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Painting showing French sailors firing a cannon while a 'powder monkey' - a young boy holding a container of gunpowder - stands next to them

Powder monkeys and horse divers: The strangest jobs from history

Black and white portrait photograph of Charles Goodyear

4 forgotten inventors who changed the world

Statue of Thutmose III

4 strongest warrior pharaohs from Ancient Egypt

Monument with the inscription in Russian "To participants of liquidation of consequences of radiation accident Kyshtym-57"

The Kyshtym disaster: Russia’s hidden nuclear crisis

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Young people in the US celebrate VJ Day while holding newspapers with the headline 'WAR ENDS'

WWII: What happened on VJ Day?

While VE Day might be more famous in the UK and Europe, VJ Day marks the actual end of WWII. Learn more about this historic event here.

A ceremony to celebrate the liberation of Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Cenotaph in 1945

VJ Day 80: The forgotten story of Hong Kong’s liberation

The liberation of Hong Kong is an often overlooked World War II event caused by Japan's surrender. Read on to find out more.

The Atomic Dome - The Hiroshima Peace Memorial

How does Japan remember the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Explore some of the ways Japan marks the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorials

ALONE - A man walking in the desert with a huge leopard looming over him on the horizon

Alone

MAFIA MOST WANTED - A member of the Mafia sitting in front of the Toronto skyline

Mafia: Most Wanted

'PHARAOHS AT WAR' - A pharaoh standing commandingly in front of a pyramid

Pharaohs At War

'HOLY MARVELS' - Dennis Quaid standing in front of the sword in the stone

Holy Marvels with Dennis Quaid

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Kevin Costner

6 facts you didn’t know about Kevin Costner

Glowing mysterious lights floating in the sky on a spooky foggy winters night

Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident: The UK’s Roswell

A photo of Dick, Kerr Ladies team in 1921

When women’s football was bigger than men’s

Bas-Relief of Pharaoh Thutmose III smiting and killing Canaanite enemies at the Battle of Megiddo on the Seventh Pylon in Karnak Temple

4 legendary battles from Ancient Egypt

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Archaeologist explores the secrets of Egypt's pyramids

Gary Sokolov standing on the train tracks leading up to Auschwitz

Telling Gary Sokolov’s story, the son of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

Portrait of Charles Ignatius Sancho

Books on Black British history, culture and life that you should read

Grigori Rasputin

8 craziest bits of history

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Replica of the Tutankhamun's funeral mask found in Egypt

The greatest pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

A Sarcophagus coffin inside an Ancient Egyptian tomb

The curse of King Tutankhamun and the mummy's tomb

Egyptian mummy close up detail with hieroglyphs in background

5 strangest things found inside pyramids

The statue of Ramses II Illuminated at night in the temple of Luxor

10 ancient facts about Ramses the Great

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Crystal ball and fortune teller hands. Divination concept. The spiritual seance. Future reading.

Prophet Warnings: 9 intriguing predictions from history

Sinking of the Titanic Illustration

6 premonitions of disasters that came true

A 1686 engraving of Mother Shipton

Yorkshire's Nostradamus: The life and prophecies of Mother Shipton

Pandemonium by John Martin

7 times the world was predicted to end

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John Gotti being booked in 1990

The Mafia's Golden Age: Who are the Five Families?

A seven-feet tall metal monolith appeared in a park in Mubmai

Are aliens or artists behind the monolith mystery

A 19th-century painting depicts a Roman gladiator standing on the neck of another as the crowd all point their thumbs down

The history of gladiatorial games in Ancient Rome

Hells Angels bikers gather by Brighton Marina

Are there Hells Angels gangs in the UK?

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