Scientists exploring marine life in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year uncovered a shipwreck site believed to be 200 years old. The site was scattered with cannons, muskets and a variety of other items, according to the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

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One thing is true about happiness: There are very few new truths out there.

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Germany and #39;s Central Council of Jews says Holocaust survivor and scholar Arno Lustiger has died at age 88.

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A rare set of tables that display preserved human remains from the 17th century are on full public display for the first time in their history.

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The 35-carat and #39;Beau Sancy and #39; diamond forms part of a magnificent gems collection owned by queens, film stars and billionaires alike that is being sold off.

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A and #34;nationally significant and #34; bronze medieval jug, which last sold for £750,000 is stolen from a Bedfordshire museum.

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University has graduated the largest class in school history while bidding farewell to its outgoing president. School officials say the class of 2012 includes 13,465 graduates from the university and #39;s New Brunswick-Piscataway, Newark and Camden campuses.

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The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum has been forced to sell its premises in Bristol and give up its collections because of public antipathy.

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The U.S.S Iowa is undergoing restoration for towing on May 20 through the Golden Gate, then several hundred miles south to the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, where it and #39;ll become a naval museum.

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Historian Niall Ferguson will give this year’s Reith lectures.

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WW II fighter found almost intact in Egyptian desert

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As public sector workers demonstrate over changes to pay and conditions, including pensions, classicist Professor Mary Beard and journalist Peter Oborne debate Roman pension plans on Question Time.

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A visitor to Vatican City was stunned when he found the subject of a Raphael masterpiece had an uncanny resemblance to – Sylvester Stallone.

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Vandalism at a historic Central California church that held artifacts from the 1700s is being investigated as a possible hate crime because anti-church graffiti and symbols were scrawled on the walls, police said.

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Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in an increasingly crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

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Fans of The Beatles hated All This And World War ll, a film that mashed up actual World War 2 footage with Hollywood actors pretending to fight in war films and set it to people singing songs by the Fab Four…

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A new exhibition of da Vinci and #39;s anatomical drawings reveal him as a scientist ahead of his time

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Wellington Arch was built in 1828 opposite the Duke of Wellington and #39;s house at Hyde Park Corner to commemorate his victory over Napoleon.

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Fixer-in-chief Thomas Cromwell is back with a new mission: to dispatch the queen he helped create.

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The contents of a Fermanagh folk museum representing centuries of rural life in Ireland are being sold at auction on Monday.

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HE WAS a feminist, an anti-vivisectionist, an architectural conservationist, and an ardent champion of Scottish independence. Defying the conventions of his class and era, he was a demonstrative father and husband, a man free of pretension, allergic to sycophancy, but easily hurt

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HOPEWELL, N.J. (AP) — Robert Goss and Ralph Mundy have been friends for a long time, united by a shared interest in archaeology.

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Harrow is celebrating the bank holiday with a medieval twist tomorrow.

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In the final moments of World War II in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history.

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Russian historian Lev Lurie, believes that while Lenin was already in poor health having suffered several strokes, Stalin may have finished him off following a bitter feud.

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It started, as many days do in Greece, with a trip to the kiosk to buy cigarettes. Still half-asleep, Panayiotis Roumeliotis was surprised to be asked to show his identity card by two young men with shaved heads. It was his first direct contact with the vigilante groups that have become a feature of everyday life in some areas of the Greek capital.

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Joe Chipchase is responsible for the delicate process of trimming the hedge in the grounds of Washington Old Hall in Tyne and Wear.

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But amazingly, these machines have only just been unearthed by urban explorers, who made their way through this giant bunker in France and also found it to contain weapons from World War One.

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Behind the crimson walls of the former imperial compound that is Beijing’s equivalent of the White House, Communist Party leaders cranked China’s decades-old propaganda machine into overdrive. Tapping a system used to quell public dissent since Mao Zedong’s anointed heir was accused of treason in 1971, apparatchiks distributed internal documents to bring more than 80 million party members into …

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Centenarian Bea Cohen has already spent a lifetime serving her country, but the 102-year-old World War II veteran — who has worked for more than seven decades supporting the U.S. military and its veterans — says she still has more to give, KCET reports.

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Most of us know the Leonardo and #39;s famous works by now. From the and #34;Last Supper and #34; to the and #34;Vitruvian Man and #34; and, of course, the and #34;Mona Lisa and #34;, Leonardo and #39;s masterpieces have risen to the forefront of our cultural collective memory.

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Today in Paris, the first of May parades by unions, the right wing and the moving-ever-closer-to-seriously-right wing Sarkozy supporters are all out in force. I…

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A stunning new exhibition at Buckingham Palace demonstrates how the artist, pictured, was one of the most ground-breaking anatomists of all time.

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In their commemorative baseball caps and medals, the Second World War veterans of the Anzio Beach Head invasion gathered to mark the 68th anniversary today.

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A green-feathered headdress said to have belonged to the last Aztec emperor could return to Mexico from Austria after the senate changed its rules.

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This film about Queen Victoria and the lowly Indian she loved was all terribly British They were a rum lot, the Victorians, weren and #39;t they’ What a crazy, throbbing mass of crinolined contradictions and conflicts they were – endless charitable good works on the one hand, endemic poverty and unshakeable belief in the undeserving poor on the other. It was social suicide if you fiddled suggestively …

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The largest collection of ancient Chinese royal treasures ever permitted to leave China will go on display in Britain next week.

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A New Jersey man allegedly got medieval on a utility worker who was trying to cut off his electricity, beating him into unconsciousness with a flail.

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John Golding, the distinguished painter, art historian, exhibition curator and teacher, has died at the age of 82. Although he is best known for his work on Picasso and Cubism, and taught at the Courtauld Institute for many years, he was also an artist of considerable talent in his own right.

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History buffs from the Netherlands and other European countries have gathered in Lithuania to retrace Napoleon and #39;s disastrous retreat from Russia 200 years ago.

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court, a historic verdict that sends a message that tyrants worldwide will be tracked down and brought to justice.

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Victoria Beckham has designed and launched a special new limited edition ‘baby’ off-roader bearing her name and aimed at well-heeled customers who think the standard Range Rover Evoque just isn’t posh or bling enough.

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The Battlefields Trust is producing a series of lectures for people working or living in the City of London who are interested in military history. Hosted by the Fusilier Museum, the talks are held in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Officers Mess in the Tower of London.

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Harrow is gearing up for its annual Medieval May Day celebrations.

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Were the Dark Ages actually a golden age for local democracy’

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Police say that a trove of human bones recently found in a Vienna basement are likely those of soldiers who died fighting Napoleon and #39;s troops in Austria 200 years ago.

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A screenshot of Urban Outfitters online catalog shows a t-shirt that the Anti-Defamation League says is offensive for featuring perceived Holocaust imagery.

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LOS ANGELES, April 23 (Reuters) – The opera glasses carried by U.S. president Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865 will be auctioned later this month, expecting to fetch between $500,000 and $700,000.

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Surrounded by the haunting memories of the Holocaust, a solemn President Obama on Monday announced a new crackdown on Iran and Syria and said the world must never again allow hatred to take root into the and #34;madness and #34; of mass atrocities. 

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JERUSALEM (RNS) Zvi Shefel recalled the day the German army arrived at his Polish town of Slonim in the summer of 1942. The soldiers immediately began mass exterminations and eventually killed more than 25,000 Jews, including his mother, father and sister.

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