Thanksgiving – An Americ...
Thanksgiving is a traditional feature of North American life. We explain the history and origins
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Was Jesus really born on the 25th December?
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Exotic Paper Planes
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Can Machines think – CAPTCHA and the Turing test
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True or False, Fact or Fiction
Posted on May 22, 2012
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Some Historical Myths Debunked
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Voyager 1 & 2 – Emi...
Voyager I & II has a strange payload. Messages from 1977 Earth to aliens !
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Every nation has its favourite tales from the past, but how accurate are they? A lot of what we ‘know’ to be historically true can sometimes turn out to be no more than a perpetuated historical myth. We look at a few here.
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Budloe Night in Guernsey is also Bonfire Night. They’re seen as the same now, but were they originally ?
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We take food preserved in cans for granted today. But when and who invented the process ?
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Up until 2011 virtually no trace of Roman occupation or influence had been found in Alderney. That all changed when one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in the world was found.
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