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Power pylon
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Worlds highest power pylon stands tall in China A giant power supply pylon, believed to be the world's tallest, has recently been completed in China's Anhui Province, standing at an impressive 277.5 metres high. Read more
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Dornier Do 335 Pfeil
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The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil ("Arrow") was a World War II heavy fighter built by the Dornier company. The two-seater trainer version was also called Ameisenbär ("anteater"). The Pfeil's performance was much better than other twin-engine designs due to its unique "push-p...
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Brandenburg missile base
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A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw It was top-secret in 1959 and remains almost completely unknown to this day - the first Soviet nuclear missile base outside the USSR. But it is still there, crumbling and steadily being reclaimed by nature in the forests north of Berlin. It is s...
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Battle of Agincourt
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The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory against a numerically superior French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France Read more[spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/w...
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Charge of the Light Brigade
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The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan, overall commander, had intended to send the Light Brigade to pursue and harry a retreating Russian artillery b...
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Sheffield Football Club
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Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The club, founded on 24 October, 1857, is most noted for the fact that they are the world's oldest club now playing Association football. Read more
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Battle of Edgehill
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The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642. Read more
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Burnley bus station
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Send in photos for Burnley Observatory SOME stunning photographs are needed to bring a town centre sculpture back to life. And Burnley's amateur photographers are being invited to submit their best shots for consideration for display in the outdoor gallery that is the Observatory on Burnley bus s...
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The Blantyre mining disaster
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The Blantyre mining disaster, which happened on the morning of 22 October 1877, in Blantyre, Scotland, was and remains Scotlands worst mining accident. Pits No. 2 and No. 3 of William Dixon's Blantyre Colliery were the site of an explosion which killed 207 miners, the youngest being a boy of 11. It wa...
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near Canada. The islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were discovered by Europeans on 21 October 1520, by the Portuguese João Álvares Fagundes, who bestowe...
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USS Constitution
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USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest floating commissioned naval vessel. Read more
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Alexandria
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Ancient Egypt City Aligned With Sun on King's Birthday The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds. [url=http://www.livescience.com/23994-ancie...
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The First Battle of El Alamein
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The First Battle of El Alamein (1-27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Allied (specifically, British Imperial) forces (Britain, British India, Australia, Sou...
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Glenelg
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Much has been made of the robotic space rover Curiosity heading towards a Martian rock formation, now christened Glenelg. Several reasons have been advanced for Nasa giving it the same name as that of a West Highland community. None is definitive, although it has been observed that Glenelg spells t...
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Sydney Opera House
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The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957. Utzon received the Pritzker Pri...
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