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Time: 8:15 PM on Wednesday
The mystery of the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot-long cloth that many thought may have been the burial cloth of Jesus until scientists reported radiocarbon dating established it as no older than Medieval times, is being resurrected.Comment:
Time: 11:27 AM on Sunday
The wreck of one of the Second World War's most famous warships has been found by deep sea explorers, 66 years after it was lost in battleComment:
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Time: 8:49 AM on Friday
Two nearly intact skeletons found near the Plains of Abraham date back to the 19th century or even earlier, archeologists say.Comment:
Time: 7:42 PM on Saturday
HALIFAX - Only the sound of water lapping against the rocks could be heard Saturday as veterans paused at the edge of a boardwalk, tossing long-stemmed red roses into Halifax harbour to mark 65 years since the turning point of the Battle of the AtlanticComment:
Time: 12:08 PM on Sunday
Guy Rose, the owner of the 100-year-old Quilchena Hotel, is explaining the history of three bullet holes in the wooden panelling of the hotel's saloon.Comment:
Time: 4:50 PM on Sunday
ST. ANDREWS, Manitoba – After collecting dust in the back of a Public Works storage shed for decades, three forgotten World War I weapons were recently rediscovered and donated to the Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) Museum in Shilo, Manitoba.Comment:
Time: 7:32 PM on Saturday
Archeologists have just wrapped up a two-week excavation at Stonehenge which they believe will help solve the mystery of why the prehistoric landmark was built.Comment:
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Time: 9:20 AM on Sunday
As Britain prepares to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force, Germany is reclaiming the First World War flying ace known as the Red Baron as a national hero.Comment:
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Time: 8:43 AM on Tuesday
A passerby casting a glance at the downtown branch of the Ontario Bank on Friday, Oct. 12, 1906, would have been impressed by the imposing size and ornate facade of the stone fortress that anchored the corner of Wellington and Scott Sts.Comment:
Time: 8:41 AM on Tuesday
Canada's oldest bookstore will close its doors for good at the end of March.Comment:
Time: 6:58 PM on Saturday
AUSCHWITZ, Poland -- He was among the first to arrive at the death camp, and one of the few to escape alive.Comment:
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Time: 7:37 AM on Monday
* In early October 1942, Flight Lieutenant Donald McLarty was shot down over Libya on his 199th mission of World War Two. Although he was flying for Britain's Royal Air Force, his uniform was emblazoned with an unexpected word: Argentina.Comment:
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Time: 8:33 AM on Saturday
The ten Plagues of Egypt recounted in the Bible and which caused Pharaoh to let the Israelite slaves go free were nothing more than natural “population imbalances” caused by environmental factors, a leading scientist has claimed.Comment:
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Time: 4:58 PM on Wednesday
MOSCOW - Historians have announced a project to increase understanding of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's rule and to help Russians come to terms with one of the grimmest chapters of their pastComment:
Time: 2:50 PM on Wednesday
HALIFAX - Gordon Collins of Halifax vividly recalls the morning 90 years ago when a massive burst of fire, smoke and white-hot shrapnel ripped through the port city's north end, killing more than 1,500 people.Comment:
Time: 9:20 AM on Saturday
JERUSALEM -- A wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says.Comment:
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Time: 5:19 PM on Tuesday
ROME -- An underground grotto revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder, Romulus, and his twin brother Remus, has been found, archeologists said Tuesday.Comment:
Time: 8:12 AM on Friday
Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, the long-forgotten World War II relic has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buriedComment:
Time: 8:41 PM on Saturday
PASSCHENDAELE, Belgium - Experts believe some 100,000 soldiers remain unaccounted for 90 years after one of the First World War's bloodiest battles. On Saturday, the eve of Armistice Day, the anniversary of the battle's end was marked with solemn tributComment:
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Time: 11:46 AM on Saturday
MOSCOW — Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory: a much bigger satellite carrying a mongrel dog called Laika.Comment:
Time: 7:33 AM on Monday
The true face of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago, is to be revealed to the public for the first time.Comment:
Time: 10:02 AM on Sunday
THE questions have puzzled art lovers for centuries: did the Mona Lisa ever have eyebrows and eyelashes? And if she did, what happened to them?Comment:
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