic Knowledge; 4th-, 8th-Graders Post Modest Gains
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Should History Record the Unvarnished Bush?
Editing out bush's bloopers: does sanitizing the president's gaffes from official transcripts alter history?
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India: National Institute of Oceanography Discovers ancient lost city under the sea.
The mysterious settlement Mahabalipuram "sank beneath the waves at least 1,200 years ago" and could predate the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians by thousands of years, reports The Telegraph
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A Little Neanderthal in All of Us.
A scientist re-analyzes DNA samples and concludes that humans interbred with other populations hundreds of thousands of years ago
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Scholars Who Dig-itize Gutenberg.
In an ambitious project, the US Library of Congress is digitizing its perfect rendition of the Gutenberg Bible. These high-resolution images could reveal more about Gutenberg's invention of moveable type
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Elgin marbles 'will never leave London'.
Robert Anderson, the British Museum's director, has ruled out any possibility of the Elgin Marbles being returned to Greece
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George W Bush urged to study history by top adviser.
A man who has always preferred "baseball stadiums to libraries," says The Telegraph, "is being encouraged by a senior aide to read history books and consider how his predecessors handled the challenges of war"
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Volatile markets were also a thing of the past.
The trading markets of ancient Babylon are believed to have been as unstable as our own. Prices of agricultural goods there changed a lot and the death of Alexander the Great led to 20 years of economic instability. Historians made the discovery by studying 3,000 clay tablets which noted the price of foods and materials
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Millions are ensnared by Net of 1901.
The minutiae of life in 1901 proved a greater draw than Madonna or the events of September 11 2001, as 20 million people tried to log on to a new census website
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Antarctic History Frozen in Time.
Hundred-year-old cheese and other artifacts from Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition remain in their Antarctic hut. A New Zealand trust is trying hard to preserve it all. Kim Griggs reports from Ross Island, Antarctica
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Napoleon's poisonous wallpaper auctioned off.
Fragments of wallpaper which could have helped killed Napoleon have been sold at auction. The wallpaper contained a cheap colour pigment which turned into arsenic in damp conditions
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Mata Hari was innocent, says historian.
"A former member of the French Resistance during the Second World War yesterday called for the case of Mata Hari to be re-opened," says The Telegraph, "83 years after the dancer and femme fatale of the First World War was shot as a spy"
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History 'not up to date enough'.
An historian says the present military conflict shows that school pupils need to know more about modern world history
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Black Death's Gene Code Cracked.
Scientists decode the genome of the bubonic plague bacterium, paving the way for development of vaccine and treatments for the disease it causes
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Beetles, worms and lice are destroying historic manuscripts, claims British Library.
Moths have eaten textiles, reports BBC Online, "while silverfish, along with booklice, have devoured a number of 19th-century watercolours. The gelatine on a collection of 100-year-old photographs proved so tasty that silverfish ate the entire archive, leaving behind just the bare paper"
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Database to chart history of Black and Asian London.
The British Library is to build a website charting 465 years of Black and Asian history in London. The plan is to establish a website culling records from a number of different sources, including the British Library and India office
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300 years of government documents posted online.
An online archive of government documents dating back three centuries has been launched. The British Library-backed service will make over 23,000 official records freely available. Surfers will be able to view the full text of historic entries dating back to 1689's Declaration of Rights
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Famous Photos Frozen Forever.
Talk about creepy. Bill Gates' minions are currently laying the floor for a 10,000 square foot, tomblike facility in rural Pennsylvania to preserve, in part, an image of Albert Einstein's tongue
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Spies used itching powder to fight the Nazis.
British agents during the Second World War used itching powder to fight the Nazis. The joke shop powder favoured by schoolboys was a weapon available to British spies, according to secret war time documents. Secret agents asked for the powder, one of a number of "special devices", to spread on enemies clothing, bedding and even contraceptives
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Researchers Lift Obelisk With Kite to Test Theory on Ancient Pyramids.
When people think about the building of the Egyptian pyramids, they probably have a mental image of thousands of slaves laboriously rolling massive stone blocks into place with logs and levers. But one Caltech aeronautics professor has set out to demonstrate that the task could have been accomplished by several people using a kite to move the heavy stones
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Auctioneers put Napoleon Bonaparte's coffin under the hammer.
"The rare relics were seized as souvenirs by a British soldier in 1840," says The Mirror, "on the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena where Napoleon died in exile"
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Watching history go up in flames - "Pearl Harbor film a crude travesty of the actual events".
John Updike wrote: "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." No matter what history says, America, in the end, always turns out to be a republic of smiles, and Hollywood seldom shirks its responsibility to confirm that the sun shines more strongly in America than it does anywhere else
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Descendants want justice for Salem's witches.
Politicians in Massachusetts are being pressed officially to exonerate five women who were hanged for witchcraft in the late 17th century
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Palace find shows Jason in new light.
A team of Greek archaeologists say that they may have discovered the remains of the ancient city of Iolcus, from which the mythical character Jason set out in search of the Golden Fleece
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Founding fathers.
Less than 50 people founded the entire population of Europe, according to a new way of reading history from the genome
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Big freeze drove the Vikings out of Greenland.
Scientists believe that they have discovered what drove the Norsemen away: the toughest travellers in history simply could not stand the weather any more
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Is U.S. History Becoming History?
Government is increasingly conducted on the computer, but there's no plan to preserve the history made on a computer. While the National Archive struggles to catch up with the times, historians fear valuable records are being lost
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Oh Maya, What a Trip.
Schoolchildren from around the world take a virtual journey to Mayan ruins over the Web...
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1066 and all that ignorance of history.
Many UK secondary school pupils thought Oliver Cromwell fought at the Battle of Hastings, according to a survey...
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Educational Institutions to Launch e-Library.
Six of the world's leading educational institutions have announced plans to create a global public library on the web offering access to material ranging from the Magna Carta, archive interviews with Frank Lloyd Wright, and an interactive tour of Amiens Cathedral...
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