Archive for June, 2010
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
A new examination of his papers shows how he agonised over every famous phrase – even adding one at the last minute – and how his private secretary was secretly unimpressed by his efforts.
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
A postcard sent home by a Bosnian soldier in the First World War has finally reached his family after 95 years, thanks to an antique collector who delivered it personally to the man's grandson after buying it at a fair in California.
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Diaries and documents belonging to Benito Mussolini are hidden in a secret location near the Swiss border, it has been claimed.
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Michelangelo concealed anatomical sketches in the robes and faces of the figures he painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in a coded attack on the Church's disdain for science, researchers believe.
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Napoleon Bonaparte still harboured ambitions of invading Britain even as he was sailing to St Helena where he was exiled, according to a previously unseen diary.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
A new version of the Jigsaw table exercise.
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