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The Galileo Affair
Galileo Galilei was an unknown, north Italian professor of mathematics, a lover of good wines with a…
The Moscow Fire
It was started on 14th September 1812, curiously the Fire of Moscow startedjust before Napoleon’s tr…
The Great Seal of Office
The “Great Seal” signifies that a document carries the force of the will of the Monarch. Interesting…
What was the worst storm in Britain?
When asked this question most people say that the storm in 1953 was the worst peacetime weather disa…
The Gunpowder Plot – a fool proof plan that wasn’t!
Let’s make history fun, this was a plan that the conspirators, pictured above, thought was fool proo…