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United turki attack the world

It appears to be the fact that the turki of Russia: tatars, bashkirs, kazakhs and the number of the other nations who belong to the Turki nation have decided to get merged all together pursuing the only goal: get themselves separeted from Russia, join all the turki nations of the world.

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Return to Arnhem Land

Tune in to Radio National this weekend to hear a Sydney University historian's documentary about an extraordinary 1948 joint US-Australian excursion to the Oenpelli region of northern Australia.

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The Creation Museum: Prepare To Believe

The Creation Museum, opening May 28, 2007, presents a "walk through history." Designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, this state-of-the-art 60,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life.

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Ancestry.com Introduces Largest Online Collection of U.S. Military Records

Ancestry.com Is Featuring More Than 90 Million Names of America's Military Heroes and U.S. Military Records Helping People To Find Ancestry.

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The End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the 21st Century

Top honours went to the Armenian scholars

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The discovery of America-revolutionary claims of dead historian

Dr Alwyn Ruddock, a former reader in history at the University of London, was the world expert on John Cabot's discovery voyages from Bristol to North America (1496-98). What she was said to have found out about these voyages looked set to re-write the history of the European discovery of America.

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Film On 300 Greek Spartans Angers Iranian

A Hollywood film with the simple title "300" is arousing anger in Iran. Directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Zack Snyder, the film portrays the ancient battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Greek Spartans barred the way to the grand army of Persian King Xerxes I. The Iranians say the movie gives a distorted view of the Persians as decadent, cruel, and stupid.

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Grand Theatre Is All Ears For History

Join guest speaker Sue Arthur MA as she takes you through a fascinating historical journey of cinema and society at the seaside on Wednesday 21st March in the Lawrence House Studio at 2.30pm. In 1929 The Times said: 'the talkie is an unsuitable marriage of two dramatic forms. We cannot believe it will endure.' The public and the cinema exhibitors had different ideas. By the end of that year, 980 British cinemas had converted to sound.

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PhillyHistory.org Makes Thousands of Historic Photos Available to the Public

Never Before Seen Images Tell the Story of Philadelphia and its Industry, Culture, People. From the building of City Hall, to the oldest church in Pennsylvania, to American's most historic penitentiary, the Philadelphia Department of Records holds the country's largest municipal archive of historic photographs, totaling over 2 million images.

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World's oldest ritual discovered

Worshipped the python 70,000 years ago

A startling archaeological discovery this summer changes our understanding of human history. While, up until now, scholars have largely held that man's first rituals were carried out over 40, 000 years ago in Europe, it now appears that they were wrong about both the time and place.

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