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This is what the cult statue from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, looks like. It is the very temple that was burnt down by Herostratus in 356 BC, reputedly on the day of the birth of Alexander the Great. Alexander of
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Toyota RV-2 was a camping estate car that never reached series production, developed by Toyota engineers in the 1970s and shown at the Tokyo and New York motor shows. Thanks to a roof that opened at the rear, the concept car's 4.8-metre body could easily
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A curious map showing how many years each region was part of the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western alike. There are, admittedly, questions to be put to Greece, which, if the infographic is to be believed, was part of the Roman Empire for longer than Rome itself. Here, however, account
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Anyone who dreams of a prince should watch the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", which won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. True, the picture contains a number of dubious historical allusions, such as the presence of Mary Tudor at her mother's deathbed, which
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Not Alaska but Russian America. 1860
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London has restored the control room of Battersea Power Station (1929-31), which once kept the lights on at Buckingham Palace and Parliament. The power station has been out of operation since 1981, and since then its premises have been partly mothballed and guarded as a piece of England'
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