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Story of Titanic

Birth of a Great Lady Construction of the RMS Titanic began on March 31, 1909 at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was one of three large transatlantic liners...

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Places of Interest in Britain

London The Tower of London Constructed by William The Conqueror towards the end of 1066 and became a prison in 1100 until 1952, today the Tower adopts the name ‘Bloody Tower’, for the Tower has held...

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England’s past Kings and Queens

House of Norman – 11th Century 1066 – William the Conqueror 1087 – William Rufus (son of William) House of Plantagenet – 12th, 13th & 14th Century 1100 – Henry I (brother of William Rufus) 1135 –...

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Colonial Revolutions

The European empires in the New World lasted in most cases for a little more than 300 years. By the early nineteenth century most European colonies had frown off their Old World masters and had became...

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Napoleonic Warfare

Warfare during the age of Napoleon was defined by several parameters: the effective range of a smoothbore musket (50-100 yards); the effective range of a cannon ball (1,000 yards); the speed of...

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Pirates!

From the late 1500s into the 1700s, the Caribbean Sea was a hunting ground for sea pirates that preyed on ships of Spain at first, but later of all nations with colonies and trading outposts in the...

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The California Gold Rush

Gold was discovered in 1848 at Sutter’s Mill, near Sacramento, California. Far from a celebration, the discovery proved a disaster for John Sutter, who was more interested in cultivating his land. Once...

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The Fur Trade

Although North America was largely ignored by Europeans for a hundred years after its discovery, the area around Newfoundland was visited regularly by fishermen. These men often traded with natives,...

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The Industrial Revolution

The second great human economic transformation after the rise of agriculture was the Industrial Revolution, which was basically the gradually conversion of handmade craftsman manufacturing to...

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The Thirty Years War

Part of the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation was a series of wars that attempted to abolish Protestantism and restore the Catholic Church’s predominance. The most vicious of these was the Thirty...

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