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		<title>Roman Shipyard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they think was a large shipyard at Porto in Italy, a few miles south of Rome and once an important harbour of the ancient city. The ruins were once a massive building that covered an area larger than a football field, and contained eight parallel bays that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of the Cave Paintings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detail of a Paleolithic cave painting of a bison, at Altamira in Cantabria, northern Spain. In 1879 a Spanish landowner named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was searching for prehistoric artifacts on the floor of a cave on his family property in northern Spain when his young daughter interrupted, calling out “Look, Papa, oxen” as she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USS Macon: The Underwater Airship</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The military zeppelin USS Macon was meant to be a floating American aircraft carrier over the Pacific Ocean &#8212; but it crashed, sank and has been lying on the ocean floor for more than 70 years. Now scientists have discovered and documented the unique wreck off the coast of California. Uncovering the USS Macon: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Deadly Road’ – Across The Sahara, 1906</title>
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		<title>The Ruins of London</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s.&#8221; T.B. Macaulay (1840) But who their mingled feelings shall pursue When London’s faded glories rise to view? The mighty city, which by every [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stalingrad, 3500 BC: the outcome of the battle at Hamoukar helped change the trajectory of the region, with southern Mesopotamia becoming the dominant force, home to ancient kingdoms such as Babylonia.]]></description>
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