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British Declaration Of War
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British Declaration Of War - Radio Broadcast - 3 Sept 1939 At 11:15 AM, 3 September 1939, in a radio broadcast, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced the declaration of war against Germany.
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Northumberlandia
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Naked woman sculpture legacy for coal mining A huge reclining naked woman sculptured into the Northumberland landscape, is to be officially declared complete by the Princess Royal. At 396m long Northumberlandia at Cramlington, is the world's largest human form sculpted into the landscape. [u...
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Fountain of Time
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Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches (38.66 m) in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States Water began running in the completed sculpture on September 1, 192...
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303 Squadron
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303 Squadron's first combat patrol Highly experienced fighter-pilots from the Polish Airforce who had escaped from occupied Europe were being formed into their own Squadrons. 303 Squadron was still training with Hurricanes when they made their first kill on the 30th August [1940]. Squadron Lea...
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SafetyNet emergency exit
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SafetyNet emergency exits for fish win Dyson award Fishing net "escape rings" that light up to help undersized creatures escape capture have been picked as this year's UK winner in a high-profile design engineering competition. Dan Watson's project is designed to make fishing more su...
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K-159 submarine
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K-159 was a Project 627A "Kit" (NATO reporting name November class) nuclear-powered submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet. On 28 August 2003, K-159 and her pontoons were manned by ten Russian sailors and taken under tow to Polyarny. That crew kept the pontoons pressurised and the subm...
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Moscow-Washington hotline
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The Moscow-Washington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia. Read more The hotline became operative August 30, 1963. Because the link was not...
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RDS-1 Soviet atomic bomb
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The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 or First Lightning on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, after a top-secret R&D project. Read more
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Battle of Alesia
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The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia took place in September, 52 BC around the Gallic oppidum of Alesia, a major town centre and hill fort of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by an army of the Roman Republic commanded by Julius Caesar, aided by cavalry commanders Mark Antony, Titus Labienus and Gaiu...
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The Battle of Crécy
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The Battle of Crécy (occasionally written the Battle of Cressy in English) took place on 26 August 1346 near Crécy in northern France, and was one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War. The combination of new weapons and tactics has caused many historians to consider this battle the...
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Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition
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Hubble's Photo Contest Selects Winners Congratulations to the winners of the European Space Agency's Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition. Ten winners were selected from both the Basic Image Category and the Advanced Image Processing Category, along with a People's Choice winner from each....
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Battle of Stalingrad
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 to 2 February 1943 and was marked by brutality...
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Bosworth Battlefield
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The precise location of one of Britain's most famous lost battlefields has been revealed. The latest discoveries pinpoint the exact location of Bosworth Battlefield, where Henry Tudor and King Richard III clashed on 22nd August 1485, and shed new light on the way the battle was fought and where Kin...
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Mont Saint Michel
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Mont Saint Michel to be restored One of the biggest tourist attractions in France, Mont Saint Michel, is being restored. The giant granite rock is situated a kilometre off the Normandy coast Read more
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Hydrogen-powered buses
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Aberdeen set for 10 hydrogen buses by 2014 A fleet of 10 hydrogen buses could be on the streets of Aberdeen by 2014, it has been announced. Funding of £3.3m from the Scottish government and Scottish Enterprise will allow Aberdeen City Council to buy the hydrogen fuel-cell buses. [url=http://www.bb...
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