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Guy Fawkes Night: What those fireworks and bonfires are all about
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEvery year on November 5, skies across England, Scotland and Wales are illuminated by fireworks as...
Westminster Hall: The colourful history of the 900-year-old building
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoThe King described Westminster Hall as a “great hall” which holds “reminders of medieval...
Forget 007 – England’s wildest spies were the Elizabethans
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThe long history of primogeniture in the upper echelons of English society has led to an equally...
On This Day, Jan. 27: Siege of Leningrad lifted
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Jan. 27, 1944, the Soviet army lifted the Siege of Leningrad, a more than 2-year occupation of the Russian city by Nazi forces in which more than 1...