A History Thread

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'Haunting' new footage of Titanic shipwreck - BBC News

The footage of the Belfast-built ship was taken during an exploration by a three-person team in 1986.

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For ***anic buffs.

 

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The asylum patients being given their stories back

Volunteers are uncovering the lives of former patients of the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

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How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart

Twenty years after the Iraq war, controversy still rages over whether "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) ever existed.

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