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January 4: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentThree of his daughters and son, Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt, contested the will on the grounds that their father was of…
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January 3: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentBrooklyn Bridge was conceived by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling in 1852, who spent part of the next 15 years…
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January 2: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentThe disaster happened on January 2, 1971, in an exit stairway at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Top Tip: Eco-friendly way to keep flies at bay
EntertainmentSummer’s here and with it come swarms of flies that follow wherever we gather to share a meal. Here's a…
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Weird and wacky daily holidays to celebrate this month
EntertainmentKeep that holiday feeling by celebrating some truly bizarre daily holidays in January.
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December 30: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentHaving decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina had made him a threat to the empire, a group of nobles…
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December 29: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentTen of the 16 survivors from an Uruguayan aircraft that crashed in the Andes mountains ten weeks prior, admitted at…
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December 28: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentGale-force winds sweeping the area at the time were thought to have caused the collapse of 13 girders in the…
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December 27: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentAlthough he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed JM Barrie’s other work and is credited with popularising the name…
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December 26: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentNicknamed the Galveston Giant, Jack Johnson was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became…
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December 25: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentIn 1998, the film critic Andrew Sarris called Chaplin ‘arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, certainly…
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Sometimes it’s the simple things that make a Christmas
EntertainmentChristmas scents bring out the happy memories of years gone by that come back and keep me warm inside.
