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Neanderthals may have conducted scientific experiments
Homo neanderthalensis, a species, or subspecies of human who lived between 250,000 and 40,000 years ago,[note]Although proto-Neanderthals could have existed up to 600,000 years ago.[/note] are modern humans' closest cousins. For thousands of…
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Caesar-led massacre in the Netherlands
In 55BCE, a large group of German refugees crossed the Rhine seeking new farming land in Gaul. Sending ambassadors to Caesar, they requested safe passage and help in finding new lands. Caesar, fearing trouble and aware of the political implications…
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Fact of the Day

Had you stolen an item over 14d in Halifax in 1600, you would be sentenced to die by gibbet

Quote of the Day

"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. "
~ Mark Twain

On This Day

1707 Four ships of the fleet led by Sir Cloudesley Shovell were shipwrecked on the Isles of Scilly after bad weather and navigational mistakes sent them off course. Between 1,400 and 2,000 people were killed, making it one of the worst maritime disasters in British history.
1797 André-Jacques Garnerin made the first notable parachute jump from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 ft above Paris. He landed shaken but in one piece half a mile away from the take-off site.
1877 Two hundred and seven people died in Scotland's worst mining disaster, when firedamp ignited at Blantyre Colliery. It would not be the last time the mine experienced disaster: further explosions occurred in 1878 and 1879.
1975 The Soviet unmanned space probe Venera 9 landed on Venus. It was the first such probe to return images from the surface of another planet.