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Raising The Flag on Iwo Jima

by Kim Seabrook in History, November 21, 2009
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From Epics of History: More Prisoners of Eternity.

The Dreyfus Affair: A Poison in The French Body-politic

by Kim Seabrook in History, November 18, 2009
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From Hero or Villain: More Prisoners of Eternity.

The Amritsar Massacre: Shame of an Empire

by Kim Seabrook in History, November 8, 2009
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From Epics of History: More Prisoners of Eternity.

Hopton and Waller: Friends Divided

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by Kim Seabrook in History, October 26, 2009
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Civil War is the most bitter and vicious kind of conflict. All the frustrations, the envy, family feuds, town rivalries, and personal enmities, come to the fore.

Jack The Ripper’s Victims

by Kim Seabrook in History, October 21, 2009
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The Women.

Oliver Cromwell

by iCreate in History, October 17, 2009
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This is an interpretation of Oliver Cromwell’s various actions, his achievements and failures.

The Outlaw with a Past: The Search for Robin Hood

by Mr Ghaz in Folklore, October 9, 2009
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Although the legend of Robin Hood has persisted for centuries, no one knows if he ever really existed. The earliest visual representation of him, is in a “biography” entitled A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode, probably written about 1400…To this day, the figure of Robin Hood remains elusive. Whether he actually existed as a real person or was a fictional representation of one or more real-life outlaws, his origins will continue to entertain and intrigue young and old alike.

The Strange Case of Killer Green: Was Napoleon Murdered by Accidental Design?

by Mr Ghaz in History, October 6, 2009
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It now seems likely that none of these illnesses caused his death, and there is no evidence that anybody did, or tried to, kill him. In 1982, however, more than 160 years after Napoleon’s death, a respected British chemist unearthed evidence that the great man was indeed poisoned – but by a thing, not a person. And that thing may well have been the wallpaper in his house on St. Helena, where the British had exiled Napoleon in 1815.

Olympias: Mother of Alexander

by Kim Seabrook in History, October 6, 2009
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Olympias was the mother of the most powerful man then known to history. She had cosseted him, protected him, moulded and sculpted him, and, he, Alexander the Great, would go on to conquer most of the known world, and his name would be forever carved in the pantheon of heros.

The Duke of Monmouth: The Bastard Son

by Kim Seabrook in History, September 30, 2009
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James Crofts, later Scott, was born in Rotterdam on 9 April, 1649, he was the illegitimate son of the future King Charles II and his then mistress Lucy Walter.

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