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.

www.bbc.co.uk

For Titanic 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.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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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.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Why US presidents skip British coronations

There will be one glaring absence among the dignitaries at King Charles' coronation: US President Joe Biden.

www.bbc.co.uk

Just keeping up tradition.

 

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Did he go to the funeral?

 

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Yes he did with the First Lady.

 

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Bit hypocritical, then

 

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Yeh, and Truman didn't attend King George VI's funeral.

 

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Imperial War Museum to exhibit conflicting perspectives on Troubles

London museum will display array of testimonies and archive photographs collected over the years

www.theguardian.com

 

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Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before

Full-sized digital scans reveal shipwreck in stunning detail, showing unopened champagne bottles.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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FBI reveals 1980s plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II

Newly released FBI documents say there were “ever-present“ IRA threats during her US visits.

www.bbc.co.uk

So Naked Gun was right.

 

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That’s Enrico Palazzo!

 

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Dived the SS Yongala wreck off of Townsville and that was only 33m deep.

 

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50 years to the day that Bruce Lee died.

 

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Lawrence Churcher: Funeral for last known Royal Navy Dunkirk veteran

Lawrence Churcher, 102, is thought to have been the last naval veteran of the 1940 evacuation.

www.bbc.co.uk

RIP. The last known Royal Navy Vet from Dunkirk.

 

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