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On 18 March 1913 King George I of Greece, who had ruled the country for 50 years, was shot dead. He was killed at the height of the military confrontation with Turkey, from which Greece had, over the years of George's reign, succeeded in winning back substantial territories.
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Stonehenge in 1865, in its oldest photograph. And Stonehenge today. Someone took the proverb about a time to gather stones rather too literally
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We've arrived. Alfred Hitchcock
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Donald Duck is his nephew, in case anyone has forgotten
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Nothing to see here, folks, do disperse. If Majesty magazine itself splashes across its cover that all is well with Kate Middleton, then there is truly nothing to worry about.
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What Colour Can Moonstone Be? The ancient Romans supposed that moonstone, with its unearthly shimmer, had been formed from solidified moonlight. The most valuable is considered to be blue moonstone, the more intense the shade, the higher the price; the rarest is pink, the commonest is white, and the least
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The tortoise trainer. Strange as it may seem, such a post really did exist at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Tortoises are trained by sound, so the trainer's instruments are musical: in this case a pipe and a drum, while nowadays a little bell is used. The
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