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15 October 1582 followed directly upon 4 October by decree of Pope Gregory XIII
15 October 1582 followed directly upon 4 October by decree of Pope Gregory XIII. Today is the birthday of the Gregorian calendar
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Roman Socks for Wearing with Sandals
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William's Normans defeat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
On 14 October 1066 the decisive battle in British history was fought at Hastings: the Normans under William defeated the Anglo-Saxons and their King Harold. William the Conqueror became the new king.
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The Basement Floor of That Very "Mint"
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Remains of five-apse church in Chersonesos uncovered during construction of outposts in the 1940s
Remains of five-apse church in Chersonesos uncovered during construction of outposts in the 1940s. Apses are semicircular projections that house altars or church appurtenances
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The artist Ruth Mendel has made a book tunnel from an old German Bible
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Nicholas II leaving a crypt at Chersonesos in a photograph banned by the censor
Nicholas II emerges from an adjoining wall crypt at Chersonesos. The original photograph is in Chersonesos; on the reverse side the censor has written "Not for publication". Because the Emperor had adopted an awkward posture
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Graffiti by the Vandals of Tsarist Russia
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A photograph from the Black Sea Fleet Museum
A photograph from the Black Sea Fleet Museum. Especially for those who tell us that the St George ribbon was invented by perfidious propagandists in 2009
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Female figurine from the Zaraysk Museum shown from four sides
The Zaraysk Museum. A woman without make-up
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Baptistery of a church with fish reliefs and the reliquary bearing Justinian I's seal
The interior baptistery of the church, with the early Christian symbol of fishes. A silver reliquary bearing the seal of the Emperor Justinian I was discovered here; it is now on display in the Hermitage
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Natural cave found beneath 9th-century housing in Chersonesos, linked by a corridor to a sanctuary
A natural cave has been found beneath the ninth-century residential quarter at Chersonesos, reached by a corridor from a sanctuary of the fifth to fourth century BC. The ancient Chersonesites, like many peoples of antiquity, endowed caves with sacred meaning