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Wednesday, 27 November 2013

The bizarre death of the Abbé Prévost

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On the night of 25 November 1763, the surgeon at the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Nicolas-d’Acy, was sleeping peacefully in his bed w...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Tycho Brahe - the foolish death of a wise man

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On a night in October 1601, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II of Habsburg hosted a lavish banquet at which was present the renowned as...
Saturday, 12 October 2013

Christopher Columbus, Rodrigo de Triana, and the discovery of the New World

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On 6 September 1492, the flotilla of vessels comprising the Pinta , the Nina and the Santa Maria, under the command of Admiral Christo...
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Thursday, 26 September 2013

Sir Francis Drake and Spanish King's Gold

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On 26 September 1580, after a world tour that lasted 2 years and 10 months, Francis Drake arrived back in England. Bonfires were lit...
Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Olé ! Islero the Bull gets his Revenge....

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On a day in August 1947, in the town of Linares in southern Spain, a great bullfighting spectacle is about to take place. In the red ...
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Thursday, 22 August 2013

22 August 1911 - theft of the Mona Lisa. Chief suspects: Guillaume Apollinaire and his accomplice Pablo Picasso...

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On 22 August 1911, the painter Louis Béroud made his habitual visit to the Louvre art museum in Paris and headed straight to the ga...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Herman Melville and those nice cannibal people of Typee

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In 1840 Herman Melville is 21 years old and is looking for adventure. So he signs up with the whaler Acushnet  and on 1st January 184...
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