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How Britain dishonoured its African first world war dead
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The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
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The life and work of Lady Hale
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the...
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link
This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the document):
The University wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination. The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views will discriminate on such grounds. In the present case, there was positive evidence to suggest that the Appellant had never discriminated on such grounds in the past and was not likely to do so in the future (because, as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).
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The world’s oldest medieval map
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Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea
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Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick's grave 'found by author'
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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Where does London stop? | Unfinished London
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Emmeline Pankhurst: The Suffragette who used militant tactics to win women the vote
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In the 19th century, American theatres provided the stage for a war between high and low culture, the elite and ‘Know-Nothings’ – and Britain and the US. In 1849, events turned bloody.
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Remarkable 120-year-old letter to Santa discovered in England
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Hey, that's our stuff: Masaai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum
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A 4,000-year old tale of trade and contraband
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New research confirms substantial majority of Scottish people are not religious and not spiritual
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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
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World's first sci-fi convention (Royal Albert Hall, 1891)
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‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
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Why is Canadian English unique?
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How did Americans lose their British accents
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Looted Iraqi antiquities return home after UK experts crack cold case
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The exotic dead animals that appeared in the menageries of Victorian Britain’s grand exhibitions were far from perfect specimens. Stuffed, stitched, painted hybrids – accuracy was not a priority.
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The location for Stonehenge may have been chosen due to the presence of a natural geological feature
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area. There's a man-made...
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area.
There's a man-made path that proceeds south-west towards Stonehenge: "The Avenue". This path was built around the same era as Stonehenge itself. If you walk westward along The Avenue on the winter solstice, you'll be facing the point on the horizon where the sun sets. However, under The Avenue, there's an old natural geological formation from the time of the Ice Age: a series of ridges in the rock which just coincidentally align with the sunset on the winter solstice (an "axis mundi"). Before Stonehenge was built, there was a chalk knoll on that location. That meant that you could walk along a natural geological path towards the sunset on the shortest day of the year, and there was a local geological landmark in front of you.
The theory is that these natural geological formations coincidentally aligning with an astronomical phenomenon made the site a special one for early Britons. That's why there was a burial site there, and later Stonehenge was built there.
Here's the article by the archaeologist who discovered the Ice Age ridges: Researching Stonehenge: Theories Past and Present
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