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Guy Fawkes Night: What those fireworks and bonfires are all about
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 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...
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...
Forget 007 – England’s wildest spies were the Elizabethans
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe long history of primogeniture in the upper echelons of English society has led to an equally...