Edward Longshanks’ Forgotten Conflict: The Anglo-French War 1294-1303 By David Pilling Amberley PublishingISBN: 978 1 3981 1351 0 The Anglo-French war of 1294-1303, also known as the Gascon War, was Edward I’s main focus, driving England and France into fierce […]
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Collectors can bid on 1.6 ounces of coal salvaged from the Titanic in 1994. Lay’s Auctioneers Before the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in April 1912, crew members kept her steaming along by shoveling
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References to God and Christianity are sprinkled throughout American life. Our money has “In God We Trust” printed on it. Most presidents have chosen to swear their oath of office on the Bible. Christian nationalists want more. Christian nationalist beliefs
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To the disbelief of gaping onlookers in the packed stands at El Toreo, Mexico City’s largest bullring, American rodeo performer Bill Pickett clung to the horns of a massive Mexican bull ironically named Frijoles Chiquitos (“Little Beans”). Watching from a
The ship the SS Great Eastern in 1858. Early Life and Education Brunel was born on the 9th of April, 1806, in Portsmouth, England, to a French father, Marc Isambard Brunel, and an English mother, Sophia Kingdom. Marc Brunel was
I’m not sleeping and neither are you. Illustration by The Atlantic November 4, 2024, 4:46 PM ET A twist in the guts, a shift in the tide,there are cartons of eggs getting broken worldwide. I’m not sleeping and neither are you.Boo-hoo.In
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The wreck was like a bug on the wall, a jumbly shape splayed on the abyssal plain. It was noticed by a team of autonomous-underwater-vehicle operators on board a subsea exploration vessel, working at an undisclosed location in the Atlantic
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Odds are there isn’t a Civil War buff living who hasn’t seen a copy of this remarkable pencil sketch (above) by special artist Edwin Forbes, which Forbes labeled as “William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vol.—Sketched at Stoneman’s Switch,
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