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The history of Chicago from 1833
Today Chicago is the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States.
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Report on the Establishment of an Agricultural College in Cirencester
It was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world and was based in the rural county of Gloucestershire.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic Antarctic journey
the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and for Ernest Shackleton they would go awry on a grand scale.
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The first New Billingsgate Market opens
Opened in 1852 "in time for the Oyster Season ... (it) is in the Italian style, of red brick," said the ILN.
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Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland for England today in 1583
Gilbert took possession of Newfoundland for the English crown by the cutting of turf to symbolise the transfer of possession of the soil, according to the common law of England.
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The Tower Subway, the first 'tube railway' in the world
It is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, between Tower Hill on the north side of the river and Vine Lane (off Tooley Street) on the south.
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Today is 'Minden Day' celebrated by regiments of the British Army
Prior to the battle advancing British infantry and artillery picked roses from German gardens and displayed them on their uniforms.
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When east London built a quarter of the German Navy's iron-clad warships
'König Wilhelm' (King William), on the left of our illustration, was an armoured frigate laid down in 1865 at the Thames Ironworks (and) commissioned into the Prussian Navy in February 1869.
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Remembering Canadian sacrifice at Vimy Ridge, 9th - 12th April 1917
To the valour of their countrymen in the Great War and in memory of their sixty thousand dead this monument is raised by the people of Canada.
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Today in 1603 England and Scotland shared a King!
In 1605 his Parliament was subject to the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up the English protestant establishment.
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The establishment of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Our antique print from The Illustrated London News, published in 1858, depicts a Mormon family in an ox-drawn cart approaching the newly established Salt Lake City.
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Keeping the Bard of Avon's works under scrutiny
Formed in 1403, the Worshipful Company of Stationers received a Royal Charter in 1557, and thereby held a monopoly over publishing.