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The natural disaster that resulted in the prominent ancient Greek
At around 9am on Tuesday 30 January 1607, the tide in the Bristol Channel started rising – and didn’t stop. To the horror of folk along the coast, as eyewitness William Jones put it, “mighty hills of
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The poor citizens of Al-Jazira al-Khadra never knew what hit them. In 859, an unfamiliar fleet sailed into the bay separating this Muslim settlement – which later evolved into the city of Algeciras, n
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HELEN anxiously closed her curtains. The wind was tearing around the house, slamming rain against the windows and harassing the trees. The rain hadn’t stopped since lunchtime. She’d spent this first d
The earth-shattering collapse of the Western Roman Empire was the result of invasions, corruption and cruelty