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date: 25 Mar
The Landings on Gallipoli         -  April 25th1915  -     The plan seemed sound enough. With stalemate on the Western Front in the form of trench warfare another ploy was needed. The one put forward was knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war, open up...
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date: 18 Jan
The Paris Peace Conference      -  18thJanuary 1919  -     Two months after the official Armistice on 11th November 1918 the matter of how to settle the outstanding issues was hotly debated in Paris. This conference was to result in the Treaty of...
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  • 20th Century
  • Politics
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date: 17 Dec
The First Powered Flight     -  December 17th 1903  -     On a windswept beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright launched the first powered airplane into the sky. The flight lasted 12 seconds and took him 120 feet. The picture, left,...
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date: 30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde     -  30thNovember 1900  -     “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”    These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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date: 26 Jan
The Finding of the Cullinan Diamond     -  26th January 1905  -     The fascinating programme on the BBC in which the Queen was talking about the coronations of her father, George VI, and her own, was not only a fascinating insight into both events...
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