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AncientPages.com - On April 29, 1429, Joan of Arc, the 17-year-old French peasant, entered Orleans, the city besieged by the English. This most unusual historical event occurred during
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AncientPages.com - Two pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time. The plane developed for
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AncientPages.com - The Vikings were accomplished navigators, artisans, traders and story tellers, but their greatest triumph was the ship they built. Draken Harald, the largest Viking ship built in
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AncientPages.com - On April 27, 1124, following the death of his brother Alexander, David I (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim) made himself king of Scotland with the backing of
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have begun digging up two Roman baths hidden in a passageway below the city of Bath, in the south-west of England. Archaeologists believe one of the baths
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AncientPages.com - On April 26, 1900, seismologist Charles Richter was born near Hamilton, Ohio, USA. Richter became involved in earthquake engineering by promoting good earthquake building codes and proper
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AncientPages.com - On April 25, 1507, Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America.
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AncientPages.com - On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Hubble Space Telescope. The following day, Hubble was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skeleton lying down with a jorum in his hand and a wine pitcher and bread on the side, is depicted on a
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AncientPages.com - The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. Very little is known about his life, yet his literary legacy
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AncientPages.com - Recent discovery of surgical instruments and burial chambers unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Philadelphia in the Central Anatolia, Turkey indicates that the ancient city
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AncientPages.com - On April 22, 1509, Henry VIII took the crown as the ruler of all England. Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, whose fate
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AncientPages.com - April 21, 753 BC, is a mythological date when Rome is founded by Romulus, one of the twin brothers. In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus
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AncientPages.com - Working now in the lab conditions, scientists have opened the 2,000-year-old coffin thought to belong to Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun. The remains of the "Marquis
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AncientPages.com - On April 20, 1535, an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as the "Sun Dog" was observed over Stockholm. The painting that depicts the event was named "Weather Sun") (in Swedish: Vädersol) and
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AncientPages.com - Prehistoric pits, two Neolithic monuments and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery of 150 graves containing spears, knives, jewellery and bone combs have been discovered at an army site where
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AncientPages.com - Well-preserved human skeletons estimated to be about 4,500-years-old have been unearthed from a graveyard in southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the archaeological team working in the
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AncientPages.com - On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast of Australia. Cook was born in north-east England in 1728, and in his
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AncientPages.com - On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn Sam Adams and John
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AncientPages.com - A 400-meter stretch of unbroken castle wall--the largest intact example of such stone masonry from the feudal era --has been discovered during excavations at Okazaki Castle, the birthplace
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AncientPages.com - A fragment of the Late Antiquity fortress wall of the Ancient Roman city of Sexaginta Prista (meaning “Port of the Sixty Ships") has been discovered in the Danube
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AncientPages.com - On April 16, 1457, BC (other sources propose May 9), the Battle of Megiddo took place during a rebellion against Pharaoh Thutmose III. On one side, there
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AncientPages.com - The Battle of Rain (also called the Battle of the River Lech or Battle of Lech) was fought on April 15, 1632, during the Thirty Years’ War. The forces involved in this
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AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been working to solve the mystery of five-ton lion sculptures recently found in a field in Sorgun, a town located in the Central Anatolia, Turkey.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Sir Leonard Woolley found the gold helmet of King Meskalamdug (Mes-Kalam-Dug ) (1880 – 1960), a British archaeologist best known for excavating Ur
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AncientPages.com - Relics of an ancient six-thousand-year old village in the Sarvabad county in Kurdestan Province have been unearthed by Iranian archaeologists. The ancient village was unearthed in the Sarcham
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AncientPages.com - For many years, scientists have debated the age of some of Europe’s oldest cave art. Many questions have remained without answers, among them, perhaps one probably the
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AncientPages.com - On April 12, 238 AD, Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the forces of Numidia, an ancient Berber kingdom in what is now Algeria
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious Jomsvikings were no ordinary Viking warriors, but a fearless Scandinavian warrior-brotherhood. Each fighter must obey the 11 military rules set by the
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