Cotswold Olympick Games In 1612 a local Cotswold lawyer, Robert Dover, organised an Olympick sports festival. It is thought that he organised the games bec
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The Titanic was the most luxurious liner of the time. The first class staterooms were sumptuously furnished while third class passengers remarked that thei
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Curtis LeMay, the longest-serving general in modern American history, rose to become America's most innovative and controversial military commander.
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Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous presidents of the United States, having led the country through its bloodiest war and through great political cri
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Helen Keller was an exceptional woman, who, despite being both blind and deaf, became one of the leading humanitarians of the 20th century. Thanks to the e
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